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Last year, AMD and its software team dispatched some representatives to our offices to talk about the major software release that was Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition. As most of you probably saw last week, AMD launched the Crimson ReLive 17.7.2 driver and we are pleased to let you know that we will again be hosting a live stream with our friends at AMD! Come learn about the development of this new driver, how the new features work and insight on what might be coming in the future from AMD's software team.
And what's a live stream without prizes? AMD has stepped up to the plate to offer up some awesome hardware for those of you that tune in to watch the live stream!
- 2 x MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X Graphics Cards
AMD Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Live Stream and Giveaway
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Will you be adding
Will you be adding functionality like benchmarking and statistics into your driver? Stuff like MSI Afterburner, furmark and other tweaking tools all into one. Also, are you working with monitor companies in order to further integrate OSD settings into the drivers? Being able to tweak the monitor settings through software would be cool!
Also.. Powershell cmdlets? 😉
(Warning – long post, bold
(Warning – long post, bold for question, but you need the story!)
I have a good question that I’m actually thinking about often.
Back before I knew of Ryzen (most probably didn’t), and while Polaris was still only a beautiful dream for us AMD fans, AMD talked a lot about their roadmap.
The AMD subreddit discussed daily what was going to happen with mysterious Polaris/Vega/Navi, everyone being so excited when leaks and whatever tiny pieces of information came up.
Everyone found Navi somewhat boring and far away, or maybe that was just me, I had had 2x 7950 GPUs and knew the hazzles. Couldn’t imagine them being stable or affordable or having any upsides at all on a single card.
Back then I was clearly unaware of some of the “smaller chips = lower costs” pcperspectives (couldn’t resist). But then Ryzen came out. I didn’t think of it at first, you know, CPUs and GPUs are two totally different products to the consumer and I was all invested in the graphics cards.
But AMD subreddit, adoredTV (big fan) and etc, kept discussing all the pros and cons of the Ryzen chips, while talking dirty about Intel. I needed a new computer soon so I became “invested”. The dirty talk helped a lot though.
Anyway, a lot of focus was set on the Infinity Fabric design as the game changer, which was a huge reason why Ryzen could be so cheap and efficient compared to Intels chips. So I couldn’t help but learn a little about it.
I kept getting exposed to GPU and CPU news until I thought of the idea that – and this is finally my actual question:
Did AMD have this plan all along?
To discover and develop Infinity Fabric, use it in their Ryzen lineup, polish it and put it into Vega in the form of Navi, to create the first proper “multi core gpu” on a single board, thus slicing manufacturing costs, making it easy to produce “threadripper vegas” at a fraction of the cost?
Vega seems hard to earn money off, at the price/silicon size. But slicing down the “core size” into small Lego pieces might change that? It seems like a genius plan, at least in my head, but I barely understand anything about the engineering that is required for chips to work. So I don’t even know if that’s just silly?
HBM2 also seems quite fast for what’s actually necessary currently? Could it be that they wanted to implement it now, so they could test its speed with a “multi core gpu” design (I’m gonna patent this word)?
The question sounded shorter in my head. I also suddenly feel very consumed by AMD mindshareTM. I also can’t wait to get destroyed in the comments /jk I luv all your critical thinking 😛
Writing this made me think it through a lot, you should do this more often. Okay I’m done for now! I’m hungry.
Okay that’s really bold bold.
Okay that’s really bold bold.
Read this research
Read this research paper:
“Design and Analysis of an APU for Exascale Computing”
http://www.computermachines.org/joe/publications/pdfs/hpca2017_exascale_apu.pdf