The AMD Next Horizon Gaming Keynote Live Blog (Starts at 3pm PT/22:00 UTC)
by Ryan Smith on June 10, 2019 2:00 PM EST
05:54PM EDT - We're here in sunny (and hot) Los Angeles, California for E3, and more specifically, AMD's next big product-focused keynote. Dubbed "Next Horizon Gaming"
05:55PM EDT - AMD's crew, including CEO Dr. Lisa Su, will be taking the stage to present information on upcoming gaming-related products
05:57PM EDT - It's a fair bet that we'll be seeing both GPU news and CPU news from this keynote, plenty of gaming demos, and as is usually the case for AMD, maybe a surprise or two
05:59PM EDT - The show is set to start at 3pm local time, though I suspect it will get a late start
05:59PM EDT - Joining me today is the jetlagged Dr. Ian Cutress, who only recently wrapped up Computex
06:00PM EDT - Oh, and we're starting on time!
06:00PM EDT - AMD is rolling a video
06:00PM EDT - And the AMD employees are forming a mosh pit
06:01PM EDT - Now on stage: Dr. Lisa Su
06:01PM EDT - Who is wearing a black leather jacket
06:02PM EDT - "We have an incredible, incredible show for you today"
06:02PM EDT - "What's next?"
06:03PM EDT - (It will likely involve processors)
06:04PM EDT - To deliver incredible gaming experiences you need breakthrough hardware and breakthrough games
06:04PM EDT - Sometimes the hardware gets ahead, and sometimes the software gets ahead
06:04PM EDT - AMD wants to be everywhere. PCs, consoles, mobile, etc
06:05PM EDT - "We're all about pushing the envelope"
06:05PM EDT - We're seeing the results of some bets AMD made 3 to 5 years ago
06:06PM EDT - e.g. Zen 2 and RDNA
06:06PM EDT - AMD is very happy about their console and Google partnerships
06:07PM EDT - Lisa is now recapping yesterday's Project Scarlett Xbox announcement
06:08PM EDT - Introducing at E3 2019: AMD Ryzen 3000 series and the Radeon RX 5700 series
06:09PM EDT - Starting today off with Ryzen
06:09PM EDT - Rolling a video
06:10PM EDT - Lisa says she's happy to see the excitement about Ryzen 3000
06:11PM EDT - Recapping AMD's Computex announcements
06:11PM EDT - 15% IPC, 2x cache size, 2x FP perf (via AVX-2)
06:12PM EDT - AMD now considers themselves a market leader for consumer CPUs
06:12PM EDT - And now showing off some benchmark data to prove that claim
06:12PM EDT - (AMD's favorite benchmark: Cinebench 20)
06:13PM EDT - Also comparing the 3900X to Intel's 9900K in games at CPU-limited settings
06:14PM EDT - Now it's time for a demo with AMD's Robert Hallock
06:15PM EDT - Running The Division 2
06:15PM EDT - Now they're going to throw in some video encoding
06:16PM EDT - (Casually omitted: using the dedicated video encoder in AMD's video cards)
06:17PM EDT - Now 3800X vs. 9700K
06:17PM EDT - So that's Ryzen 7
06:17PM EDT - Now on to the Ryzen 5 processors
06:18PM EDT - 3600X vs. 9600K
06:18PM EDT - Robert is back, demoing Counter-Strike: Go
06:19PM EDT - Running at CPU-limited settings
06:19PM EDT - So framerates approaching 300fps
06:20PM EDT - "Leadership at every price point"
06:20PM EDT - Reminding everyone that all of this goes on sale on July 7th
06:20PM EDT - Switching gears to GPUs with Navi, AMD's next-gen GPU
06:21PM EDT - The Radeon RX 5700 series
06:21PM EDT - Designed from the ground up for gaming
06:22PM EDT - Introducing AMD's RDNA architecture. The successor to the GCN family of architectures
06:22PM EDT - Focused on 7nm, higher clocks, lower power, and PCIe 4.0
06:22PM EDT - "Do you guyys love Vega"
06:23PM EDT - For the future of gaming, AMD wants a flexible and scalable architecture
06:23PM EDT - 25% in perf-per-clock (per CU) and 50% perf-per-watt. All versus Vega
06:23PM EDT - Now rolling another video
06:24PM EDT - Our first card: the Radeon RX 5700 XT
06:24PM EDT - (Yes, those insufferable suffixes are back)
06:24PM EDT - It's a blower
06:25PM EDT - The 5700 XT delivers performance leadership in its class
06:25PM EDT - Now on stage: AMD's Scott Herkelman
06:26PM EDT - Specs: 40 CUs, 8GB GDDR6, Boost Clock of 1905Mhz, Game Clock of 1755MHz. Total perf of 9.75 TFLOPs
06:26PM EDT - First gaming GPU to support PCIe 4.0
06:26PM EDT - Now talking about the design of the card
06:26PM EDT - Aluminium shroud, power is 1x8pin + 1x6pin
06:26PM EDT - Vapor chamber between the heatsink and GPU
06:26PM EDT - 7 phase power
06:27PM EDT - Rolling a demo of World War Z
06:27PM EDT - GeForce RTX 2070 vs. RX 5700 XT
06:28PM EDT - More perf benchmark data. "Best versus best", each card using its best API
06:28PM EDT - The 5700 XT gets a smaller sibling: 5700 (vanilla)
06:28PM EDT - 36 CUs, 8GB VRAM, 1725Mhz boost clock, 1625 game clock
06:29PM EDT - Comparing this to RTX 2060
06:29PM EDT - AMD has itself winning several benchmarks here
06:30PM EDT - Now talking a bit more about the architecture
06:30PM EDT - Navi GPU family features
06:30PM EDT - Navi is the first RDNA architecture GPU
06:31PM EDT - DisplayPort 1.4 with Display Stream Compression
06:31PM EDT - New feature: FidelityFX
06:32PM EDT - A collection of AMD graphics effects libraries. Hosted on their open source GPUOpen website
06:33PM EDT - AMD has a contrast-enhancing post-processing filter
06:33PM EDT - Their answer to NVIDIA's DLSS
06:33PM EDT - "Virtually no performance hit"
06:34PM EDT - AMD Radeon Image Sharpening
06:34PM EDT - This is a very similar feature built into AMD's driver
06:35PM EDT - Quick slide showing minimal performance hit
06:35PM EDT - So a very lightweight post-processing shader
06:35PM EDT - Radeon Anti-Lag
06:36PM EDT - A new feature to reduce rendering input lag
06:36PM EDT - Back on stage: Robert Hallock
06:37PM EDT - Discussing the background of motion-to-photon latency
06:37PM EDT - Live demo time. RTX 2070 vs. 5700 XT
06:37PM EDT - Now with Radeon Anti-lag enabled, input lag drops by about 15ms
06:37PM EDT - About 1 frame of latency
06:38PM EDT - (This sounds like a Scott Wasson project)
06:38PM EDT - Showing benchmarks measuring latency in a number of games
06:38PM EDT - How much will it cost?
06:39PM EDT - RX 5700 XT: $449
06:39PM EDT - RX 5700: $379
06:39PM EDT - AMD ain't offering no discounts this year
06:39PM EDT - Launching July 7th
06:40PM EDT - AMD game "bundle", a 3 month trial subscription for Xbox Game Pass (retail value: $30)
06:41PM EDT - Now on stage: Geoff Keighley
06:42PM EDT - (So everything on July 7th then. RIP us)
06:42PM EDT - Now it's going to be partner game demo time
06:43PM EDT - Gears of War 5
06:46PM EDT - (Surprisingly, AMD didn't talk about video card TDP there)
06:46PM EDT - Demo footage rendered all in real time on AMD hardwre
06:47PM EDT - Discussing how they don't have to do much dev work on the PC version
06:48PM EDT - Uncapped framerate on the PC
06:49PM EDT - Up next: Borderlands 3
06:52PM EDT - HDR support
06:54PM EDT - Launching September 13th
06:54PM EDT - Devs have signed an agreement with AMD for AMD to supply them with equipment
06:55PM EDT - Rolling more footage
06:57PM EDT - Now on to the Unity game engine
06:57PM EDT - Which is used in a large number of games
06:58PM EDT - Why do devs work with Unity?
06:58PM EDT - Because not everyone wants to make their own engine. It's a lot of work
06:59PM EDT - Discussing their HD Render Pipeline. Physically accurate rendering
07:01PM EDT - Running a demo called The Heretic
07:02PM EDT - Discussing all of the visual features involved
07:03PM EDT - Optimized for current and next-gen GPUs
07:03PM EDT - Also incorporating AMD's FidelityFX contrast enhancement
07:04PM EDT - CAS = Contrast Adaptive Sharpening
07:04PM EDT - Using CAS to render at sub-native resolutions
07:05PM EDT - HDRP coming in Unity 2019.3 in Fall 2019
07:06PM EDT - Up next: Ubisoft and Ghost Recon Breakpoint
07:06PM EDT - Yves Guillemot is here as well
07:08PM EDT - Showing an exclusive first look at Breakpoint
07:09PM EDT - Volumetric fog, screenspace reflection. Using async compute
07:10PM EDT - Back on stage: Lisa Su
07:12PM EDT - And Geoff has left the stage
07:13PM EDT - And now for the surprise!
07:13PM EDT - "I have one more GPU for you today"
07:13PM EDT - 50th anniversary edition 5700 XT
07:14PM EDT - Higher clocked 5700 XT
07:14PM EDT - 1830MHz game clock, boost clock of 1980MHz
07:14PM EDT - Excluslvely on AMD.com for $499
07:15PM EDT - So AMD is getting into the factory overclocked video card game. This is the the return of the Vega 64 Liquid Cooled, I suppose
07:15PM EDT - There's a CPU surprise as well
07:15PM EDT - 16 core gaming processor. The Ryzen 3950X
07:16PM EDT - 4.7Ghz boost, 3.5Ghz base
07:16PM EDT - 105W TDP
07:16PM EDT - Coming this September for $749
07:17PM EDT - A quick video with some overclocking results
07:18PM EDT - All of this launches July 7th
07:18PM EDT - And that's a wrap
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Old_Fogie_Late_Bloomer - Monday, June 10, 2019 - link
Can someone tell your paymasters at Purch that the advertising on this site is completely out of control? I'd almost expect it from Tom's Hardware (yes, I know Purch owns you both) but I also expect Anandtech to, you know, not be Tom's Hardware.I'm sure they can't tell the difference between you too, but there was a time when I could.
FFS a video ad for Alienware just showed up and pushed this comment box down off the bottom of the window. How embarrassing.
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You are The First!schujj07 - Monday, June 10, 2019 - link
Just use an adblocker if you have problems with the ads.Old_Fogie_Late_Bloomer - Monday, June 10, 2019 - link
I confess I do use ad blocking software on my personal devices (it's so bad now that I have to use NoScript to block the "don't block our ads" popups), but I do most of my tech news reading on my work computer.That's still not a solution to the problem of Anandtech remaining a viable website, though. That problem is solved by advertising that is relevant to its readers' interests, presented in a way that doesn't make a tech-savvy readership reach for browser plugins.
elforeign - Monday, June 10, 2019 - link
I have to agree, the ads on this site are nigh on unbearable. I understand they need to be on here some way, but when they make the site incredibly slow to load, push content up or down or altogether just take over your screen, it's just too much.abrowne1993 - Monday, June 10, 2019 - link
The mobile ads are downright cancerous.Holliday75 - Monday, June 10, 2019 - link
Yeah they have gotten horrible. Spending less and less time here because of it.Andrei Frumusanu - Monday, June 10, 2019 - link
Thanks for flagging: The current ad setup is definitely not how it's meant to be. We're looking into it to get it resolved.Old_Fogie_Late_Bloomer - Monday, June 10, 2019 - link
Thank you for responding, Andrei, and good luck. You're probably way ahead of me on this, but I just wanted to clarify that the reason I felt compelled to make a comparison to Tom's Hardware is because they're using the same new ad format, as well.Exodite - Monday, June 10, 2019 - link
FWIW, and I realize it may be very little, I'd definitely consider contributing to the site via a patreon setup or something similar but I'm not turning off adblock for Anandtech ever again.It's not just the ads themselves or the placement but auto-playing video in article images and so on, and it's been going on for way too long to be a mistake.
I love the content you put out and I do feel bad about not contributing to keeping the site running. Just not bad enough to put myself through ad hell.
Please consider a small subscriber fee solution, one which doesn't require any privacy compromises would be ideal.