We may again! Always a great moment in the month when we can record a new PC Master Race talk show. Just spend an hour nerd about CPUs, 6800XT GPUs and deep learning super sampling techniques. Yes right !?
We will of course go big in this Master Race with AMD. Because it was not only the month in which the company showed its Zen 3 line-up of Ryzen CPUs to the world, but also a ray tracing GPU that has to compete with Nvidia’s dominance.
AMD with Zen 3 has finally passed Intel on all fronts
Let’s start with the Ryzen CPUs, then we’ll follow a chronological order. The announcement of Zen 3 was an event that was already on the calendar for many. AMD has been making waves in recent years with their Ryzen CPUs and this time again it promises to be a big leap. Where Intel’s progression stagnates, AMD continues happily and has finally surpassed Intel’s dominance in terms of single core performance.
AMD’s Big Navi 6800XT takes on Nvidia’s RTX 3080
Then it’s time for the GPUs. Where Nvidia introduced the world (while stocks last) about two months ago to the RTX 3080 GPUs, which meant a significant advance for Jensen Huang’s team. AMD would therefore have to come from a good family to be able to compete at all. And they seem to have done that, CEO Lisa Su proudly said. Their 6800XT performed almost the same as the RTX variant and even surpassed its performance in some games. In addition, AMD compared the RTX 3090 to the 6900XT. That card should offer equivalent performance, only $ 500 cheaper.
Apple Unveils New ARM M1 Chip
Also there was the news of Apple this week who presented their M1 chip to the world for the first time via a new MacBook Air, Pro and Mac Mini. The M1 chip is an ARM type chip (for comparison AMD & Intel are of the x86 chip type). And previously those ARM chips only seemed useful for computers that have to deal with power supply very efficiently, but now Apple seems to have taken a big step forward in terms of performance. Will this innovation at ARM affect the future of x86? In any case, we speculate wonderfully.
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