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AMD Launches Radeon RX 7600 Graphics Card

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AMD today announced the AMD Radeon™ RX 7600 graphics card, optimized to provide next-generation, high-performance 1080p gaming, streaming and content creation with stunning visual fidelity.

The new graphics card offers 29% higher 1080p gaming performance on average than the AMD Radeon RX 6600 graphics card and 34% higher performance on average than the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8GB at max settings. It also enables 100+ FPS on average in today’s top 10 PC esports titles, while delivering faster AI performance.

“Currently, 65% of gamers surveyed are playing at 1080p and the majority are still using older graphics cards, unable to take advantage of the latest performance- and visual-enhancing features that deliver the best gaming experiences,” said Scott Herkelman, senior vice president and general manager, Graphics Business Unit at AMD. “AMD offers a range of graphics solutions at different price points, memory configurations and performance levels to support a variety of gamers’ needs. The Radeon RX 7600 graphics card at US $269 hits the sweet spot for high-performance 1080p gaming. It allows users to enjoy the latest features like AV1 encoding, the AMD Radiance Display Engine and more to take their gaming, streaming and content creation projects to the next level.”

Key Specifications

ModelCompute UnitsGDDR6Game Clock (GHz)Boost Clock (GHZ)Memory InterfaceInfinity CacheTBPPrice (USD SEP)
AMD Radeon RX 7600328GB  2.25Up to 2.66128-bit32 MB165W$269

Pricing and Availability

AMD Radeon RX 7600 graphics cards are expected to be available from AMD.com and leading AMD board partners including ASRock, ASUS, Biostar, Gigabyte, MSI, Sapphire, PowerColor, Vastarmor, XFX and Yeston beginning May 25 at an SEP of $269 USD.

 AMD Introduces two new auto-qualified devices for edge sensors

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AMD introduces two additions to the AMD Automotive XA Artix™ UltraScale+™ family: the XA AU10P and XA AU15P cost-optimized processors, which are automotive-qualified and optimized for use in advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) sensor applications. The Artix UltraScale+ devices extend the AMD portfolio of automotive-grade, functional-safety proven and highly scalable FPGA and adaptive SoCs, joining the automotive-grade Spartan™ 7, Zynq™ 7000 and Zynq UltraScale+ product families.

XA Artix UltraScale+ processors are certified for functional safety up to ASIL-B, which is critical for automotive ADAS sensors from cameras to LiDARs, enabling our customers—carmakers, robotaxi developers and Tier 1 suppliers—to accelerate development of autonomous vehicles. The new XA Artix UltraScale+ devices can be connected to multiple displays in the vehicle to enhance infotainment features.

“As automotive systems have grown in complexity, safety is more critical than ever before with automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers requiring ASIL-B certification for LiDAR, radar and smart edge sensor applications,” said Ian Riches, vice president, global automotive practice, TechInsights. “Through the release of the new XA Artix UltraScale+ devices, AMD is demonstrating its continued commitment and investment in the latest functional safety solutions to serve the automotive market.”

These new, cost-optimized XA Artix FPGAs offer high serial bandwidth and signal compute density in an ultra-compact form factor. Artix UltraScale+ devices maximize system performance via DSP bandwidth for cost-sensitive and low-power ADAS edge applications including networking, vision and video processing and secure connectivity.

AMD Launches Radeon PRO Graphics Cards

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AMD announced the AMD Radeon PRO W7000 Series graphics. The new graphics cards are designed for professionals to create and work with high-polygon count models seamlessly and run graphics and compute-based applications concurrently without disruption to workflows.

AMD Radeon PRO W7000 Series graphics cards feature the world’s first workstation GPU architecture based on AMD’s advanced chiplet design, providing real-world multi-tasking performance and incredible power efficiency. The new graphics cards are also the first professional workstation GPUs to offer the new AMD Radiance Display Engine™ featuring DisplayPort™ 2.1 that delivers a superior visual experience, higher resolutions and more available colors than ever before.

The AMD Radeon PRO W7900 graphics card, designed for extreme workloads, features 61 TFLOPS (FP32) peak single precision performance, offering 1.5X higher geomean performance on the SPECviewperf 2020 benchmark. It also includes 48GB of GDDR6 memory, which is 1.5X larger memory capacity than the 32GB available on the previous-generation graphics card. Created for heavy workloads, the AMD Radeon PRO W7800 graphics card features 45 TFLOPS (FP32) peak single precision performance and 32GB of GDDR6 memory.

“The new AMD Radeon PRO W7000 Series are the most powerful graphics cards AMD has built to date, providing professionals, creators and artists with exceptional performance and value to drive the most demanding professional design and creative applications,” said Scott Herkelman, senior vice president and general manager, Graphics Business Unit at AMD. “The AMD Radeon PRO W7900 and W7800 Series graphics cards are built to deliver incredible performance and reliability in professional applications, while providing color-critical accuracy and an incredible visual experience. The AMD Radeon PRO W7000 Series graphics cards give professionals the ability to tackle larger projects, render faster and create more complex models loaded with more pixels, more polygons, and more textures.”

Dual encode/decode media engines unlock new multi-media experiences with full AV1 encode/decode support designed for high resolutions, wide color gamut, and high-dynamic range enhancements.

Pricing and Availability

The AMD Radeon PRO W7900 features an SEP of $3,999 USD. The AMD Radeon PRO W7800 features an SEP of $2,499 USD. The AMD Radeon PRO W7000 Series workstation graphics cards are expected to be available from leading etailers/retailers starting in Q2, 2023. Product availability in OEM and SI systems is expected in 2H 2023.

The AMD Radeon PRO W7000 Series workstation graphics cards will be on display from April 16 to 19 in booth #N2158 (North Hall) at The NAB Show 2023, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada.

AMD unveils Alveo MA35D, 5nm ASIC-based media accelerator card

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AMD announced the AMD Alveo MA35D media accelerator featuring two 5nm, ASIC-based video processing units (VPUs) supporting the AV1 compression standard and purpose-built to power a new era of live interactive streaming services at scale.

The Alveo MA35D media accelerator delivers the high channel density, with up to 32x 1080p60 streams per card, power efficiency and ultra-low-latency performance. The Alveo MA35D delivers up to 4x higher channel density, 4x max lower latency in 4K3 and 1.8X greater compression efficiency4 to achieve the same VMAF score – a common video quality metric. 

“We worked closely with our customers and partners to understand not just their technical requirements, but their infrastructure challenges in deploying high-volume, interactive streaming services profitably,” said Dan Gibbons, general manager of AECG Data Center Group, AMD. “We developed the Alveo MA35D with an ASIC architecture tailored to meet the bespoke needs of these providers to reduce both capital and operating expenses for delivering immersive experiences to their users and content creators at scale.”

The Alveo MA35D utilizes a purpose-built VPU to accelerate the entire video pipeline. The platform provides ultra-low latency support for themainstream H.264 and H.265 codecs and features next-generation AV1 transcoder engines delivering up to a 52% reduction in bitrate for bandwidth savings versus a comparable software implementation.

“AMD’s announcement of the new Alveo MA35D add-in card is an exciting advancement of video acceleration for data centers and is an important step in building out a fully-fledged ecosystem to support royalty-free, high-definition video devices, products, and services,” said Matt Frost, Alliance for Open Media Chair. “Live streaming providers are looking for higher density, lower power, lower latency AV1 solutions and by addressing these, Alliance members such as AMD are helping facilitate AV1 deployment and overall adoption.” 

The accelerator features an integrated AI processor and dedicated video quality engines designed to improve the quality of experience at reduced bandwidth. Optimization techniques include region-of-interest (ROI) encoding for text and face resolution, artifact detection to correct scenes with high levels of motion and complexity, and content-aware encoding for predictive insights for bitrate optimization.

Lenovo launches Legion 5 laptop with AMD Ryzen CPU

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The Legion 5 is Lenovo’s latest addition to its gaming laptop portfolio, and it boasts the latest AMD processor and a superior NVIDIA GPU. The Legion 5 is priced competitively and is definitely in the more affordable range of gaming laptops, which not only offers a good display but also better cooling and performance.

The Lenovo Legion 5 gaming laptop is powered by the AMD Ryzen 5 4600H-series mobile hexa-core processors. Equipped with the AMD ‘Zen 2’ core architecture and 7nm process technology, facilitates superior performance speeds and multi-tasking.

The Legion 5 boasts of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650Ti GPU, which in combination with the 15.6” IPS 1080 120Hz display, offers smoother graphics and reduces lags. This gaming laptop also features the Legion TrueStrike keyboard with backlight and superior key travel, and also the Lenovo Legion Coldfront 2.0 for thermal efficiency. The Legion 5 provides a battery life of up to 8 hours and also utilises smart power features like the Hybrid Mode by Lenovo Vantage to extend battery life, the Rapid Change Pro for fast charging, and the Lenovo Q-Control 3.0 to control the system voltage and fan speed.

With minimal three-sided mylar bezels, the Legion 5 also features a webcam with a privacy shutter – called TruBlock Webcam Shutter – for extra security. The laptop isn’t lightweight and weighs 2.3kgs. It runs on Windows 10 Home and provides storage options of 256GB SSD + 1TB HDD. The Legion 5 comes with the 2x2W Harman Kardon speaker system and is integrated with the Dolby Atmos headphone support.

The Lenovo Legion 5 comes in the Phantom Black color and is priced at Rs. 75,990. It’s available on Lenovo.com and Lenovo exclusive stores and will release on other retail platforms soon.