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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