AMD makes big promises with RDNA 2 – It’s more than just raytracing!
AMD makes big promises with RDNA 2 – It’s more than just raytracing!
While AMD has been a little vague with its details, Radeon has been clear that RDNA 2 will bring some revolutionary performance/watt improvements for the company while remaining on a 7nm node. AMD has promised a 50% boost in performance per watt with RDNA 2. This will help AMD tap into the gaming notebook market and deliver increased performance within the desktop market.Â
Performance/watt has been AMD’s major downside within the GPU market for almost a decade, and that changes with RDNA 2. AMD will no longer be a power hog within the world of gaming graphics, and that is great news for consoles, gaming PCs and mobile gamers alike.Â
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With RDNA 2, AMD plans to deliver increased performance per clock (IPC), reduced logic complexity and switching power and higher core clock speeds. Basically, AMD will deliver higher clock speeds and more performance with every clock cycle, delivering everything that gamers will want from a new graphics architecture.Â
  
Beyond performance and efficiency enhancements, RDNA 2 will deliver PC gamers support for new features in the form of DXR-compatible, hardware-accelerated raytracing support, and Variable Rate Shading (VRS).Â
These features will bring AMD in line with Nvidia’s RTX feature set while offering the same hardware architecture as both next-generation consoles. This means that developers will be making their raytraced games with AMD in mind, which is something which will certainly benefit AMD in the long run. AMD also promised lower-level API support, though at this time it is unknown how much this feature will benefit the average gamer. Â
RDNA 2 is everything that a gamer could want from a next-generation Radeon product. It promises higher clock speeds, increased efficiency and more performance per clock cycle. On the features end, Radeon is now in-line with many of Turing’s advanced features, which is great news for those who want the latest technologies within their graphics cards.Â
With AMD offering a 50% increase in performance/watt, RDNA 2 is set to have a transformative effect on the GPU market, both for desktop PCs, for consoles and for gaming notebooks.Â
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