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Back during CES 2024, Advanced Micro Devices announced its latest GPUs aimed at players who want to play the games of 2024. It also unveiled new CPUs and talked about a new era for AI.
The new AMD Radeon 7600 XT 16GB and AMD Radeon 7600 XT 8GB are aimed at the middle and low-end of the gamer market — people who haven’t refreshed their gaming hardware in a while.
AMD noted that 50% of PC gamers are not having a great experience because they’re running big games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, Starfield and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora well below the optimal 60 frames per second at 1080p resolution.
AMD is also launching its AMD Ryzen 8040 Series processors, built on a foundation of neural processing units based on AMD XDNA and central processing units based on the Zen 4 architecture.
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The desktop processor will also be the world’s first desktop processor with a dedicated AI engine, AMD said, with a combined 39 TFLOPs of processing power. AMD said the AI processing will help with performance, security, efficiency and future costs. There are over 100 experiences optimized for Ryzen AI today, AMD said. It’s also faster on AI applications such as Stable Diffusion, Cinebench and more.
I talked to Frank Azor, chief architect of gaming solutions at AMD, about the new hardware, the impact on software, and the changes coming thanks to AI.
Here’s an edited transcript of our interview.
Frank Azor: The new 8000 series G desktop processors are a pretty huge improvement relative to the prior generation. The biggest things are the L2 cache increase, obviously the latest Zen processors as well, but the biggest leap is going from Vega class integrated graphics to RDNA 3 class integrated graphics. You take that raw horsepower of the RDNA 3 graphics that we put into these desktop processors, and then you tack on the software features we’ve been launching over the last few years as well, like Hyper RX, our Fluid Motion Frames technology, our Adrenalin software. They work on the desktop processors.
We’re seeing performance that’s pretty amazing. Definitely best in class performance for integrated graphics processors, and certainly in a desktop form factor. Mobile, you’ve seen some stuff, some decent graphics for a while now. But in desktop there’s nothing else like this in the market. Then we launched the Radeon 7600XT graphics card as well. Now it’s a little faster than the non-XT version we previously launched. It comes with 16GB of memory as well. It has all the RDNA 3 features, the same ones we talked about at the architecture day.
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