AMD CES Keynote will be rather late for those in the EU. At CES 2020 they AMD will hold a press conference with Dr. Lisa Su, broadcasted in a Livestream. Update, you can playback the keynote from this news-item.
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22:00 UTC CEO Dr Su takes the stage. Talke about performance computing and how good 2019 was.
22:05 Reiterates new Xbox and Playstation consoles and Surface Laptop 3 is powered by AMD.
22:09 2020 is going to be an even bigger for AMD in relation to gamers and creators claims Su. Su talks about the laptop form factor.
22:10 AMD will release new laptop processors, ZEN2 based 7nm power-efficient processors. 3rd generation U, H and Pro Ryzen series 4000 mobile processors. It offers up-to 8 cores and 16 threads with an up-to 4.2 GHz boost. The flagship processor is the Ryzen 7 4800U
22:15 Su announces that a dozen designs in Q1 and over a 100+ laptop designs this year based on Ryzen 4000.
22:18 It is Radeon time, Laura Smith (engineer) takes the stage, talks gaming market, Radeon for desktops and consoles. Freesync ECO system now has expanded to over 1000 displays. Freesync will be further differentiated into Freesync, Freesync Premium and Freesync Premium Pro (all free, but merely tags/labels).
22:24 Laura talks rDNA, the new Radeon architecture that is NAVI at 7nm and newer GPUs. Existing examples are RX 5700, RX 5500. The new member is, of course, the RX 5600. The specs match what we have written below. 1375 MHz base and 1560 Mhz Game clock. It has 6GB HDDR6 @ 12 Gbps and 36 CUs x 64 = 2304 Shader processors. The NAVI card is also coming to mobile in M versions (5600M/5700M).
22:50 the keynote has ended.
Our pre-show Predictions:
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64 Core and Desktop CPU
Earlier chatter indicated that AMD would reveal the Threadripper 3990X in January during CES, but AMD had shifted the announcement forward already. The 64-headed beast will get 128 threads, and that is unprecedented as that is still tagged as a consumer-level processor, which by the way will work on the TRX40 chipset (we confirmed with AMD). Just like the Threadripper 3960X (review) and 3970X (review), the chip would get a 280W TDP. We also have been noting a 48-core part in our initial Threadripper 3000 reviews already, but this year AMD will release a 64-core Threaqdripper, the 3990X and a 3980X as well, with 48-cores.
| AMD Processor | Architecture | Cores | Threads | Freq. Base/Boost | TDP | USD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryzen Threadripper 3990X | ZEN2 | 64 | 128 | - | - | - |
| Ryzen Threadripper 3980X | ZEN2 | 48 | 96 | - | - | - |
| Ryzen Threadripper 3970X | ZEN2 | 32 | 64 | 3.7 - 4.5 GHz | 280W | 1999 |
| Ryzen Threadripper 3960X | ZEN2 | 24 | 48 | 3.8 - 4.5 GHz | 280W | 1399 |
| Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX | ZEN+ | 32 | 64 | 3.0 - 4.2 GHz | 250W | 1979 |
| Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX | ZEN+ | 24 | 48 | 3.0 - 4.2 GHz | 250W | 1299 |
| Ryzen Threadripper 2950X | ZEN+ | 16 | 32 | 3.5 - 4.4 GHz | 180W | 1189 |
| Ryzen Threadripper 1950X | ZEN | 16 | 32 | 3.7 - 4.0 GHz | 180W | 898 |
| Ryzen Threadripper 2920X | ZEN+ | 12 | 24 | 3.5 - 4.3 GHz | 180W | 589 |
| Ryzen Threadripper 1920X | ZEN | 12 | 24 | 3.5 - 4.0 GHz | 180W | 488 |
| Ryzen Threadripper 1900X | ZEN | 8 | 16 | 3.8 - 4.0 GHz | 140W | 389 |
AMD Ryzen 'Renoir' APUs - 7nm Mobile & Desktop Processors based on Zen2
NVIDIA makes use of famous mathematicians, AMD tends to sick to painting artists for APUs. There are several names active on the APUs right now I mean you know Matisse 14nm and Picasso 12nm. We've also seen artist names like Vermeer and yes ... Renoir that will end up in the 3000 or 4000 APUs with ZEN2 design processor cores.
Renoir APUs will be based on ZEN2 cores and would get TDPs of 15 up-to 45 Watts for the mobile/laptop platform and up-to 65 Watts for the Desktop APUs. Interesting was an earlier mention of the number of CUs, 13 compute units likely based on VEGA architecture (not NAVI) = 832 Shaders. Only specific laptop APUs will get this. Below you can spot the content as listed. Considering current 12nm APUs are labeled Ryzen 3000 APUs, we assume that the new ones will be called Ryzen 4000 APUs.
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT - Navi Fires taking on 1660 SUPER
There's no surprise here really, as some AIB partners leaked any and all information. Specs of a Radeon RX 5600XT Challenger D had been listed at the ASRock website. The 7nm based product was listed having 36 compute units and 2304 stream processors, which is the RX 5700. The RX 5600XT has lower clock speeds and less memory. As rumored it will be fitted with 6GB GDDR6, a base clock of 1130 MHz (RX 5700 1465MHz and 8GB). The gameclock of the RX 5600XT is 1375 MHz with a turbo frequency of 1560. With the RX 5700, these clock speeds are 1625 MHz and 1725 MHz respectively. The memory speed of the RX 5600XT is listed at 12 Gbit/s / 192-bit. Which is 288 GB/s. The RX 5700 has a memory speed of 14 Gbit/s with a 256-bit interface at 448GB/s. So yes, it will be a cut-down 5700.
| AMD Radeon RX 5000 series | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RX 5700 XT | RX 5700 | RX 5600 XT | RX 5500 XT | |
| GPU | Navi 10 XT | Navi 10 XL | Navi 10 Pro | Navi 14 XTX |
| Cores | 2560 | 2304 | 2304 | 1408 |
| Basic clock | 1605 MHz | 1465 MHz | 1130 MHz | 1607 MHz |
| Game clock | 1755 MHz | 1625 MHz | 1375 MHz | 1717 MHz |
| Boost clock | 1905 MHz | 1725 MHz | 1560 MHz | 1845 MHz |
| Memory | 8GB GDDR6 | 8GB GDDR6 | 6GB GDDR6 | 4GB / 8GB GDDR6 |
| Memory bus | 256 bit | 256 bit | 192 bit | 128 bit |
| Memory clock speed | 14 Gbps | 14 Gbps | 12 Gbps | 14 Gbps |
| Bandwidth | 448 GB/s | 448 GB/s | 288 GB/s | 224 GB/s |
| Recommended retail price | USD 449 | USD 379 | ? | 199 USD |
A bit of an AMD Zen 3 Tease?
AMD already mentioned the ZEN3 architecture design phase has been finished. Nowadays you can look at AMD's design and release phases as the traditional tick-tock release schedule. Here you may expect an iterated update of ZEN2. That’s said, ZEN3 should be seen as a new architecture is mentioned, which is interesting. We know that ZEN3 is a 7nm+ based product based on the below roadmap slide that was shared a while ago. AMD says it careful but hinted at yet another 15% IPC increase for ZEN3, that’s again clock for clock and not counting faster clock frequencies. So that overall perf number increase could easily crawl towards 20%. The necessity of more cores has not ended, and the future design path will be based on more cores and a greater compute density as well as a focus on memory bandwidth and I/O connectivity. Despite earlier rumors, AMD also confirmed that ZEN3 and Epyc CPUs will not use a maximum of four threads per core, so you can 'bin' that idea.
