Predator Orion Series Desktops to Feature New 9th Gen Intel Core Desktop Processors to Deliver Powerful Gaming Experiences

Acer today announced refreshes of its Predator Orion 9000 and 5000 gaming desktops, all featuring new 9th Gen Intel® Core™ desktop processors, giving gamers a leap in performance for smooth, seamless gameplay — even while streaming and recording.

“With the new 9th Gen Intel Core processors delivering up to 8 cores and 16 threads, the Predator Orion series desktops provides gamers with an arsenal of PCs that can withstand the most demanding gaming scenarios today,” said Jeff Lee, General Manager, Stationary Computing, IT Products Business, Acer Inc. “The refreshes are in line with Acer’s longstanding commitment to empower users with the latest technological breakthroughs, and provide them with best-in-class user experiences.”

“The new 9th Gen Intel Core desktop processors, featuring our flagship Intel Core i9-9900K, deliver the industry leading real-world performance that gamers demand,” said Anand Srivatsa, Vice President of the Client Computing Group, Intel. “The new Acer Predator Orion series desktops are incredible machines, and by harnessing the gaming performance delivered with the latest Intel Core processors, together we’re delivering premium gaming experiences.”

Powered by 9th Gen Intel Core desktop processors, the Predator Orion series gaming desktops are performance PCs designed for the serious to hardcore gamer. The Predator Orion 5000 is a gaming powerhouse for users who need an exceptional gaming rig, while the Predator Orion 9000 is a gamer’s dream machine aimed at the most demanding users, with top-of-the-line NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 2080 Ti GPUs1.

Predator Orion 9000 Series: The Ultimate Gaming Machine

With up to 9th Gen Intel Core i9-9900K processors and planned support for the new Intel Core X-series processors, the Predator Orion 9000 is the ultimate gaming PC. It features up to the latest NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GPUs, and supports over 8K UHD graphics. A black and silver chassis gives it a spacecraft-like casing that glows with customizable ARGB (Addressable RGB) lighting bars and RGB LED fans. The prominent side window showcases the impressive interior with a design that keeps electromagnetic interference (EMI) levels in check despite the size of the opening. Acer’s IceTunnel 2.0 expels heat through an advanced airflow management solution that separates the system into several thermal zones, each with an individual airflow tunnel.

Predator Orion 5000 Series: Serious Gaming Performance

The Predator Orion 5000 gaming desktop features up to 9th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-9900K processors and up to the latest NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 GPUs. Just like the Predator Orion 9000, the Orion 5000’s chassis has the signature transparent side panel to show off its powerful internals and includes the IceTunnel 2.0 airflow management design to keep the system cool.

1 Specifications may vary depending on model and region

Acer Reports Near 8% YoY Growth in Consolidated Revenues for Q3 2018, Marking A Record High This Year at NT$65.33 Billion

Acer Inc. (TWSE: 2353) announced today its consolidated revenues for the third quarter at NT$65.33 billion, up 7.8% YoY, and up 11.7% over the previous quarter. It also reported revenues for September at NT$22.92 billion, up 2.5% over the previous month, and up 2.5% year-on-year (YoY).

Acer’s gaming line1 and Chromebook line were key contributors to the growth. The gaming line grew by 93% YoY year-to-September, and 74% YoY in Q3, while the Chromebook line grew by 30% YoY year-to-September, and 49% YoY in Q3.

In the third quarter, Acer saw YoY revenue growth across all three regions (Pan-America, EMEA, and Pan-Asia Pacific), with outstanding year-to-September sales in the US, Russia, and Southeast Asia.

1 Acer’s gaming line includes notebooks, desktops and displays

eBlast : Reliving your greatest gaming moments just got more seamless with the new Radeon ReLive video toolkit

Following the release of the new Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition last month, designed to give gamers deeply immersive gameplay and inspired by today’s era of social, connected gaming, AMD has just released a new video toolkit to help fans get the most from the supercharged Radeon ReLive and its suite of new features.

With eSports expanding into a $1.5 billion industry this past year and revenue expected to grow 26 per cent by 2020, the stakes are higher than ever for fans to grow their following and step up their streaming game.

AMD’s new series of short how-to videos help gamers better use Radeon ReLive for creating, capturing and sharing their greatest gaming moments, so they can show off their skills and expand their communities.

To get the most out of these powerful new features, you can check out each Radeon ReLive how-to video here:

• Radeon ReLive Overview
• How to Stream
• How to Enable Separate Audio Tracks
• How to Trim & Share Videos
• How to Use Region Capture
• How to Enable Chat Overlay
• How to Enable Instant Replay
• Superior Gaming with Radeon RX Vega 56 graphics

Test Radeon ReLive for yourself by downloading Adrenalin Edition 18.1.1 here.

You can view more videos on Radeon ReLive here:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H-oUJkrff8
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WZwHToTQRM
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6u_xO_Fw3g

Stay tuned for more how-to content to come from Radeon Software!

eBlast: Introducing AMD TrueAudio Next support for Steam Audio

AMD and Valve recently announced their cooperation to bring support for AMD’s TrueAudio Next (TAN) in Steam Audio, delivering increased acoustic complexity and detail to VR content while significantly speeding up audio processing and improving overall performance.

TAN has two high-level features to maximize audio performance on systems:

• AMD Resource Reservation: Allows developers to reserve a portion of the GPU compute exclusively for audio processing. Developers can dedicate 20-25 percent of a GPU’s compute units for audio processing and can be enabled or disabled on a scene-by-scene basis.
• GPU compute Convolution Algorithms: Enables developers to increase the acoustic complexity and detail in their games and VR applications using time-varying convolution reverb. Time-varying convolution reverb can model a wide range of acoustic phenomena, and leads to an increased sense of presence, which is must have for creating true immersion in VR titles.

These features offer several advantages to developers, ultimately enabling better performance and more immersive experiences including:

• Greater auditory complexity: Gives developers the option of increasing the number of audio sources, Ambisonics order for indirect sound, impulse response (IR) length and more.
• Frees up CPU resources: Moves convolution from the CPU to the GPU, reducing the fraction of time spent by the CPU on audio processing, letting the CPU to be used by other tasks, like physics simulation or AI.
• Reduces/Eliminates unwanted clicks, pops and audio glitches: Rendering a complex scene won’t cause audio processing to slow down, avoiding unwanted audio glitches.
• Assists with silky-smooth performance: Prevents any sudden frame-rate drops and stuttering, since audio processing does not interfere with graphics or CPU processing.

For more information on TAN and the new integration, as well as how to enable TAN in Steam Audio, using the Unity, FMOD or Unreal Engine 4 plug-ins or C API check out the following blog and video.

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AMD and Cyzone Combine to Equip Vietnam’s Largest I-Cafes with the latest Ryzen CPUs

AMD has announced that it will be supplying Cyzone’s newest I-cafe in Vietnam with Ryzen CPUs, giving Cyzone best price/performance and long term platform stability, and further strengthening Cyzone’s position as one of the leaders in the Vietnam I-Café market.

Cyzone has a long history in the PC market in Vietnam with the company being set up in 2004. They have 2 i-cafes with over 800 PCs currently, including the Dang Van Ngu branch and the brand new Vo Thi Sau branch which is being equipped with AMD’s latest Ryzen 3 and Ryzen 5 CPUs that were launched to great success in 2017. Cyzone are actively involved in the gaming community and were recently crowned Vietnam champions at the Overwatch SEA Tournament and went on to represent their country at the group stage of the World Cup 2017 Overwatch tournament in Sydney, Australia.

AMD Ryzen CPUs were launched in 2017 and saw the return of AMD to the high performance CPU space. The revolutionary Zen architecture, developed over 4 years saw huge uplifts in performance of the AMD CPU core and large gains in efficiency. With the highly competitive AM4 platform offering stability and CPU upgradability until 2020, the Ryzen family of CPUs offer an ideal solution for I-cafes, system builders and those looking to build their own PCs. AMD’s Channel Sales Director for ASEAN, Mr Ryan Sim commented that “collaborating with partners is central to AMD and we are delighted to be working with Cyzone on this project to bring high performance computing to as many as possible”. He also expressed that there were ongoing plans to continue the resurgence of AMD and “improve the adoption of AMD Ryzen CPUs throughout the region”, with a range of partners in the PC industry.

The owner of Cyzone, Vu Thanh Cong, has a passion for IT hardware and has been a long time user of AMD processor, noting that “AMD always inspired us – the real IT component hardware enthusiasts”. Vu Thanh Cong considered many factors when choosing the platform to use in their brand new Vo Thi Sau branch with over 500 systems installed. However, after looking at the available options he concluded that “Ryzen is a very suitable choice meeting not only price/performance requirements, but also investment cost criteria”, with the advantage of platform stability giving the reassurance that “For the long term, there is upgrade possibilities at a competitive cost”.

Aside from the product performance and suitability for his I-café’s, Vu Thanh Cong was excited to see how the “Ryzen launch provided users reasonable choices and made the PC market excited again with renewed competition helping to accelerate performance/price/innovations. It brings a lot of benefits to the end user”.

AMD continues to support the gaming market in ASEAN and with Ryzen and Radeon products offering excellent solutions for many customers it expects that this growth will continue as more products are brought to market in 2018 and beyond.

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AMD Redefines High-Performance Computing with New Processor and Graphics Products Preview at CES 2018

Building on the global enthusiasm generated in 2017 by Ryzen™ processors and Radeon™ graphics technology, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today detailed its forthcoming roll-out plan for its new and next generation of high-performance computing and graphics products during an event in Las Vegas just prior to the opening of CES 2018. Alongside announcing the first desktop Ryzen™ processors with built-in Radeon™ Vega Graphics, AMD also detailed the full line up of Ryzen™ mobile APUs including the new Ryzen™ PRO and Ryzen™ 3 models, and provided a first look at the performance of its upcoming 12nm 2^nd generation Ryzen™ desktop CPU expected to launch in April. In graphics, AMD announced the expansion of the “Vega” family with Radeon Vega Mobile and that its first 7nm product is planned to be a Radeon “Vega” GPU specifically built for machine learning applications.

“We successfully accomplished the ambitious goals we set for ourselves in 2017, reestablishing AMD as a high-performance computing leader with the introduction and ramp of 10 different product families,” said AMD President and CEO Dr. Lisa Su. “We are building on this momentum in 2018 as we make our strongest product portfolio of the last decade even stronger with new CPUs and GPUs that bring more features and more performance to a broad set of markets.”  

Technology Updates

AMD CTO and SVP Mark Papermaster shared updates on AMD’s process technology roadmaps for both x86 processors and graphics architectures.

·         x86 Processors

o   The “Zen” core, currently shipping in Ryzen desktop and mobile processors, is in production at both 14nm and 12nm, with 12nm samples now shipping.

o   The “Zen 2” design is complete and will improve on the award-winning “Zen” design in multiple dimensions.  

·         Graphics Processors

o   Expanding the “Vega” product family in 2018 with the Radeon Vega Mobile GPU for ultrathin notebooks.

o   The first 7nm AMD product, a “Vega” based GPU built specifically for machine learning applications. 

• A production-level machine learning software environment with AMD’s MIOpen libraries supporting common machine learning frameworks like TensorFlow and Caffe on the ROCm Open eCosystem platform. The industry’s first fully open heterogeneous software environment, which is making it easier to program using AMD GPUs for high performance compute and deep learning environments. 

Client Compute Updates

AMD SVP and General Manager, Computing and Graphics Business Group Jim Anderson detailed upcoming AMD client compute processors including:

·         The Ryzen™ desktop processor with Radeon™ graphics

o   Desktop Ryzen™ APUs combine the latest “Zen” core and AMD Radeon™ graphics engine based on the advanced “Vega” architecture, bringing:

§  The highest performance graphics engine in a desktop processor[i]

§  Advanced quad core performance with up to 8 processing threads

§  1080p HD+ gaming performance without a discrete graphics card

§  Beautiful display features with Radeon™ FreeSync technology[ii]

§  Full benefit of Radeon™ software driver features including Radeon™ Chill, Enhanced Sync and Radeon™ ReLive

o   Planned to be available starting February 12, 2018.

Ryzen™ Desktop Processors with Radeon™ Vega Graphics:

Model	CPU Cores	Threads	Max Boost Clock (GHz)	Graphics Compute Units[iii]	Max GPU Clock (MHz)	L2/L3 Cache (MB)	cTDP (Watts)
Ryzen™ 5 2400G with Radeon™ RX Vega11Graphics	4	8	3.9	11	1250	6	45-65W
Ryzen™ 3 2200G with Radeon™ Vega8Graphics	4	4	3.7	8	1100	6	45-65W

·         2^nd generation Ryzen™ desktop CPU

o   AMD’s first 12nm based processor with Precision Boost 2 technology.

o   Scheduled for introduction April 2018.

·         Ryzen™ PRO Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Vega Graphics

o   Targeted for commercial, enterprise, and public sector implementation, Ryzen PRO mobile processors are designed to power sleek and powerful enterprise notebooks featuring the world’s fastest processor for commercial ultrathin notebooks[iv], state-of-the-art silicon-level security, and reliable solutions with enterprise-class support and product stack top-to-bottom DASH manageability.

§  Up to 22% more competitive productivity performance[v]

§  Up to 125% more competitive graphics performance than Intel i7-8550U and 150% more competitive graphics performance than Intel i7-7500U[vi]

§  Targeting Up to 13.5 hours of battery life[vii]

§  SenseMI[viii] features including Precision Boost 2 technology and Mobile Extended Frequency Range (mXFR)[ix]

o   Ryzen™ PRO mobile solutions are expected to launch in Q2 2018.

Ryzen™ PRO mobile processors with Radeon™ Vega Graphics:

Model	CPU Cores	Threads	Max Clock (GHz)	Graphics Compute Unitsiii	Max GPU Clock (MHz)	L2/L3 Cache (MB)	cTDP (Watts)
Ryzen™ 7 PRO 2700U with Radeon™ Vega10 Graphics	4	8	3.8	10	1300	6	15W Nominal
Ryzen™ 5 PRO 2500U with Radeon™ Vega8 Graphics	4	8	3.6	8	1100	6	15W Nominal
Ryzen™ 3 PRO 2300U with Radeon™ Vega6 Graphics	4	4	3.4	6	1100	6	15W Nominal

·         Ryzen™ Mobile Processor with Radeon™ Vega Graphics

o   AMD expanded the Ryzen Mobile Processor family, featuring the world’s fastest processor for ultrathin notebooks line up, with the introduction of the Ryzen 3 mobile processor.

Ryzen™ mobile processors with Radeon™ Vega Graphics:

Model	CPU Cores	Threads	Max Clock (GHz)	Graphics Compute Unitsiii	Max GPU Clock (MHz)	L2/L3 Cache (MB)	cTDP (Watts)
Ryzen™ 7 2700U with Radeon™ Vega10 Graphics	4	8	3.8	10	1300	6	15W Nominal
Ryzen™ 5 2500U with Radeon™ Vega8 Graphics	4	8	3.6	8	1100	6	15W Nominal
Ryzen™ 3 2300U with Radeon™ Vega6 Graphics	4	4	3.4	6	1100	6	15W Nominal
Ryzen™ 3 2200U with Radeon™ Vega3 Graphics	2	4	3.4	3	1000	5	15W Nominal

Graphics & Gaming Updates

AMD discussed its first mobile discrete graphics solution based on the “Vega” architecture. This razor-thin Radeon Vega Mobile GPU is designed to enable new, powerful gaming notebooks in 2018 with extraordinary performance and incredible efficiency.

AMD also announced that Radeon™ Software will add support for HDMI 2.1 Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) technology on Radeon™ RX products in an upcoming driver release. This support will come as an addition to the Radeon™ FreeSync technology umbrella, as displays with HDMI 2.1 VRR support reach market.

Ubisoft announced that Far Cry 5 will support Radeon™ RX Vega specific features like Rapid Packed Math as well as Radeon™ FreeSync 2 technology. Radeon™ RX Vega owners will be able to enjoy Far Cry 5 at exceptional fidelity, with stunning frame rates and beautiful image quality.

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