AMD E3 Live Blog

This is our live blog for AMD’s E3 presentation. You can watch it yourself at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxPBXNuX6Xs

Event
AMD E3 Next Horizon Gaming Live Blog
Location
E3 at Los Angeles
Start time
6 PM EST
Event status
Finished
Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Conference is over, thanks everyone for reading.

Jim
4 years ago

That pretty much wraps it up for us.

Ryzen 3000 and Navi launch on the 7th of July...yes a Sunday.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Lisa wraps up the conference, summarizes Navi and Ryzen product lines.

Jim
4 years ago

$749, even more than the $699 I speculated on after Computex...

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Coming this September, MSRP $749.

Jim
4 years ago

Ryzen 9 3950X

16 Cores.  4.7GHz boost at 105W.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

4.7 GHz boost, 3.5 base, 72 MB cache, 105 watt TDP.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

3950X, world's first 16 core CPU for gaming.

Jim
4 years ago

Now the 16-core comes...?

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

"Beyond 12 cores"

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Wait, one more CPU.

Jim
4 years ago

This adds quite a lot of validity to the leaked information I had.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

MSRP of $499.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Slightly higher clock speed than the 5700 XT, about 100 MHz across the board.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

5700 XT 50th anniversary edition.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

No, one more GPU.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

3950X?

Jim
4 years ago

One last thing...

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

A surprise at the end?

Jim
4 years ago

Lisa Su Superhero...available to buy on the Radeon store? 😀

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Geoff presents Lisa with a super hero action figure, has great meme potential.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

AMD emphasizes the importance of software and hardware working together.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Lisa Su comes back on stage to wrap up.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Breakpoint seems to have extremely impressive lighting, though they didn't mention it.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Breakpoint to use Async compute.

Jim
4 years ago

You probably noticed but I gave up after the Navi stuff 😛

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Breakpoint is optimized for Navi and Ryzen.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Ghost Recon Breakpoint is another AMD partnered title.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Ubisoft CEO Yves talks about partnership with AMD.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Ubisoft's founder comes on stage.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Unity's new features to come in Fall 2019.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Unity talks about resolution upscaling and improving visual quality.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Unity worked closely with AMD on Navi.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Emphasis on lightning quality again.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

AMD gives Unity more leeway with Ryzen and Navi.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

More features coming to Unity to improve graphics.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Unity VP talks about greater adoption of the engine over time.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

AMD's partner Unity engine to get some discussion.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Gearbox and AMD have signed a multi year agreement for development on AMD hardware.

Anubias
4 years ago

Randy Pitchford did a better job at selling FFX than the AMD guys.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

FidelityFX to be in Borderlands 3, emphasis on no "sacrifice of performance", rapid packed math returns.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Borderlands 3 to have HDR for better colors.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Borderlands 3 has high quality lighting techniques.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Randy talks about how Borderlands 3 "takes advantage of Ryzen and Navi"

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Randy Pitchford comes on stage to talk about Borderlands 3.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Xbox and PC no longer need to choose between 4K and 60 FPS, can choose both.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

FreeSync is on Xbox and PC which is good for gaming.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

AMD's ubiquity allows for easier optimization and more time used on making the game better.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Gears 5 will have cinematics and gameplay in the same space, same visuals and quality.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Everything shown on stage is in engine rendered on Navi.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Delivering the "best experience on AMD"

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

PC version of Gears 5 has better graphics, HDR, UW resolution, better lighting, better shaders, etc. Optimized for PC gaming.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Discussion starts to move on to visuals and tech.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

No technical details as of yet, mostly gameplay discussion.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

On stage to talk about Gears 5.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

The Coalition devs come on stage.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Gears 5, Borderlands 3, Ghost Recon.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Montage of games and engines AMD is partnering with.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Geoff Keighley comes on stage.

Jim
4 years ago

"New features without hurting your frame rates" - another dig at Nvidia and RTX.

Of course it would be difference if Navi had ray tracing capability...

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Navi promotion with Gears of War 5.

Jim
4 years ago

$449 for the 5700XT and $379 for the 5700

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

July 7th launch.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

5700 to be at $379.

Jim
4 years ago

We've seen AMD working on gaming latency for some time in Adrenaline drivers.  Also Radeon Chill queues frames.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

5700 XT is a $499 class GPU but AMD is saying it will be going for $449.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

AMD is now going onto pricing.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

AMD says Anti Lag improves latency by about 31%.

Jim
4 years ago

This "anti-lag" thing has been work in progress for some time.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

With Anti Lag on the 5700 XT has 44 ms of lag instead of 56.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Decoupling the FPS from the input lag.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

5700 XT has 56 ms of lag, 2070 has 59.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Anti Lag is supposed to solve lag between the GPU and the monitor.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Another new feature, Radeon Anti Lag.

Jim
4 years ago

I'll take these "barely any performance hit" claims with a grain of salt, never had a free lunch yet.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Radeon Image Sharpening seems to be another RTX competitor, improves image quality without performance hits.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

And that is mostly a direct quote by the way.

Jim
4 years ago

Clear dig at Nvidia there "not making it blurry"

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

AMD slams RTX for using resolution trickery and reducing performance.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

It does improve the quality so there is something to be said about FidelityFX.

Jim
4 years ago

FidelityFX is the anti-thesis to Nvidia's DLSS it seems.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Borderlands 3 to use FidelityFX.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

FidelityFX provides a tiny bit more detail in low contrast situations.

Anubias
4 years ago

#FFXON

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

FX off and on sounds like the new RTX off and on...

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

FidelityFX is introduced, it's a game dev tool kit.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Radeon Media Engine for new encoding methods and Radeon Display Engine for newest DP support and VR support.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Implied that there will be more Navi GPUs than the 5700 series.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

"Game fidelity" and "gaming dynamics" are new Radeon features.

Jim
4 years ago

Performance looks good +10% (by AMD's numbers) over the 2070

 

Jim
4 years ago

Weirdly specific load of throwing a grenade in Apex Legends...

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

5700 is faster across the board against the 2060, especially in BFV and Metro Exodus.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

2060 has 72 FPS, 5700 has 88.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

5700 competing with the 2060.

Jim
4 years ago

Clocks are very reminiscent of Pascal...on 16nm.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

5700 specs also confirmed, 36 CUs, 7.95 TFLOPs, 8 GB GDDR6, 1625 MHz game clock.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

5700 XT is $499.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

2070 gets 102, 5700 XT gets 112.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

The 5700 XT seems to be the 2070 competitor, seems to have a significant lead in WWZ.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

AMD says Navi 5700 XT is "overclocking ready"

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

AMD says they redesigned the reference blower cooler to make it cool and quiet. Hopefully that is true.

Jim
4 years ago

Cool n quiet...vs hot n loud

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

VideoCardz's leak is confirmed, 40 CUs, 9.75 TFLOPs, 8 GB GDDR6, 1755 MHz sustained load in gaming clock.

Anubias
4 years ago

Probably they dropped it back-stage 🙂

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

RTG's Scott Herkelman comes on stage to talk about Navi.

Donny Stanley
4 years ago

8-pin + 6-pin power connectors on that card. 

Jim
4 years ago

Lisa struggling with the branding a couple of times, Radeon 5700XT a bit of a mouthful it seems.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Sorry, 1 6 pin and 1 8 pin. Blower design looks a little dented or something.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Blower style, 2 8 pin connectors, it's the RX 5700 XT.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

The GPUs which were leaked earlier seem to be finally getting a reveal.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

25% more IPC, 50% more performance per watt.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Navi is a flexible scalable architecture: new CUs, new caches, new pipelines, etc.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Vega was incredibly successful, it has done very well in the market, but AMD feels as though they need a new architecture.

Jim
4 years ago

Nobody loves Vega...

Jim
4 years ago

Built from the game up "completely for gaming"

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

"Completely for gaming"

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Navi is a fresh look at GPU architecture.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Navi is designed for gaming.

Jim
4 years ago

Finally some more on Navi!

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Navi is next and again another montage.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

AMD undersold themselves a little since the CPUs they compared to from Intel were more expensive than Ryzen.

Donny Stanley
4 years ago

"the entire 3rd generation Ryzen stack"

so, no 16-core? 

Jim
4 years ago

Seems likely that they'll declare the 3950X as the best gaming CPU later on.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

AMD shows that they have a lead over Intel in CSGO, which is curious as it used to be a poor title for AMD.

Anubias
4 years ago

"I'm gonna buy a 12 core processor."
So no 16 core announcement after all?

Jim
4 years ago

$250 seems a bit high for a "most people buys" CPU to me...

Donny Stanley
4 years ago

Ryzen 5 3600X vs 9600K is shown to be on rough parity. 

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

The 3600X mostly ties the 9600K, a few losses here and there.

Donny Stanley
4 years ago

Ryzen 5 finally gets some love on stage. This is really the heart of the gaming market. -

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

3700X ignored, AMD moves onto the 3600(X).

Jim
4 years ago

3800X appears to be a little behind the 9700K overall.  Overwatch appears to be a problem.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

There are a few significant losses against the 9700k however.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

3800X is shown to be beating or tying the 9700K in most titles.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

AMD says gamers need 12 cores for streaming and high end gaming at the same time.

Jim
4 years ago

AMD doing the same thing as Ryzen 1 showing streaming and gaming at the same time.  Back then they kind of fudged the settings on the Intel chip so take this with a grain of salt.

Anubias
4 years ago

AMD finally learns how to burn the competition during presentations

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

99% of frames made it to the viewer for Ryzen, only 2% for the 9900K.

Donny Stanley
4 years ago

1440p for CPU comparisons isn't really exciting. That said, the 1080p chart was fairly impressive. 

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

AMD shows how the 3900X is faster than the 9900K while gaming and streaming at the same time.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Robert Hallock comes on stage to talk about 1440p.

Donny Stanley
4 years ago

429 FPS in CS:GO? I've yet to see a Ryzen part do higher than about 170 FPS average. 

Jim
4 years ago

Very interesting performance graph, looks basically tied with the 9900K

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

AMD at worst loses by around 5% and beats Intel in many titles including CSGO by a significant margin.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

AMD is about to show some 3900X benchmarks in gaming, against the 9900K.

Donny Stanley
4 years ago

Yeah, not buying the notion that 12-cores are for gaming. Sorry, Lisa! 

Jim
4 years ago

It needs to be said, nobody was exactly lauding the 9920X...

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

AMD shows benchmarks seen at Computex where the 3900X defeats the $1200 Core i9 9920X.

Jim
4 years ago

12 core processor for "mainstream gamers"?

 

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

AMD has leadership at "every single price point"

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

AMD shows the figures seen at Computex: 15% more IPC, 2x cache, 2x FLOPs.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

AMD's goal is to give every gamer the best CPU possible.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Ryzen 3000 has had alot of anticipation on social media.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

First up is Ryzen with a montage of the 3000 series's highlights.

Donny Stanley
4 years ago

Are they jumping into unveiling the 16C already? 

 

Jim
4 years ago

Lisa loves that soundbite "AMD loves the PC".

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

3rd gen Ryzen and RX 5700 GPUs to be shown off.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

AMD calls their gaming platform the "ultimate"

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

"AMD loves the PC platform"

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Project Scarlett for Xbox is also using Zen 2 and Navi like Playstation.

Donny Stanley
4 years ago

Radeon is everywhere. Except for high-end desktop gaming. 

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Stadia available in November, using last gen Vega on 14nm.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Next gen Playstation to use AMD hardware, custom Zen 2 and Navi processors.

Donny Stanley
4 years ago

Reiterating a lot of the stuff we've seen at Computex. 7nm process, RDNA architecture.. CHIPLETS! (for Ryzen). 

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

AMD's plans of 3-5 years ago are coming to fruition: 7nm, RDNA, chiplets.

Jim
4 years ago

"Radeon Everywhere" was one of Raja Koduri's soundbites back before the Polaris launch.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Radeon is being made as the most widespread GPU.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Graphics is the heart of gaming, Radeon is everywhere.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Across many platforms, consoles, PCs, Macs, cloud, etc.

Jim
4 years ago

The Master Plan...

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

AMD is wanting to bring software and hardware development in sync.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Sometimes software is ahead of hardware and vice versa.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

AMD says gaming experiences need breakthrough hardware and games.

Donny Stanley
4 years ago

Lisa Su says gamers are the "smartest tech guys in the world" pandering much? 

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

AMD is wanting to push the envelope on tech and for gaming specifically.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Geoff Keighley is also going to be on stage apparently.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Lisa Su takes the stage.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

The event is starting and it's just a montage about AMD stuff, CPUs, GPUs, consoles, etc.

Matthew Connatser
4 years ago

Okay, this is just for testing that the live blog is in fact working.

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