AMD has updated its AMD Gaming YouTube channel, and with it comes a new video that demonstrates how the power of GPUs has improved over the past 20 years, enabling greater and greater visuals in video games that will presumably only get better as time goes on and technology continues to advance.
“A look back at this classic AMD tech demo from 20 years ago that still holds up!” a description for AMD’s new 2-minute Tech Demo Throwback reads. “See how far gaming visuals have come while celebrating the innovation that shaped today’s technology.”
The video comes nearly two decades after AMD purchased ATI Technologies in 2006, a now-defunct Canadian semiconductor company that introduced the Radeon brand in 2000 with the R100 GPU and Radeon 7200: a graphics card that featured GPU clocks of up to 166 MHz, 32 MB of DDR memory, and a memory clock of up to 166 MHz.
“Break through new levels of performance with up to 24 GB of GDDR6 memory and blazing fast clock speeds for an incredible gaming experience,” reads a blurb for AMD’s latest GPUs. “AMD Radeon RX 7000 Series graphics feature advanced AMD RDNA 3 compute units, with second-generation raytracing accelerators and new AI accelerators to deliver remarkable performance while maximizing graphical fidelity.”