Computex 2019 is underway in Taiwan, and among the many companies showcasing their products and launching new ones, AMD took to the stage to announce a bunch of stuff at its Computex keynote. There were new processors, chipsets, and more. In case you missed out on AMD’s keynote, here’s everything the company announced:
AMD announced a slew of new desktop processors, the 3rd generation of the company’s Ryzen series of processors including a 12 core beast in the form of the Ryzen 9. The new processors are based on AMD’s new Zen 2 core architecture, and follow the company’s ‘chiplet’ design approach.
The company also announced the new X570 chipset for AM4 socket. The X570 chipset supports PCIe 4.0 which has 42% better performance than PCIe 3.0. AMD said that support for PCIe 4.0 will enable support for high-performance graphics card, networking devices, NVMe drives, and more.
AMD also unveiled RDNA — a new gaming architecture that’s designed to drive the future of PC gaming, consoles, and cloud gaming. According to AMD, the new compute unit design will result in incredible power, performance, and efficiency in a much smaller package as compared to AMD’s previous-generation GCN architecture.
The company’s upcoming Radeon RX 5700 GPUs will be powered by RDNA, featuring GDDR6 memory, and support for PCIe 4.0. The company also compared the RX 5700 with the RTX 2070 by running a Strange Brigade gameplay demo on both the cards, and thee Radeon GPU seemed to perform better than the RTX 2070.
While AMD is apparently still not ready to unveil the 2nd gen EPYC processors, the company did show off a test of a pre-production unit of the processor and compared it with an Intel Xeon processor in an NAMD benchmark test. In AMD’s test, the pre-production 2nd-generation EPYC processor beat the Intel Xeon by more than 2x in the benchmark.
