AMD is the one who grand opened the doors of COMPUTEX 2024 and of course, there’s a ton of new information regarding upcoming products from themselves as well as partners so let’s just briefly go through them.
First, the consumer CPU lineup welcomes the new Ryzen 9000 series processors based on Zen 5 architecture with the cream of the crop being the Ryzen 9 9950X with 16C+32T config running as high as 5.7GHz that also holds 80MB cache and given a 170W TDP rating.
Speaking from a general standpoint, the average IPC improvement is at 16% and yes, the AM5 platform stays alongside PCIe 5.0, DDR5 RAM, USB4, and WiFi 7 support.
But Team Red is also offering another new tier of premium motherboards under the X870 and X870E naming scheme that promises even higher DDR5 overclocking capability via AMD EXPO as well as a load more PCIe lanes with up to 24 lanes of them.
Aside from the king SKU, the other three occupy the lesser tier with respective specs. Additionally, AM4 is still alive thanks to AMD releasing the new Ryzen 9 5900XT and Ryzen 7 5800XT that aims for the best price-to-performance ratio for that old platform.
For the laptop side, the long teased AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 300 series is here for the Copilot+ PC era with the ‘370’ storming the leaderboard with 12C+24T, up to 5.1GHz boost clock, 36MB cache, RDNA 3.5-powered Radeon Graphics as well as the new XDNA 2-based Ryzen AI NPU.
All in all, this is by far the strongest offering for the market at 50 TOPS of performance, allowing AI inferencing to be fast and efficient.
As for how XDNA 2 differs from the previous gen, it basically comes from the immense increase in the number of AI tiles inside the NPU while power efficiency has been improved two fold thanks to architectural advancements.
Moving onto the server side where AMD is practically dominating the market, the 5th Generation EPYC CPUs are here and guess what – the codename is Turin (Yes, this isn’t RTX 20 Turing but Turin).
But I think that’s the funny thing and no more because its monstrous specifications is all about the real deal at 192 cores and 385 threads per chip at maximum. As for benchmark comparison, it trampled Intel’s current-gen offering by as much as 5.4x.
And they are also made for the SP5 socket which means it is just a “pop out Genoa and put in Turin” upgrade maintenance for data centers to start harnessing the new CPUs.
They are slated for 2H 2024 so it’s kind of impractical to predict it now anyway.
Finishing up the CPU is the Instinct family of GPU accelerators with the new and upcoming new model MI325X succeeding the already market-demanding MI300X.
This new interaction runs HBM3E VRAM chips with AMD finding a way to cram as much as 288GB per GPU unit, delivering up to 6TBps of bandwidth. Achieved using a 12-Hi stack arrangement, Team Red is really crafting this card for clients that have intense memory requirements like LLM training while making little potshots at NVIDIA’s Hopper cards for “not having as much VRAM per GPU as MI325X”.
And as expected, they will be playing the follow-up game as Team Green by churning out improved models or just straight-up next-gen cards per year, at least up to the timeframe of 2026.
AMD’s partner stability.ai has also announced that the new Stable Diffusion 3 will be made available for everyone on the internet to download and start fiddling around with their new algorithm – on desktop systems, on the new Copilot+ AI PCs, you name it.
Like our Facebook Page here at NasiLemakTech.com for more news and in-depth reviews! Also, join our Facebook Group for insightful information and memes!
Subscribe to our YouTube channel too!
