Sapphire RX 6600 XT Pulse: RTX 3060 is no match in Full HD

Radeons RX 6600 XT are the most powerful graphics cards with the small AMD Navi 23 core. The Navi 22 in the RX 6700 XT is naturally better, but it still humbles the GeForce RTX 3060 with ease. However, in making this bold claim, it should be clarified that this dominance only works perfectly under certain circumstances – at lower resolutions without ray-tracing. This graphics card, in short, begs for high-speed monitor gamers with FHD resolutions.

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Test platform benchmark; API DirectX 12, graphics settings preset Ultra; extra settings DXR.

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FSR 4.1 AI upscaling finally coming to older Radeon GPU users

When AMD launched the FSR4 AI-based upscaling technology for games last year, it was exclusively available for the new Radeon RX 9000 generation GPUs using the RDNA 4 architecture. This was despite the fact that a version using INT8 compute compatible with older GPUs had leaked out, apparently by accident. But owners of older Radeon cards are finally in luck now: FSR 4.1 is coming to RDNA 2 and RDNA 3 as well. Read more “FSR 4.1 AI upscaling finally coming to older Radeon GPU users” »

AMD reportedly preparing new AM5 boards or chipsets for summer

AMD is expected to launch the first Ryzen desktop CPUs based on the new Zen 6 architecture either in autumn this year or early next year. Until now, there had been no indications that these CPUs would also bring the arrival of new chipsets. However, it now appears that a new wave of AM5 socket motherboards for these processors is in preparation. These models could come equipped with new capabilities and potentially a new chipset. Read more “AMD reportedly preparing new AM5 boards or chipsets for summer” »

x86 ACE Instructions: AMD Zen 7 core’s AI acceleration detailed

Longtime rivals AMD and Intel have established a joint consortium seeking to make their x86 processors and their future extensions more compatible instead of using the differences and exclusive features as (anti)competitive advantages. In autumn they settled on several extensions to be made standard: AVX10/AVX-512, APX, ChkTag, FRED, and also the ACE matrix extension for AI compute, about which very little had been known until now. Read more “x86 ACE Instructions: AMD Zen 7 core’s AI acceleration detailed” »

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