When it comes to GPU releases, we at PC Perspective take things up a level in the kind of content we produce as well as the amount of information we provide to the community. Part of that commitment is our drive to bring in the very best people from around the industry to talk directly to the consumers, providing interesting and honest views on where their technology is going.
With the pending release of the Radeon RX 480 based on AMD's latest Polaris architecture on Wednesday, June 29th, I am excited to announce that Raja Koduri, SVP and Chief Architect of the Radeon Technologies Group will be joining us in studio to talk about the RX 480 and AMD's plans moving forward.
The AMD Radeon RX 480 Graphics Card
There is much to discuss. AMD and the RTG have promised that the RX 480 will be a revolutionary product, improving on performance per watt and performance per dollar in a way that no other AMD architecture has done. And the drive to include dramatically more gamers in the rising world of VR gaming will be an impressive feat as well, if they can pull it off. Topics like architectural improvements, asynchronous compute, multi-GPU and more are on the docket. You definitely won't want to miss it.
Radeon RX 480 Live Stream with Raja Koduri and Ryan Shrout
10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET – June 29th
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The event will take place Wednesday, June 29th at 1:30pm ET / 10:30am PT at https://www.pcper.com/live. There you’ll be able to catch the live video stream as well as use our chat room to interact with the audience, asking questions for me and Raja to answer live.
Raja is one of the more open and honest people in this highly competitive landscape and every time we have had the ability to do an interview he has provided insightful, and sometimes very new, information.
As a price for hosting AMD in the offices, we demanded a sacrifice: in the form of hardware to giveaway to our viewers! We'll have at least two Radeon RX 480s to giveaway during the live stream but I am pushing to get a bump in that count; we'll see if I am persuasive enough. All you have to do to win on the 29th is watch the live stream!
Some Radeon RX 480s will be up for grabs!!
If you have questions, please leave them in the comments below and we'll look through them just before the start of the live stream. Of course you'll be able to tweet us questions @pcper and we'll be keeping an eye on the IRC chat as well for more inquiries. What do you want to know and hear from Raja or me?
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How has the recent surges in
How has the recent surges in stock price affected the company internals? Has hiring / morale been boosted?
Hi, this going to be
Hi, this going to be awesome!
My question is:
Will we notice any differences between the 8GB vs 4GB variances in terms of perfomance?
Knowing there was very minimal difference in the Hawaii chip (290x)
I do not think so. Yes i know
I do not think so. Yes i know i’m not mr Raja Koduri but 8gb of vram will only improve performance in games which can make use of it
Yes we’ve heard that with
Yes we’ve heard that with this new hbm2 tech that soon there will be 32gb gpus but at the moment it sounds like 8gb isn’t fully utilized by many games. Is this going to change?
Also will xpoint tech play nicely with these cards? Or will motherboards change dramatically in next 5 years?
Does he know Mr. Macintosh?
AMD fanboys and shills
AMD fanboys and shills rejoice!
http://i.imgur.com/q7Sq0CL.jp
http://i.imgur.com/q7Sq0CL.jpg
I just like that they are
I just like that they are doing a card this powerful at the 200 dollar price point.
I cannot Imagine what the 490 is going to be like!
What about us that we live in
What about us that we live in Europe and we cannot watch live the interview….will we be able to participate in the giveaway? Or is it only US and CANADA giveaway??? Unfortunately I live in Greece and cannot watch the live show….
Thank you in advance for a prompt reply
Best
Awesome! I will be looking
Awesome! I will be looking forward to this 🙂
Hey Ryan, hey Raja!
Please
Hey Ryan, hey Raja!
Please include these questions on the livestream:
1) Radeon stance on high bandwidth multi GPU interconnect
2) What is the current adoption rate for GPUOpen initiative – are there any key partners in gaming industry to announce?
3) How do the next few years look in terms of transition to Heterogeneous System Architecture?
4) With the new manufacturing process what is the limiting factor for not having enthusiast desktop graphics with APU, is it the heat?
5) How does the AMD TrueAudio
5) How does the AMD TrueAudio technology from 2013 compare to nVidia’s announced sound ray-tracing simulation?
6) There have been images
6) There have been images floating around the web, so I guess we’ll see a new Overdrive interface in the Crimson drivers, is that specific to RX400 series or will we see that on the 28nm GPUs as well?
up-vote on this.
up-vote on this.
Another question he probably
Another question he probably won’t answer but…
That slide that shows NAVI with a “scalable gpu architecture”
…
Does that mean a bunch of small die gpus can be mashed together to create a single effective megazord like combination of gpu power that would act as a single ultra large die gpu as opposed to the current models in cf/sli where they are separate and have limitations?
It very well could be that
It very well could be that “scalability” on AMD’s roadmap for Navi means multi-GPU on something like an interposer. A great video by ADored TV that goes over AMD’s Roadmap which covers this idea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSYBO1BrB1I
Please ask this to someone
Please ask this to someone who know and can answer (like Raja) not someone that act like a (fan)boy and call his very approximative work “analysis” and “benchmarking” c’mon! you read PCPer!
Hi, if you can please also
Hi, if you can please also ask this question:
There are still some features in Catalyst that are not in Crimson yet, mostly on the Advanced Video settings. Do they have any plans on bringing these back in Crimson? (De-noise, Noise reduction, De-blocking, Deinterlace, etc).
The Crimson edition is focusing more on gaming and left out the good media enhancements, which is why I am still on Catalyst 15.11 on my builds except for that one PC which I game on.
Anxiously waiting to see if a
Anxiously waiting to see if a 470 can be underclocked from 110W TDP down to 95W for use with http://www.hd-plex.com/HDPLEX-Passive-Video-Card-GPU-Heatsink-System-for-HDPLEX-H5.html without losing too much performance. Would love to hear about this specifically, as well as more general information on passive GPUs in the future with performance/watt being a big emphasis in AMD’s marketing.
RAJA! RAJA! RAJA!
Awesome!
RAJA! RAJA! RAJA!
Awesome!
I know today is about Polaris
I know today is about Polaris but will discrete Vega GPUs be making their way into high-end laptops?
I’m hoping to one day buy a laptop powered by Zen & Polaris on the APU side (Raven Ridge) augmented by a discrete Vega GPU to take advantage of multi-adapter support.
P.S. ~ Ryan, very important: run a poll during the interview for those in favour or against Raja regrowing that glorious face-hugger of his. RTG just isn’t the same without it. :3
Was Polaris / Vega designed
Was Polaris / Vega designed mainly in China ?
Just asking because Raja flew to china to congratulate the design team, correct ?
Also the India/China team seem to have skyrocketed in size in the past 5 years. Why is AMD firing people in north America and instead growing the team in Asia ?
Serious question, because I’m curious to see if the US is faced with a lower education system compared to where we where in the 50s.
It seem India / China is teaching computer science , but the US is not. (Sating this because in silicon valley I dont believe in 2015 CS was part of the curriculum of any <19 year old)
A really good theory is that
A really good theory is that labor is just simply cheaper over there.
Depends on where you want to go to school at and what major you are going for. If your major is something like nursing or architecture, then of course you are not going to take Computer Science courses!
Ryan / Raja
I have a 380
Ryan / Raja
I have a 380 currently, I want to get a 480 and do 480 primary duel cards setup with the 380. I’m running win10 / dx12. Is there enough support for this from drivers at launch of the 480? Will there be, if not at launch? When?
If not, when I get a 480 should I keep the 380 for second monitor, instead of duel card use as two separate cards?
Please let me know how support for previous gen cards will work with new gen cards.
Also will I get full benifit from the 480 using an older amd mb?
System:
Asus m5a99fx pro2.0
Fx8350
16gb ram
Saphire r9 380 4GB nitro
Ocz arc 100 120gb ssd
Wd 1tb hd
Thank you!
Questions:
what is RTG’s
Questions:
what is RTG’s stance on 3way+ Xfire and “enthusiast keys”?
How did the marketing guys let you launch the card without LEDs or RGB?
Are there any real density differences between 14nm GloFo and 16nm TSMC, or are the two nearly identical?
Related, are you expecting lots of frequency headroom on 14nm?
Can you comment on why current gen seem very sensitive to overvolting, i.e. large power increases with little extra clocks, is it due to tunnelling?
Lisa Su detailed the Polaris
Lisa Su detailed the Polaris lineup as ranging from $99 to $299, but we’re told that the entire Polaris 10 family is the 460, 470 and 480. With the top-end 480 being $229, is there another product coming to fill that hole up to $299, or was there a miscommunication?
Vega 10
Vega 10
Ryan you should grow out a
Ryan you should grow out a competitive mustache
folks, there’s no need to
folks, there’s no need to watch the stream unless Raja turns you on, we already got all the information we need:
– RX 480 will be available only in the reference variant for a couple of weeks after its launch
– the cooler is tra.sh that probably costs 20 cents to manufacture and makes the card throttle hard with DEFAULT clocks
– the chip is a dog that likes to overheat
– gaming performance is slightly under the GTX 970, that’s right, a 2 year old mainstream card
– VR is a tragedy, GTX 970 shits on RX 480 in all things VR, which is sad for a card marketed as for its VR capabilities
Overall a disaster of a launch. This card won’t sell for $239. Even GTX 1070’s p/$ ratio is better than this pos.
Ladies and gentlemen, here we
Ladies and gentlemen, here we have a perfect example of a post that you should simply snicker at, and then scroll on.
Any idea how long the
Any idea how long the livestream is going to be?
Why was the R5/R7/R9 naming
Why was the R5/R7/R9 naming convention dropped? Seemed to work fine for 200 and 300 series.
trying to shead the
trying to shead the rebranding image that seem to only come with that naming i beat. Pretty much every card with R5/R7/R9 on them were mostly all rebrands.
My suspicion (and only
My suspicion (and only suspicion) is that they didn’t need the added segmentation in the lineup. Assuming that they’re not going to be doing X-series GPUs (480, 480X, 470, 470X, etc.) and assuming that it’s because the entire lineup for this release and in the near future consists of just 3 GPUs, it seems silly to further segment your three cards. What are they going to do, R5-460, R7-470, R9-480? What would even be the point?
But they still really really like that X.
So, screw it. Make it the RX-series. They still get the “R” for Radeon, they still get to use that X they like so much, they have their 3 GPU models that don’t really need to be segmented any more than they are – it just makes sense to drop it.
It does make me wonder about the precedent, though. They now have RX graphics cards. They’ve said in the past (I dunno if they’ve said it recently) that the non-APU Zen parts would be FX branded. Will the APU’s drop their A10/A8/A6 segmentation and become AX? What if their DDR3/4 memory becomes MX branded and their Radeon SSDs become SX branded?
I’m not sure whether I think that would be a good idea or a terrible idea, really.
Ask:
Is this a fully enabled
Ask:
Is this a fully enabled chip and if not, when is the fully enabled version out?