AMD yesterday provided multiple updates about upcoming high-performance compute and graphics solutions.
“We entered 2016 with a great product lineup and growing momentum for AMD’s technologies,” AMD President Dr. Lisa Su said. “[Yesterday’s] launch of our 7th Generation A-Series mobile APUs, to be followed closely by new Radeon RX Series GPUs and then our next-generation ‘Summit Ridge’ desktop processor powered by our ‘Zen’ core represent key proof points of our strategy to firmly re-establish AMD as a high-performance design leader.”
Yesterday’s press conference detailed the upcoming Polaris architecture-based Radeon RX Series graphics cards, which will provide “an exciting selection of future-proof gaming technologies and impressively smooth VR entertainment”, AMD said. The RX Series cards will start at $199 USD and will be available from 29 June.
“This significant technical achievement will provide VR experiences common to $500 GPUs in graphics cards that are less than half the cost,” AMD maintained.
Moreover, notebooks powered by new 7th Generation AMD A-Series processors will “allow users to work faster and play longer, as up to four cores deliver powerful performance and superior energy efficiency for all day battery life,” AMD said.
The new A-Series procesors will feature mobile-optimised Excavator x86 CPU cores with built-in Radeon graphics. Some models will offer up to Radeon R7 graphics.
Finally, AMD yesterday debuted its x86 Zen processor core architecture in the next-generation AM4 desktop processor, codenamed “Summit Ridge”. The processor features eight cores and sixteen threads.
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