From left: AMD Yoshiaki Sato, Adam Kozak, ASRock Yuji Haraguchi
The fan event “AMD x ASRock Spring Radeon Fan Festival” sponsored by ASRock will be held in Akihabara on Saturday the 16th.
In addition to ASRock’s Yuji Haraguchi and AMD’s Yoshiaki Sato, Adam Kozak, who came to Japan from AMD’s headquarters, took to the stage, making the event even more special than ever. In this article, I will briefly explain the process.
It has been a great success with standing attendance for each session since the doors opened.
Compact barebone “DeskMeet X600” compatible with Ryzen 7000/8000
The highlight of the exhibition at this event was the barebone “DeskMeet
This product was announced at CES 2024 held in the United States in January, and can be equipped with Ryzen 7000/8000 series processors (TDP up to 65W), and has 4 DDR5 slots, covering up to 256GB configurations. They say it can be done.
One of the selling points is the ease of setup, which allows you to take out the chassis by simply removing one screw, and then simply install the CPU and memory/SSD.
It also has excellent expandability, including support for 2 slots of PCIe cards, a 3.5-inch HDD bay, and 2 M.2 slots.
CPU coolers up to 54mm in height can be used, and the Wraith Stealth cooler included in the CPU retail package can also be installed. The standard 80PLUS Bronze power supply is also a special specification, and unlike general power supply units, the fan is installed in the opposite direction, so it also functions as an aid to airflow.
Regarding the release date, Mr. Haraguchi commented, “(The product specifications have been released, so it will be released soon),” and it is expected that it will be released in April.
Radeon/Ryzen is strong in games and AI!and appeal
In the commentary session, Adam Kozak, who came to Japan for the first time since Tokyo Game Show 2019, mainly explained the advantages of Radeon products.
The Radeon RX series boasts industry-leading performance and cutting-edge features, as well as future-ready specifications.
In terms of game performance, it outperforms competing products in the same price range in terms of pure processing performance, and features FidelityFX Super Resolution 3, a proprietary frame generation technology that can be used in over 350 games, including planned titles. It is said that it is possible to achieve a frame rate approximately twice that of normal by using “HYPR-RX” that improves performance at the driver level and frame interpolation technology “AMD Fluid Motion Frames.”
In terms of future-ready specs, he listed the built-in VRAM capacity that exceeds that of competing products, and video output compatible with DipslayPort 2.1.
Regarding AI, he explained that the RDNA 3 architecture implements powerful AI processing capabilities in terms of hardware, and on Windows, Radeon uses DirectML, SHARK, and HIP SDK to process AI workloads.
In addition, as optimization for real applications equipped with AI processing, optimization for AI applications (AI models) is built into the driver in the same way as optimization for games.If you update the driver, the AI will be faster than before. They also emphasized that it will be possible to experience it.
ROCm, an open source GPGPU execution environment, is currently available only in Linux environments, but model training can be executed at high speed with high-end video cards such as the Radeon RX 7900 series. Additionally, ROCm version 6.0 now supports ONNX in addition to the machine learning framework PyTorch, which was previously supported.
Also exhibiting ultra-high-speed IPS gaming LCD display driven by 520Hz
At the opening, in addition to the DeskMeet
[AMD x ASRock Spring Radeon Fan Festival]
