The latest trailer for Ridley Scott's upcoming Sci-Fi epic Alien Covenant unveils Walter, a synthetic humanoid powered by AMD Ryzen & Radeon. The new film is set for release on May 19th, right around when AMD is expected to launch its next generation Vega based Radeon GPUs. Including the Radeon Instinct artificial intelligence accelerators.
Ryzen & Radeon Breath Life IntoWalter The Humanoid
In the Alien universe, Walter is a "Synthetic" companion built by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. Each synthetic humanoid is tailor made to serve the needs of its individual owner. Powering it all is an AMD heterogeneous computing chip featuring Ryzen and Radeon technology.
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Late last year AMD revealedits all new family of Radeon Instinct accelerators for machine learning and artificial intelligence. The most advanced and powerful accelerator in the new family of chips features Radeon's next generation Vega 10 GPU with 25 TFLOPS of computing power. Four of these chips together create theVega Cube, an apple sized accelerator with equivalent computational power to the human brain. The all new Vega Architecture is quite revolutionary, we've detailed all aspects of the new GPU design in our Vega architectural deep-divearticle here.
The latest Alien Covenant trailer may be the mostfun teaser by AMD yet but not the first we've seen for Vega. Back in February the companyteased Vega in a game preview of Prey, the upcoming Sci-Fi first person shooter from publisher Bethesda. The company revealed that the new title will be optimized for its Ryzen CPUs and Vega GPUs.
Prey poster with Vega teaser via PCGamesHardware.de
Interestingly enough Prey, just like Alien : Covenant, is also set to come out in May. The company has yet to announce Vega's launch date and its statement regarding availability remains "Q2 2017". But just in case you didn't take the hint the firstAMD hascame back with another Vega teaser associated with something that's coming out in May.
AMD Vega Lineup
| Graphics Card | Radeon R9 Fury X | Radeon RX 480 | Radeon RX Vega Frontier Edition | Radeon Vega Pro | Radeon RX Vega (Gaming) | Radeon RX Vega Pro Duo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPU | Fiji XT | Polaris 10 | Vega 10 | Vega 10 | Vega 10 | 2x Vega 10 |
| Process Node | 28nm | 14nm FinFET | FinFET | FinFET | FinFET | FinFET |
| Stream Processors | 4096 | 2304 | 4096 | 3584 | 4096 (?) | Up to 8192 |
| Performance | 8.6 TFLOPS 8.6 (FP16) TFLOPS | 5.8 TFLOPS 5.8 (FP16) TFLOPS | ~13 TFLOLPS ~25 (FP16) TFLOPS | 11 TFLOLPS 22 (FP16) TFLOPS | >13 TFLOLPS >25 (FP16) TFLOPS | TBA TBA |
| Memory | 4GB HBM | 8GB GDDR5 | 16GB HBM2 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Memory Bus | 4096-bit | 256-bit | 2048-bit | 2048-bit | 2048-bit | 4096-bit |
| Bandwidth | 512GB/s | 256GB/S | 480GB/S | 400GB/S | TBA | TBA |
| TDP | 275W | 150W | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Launch | 2015 | 2016 | June 2017 | June 2017 | July 2017 | TBA |
Vega Architecture Key Features
– 4x Power Efficiency
– 2x Peak Throughput/Performance Per Clock
– High Bandwidth Cache
– 2x Bandwidth per pin
– 8x Capacity Per stack (2nd Generation High Bandwidth Memory)
– 512TB Virtual Address Space
– Next Generation Compute Engine
– Next Generation Pixel Engine
– Next Generation Compute Unit optimized for higher clock speeds
– Rapid Packed Math
– Draw Stream Binning Rasterizer
– Primitive Shaders
You can read about the Vega architecture in full detail here.
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