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Is there a line of AMD CPUs which will not include AI components, or is it looking as if every new CPU is going to have AI optimized pipelines?

For several years now, I've been avoiding Intel: AMD seems to have kept an edge in multiprocessing, with more cores and threads per dollar, and I've felt Intel has been mismanaged for over a decade. AMD still feels like an engineering company run by engineers, vs a purely profit motivated company managed by sales and marketing wonks.

So I've been casually browsing around looking for a new laptop, and have noticed that all the AMD based ones are marketed as AI CPUs. I'd much rather have a CPU which doesn't waste silicon on AI customizations, so I'm wondering if AMD is a dead-end for me, or if AMD has a CPU family which doesn't pander to the LLM hype?

“Redstone” is a promising mix of old and new ideas, but Nvidia is years ahead.

Increased clock speeds at no extra wattage.

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/42900599

AMD’s next round of Radeon GPU price hikes is starting to take shape, with a new report from Chinese Board Channels claiming that board partners have already been told to prepare for higher costs. According to the post, several AMD graphics card brands have notified their channels that the “first wave” of increases will add around $20 to 8 GB models and $40 to 16 GB models, with retail prices in China expected to climb by roughly 300 RMB and 600 RMB respectively by the end of the year. The poster also claims there will be “no new products” launched through 2027, though that part is impossible to verify at this stage.

Things can only get better.

cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/10667146

Beginning yesterday and continuing today are several patch series beginning to lay the foundation in the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver for enabling some next-generation graphics IP. Due to the AMD graphics driver block by block enablement strategy and IP-based discovery adopted by their driver over the past few years, it's not clear what this new hardware enablement is for whether it's RDNA5 / UDNA or some RDNA4 refresh. In any event, the Linux driver enablement has begun.

Reports had suggested FSR Redstone is capable of running on Nvidia and Intel GPUs...

Disabling the AMD External Events Utility service appears to be a workaround, but with modern disk caching, we aren’t sure there’s a tangible problem.

The latest graphics driver from the AMD Radeon camp is bringing support for the new Ryzen 5 7500X3D as well as a trio of high-profile games, including ARC Raiders.

AMD is rolling out the first part of its new FSR Redstone upgrade to Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 first. FSR Ray Regeneration touts better-looking ray tracing effects with a lower performance cost.

Re-using old silicon means that dropping “old” GPUs can affect “new” products.

AMD's AI-focused Ryzen AI Max APUs have redefined what integrated GPUs are capable of, even in gaming.

"Maintenance mode" might be a bit more than just maintenance, AMD tells Tom's Hardware.

This is disguisting. Remember guys, no brand is worth fanboying over.

https://youtu.be/KsjjFr9mB7w thanks to hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works for letting me know the link doesn't work

New supercomputer clusters are headed to Tennessee.

Mendocino and Rembrandt-R rise once more.

That's a lot of cache.

AMD is rolling out a new graphics driver preview under version 25.10.1 with optimizations for Battlefield 6.

Project Amethyst focuses on efficient machine learning, new compression techniques.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/post/256860

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TL;DW:

• AMD absolutely should release FSR4 INT8 for RDNA2 and RDNA3 owners as the upscaling quality it provides over FSR3 is worth the small performance hit.
• AMD could potentially further improve the algorithm they're using for FSR4 INT8 as the only reason we even know about FSR4 INT8 was because of an accidental early release to their Github repo.

AFMF 3 is likely a component that will be part of FSR Redstone when it releases

Despite being an AM4 CPU, stores have warned that the chip is not compatible with B550 and A520 chipset AM4 motherboards.