AMD Advantage
Finally, culminating all platforms is the AMD Advantage program, which is expanding for 2024. AMD will be breaking out its Advantage program into two separate programs, firstly it is taking its current Advantage program and renaming it Advantage Premium. It takes the already established co-designs with partners, rigorous qualifications, exceptional standards, and gaming experience program and wraps it up into now the Advantage Premium program.
Then, AMD is creating a standard AMD Advantage program that will allow AMD to bring in new, and more, partners from laptop to custom PC builders. These PCs will be AMD verified, offer features and capabilities that align with AMD hardware, and offer a great gaming experience. It will verify things such as AMD Smart Access Memory being enabled, and other capabilities. This will allow AMD to expand its partner list for 2024. Just make sure to look for both AMD Advantage PCs in laptop or desktop.
Conclusion
Overall, it seems AMD has the GPU space and CPU/APU well in hand for 2024. It has an exciting product lineup and product stack in the GPU and CPU space for PC hardware enthusiasts and DIY’ers. We were shocked to see AM4 still so well supported, with many new products being released a year after the newer AM5 platform was released. We honestly did not expect this and haven’t seen anything like this before with so many new product launches coming to an older platform. If AM5 gets as much love as AM4 has, then no one can complain about AMd’s platform longevity, that’s for darn sure.
We also find the AMD Ryzen 8000G series APUs to be extremely exciting for a lot of reasons. Enthusiasts have been waiting a long time for updated APUs from AMD, and we are now getting full RDNA 3 graphics on AM5 Zen 4 CPUs with DDR5 RAM. Remember, RAM bandwidth is very important for integrated graphics performance in games, and with fast DDR5, it should open up new performance levels for APU gaming. This will make small form factor builds very exciting, or entry-level builds, or for someone starting a build and doesn’t have a discrete GPU yet. You can always add one in later, and pairing a discrete GPU with an 8000G APU should work great. We are very excited to test these, I am personally very excited about the technology and potential.
As for the new Radeon RX 7600 XT 16GB video card announced, that one is a bit more iffy, if we are being honest. It has quite a price difference compared to the Radeon RX 7600, and knowing that it is just a clock-boosted card, with double the VRAM, we question if that will be enough to satisfy that price point, and actually utilize that VRAM at those performance levels in games. Of course, all of this is simply conjecture at this point, we have to get our hands on the hardware, test it, and find out where it lands. So stay tuned to our website for further product reviews, and let’s see how 2024 goes for AMD.
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Discussion (12 replies)
Join Discussion →I thought we were getting a 5500X3D and a 5600X3D as well.
The 5600X3D was released mid last year.
Just checked, thought I was losing the plot, looks like it was just a US release.
No love for this side of the pond.
The main buzzkill with the G-series is that they have less L3 cache than even the single CCD... 'desktop'-oriented parts? Not even sure how to differentiate them easily.
They should have lower memory latency due to being monolithic, and if they follow the pattern of the 5000G-series, they may support higher memory speeds as well, especially when it comes to overclocking beyond base specs, so maybe the smaller L3 cache isn't as big of a hit.
Oh, and that US$329 intro price for the top APU SKU is a bit hard to swallow, IMO.
I'm not sure what the cost of the Meteor Lake Core ultra line are. Google doesn't tell me shit.
Can't really compare the mobile prices since OEMs don't pay MSRP, and we don't know what the desktop MTL SKUs are going to look like. Other than that they're going to need a new socket and chipset to back them up.
Though I don't expect a significant departure from Intel.
It wasn't just exclusive to the US, it was exclusive to one specific retailer: Micro Center.
Considering just how well Microcenter did at keeping stock on hand for shoppers during the whole covid lockdown years... if I had to pick one vendor to sell computer accessories or components through in the US... it would be Microcenter.
I visited best buy once during lockdown looking for an xbox controller. It was a barren wasteland. Like Fry's was before they finally gave up the ghost and went under. I'm thinking Best Buy is still around and ok... but a shell of their former selves. While Microcenter managed their inventory and purchasing... and is doing better than ever.
That's just an outside view in mind you. I mean Best Buy was the only way to get a founders edition 40 series for a while.
Really?
They are only good at it because you have to drive in to one to get anything, and they are only located in a small handful of areas.
And one of those is right down the highway from me. So I'm sure that colors my impression of them. Also for the covid lock down against all odds that worked out in their favor.
Not the ones in my area. People were lining up outside of the stores before opening, ready to jump delivery trucks, and even getting into fights. Whenever I rolled through the closest Micro Center, the GPU shelves were always empty.
Yes GPU's were being run on... but that's a given and driven by insane demand for various reasons and scalpers going for profit.