AMD Will Show Off Next-Gen GPUs Next Month | Game Rant
With gamers everywhere putting more time into PCs than ever before, hardware manufacturers like AMD are putting more effort into developing their chipsets. In an event this October, AMD will showcase its new Zen 3 Ryzen chips and Radeon graphics cards.
It has already been an exciting year for hardware enthusiasts. Nvidia announced its powerful RTX-30 series last week, and Intel's 11th-generation "Tiger Lake" chips are expected to come out next month. AMD's first showcasing event will take place October 8th with Zen 3 in the spotlight, followed by coverage of RDNA 2 on October 28th.
Zen 3 is the latest iteration of AMD's "Zen" devices, a 7nm+ CPU architecture which will power the new Ryzen 4000 desktop CPUs. Currently, the hardware that is expected to ship with the PS5 and the Xbox Series X this holiday season is Zen 2, so these event will likely be aimed at PC gamers who are looking to upgrade in 2021. The Zen 3 processors are expected to be priced similarly to the Zen 2.
RDNA 2 is the new rendering architecture behind AMD's 'Big Navi' RX-6000 series graphics cards, which many will remember from the E3 demo of Unreal Engine 5 running on the PS5 back in 2019. It's likely the event will be focusing entirely on the RX-6000 series, and AMD will use the showcases as a proving ground to show that its RX-6000 GPUs and Ryzen 4000 CPUs are a good combination.
Leaks at the beginning of August suggested that Nvidia's GeForce Graphics cards might end up outperforming the Radeon RTX line. This year, it seems the cost/performance balance means more than ever to consumers, so this event in early October could end up being a make-or-break moment for the company.
AMD has been having a very good fiscal year so far, achieving record-breaking stocks in August, so other manufacturers may end up planning their next announcements around these two dates in order to achieve maximum visibility. AMD, Intel, and Nvidia are all trying to prove that their hardware is the best, and timing is important.
This could potentially be the perfect opportunity for some surprise game trailers, particularly games running the Unreal Engine 5. However, AMD has a potential edge in that it's developing both CPUs and GPUs, making a unified architecture which theoretically could perform better than other combinations like an Intel CPU paired with an Nvidia GPU. Until the real numbers are in, comparisons between the three manufacturers and their hardware will have to remain theoretical.
AMD's showcasing events will take place virtually on October 8th and 28th.
Source: IGN
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