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my coverage of CES 2019 is brought to you by Corsair enter max deep cool and cooler master so guys AMD just finished their keynote Lisa su was up on stage she shared a ton of information and I'm gonna go through it backwards because they saved the best for last so Rison 3 yes it exists and it's coming and we know now that all of those rumors and stuff over the past months were really kind of bunk none of them have been proven none of them had been confirmed all we really know about rising 3 which is based on Zen 2 which is based on 7 nanometer manufacturing process is that it's coming in the middle of 2019 which leaves a pretty wide range of dates that it could happen my guess would be at Computex in June but Lisa held up a rise in 3 CPU and it was interesting because there were two dies on there and one of them was small and one of them was big the small one is actually these n2 Chiclets which has eight cores and 16 threads and a super tiny and they're gonna use that to build other processors is that multiple ones like thread refers three presumably but their other chip on there is actually the i/o chip to help the rise in three CPU communicate with the rest of the system and it's going to support PCI Express Gen 4 and it should be the first consumer desktop processor to do that also these chips are still going to be based on the am 4 sockets so no note on if there's a new chipset in Vault but there is gonna be some backwards and forwards compatibility with the current gen rising stuff and the next gen rising stuff now I want to speculate too much but if you look at that chip 'let you'll notice it's kind of asymmetrical and there's a bit of blank space there so I'm kind of speculating see where that chip litt is you could probably fit another one right next to it which Catalan some credence to the idea that there might be 16 core 32 thread CPUs on this next gen rising platform now just before all that juicy info they had some demos and the first demo they had of Xen 2 CPU performance was actually epic which is the server platform side but whatever next gen epic turns out to be it will still use the same socket and it is also due in the middle of 2019 not to put too fine a point on it the demo they showed was of an early epoch next-gen processor one of them versus two of Intel's highest end server processors the xeon 81 80s so two of them versus one epoch these are AMD demos of course so grain of salts but they were doing a complex simulation of the atomic movement and combination of an HDL protein and the epic processor was 15 percent faster than two xeon eighty 180s now for Rison demos they first did a gaming demo they were showing Forza 4 although the FPS is very very tiny and hard to see in the top right corner sorry all of my footage here is from the 720p AMD stream AMD with all their technology could only muster a 720p stream for their YouTube livestream but that aside 110 to 120 frames per second with Forza 4 and that was at 1080p where Rison processors tend to suffer a little bit more because they become more CPU bound compared to Intel CPUs the other demo they showed was third gen Rison which is on the right here versus a 9900 k running its stock which is on the left a third gen Rison cpu has eight cores and sixteen threads it is an early sample running at early clock speeds so not confirmed yet and they said they'll probably run faster but the Cinebench score was 2057 for the horizon 3 and 2040 for the 9900 k so the Rison 3 beat it and they were showing system power draw at the same time doing about 135 watts of total system power draw for the rising based system versus 180 watts for the Intel based system that's somewhat compelling now before that they had their first big announcements of the events at least in my eyes which was Radeon 7 for this Radeon 7 because it's based on 7 nanometer manufacturing process now bear in mind this is not Navi Navi is a separate entirely new GPU architecture this is Vega 2 which is a follow up to Vega but shrunk down to the 7 nanometer process they started off as sort of an epic sizzle reel about the Radeon 7g PU and then they actually showed it so the GPU itself this is presumably the reference design model has 3 cooling fans so that then tends to indicate that they're trying to do their best to keep it cool but this will feature a 2nd gen Vega GPU with 60 compute units running at 1.8 gigahertz and 16 gigabytes of HBM memory presumably HP m2 with a total of one terabyte per second of memory bandwidth 16 gigabytes is a lot more than the 11 you get with the 2080 TI for example and a lot more than you get with the 2080 which has eight gigs here again are some AMD performance comparisons this is looking at the Vega 2 versus the original Vega 64 they're showing 25% more overall performance using the same power draw bear in mind vega 64 was pretty power-hungry so you might not be seeing huge gains from the die shrink when it comes to efficiency but maybe they're just making up for that by running it at a much higher clock speed content creation though 27 to 29 percent performance in their demonstrations again that's with Premiere and stuff like DaVinci Resolve and then for gaming again vs. Vegas 64 35% more performance with DirectX 12 25% more performance with DirectX 11 and 42% more performance with Vulcan again they had a gaming demo going on this is with Devil May Cry 5 running at 4k and they were getting 90 to 100 frames per second also this is kind of hard to see cuz it's up in the top corner there it did dip down into the 70s and 80s at times but overall look like very solid performance especially at 4k and then they also ran a demo of Ubisoft the division 2 which is launching on March 15th and that one looked fun but they didn't show any framerate so performance wise there wasn't a whole lot to speak of there the division 2 will be bundled with upcoming Radeon 7 GP use though as well as some rise in 5 and risin 7 CPUs and then here again we had some AMD charts showing the Radeon 7 versus the RT X 2080 showing about 62 frames per second in battlefield 5 and far cry 5 vs. about 61 fps with the 2080 so a little bit faster but right about the same and then with strained brigade which always runs better on radiant cards by the way there was a much bigger jump 87 FPS versus these 73 fps with the RT X 2080 of course we're going to need some independent reviews to verify all this but looking pretty promising when it comes to the performance especially with the price that was announced it's gonna launch on February 7th it's like a month away which is very soon and the price is six hundred and ninety nine dollars which is pretty competitive with the RT X 2080 granite is more expensive graphics card but we're looking for more competition with Nvidia at the high end and I'd be curious in specific situations like 4k how this will compare to a 20 80 and even a 20 80 TI which is a ridiculous $1200 base price final note here is that the Radeon 7 is going to be launching with a pretty nice game bundle you'll get Resident Evil 2 Devil May Cry 5 and at the division 2 if you buy this for $700 come February 7th of course before all that they started with the early stuff that they begin the show with that's less interesting like they're gonna do desktop Radeon drivers on rise in mobile ApS which is probably good news for those of you who are gaming on notebooks they're gonna have AMD based Chromebooks more selection more choice there and then Phil Spencer who's the head of gaming at Microsoft came out and basically said that gaming is good and fun and there are lots of gamers and AMD helps with that that's that's what I boiled that down to but guys that's gonna wrap it up for this video I hope you've enjoyed this short recap of AMD's keynote announcement here at CES 2019 the big announcements again Radeon 7gp you that's probably the biggest one and then some more confirmation if not the details we were looking for but at least more confirmation on the rise and three stuff based on Zen - 7 nanometer which is coming out in the middle of 2019 one final thank you to my sponsors for this event coolermaster corsair enter max and deep cool thank you guys so much for watching hit the thumbs up button on your way out and there's a playlist with all my CES 2019 coverage so check that out too we'll see you guys in the next one