AMD RyZen Statement - With VR and Vulkan As Well.

[shadragon]

AMD Statement Covers aspects of VR, RyZen and Vulkan.

As we presented at Ryzen Tech Day, we are supporting 300+ developer kits with game development studios to optimize current and future game releases for the all-new Ryzen CPU. We are on track for 1000+ developer systems in 2017. For example, Bethesda at GDC yesterday announced its strategic relationship with AMD to optimize for Ryzen CPUs, primarily through Vulkan low-level API optimizations, for a new generation of games, DLC and VR experiences.

Oxide Games also provided a public statement today on the significant performance uplift observed when optimizing for the 8-core, 16-thread Ryzen 7 CPU design – optimizations not yet reflected in Ashes of the Singularity benchmarking. Creative Assembly, developers of the Total War series, made a similar statement today related to upcoming Ryzen optimizations.

CPU benchmarking deficits to the competition in certain games at 1080p resolution can be attributed to the development and optimization of the game uniquely to Intel platforms – until now. Even without optimizations in place, Ryzen delivers high, smooth frame rates on all 'CPU-bound' games, as well as overall smooth frame rates and great experiences in GPU-bound gaming and VR. With developers taking advantage of Ryzen architecture and the extra cores and threads, we expect benchmarks to only get better, and enable Ryzen excel at next generation gaming experiences as well.

Game performance will be optimized for Ryzen and continue to improve from at-launch frame rate scores. - John Taylor, AMD.

Today it's marketing fluff, but does indicate a desire to optimize this new CPU technology for the future.

 

[-VR- Max Factor]

I intend to get an AMD 1600x. Should be a nice upgrade for my i5 2500k. And hopefully by then games should be well optimised. ED is already a multicore game.

 

[dogbite]

Remains to be seen how well all this will turn out, but I will say AMD's GDC presentation was encouraging especially with respect to VR. As far non-VR performance, I don't care about that anymore.

 

[Verlaine]

Remains to be seen how well all this will turn out, but I will say AMD's GDC presentation was encouraging especially with respect to VR. As far non-VR performance, I don't care about that anymore.

I'm with you 100 percent; I don't care at all about 2d-gaming performance anymore. If Ryzen performs better in VR than its competitors at the same price point then I'm getting it.

Right now, the Ryzen 7 1800X beats its Intel competitors in Steam VR, according to Gamespot.

 

[dogbite]

I'm with you 100 percent; I don't care at all about 2d-gaming performance anymore. If Ryzen performs better in VR than its competitors at the same price point then I'm getting it.

Right now, the Ryzen 7 1800X beats its Intel competitors in Steam VR, according to Gamespot.

Of even greater interest to me in the near term (recently built a 6600k platform so not looking to upgrade the cpu too soon) is Vega and Amd's plans for support of foveated and forward render. All in all renewed competition in gpu and cpu spurred on by VR is quite encouraging.

 

[TorTorden_VR]

Of even greater interest to me in the near term (recently built a 6600k platform so not looking to upgrade the cpu too soon) is Vega and Amd's plans for support of foveated and forward render. All in all renewed competition in gpu and cpu spurred on by VR is quite encouraging.

Yeah, it's about time SMP really becomes the norm, rather than the exception.
If it was Ryzen would slam dunk Intel and nothing would make me happier.

 

[dogbite]

Yeah, it's about time SMP really becomes the norm, rather than the exception.
If it was Ryzen would slam dunk Intel and nothing would make me happier.

corrected myself in edit-

If by SMP you mean Simultaneous Multi-Projection, this is a concept being pushed by Nvidia on their gpus in VR, so not sure why you think this hurts Intel.

 

[TorTorden_VR]

corrected myself in edit-

If by SMP you mean Simultaneous Multi-Projection, this is a concept being pushed by Nvidia on their gpus in VR, so not sure why you think this hurts Intel.

No typo\brainfart on my account, meant multithreading over several physical and logical cores, my bad

Can I blame the phone ?

 

[dogbite]

No typo\brainfart on my account, meant multithreading over several physical and logical cores, my bad

Can I blame the phone ?

At my age, I just blame senility. lol

 

[TorTorden_VR]

I'm with you 100 percent; I don't care at all about 2d-gaming performance anymore. If Ryzen performs better in VR than its competitors at the same price point then I'm getting it.

Right now, the Ryzen 7 1800X beats its Intel competitors in Steam VR, according to Gamespot.

I believe this test means more for GPU's, and the Steam vr test is often called out for being a bit light on CPU compared to real VR.
But my 3 year old I5 @ 3.4GHz and 980ti scores a 13402 on this test.
A whomping 35% higher than ryzen and the 980 in this case.
But as always, better is better

Spoiler

But of course it's miles beyond what the rift tester does, which honestly only checks your registery strings against a white list...

 

[imski]

I'd love to see a definitive statement from FD regarding if the game benefits significantly from multithreading over raw single thread clock speed.

I have a 4790K running at 4.4GHz paired with a 1080 and it's great, but if more cores will benefit the game in the long run (all other things being equal) I'd really like to know.