GS-4152, AMD’s Radeon R9-290X, One Big dGPU, by Michael Mantor

GS-4152, AMD’s Radeon R9-290X, One Big dGPU, by Michael Mantor

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  AMD  RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU   MIKE  MANTOR  –  MICHAEL.MANTOR@AMD.COM   GRAPHICS,  COMPUTE  &  VISUALIZATION  ARCHITECT  
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  AMD  RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU   A CONTINUED ERA OF GCN GRAPHICS & COMPUTE GCN Architecture Display Technologies Audio Technologies Specifications
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  RADEON™  R9  290X   A NEW GPU DESIGN FOR A NEW ERA OF COMPUTING GRAPHICS CORE NEXT ARCHITECTURE !  44  Compute  Units   !  4  Geometry  Processors   ‒  4  billion  primiIves/sec   !  64  Pixel  Output/Clock   ‒  64  Gpixels/sec  fill  rate   !  176  Texture  Units   ‒  176  Gtextured  pixels/sec   !  704  32b  Load/Store  Units   ‒  Up-­‐to  2.8  TB/sec  L1  bandwidth   !  1MB  R/W  L2  Cache   ‒  Up-­‐to  1  TB/sec  L2/L1  bandwidth   !  512-­‐bit  GDDR5  memory  interface   ‒  320  GB/sec  memory  bandwidth   !  New  AMD  CrossFire™  technology   !  AMD  TrueAudio  technology   !  6.2  billion  transistors   3   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13   ‒  438  mm2 on  28nm  process  node  
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  RADEON™  R9  290X   GRAPHICS CORE NEXT ARCHITECTURE SHADER  ENGINE   ! RADEON™  R9  290X   GCN GPU contains 4 Shader Engines ‒  Load balanced with each other ‒  Screen partitioning for pixel assignment ! A Shader Engine is a high level organizational unit containing: ‒  1 Geometry Processor (1 Primitive Per Cycle Throughput) ‒  1 Rasterizer ‒  1-11 CUs (Compute Units) ‒  Instruction I$ and constant K$ caches shared by up to 4 CU each ‒  4 RBEs (Render Back Ends) ‒  Up-to 16 – 64b pixels/cycle per Shader Engine ‒  Up-to 8 – 128b pixels/cycle per Shader Engine 4   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13  
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  RADEON™  R9  290X   Branch & Message Unit COMPUTE  UNIT   Scheduler Vector Registers (4x 64KB) Vector Units (4x SIMD-16) Local Data Share (64KB) Scalar Unit GRAPHICS CORE NEXT ARCHITECTURE Texture Filter Units (4) Scalar Registers (8KB) Texture Fetch Load / Store Units (16) L1 Cache (16KB) !  CU = Basic Building Block of GPU Computational Power ‒  44  compute  units  (2816  SP  IEEE  2008-­‐compliant  shaders)   ‒  Device  Flat    (Generic)  64b/32b  Addressing  support     ‒  Masked  Quad  Sum  of  Absolute  Difference  (MQSAD)  with  32b  AccumulaIon  and  SaturaIon   ‒  Precision  improvement  for  naIve  LOG/EXP  ops  to  1ULP   ‒  Packed  64Bb  pixel  color  exports  –  effecIvely  double  reorder  buffering  in  64b  pixel  processing  w/access  power  reducIon   ‒  New  Local  Data  Share  (LDS)  Memory  OperaIons   5   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13  
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  RADEON™  R9  290X   COMPUTE  UNIT   DEVICE  FLAT  ADDRESS   FLAT   !  Flat  Address  Space  (“flat”)  instrucIons  are  new  for  Radeon™  R9-­‐290X  and  allow  read/write/ atomic  access  to  a  generic  memory  address  pointer  which  can  resolve  to  any  of  the  following   physical  memories:   !  Global  memory     !  Scratch  (“private”)   !  LDS  (“shared”)   !  Invalid  -­‐  MEM_VIOL  TrapStatus     !  Device  Flat(Generic)  64b/32b  Addressing  mode  support   ‒  FLAT  instrucIons  support  both  64  and  32-­‐bit  addressing.    The  address  size  is  set  via  a  mode  register   (“PTR32”)  and  a  local  copy  of  the  value  is  stored  per  wave.   ‒  The  state  addresses  for  the  aperture  check  differ  in  32  and  64-­‐bit  mode     6   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13  
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  RADEON™  R9  290X   COMPUTE  UNIT   LDS  OPERATIONS   ! New  Local  Data  Share  Memory  OperaIons   ‒ F32  Min/Max/Compare  Swap   ‒ Full  complement  of  LDS  remote  atomic  op  with  shared  memory  dual  source   operands   ‒ LDS[Dst]  =  LDS[addr0]  op  LDS[addr1];   ‒ Fast  remote  reducIon  operaIons  for  arithmeIc,  logical,  Min/Max  F32   ‒ Read/Write  Exchange    96b/128b     7   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13  
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  RADEON™  R9  290X   GCN  MEDIA  PROCESSING   !  SAD = Sum of Absolute Differences !  Critical to many video & image processing algorithms ‒  ‒  ‒  ‒  ‒  Motion detection Gesture recognition Video & image search Stereo depth extraction Computer vision !  SAD (4x1) and QSAD (4 4x1) instructions ‒  QSAD combines SAD with alignment ops for higher performance and reduced power draw ‒  Evaluate up to 256 pixels per CU per clock cycle! MEDIA  INSTRUCTIONS   Closest  match   SAD  =   SAD  =  22   22   SAD  =   59   SAD  =   58   SAD  =   45   !  Maskable MQSAD instruction ‒  Allows background pixels to be ignored ‒  Accelerated isolation of moving objects !  New : 32 bit destination accumulator register ‒ SAD/QSAD/MQSAD U32/U16 accumulators with saturation 8   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13   AMD  Radeon™  R9  290x  can  evaluate   11.26  Terapixels/sec  *   *  Peak  theoreIcal  performance  for  8-­‐bit  integer  pixels  
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  RADEON™  R9  290X   Geometry Processor Geometry Assembler Tessellator Vertex Assembler GCN  FIXED  FUNCTION  ARCHITECTURE   Geometry Processor Geometry Assembler Tessellator Vertex Assembler Geometry Processor Geometry Assembler Tessellator Vertex Assembler GEOMETRY   Geometry Processor Geometry Assembler Tessellator Vertex Assembler ! Updated Geometry Processor Units –  Off-chip buffer management improved –  Larger posion & parameter caches TessellaIon  off   n   TessellaIon   off   ! GS + Tessellation is faster than before… ! However… memory can still be the bottleneck! –  Minimize the number of inputs and outputs for best performance… ! Small GS expansions can be done within LDS eliminating cache/memory traffic! 9   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13   Image  from  Baulefield  3,  EA  DICE   Process  and  rasterize  up  to  4  primives  per  clock  cycle  
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  RADEON™  R9  290X   GCN  FIXED  FUNCTION  ARCHITECTURE   RENDER  BACK  ENDS   !  Depth/Color/Stencil processing conducted in the Render BackEnds (RBEs) ‒  4KB Depth Cache ‒ Up to 16 coverage samples ‒ 16KB Color Cache ‒ Up to 8 color samples Z/Stencil ROPs Color ROPs Depth Cache Color Cache !  Radeon™ R9-290X fragment rates ‒ 64 – 64b pixels per cycle ‒ 256 Depth Test (Z) / Stencil Ops per cycle * 10   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13   There are 16 RBEs on Radeon™ R9 290x  
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  RADEON™  R9  290X   GCN  FIXED  FUNCTION  ARCHITECTURE   RASTERIZER   ! There are 4 Geometry Processors on Radeon™ Radeon™ R9 290x ‒  Overall Primitive Rate = 4 prims per clock (ideal) ! There are 4 Rasterizers on Radeon™ R9 290x (4 triangles x 16 pixels = 64 pixels per clock) ‒  Each rasterizer can read in a single triangle per cycle, and write out up-to 16 pixels ! Caveat: tiny (e.g. sub-pixel) triangles can dramatically reduce PS efficiency !  This can cause us to become raster-bound, unable to rasterize at peak-rate! Command Processor Geometry Processor Geometry Assembler Tessellator Vertex Assembler Geometry Processor Geometry Assembler Tessellator Geometry Processor Vertex Assembler Geometry Assembler Tessellator Vertex Assembler Geometry Processor Geometry Assembler Tessellator Vertex Assembler Compute Units Rasterizer Scan Converter Hierarchical Z Rasterizer Scan Converter Render Back-Ends 11   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13   Hierarchical Z Render Back-Ends Rasterizer Scan Converter Hierarchical Z Render Back-Ends Rasterizer Scan Converter Hierarchical Z Render Back-Ends
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  RADEON™  R9  290X   GRAPHICS CORE NEXT ARCHITECTURE L2  &  MEMORY  INTERFACE   1 MB L2 R/W CACHE !  Upto16 - 64 KB L2 cache partition L2 Cache ‒  Relative to AMD Radeon™ HD 7970 ASIC ‒ Additional 33% last level cache capacity ‒ Additional 33% internal fabric bandwidth ‒  Up to 1TB/s L2/L1 bandwidth @ 1GHz operation !  High  density  interface  design   Memory  Interface   ‒  512-­‐bit  memory  interface  occupies  ~20%  less   area  than  the  384-­‐bit  memory  interface  uIlized   on  the  AMD  Radeon™  HD  7970  ASIC   ‒  Over  20%  more  total  bandwidth   ‒  50%  increase  in  bandwidth  per  mm2     ! 512-­‐bit  GDDR5  at  5.0  Gbps   ‒  320  GB/sec  memory  bandwidth   64-bit Dual Channel Memory Controller 64-bit Dual Channel Memory Controller 64-bit Dual Channel Memory Controller 12   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13   64-bit Dual Channel Memory Controller 64-bit Dual Channel Memory Controller 64-bit Dual Channel Memory Controller 64-bit Dual Channel Memory Controller 64-bit Dual Channel Memory Controller
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  Tiled Resources &Partially Resident Textures   ! Enables application to manage more texture data than can physically fit in a fixed footprint ‒  Known as: Tiled Resources (Direct3D 11.2) and Partially Resident Textures (OpenGL 4.2) ‒  A.k.a. “Virtual texturing“ and “Sparse texturing” ! The principle behind PRT is that not all texture contents are likely to be needed at any given time ‒  Current render view may only require selected portions of a texture to be resident in memory ‒  Or, only selected MIPMap levels… ! PRT textures only have a portion of their data mapped into GPU-accessible memory at a time ‒  Texture data can be streamed in on-demand ‒  Texture sizes up-to 32TB (16k x 16k x 8k x 128-bit) ! All  Tier-­‐2  features  supported  in  Radeon™R9  –  290X   ‒  Shader  LOD  clamp  &  mapped  status  feedback   ‒  Reads  from  non-­‐mapped  Ile  returns  0   ‒  Min/max  reducIon  filtering   !  OpenGL extension – GL_AMD_sparse_texture 13   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13  
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  GCN  COMPUTE  ARCHITECTURE   RADEON™  R9  290X   A NEW CONFIGURATION OF GCN FOR GAMMING AND COMPUTING AMD Radeon™ HD 7970 GHz Edition AMD Radeon™ R9 290X Increase Geometry Processing 2.1 billion primitives/sec 4 billion primitives/sec 1.9x Compute 4.3 TFLOPS 5.6 TFLOPS 1.3x Texture fill rate 134.4 Gtexels/sec 176 Gtexels/sec 1.3x Pixel fill rate 33.6 Gpixels/sec 64 Gpixels/sec 1.9x Peak Bandwidth 264 GB/sec 320 GB/sec 1.2x Die area 352 mm2 438 mm2 1.24x Peak GFLOPS/mm2 12.2 12.8 1.05x 14   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13  
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  RADEON™  R9  290X   GCN  COMPUTE  ARCHITECTURE   A NEW GPU DESIGN FOR A NEW ERA OF COMPUTING GRAPHICS CORE NEXT !  8 ASYNCHRONOUS COMPUTE ENGINES (ACE) ‒  Operate in parallel with Graphics CP ‒  Independent scheduling and work item dispatch for efficient multi-tasking ‒  9 Devices with 64+ Command Queues! ‒  Fast work group boundary preemption ‒  Exposed in OpenCL™ !  Dual DMA engines ‒  Can saturate PCIe 3.0 x16 bus bandwidth (16 GB/ sec bidirectional) 15   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13  
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  RADEON™  R9  290X   GCN  COMPUTE  ARCHITECTURE   A NEW GPU DESIGN FOR A NEW ERA OF COMPUTING GRAPHICS CORE NEXT !  ACEs are responsible for compute shader scheduling, synchronization & resource alloc !  Each ACE fetches commands from cache or memory !  Tasks have a priority level for scheduling ‒  Background à Realtime !  ACE dispatch tasks to shader engines as resources permit !  Tasks complete out-of-order, tracked by ACE for correctness !  Every cycle, an ACE can create a workgroup and dispatch to the shader engines for round robin for wave launch 16   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13   ‒  Policies:priorities/keep out/limits/reservations etc
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  RADEON™  R9  290X   GCN  COMPUTE  ARCHITECTURE   A NEW GPU DESIGN FOR A NEW ERA OF COMPUTING GRAPHICS CORE NEXT !  ACE are independent ‒  But, can synchronize and communicate via Cache/Memory/GDS !  ACE can form task graphs ‒ Individual tasks can have dependencies on one another ‒  Can depend on another ACE ‒  Can depend on part of graphics pipe !  ACE can control task switching ‒  Stop and Start tasks and dispatch work to shader engines 17   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13  
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  RADEON™  R9  290X   FUTURE  CS  CONCURRENT  MULTITHREADING   ! Ace  -­‐  Independent  virtual  engine,  enabling  true  GPU  MulIprocessor  operaIon   ! Operates  out  of  assigned  virtual  memory    (All  commands,  instrucIons,  constants,  input,  output  memory  space)   ! Doorbell  hardware  feature  enables  architected  efficient  queue  write  pointer  update   ! Producer/Consumer  can  be  built  on  OpenCl™  and  advanced  HSA     ! Footprint  limiIng  with  load  balancing  techniques  between  concurrent  compute  ACE  threads     Spawn Spawn   ACE F32 Per  WG   Data   Init GDS CS 18   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13   Memory ACE F32 Unified Shader Intermediate Data Dispatch Alloc Dispatch Input Data Sync Control Data Memory CS
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  RADEON™  R9  290X   GCN  COMPUTE  ARCHITECTURE   A NEW GPU DESIGN FOR A NEW ERA OF COMPUTING GRAPHICS CORE NEXT !  Focus in GPU hardware migrating towards general-purpose compute units !  Radeon™R9 290x GCN-based ASICs have advanced compute ‒  CP can dispatch compute ‒  ACE cannot dispatch graphics !  Future will provide interactive compute and graphics 19   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13   ! If you aren’t writing Compute Shaders, you’re not getting the absolute most out of modern GPUs
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  NEW  AMD  CROSSFIRE™  TECHNOLOGY  -­‐  XDMA   !   XDMA  is  a  modern  approach  to  negoIaIng  the  communicaIon  of  mulIple  GPUs  for  peak  gaming   performance  with  the  ultra-­‐high-­‐resoluIon  displays  of  tomorrow     !   Radeon™R9-­‐290X  includes  a  Hardware  DMA  engine  in  the  AMD  CrossFire™  composiIng  block   ‒  Designed  for  AMD  Eyefinity  and  UltraHD  resoluIons  via  DisplayPort™   ‒  Allows  for  direct  access  between  GPU  display  pipelines  over  PCI  Express®   ‒  No  external  connector  required   ‒  CompaIble  on  AMD  Catalyst™  frame  pacing  technologies   ‒  No  performance  penalty  versus  external  bridge   20   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13  
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  SEPTEMBER AMD EYEFINITY TECHNOLOGY 2009 21  |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13  
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  EYEFINITY 6 EDITION 2010 1 APRIL 22  |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13  
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  OCTOBER 23   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13   5X1 PORTRAIT MODE 2011
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  HDMI® (WITH 4K) DISPLAYPORT™1.2 DECEMBER 2011 FEBRUARY 2012 3840 3840 50” 2160 24   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13   2160 32”
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  4K THE GENERATIONAL LEAP GAMERSHAVE BEEN WAITING FOR 25   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13   4X THE RESOLUTION OF 1080p 1080p SD
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  THE  FUTURE  OF  ULTRAHD   !  We  believe  the  AMD  Radeon™  R9  290X  will  support   future  third  type  of  UltraHD  display  that  feature  Single   Stream  operaIon  at  60Hz   !  This  product  is  ready  with  support  for  high  pixel  rates  up   to  600  MHz,  and  will  validate  as  soon  as  the  monitors  are   available   3840 2160 26   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13  
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  BUILT FOR USER FLEXIBILITY SUPPORTFOR UP TO 6 DISPLAYS1 1 x DisplayPort™ with Multi-Stream Transport 1 x HDMI® 2 x Dual-Link DVI 27   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13  
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  HAVE 3 MATCHING MONITORS? USEANY THREE OUTPUTS 28   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13   2 x Dual-Link DVI 1 x HDMI® x DisplayPort™ with Multi-Stream Transport
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  BUILT FOR USER FLEXIBILITY SUPPORTFOR UP TO 6 DISPLAYS 1 x DisplayPort™ with Multi-Stream Transport 1 x HDMI® 2 x Dual-Link DVI 29   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13  
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  BUILT FOR USER FLEXIBILITY SUPPORTFOR UP TO 6 DISPLAYS 1 x DisplayPort™ with Multi-Stream Transport 1 x HDMI® 2 x Dual-Link DVI 30   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13  
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  BUILT FOR USER FLEXIBILITY SUPPORTFOR UP TO 6 DISPLAYS 1 x DisplayPort™ with Multi-Stream Transport 1 x HDMI® 2 x Dual-Link DVI 31   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13  
• 32.
  GCN  MEDIA  PROCESSING   AMD  TRUEAUDIO   !   TrueAudio  on  AMD  Radeon™  R9  290X     ! Dedicated  Audio  DSP  soluIon  for  game  sound  effects   !   Guaranteed  real-­‐Ime  performance  and  service   !   Programmable  pipeline  provides  arIsIc  freedom  to  game  audio  engineers   !   Intended  to  transform  game  audio  as  programmable  shaders  transformed  graphics   32   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13  
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  3D  AUDIO  DONE  RIGHT   Traditional Virtual Surround Sound !  USB headset solutions provide processing at the end of the pipeline Virtual Surround with AMD TrueAudio Technology !  Spatialization algorithm with 3D positional data from game leads to more accurate 3D audio ‒  Software & Hardware solutions Audio   Assets   USB  Audio   Driver   ApplicaIon  /  Game   Unprocessed     Stereo  Sound   Processed   Stereo  Sound   Audio Middleware Effects  &  Algorithms   USB   Absence of 3D positional data from the game leads to “fake” 3D audio 33   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13   ApplicaIon  /  Game   AMD   TRUEAUDIO   AMD & GENAUDIO will bring this experience to gamers
• 34.
  GCN  MEDIA  PROCESSING   AMD  TRUEAUDIO   SPATIALIZATION  /  3D  AUDIO   REVERBS   AUDIO/VOICE  STREAMS   MASTERING  LIMITERS   34   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13  
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  THE DRIVING FORCESBEHIND THE AMD NEW GAME CONSOLES ULTRAHD DISPLAYS 35   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13   MULTI-MONITOR GAMING RADEON R9 290X ™ AUDIO IMMERSION NEXT GENERATION GAMES
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  !  GS-4112 –Mantle: Empowering 3D Graphics Innovation !  Keynote – Johan Andersson, Technical Director, EA !  GS-4145 – Oxide on Mantle Adoption (Wed 5:00-5:45) !  New low level programming interface for PCs !  Designed in collaboration with top game developers !  Lightweight driver that allows direct access to GPU hardware !  Compatible with DirectX® HLSL for simplified porting MANTLE Graphics Applications Mantle API Mantle Driver GCN Works with all Graphics Core Next GPUs
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  PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS AMD RADEON™R9 290X Radeon™ R9 290X Stream Processors 2,816 Engine Clock Up to 1 GHz Compute Performance 5.6 TFLOPS Memory Configuration 4GB GDDR5 / 512-bit Memory Speed Power Connectors PCI-E Standard 5.0 Gbps 1 x 6-pin, 1 x 8-pin PCI-E 3.0 AMD TrueAudio Technology Yes DirectX 11.2 OpenGL 4.3 Mantle ® API Support 37   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13  
• 38.
  THANK YOU QUESTIONS? 38  |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13  
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  ABSTRACT   In  this  talk,  details  about  how  the  unique  configuraIon  and   features  of  the  new  Radeon™  R9-­‐290X  are  used  to  deliver  a   new  level  of  experience  for  enthusiast  gamers.    The  powerful   Graphics  Core  Next  architecture  upgraded  to  drive  ULTRAHD   4K  resoluIon  displays  or  mulIple  mulI-­‐monitor  configuraIons   for  great  visual  effects.    The  Radeon™  R9-­‐290X  is  equipped   with  a  xDMA  engine  that  uIlizes  PCIE  for  all  communicaIon   between  mulIple  GPUs  in  a  system  for  AMD  Crossfire™   operaIons.    This  soluIon  is  compaIble  with  our  latest  frame   pacing  updates.    The  Radeon™  R9-­‐290X  is  addiIonally    coupled   with  AMD’s  new  TRUEADIO  Technology  to  provide  a  hardware   accelerated  programmable  audio  pipeline,  enabling  the  sound   engineer  and  arIst  to  significantly  engage  a  parIcipant’s  sense   of  sound  in  game  play.   39   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13  
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  DISCLAIMER  &  ATTRIBUTION   The  informaIon  presented  in  this  document  is  for  informaIonal  purposes  only  and  may  contain  technical  inaccuracies,  omissions  and  typographical  errors.     The  informaIon  contained  herein  is  subject  to  change  and  may  be  rendered  inaccurate  for  many  reasons,  including  but  not  limited  to  product  and  roadmap   changes,  component  and  motherboard  version  changes,  new  model  and/or  product  releases,  product  differences  between  differing  manufacturers,  so~ware   changes,  BIOS  flashes,  firmware  upgrades,  or  the  like.  AMD  assumes  no  obligaIon  to  update  or  otherwise  correct  or  revise  this  informaIon.  However,  AMD   reserves  the  right  to  revise  this  informaIon  and  to  make  changes  from  Ime  to  Ime  to  the  content  hereof  without  obligaIon  of  AMD  to  noIfy  any  person  of   such  revisions  or  changes.     AMD  MAKES  NO  REPRESENTATIONS  OR  WARRANTIES  WITH  RESPECT  TO  THE  CONTENTS  HEREOF  AND  ASSUMES  NO  RESPONSIBILITY  FOR  ANY   INACCURACIES,  ERRORS  OR  OMISSIONS  THAT  MAY  APPEAR  IN  THIS  INFORMATION.     AMD  SPECIFICALLY  DISCLAIMS  ANY  IMPLIED  WARRANTIES  OF  MERCHANTABILITY  OR  FITNESS  FOR  ANY  PARTICULAR  PURPOSE.  IN  NO  EVENT  WILL  AMD  BE   LIABLE  TO  ANY  PERSON  FOR  ANY  DIRECT,  INDIRECT,  SPECIAL  OR  OTHER  CONSEQUENTIAL  DAMAGES  ARISING  FROM  THE  USE  OF  ANY  INFORMATION   CONTAINED  HEREIN,  EVEN  IF  AMD  IS  EXPRESSLY  ADVISED  OF  THE  POSSIBILITY  OF  SUCH  DAMAGES.     ATTRIBUTION   ©  2013  Advanced  Micro  Devices,  Inc.  All  rights  reserved.  AMD,  the  AMD  Arrow  logo,  Radeon,  CrossFire,  Catalyst  and  combinaIons  thereof  are  trademarks   of  Advanced  Micro  Devices,  Inc.  in  the  United  States  and/or  other  jurisdicIons.  PCI  Express  is  a  trademark  of  the  PCI-­‐SIG  CorporaIon  and  HDMI  is  a   trademarks  of  HDMI  Licensing,  LLC.    Other  names  are  for  informaIonal  purposes  only  and  may  be  trademarks  of  their  respecIve  owners.   40   |      RADEON™  R9-­‐290X,  ONE  BIG  DGPU  |      NOV  2013      |      APU13