By analysing frames to determine where object edges lie, RIS is said to be able to improve object surfaces without making gradients look fake or interfering with smooth antialiased lines.
#AMD RADEON RX 5700 XT DRIVER#
Game developers to do anything to support it you enable RIS from within the Radeon Settings driver control panel and it works at the graphics API level. This is an algorithmic image quality adjustment filter based on contrast-adaptive sharpening. Instead, AMD has introduced what it calls Radeon Image Sharpening (RIS). It might be niche, and not critical to core gameplay mechanics, but it will be important over the next few years. Nvidia is hyping this feature up with its GeForce RTX series, and this list of current and upcoming games that will support ray tracing keeps growing. One major thing that's missing is any form of ray tracing acceleration. This isn't immediately relevant for gamers, but AMD says you can see the benefits right now in bandwidth-intensive tasks such as playing 8K 60fps video. This standard doubles the theoretical bandwidth of each PCIe lane, for a total of 16 Gigatransfers per second per lane.
#AMD RADEON RX 5700 XT SERIES#
The execution pipeline itself is more capable and flexible, and there's also a new cache hierarchy, which makes it easier for data and instructions to get to where they are needed.Īlong with AMD's Ryzen 3000 series processors, AMD has also brought PCIe 4.0 support to the Radeon RX 5700 series GPUs. Of course AMD is also using its 7nm manufacturing process which helps reduce power consumption and allows for more transistors doing more work in the limited amount of space available.ĪMD tells us that the design of its GPU compute units is completely new and much more efficient. It's is a big improvement after to the minor GCN refreshes we've seen year after year since 2011 – AMD claims 1.25x performance per clock and 1.5x performance per Watt. What's interesting is that this is the same basic framework that will go into AMD's semi-custom GPU designs for the next-gen PlayStation and Xbox consoles as well as Google Stadia and potentially Samsung smartphones in the future.įans have been hoping that AMD might be able to pull off a complete reinvention on the GPU side like it did with the Zen CPU architecture, and the company does say that RDNA has been engineered from the ground up. It replaces the GCN (Graphics Core Next) designs that AMD has been iterating on for the past several generations. Previously codenamed ‘ Navi', the RDNA (Radeon DNA) architecture underpinning the new Radeon RX 5700 GPUs has been in the works for years. That still leaves huge swathes of the market exclusively to the green team, but has AMD at least managed to carve out a little niche for itself with this clever pricing move? Let's find out.īoth new Radeon GPUs are only available with blower-style stock coolers for nowĪMD Radeon RX 5700 XT and Radeon RX 5700 RDNA architecture 26,990 respectively (excluding tax), the Radeon RX 5700 and Radeon RX 5700 XT are positioned against the GeForce RTX 2060 and GeForce RTX 2060 Super.
Regardless of which company looks like it outmanoeuvred the other, AMD is competing only with Nvidia's mid-range.
We might never know whether AMD had this surprise planned all along, or whether it repositioned its products on the eve of their launch out of desperation, but this has to be one of the finest examples we've ever seen of how competition benefits buyers.
Nvidia timed its launch to hurt AMD as much as possible and prevent favourable comparisons against its own offerings, and for a few days, the upcoming Radeons were being written off as “dead in the water” in forums and discussions online. Just when we thought that Nvidia had succeeded in asserting its dominance with the new GeForce RTX Super series, AMD played a tried and true card, cutting prices to regain the advantage.
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