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AMD Radeon™ GPUs and Developer Tools Tapped for New Generation Gaming Platform, Google Stadia

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Cloud-opti­mi­zed AMD dat­a­cen­ter GPUs and robust soft­ware tools enable deve­lo­pers to crea­te excep­tio­nal, sca­lable, high-per­for­mance game strea­ming experiences

San Fran­cis­co, Calif.

 

Buil­ding on a clo­se, long-term col­la­bo­ra­ti­on bet­ween the two com­pa­nies, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announ­ced that Goog­le sel­ec­ted high-per­for­mance, cus­tom AMD Rade­on dat­a­cen­ter GPUs for its Vul­kan® and Linux®-based Goog­le Sta­dia. Goog­le announ­ced the plat­form today at the Game Deve­lo­pers Con­fe­rence (GDC) in San Fran­cis­co, Calif. AMD also is sup­port­ing Goog­le with its soft­ware deve­lo­p­ment tools and Linux-based, open-source Vul­kan dri­ver to help game deve­lo­pers opti­mi­ze future titles to run on the new GPU-powered platform.

“By com­bi­ning our gam­ing DNA and dat­a­cen­ter tech­no­lo­gy lea­der­ship with a long-stan­ding com­mit­ment to open plat­forms, AMD pro­vi­des uni­que tech­no­lo­gies and exper­ti­se to enable world-class cloud gam­ing expe­ri­en­ces,” said Ogi Brkic, cor­po­ra­te vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger of the Dat­a­cen­ter GPU Busi­ness Unit at AMD. “AMD is deligh­ted to work with Goog­le in its effort to bring ama­zing gam­ing expe­ri­en­ces to legi­ons of gamers around the world with the relia­bi­li­ty and no-com­pro­mi­ses per­for­mance they expect.” 

“We’ve work­ed clo­se­ly with AMD for years on this pro­ject, lea­ding to the deve­lo­p­ment of a cus­tom GPU with lea­ding-edge fea­tures and per­for­mance for Goog­le Sta­dia,” said Dov Zim­ring, Goog­le Sta­dia deve­lo­per plat­form pro­duct lead. “Goog­le and AMD share a com­mit­ment to open-source with exper­ti­se in Vul­kan, open-source Vul­kan GPU dri­vers, and open-source gra­phics opti­miza­ti­on tools. We’re hum­bled by the spi­rit of inno­va­ti­on and col­la­bo­ra­ti­on that exists throug­hout the gam­ing indus­try and look for­ward to pio­nee­ring the future of gra­phics tech­no­lo­gy with game deve­lo­pers, in open-source.”

High-performance AMD Datacenter GPUs

Strea­ming gra­phics-rich games to mil­li­ons of users on demand and from the cloud requi­res ultra high-per­for­mance pro­ces­sing capa­bi­li­ties to mini­mi­ze laten­cy and maxi­mi­ze game per­for­mance. It also requi­res advan­ced tech­no­lo­gies to tack­le uni­que dat­a­cen­ter chal­lenges, inclu­ding secu­ri­ty, mana­gea­bi­li­ty, and scalability.

Cus­tom AMD high-per­for­mance Rade­on dat­a­cen­ter GPUs for Goog­le Sta­dia include:

  • Second-gene­ra­ti­on High-Band­width Memo­ry (HBM2) to pro­vi­de power savings in a com­pact footprint;
  • Cri­ti­cal dat­a­cen­ter fea­tures such as Error Cor­rec­ting Code (ECC)1 pro­tec­tion to help ensu­re data integrity;
  • Fast, pre­dic­ta­ble per­for­mance with secu­ri­ty fea­tures for cloud-based gam­ing, via the industry’s first hard­ware-based GPU vir­tua­liza­ti­on solu­ti­on built on indus­try stan­dard SR-IOV (Sin­gle-Root I/O Vir­tua­liza­ti­on) technology.

The AMD gra­phics archi­tec­tu­re sup­ports a wide ran­ge of today’s gam­ing plat­forms – from PCs to major game con­so­les – enab­ling deve­lo­pers to opti­mi­ze their games for a sin­gle GPU archi­tec­tu­re and extend the­se bene­fits across mul­ti­ple plat­forms which now include lar­ge-sca­le cloud gam­ing platforms.

Robust Developer Tools 

Powerful AMD soft­ware tools enable deve­lo­pers to opti­mi­ze their games and other appli­ca­ti­ons for AMD Rade­on GPUs. AMD empowers deve­lo­pers with a ran­ge of opti­ons and broad fle­xi­bi­li­ty to opti­mi­ze the per­for­mance of GPU-based appli­ca­ti­ons based on a long-stan­ding com­mit­ment to open-source plat­forms, inclu­ding Linux-based dri­vers and sup­port for the low-level Vul­kan API that pro­vi­de broad con­trol over the per­for­mance, effi­ci­en­cy and capa­bi­li­ties of AMD Rade­on GPUs.

The open-source AMD Linux dri­vers allow Goog­le and its deve­lo­p­ment part­ners to inspect the code and under­stand exact­ly how the dri­ver works, enab­ling them to bet­ter opti­mi­ze their appli­ca­ti­ons to inter­face with AMD Rade­on GPUs. The dri­ver also con­ta­ins an appli­ca­ti­on tra­cing com­po­nent that, tog­e­ther with the AMD Rade­on GPU Pro­fi­ler (RGP), pro­vi­des access to detail­ed, low-level infor­ma­ti­on about how workloads run on AMD Rade­on GPUs. Iden­ti­fy­ing timing issues that might sug­gest poten­ti­al opti­miza­ti­ons, this capa­bi­li­ty dra­ma­ti­cal­ly impro­ves deve­lo­pers’ abili­ty to crea­te appli­ca­ti­ons that deli­ver the best pos­si­ble per­for­mance on AMD Rade­on GPUs.

The AMD Rade­on GPU Pro­fi­ler allows game deve­lo­pers to visua­li­ze exact­ly how their appli­ca­ti­on is uti­li­zing the GPU, inclu­ding how gra­phics and com­pu­te thread groups occu­py the GPU. Deve­lo­pers are then able to track event timing and opti­mi­ze their games for Goog­le Sta­dia. RGP also inter­ope­ra­tes with the popu­lar open-source Ren­der­Doc gra­phics debug­ging tool to give deve­lo­pers deeper real-time insights into the ren­de­ring of each frame, redu­cing the time requi­red to debug and pro­fi­le frames during the deve­lo­p­ment process.

RGP ope­ra­tes the same way in a vir­tua­li­zed envi­ron­ment as it does when run­ning on a dedi­ca­ted PC cli­ent, making it easy for deve­lo­pers to opti­mi­ze their appli­ca­ti­ons for vir­tua­li­zed GPUs in lar­ge sca­le envi­ron­ments as they would for any other gam­ing platform.

For more infor­ma­ti­on about the Sta­dia game strea­ming plat­form, visit the Goog­le blog here.

Supporting Resources

  • Learn more about AMD cloud gam­ing solu­ti­ons here
  • Learn more about Rade­on GPU Pro­fi­ler here
  • Learn more about Ren­der­Doc here
  • Dis­co­ver AMD Open Soft­ware sup­port on GPUOpen.com
  • Beco­me a fan of AMD on Face­book
  • Fol­low AMD on Twit­ter
  • Fol­low Rade­on™ gra­phics on Twit­ter

About AMD

For 50 years AMD has dri­ven inno­va­ti­on in high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting, gra­phics and visua­liza­ti­on tech­no­lo­gies ― the buil­ding blocks for gam­ing, immersi­ve plat­forms and the dat­a­cen­ter. Hundreds of mil­li­ons of con­su­mers, lea­ding For­tu­ne 500 busi­nesses and cut­ting-edge sci­en­ti­fic rese­arch faci­li­ties around the world rely on AMD tech­no­lo­gy dai­ly to impro­ve how they live, work and play. AMD employees around the world are focu­sed on buil­ding gre­at pro­ducts that push the boun­da­ries of what is pos­si­ble. For more infor­ma­ti­on about how AMD is enab­ling today and inspi­ring tomor­row, visit the AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) web­site, blog, Face­book and Twit­ter pages.

Cautionary Statement

This press release con­ta­ins for­ward-loo­king state­ments con­cer­ning Advan­ced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) inclu­ding the fea­tures, func­tion­a­li­ty, avai­la­bi­li­ty, timing, deploy­ment, bene­fits and expec­ta­ti­ons of AMD future pro­ducts and the expec­ted bene­fits of AMD’s col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with Goog­le, which are made pur­su­ant to the Safe Har­bor pro­vi­si­ons of the Pri­va­te Secu­ri­ties Liti­ga­ti­on Reform Act of 1995. For­ward-loo­king state­ments are com­mon­ly iden­ti­fied by words such as “would,” “intends,” “belie­ves,” “expects,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “seeks,” “intends,” “plans,” “pro for­ma,” “esti­ma­tes,” “anti­ci­pa­tes,” or the nega­ti­ve of the­se words and phra­ses, other varia­ti­ons of the­se words and phra­ses or com­pa­ra­ble ter­mi­no­lo­gy. Inves­tors are cau­tio­ned that the for­ward-loo­king state­ments in this docu­ment are based on cur­rent beliefs, assump­ti­ons and expec­ta­ti­ons, speak only as of the date of this docu­ment and invol­ve risks and uncer­tain­ties that could cau­se actu­al results to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons. Such state­ments are sub­ject to cer­tain known and unknown risks and uncer­tain­ties, many of which are dif­fi­cult to pre­dict and gene­ral­ly bey­ond AMD’s con­trol, that could cau­se actu­al results and other future events to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from tho­se expres­sed in, or impli­ed or pro­jec­ted by, the for­ward-loo­king infor­ma­ti­on and state­ments. Mate­ri­al fac­tors that could cau­se actu­al results to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons include, wit­hout limi­ta­ti­on, the fol­lo­wing: Intel Corporation’s domi­nan­ce of the micro­pro­ces­sor mar­ket and its aggres­si­ve busi­ness prac­ti­ces may limit AMD’s abili­ty to com­pe­te effec­tively; AMD has a wafer sup­p­ly agree­ment with GF with obli­ga­ti­ons to purcha­se all of its micro­pro­ces­sor and APU pro­duct requi­re­ments, and a cer­tain por­ti­on of its GPU pro­duct requi­re­ments, from GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc. (GF) with limi­t­ed excep­ti­ons. If GF is not able to satis­fy AMD’s manu­fac­tu­ring requi­re­ments, its busi­ness could be adver­se­ly impac­ted; AMD reli­es on third par­ties to manu­fac­tu­re its pro­ducts, and if they are unable to do so on a time­ly basis in suf­fi­ci­ent quan­ti­ties and using com­pe­ti­ti­ve tech­no­lo­gies, AMD’s busi­ness could be mate­ri­al­ly adver­se­ly affec­ted; fail­ure to achie­ve expec­ted manu­fac­tu­ring yields for AMD’s pro­ducts could nega­tively impact its finan­cial results; the suc­cess of AMD’s busi­ness is depen­dent upon its abili­ty to intro­du­ce pro­ducts on a time­ly basis with fea­tures and per­for­mance levels that pro­vi­de value to its cus­to­mers while sup­port­ing and coin­ci­ding with signi­fi­cant indus­try tran­si­ti­ons; if AMD can­not gene­ra­te suf­fi­ci­ent reve­nue and ope­ra­ting cash flow or obtain exter­nal finan­cing, it may face a cash short­fall and be unable to make all of its plan­ned invest­ments in rese­arch and deve­lo­p­ment or other stra­te­gic invest­ments; the loss of a signi­fi­cant cus­to­mer may have a mate­ri­al adver­se effect on AMD; AMD’s receipt of reve­nue from its semi-cus­tom SoC pro­ducts is depen­dent upon its tech­no­lo­gy being desi­gned into third-par­ty pro­ducts and the suc­cess of tho­se pro­ducts; AMD pro­ducts may be sub­ject to secu­ri­ty vul­nerabi­li­ties that could have a mate­ri­al adver­se effect on AMD; data brea­ches and cyber-attacks could com­pro­mi­se AMD’s intellec­tu­al pro­per­ty or other sen­si­ti­ve infor­ma­ti­on, be cos­t­ly to reme­dia­te and cau­se signi­fi­cant dama­ge to its busi­ness and repu­ta­ti­on; AMD’s ope­ra­ting results are sub­ject to quar­ter­ly and sea­so­nal sales pat­terns; glo­bal eco­no­mic uncer­tain­ty may adver­se­ly impact AMD’s busi­ness and ope­ra­ting results; AMD may not be able to gene­ra­te suf­fi­ci­ent cash to ser­vice its debt obli­ga­ti­ons or meet its working capi­tal requi­re­ments; AMD has a lar­ge amount of indeb­ted­ness which could adver­se­ly affect its finan­cial posi­ti­on and pre­vent it from imple­men­ting its stra­tegy or ful­fil­ling its con­trac­tu­al obli­ga­ti­ons; the agree­ments gover­ning AMD’s notes and the Secu­red Revol­ving Line of Cre­dit impo­se rest­ric­tions on AMD that may adver­se­ly affect its abili­ty to ope­ra­te its busi­ness; the mar­kets in which AMD’s pro­ducts are sold are high­ly com­pe­ti­ti­ve; AMD’s issu­an­ce to West Coast Hitech L.P. (WCH) of war­rants to purcha­se 75 mil­li­on shares of its com­mon stock, if and when exer­cis­ed, will dilute the owner­ship inte­rests of its exis­ting stock­hol­ders, and the con­ver­si­on of the 2.125% Con­ver­ti­ble Seni­or Notes due 2026 may dilute the owner­ship inte­rest of its exis­ting stock­hol­ders, or may other­wi­se depress the pri­ce of its com­mon stock; uncer­tain­ties invol­ving the orde­ring and ship­ment of AMD’s pro­ducts could mate­ri­al­ly adver­se­ly affect it; the demand for AMD’s pro­ducts depends in part on the mar­ket con­di­ti­ons in the indus­tries into which they are sold. Fluc­tua­tions in demand for AMD’s pro­ducts or a mar­ket decli­ne in any of the­se indus­tries could have a mate­ri­al adver­se effect on its results of ope­ra­ti­ons; AMD’s abili­ty to design and intro­du­ce new pro­ducts in a time­ly man­ner is depen­dent upon third-par­ty intellec­tu­al pro­per­ty; AMD depends on third-par­ty com­pa­nies for the design, manu­fac­tu­re and sup­p­ly of mother­boards, soft­ware and other com­pu­ter plat­form com­pon­ents to sup­port its busi­ness; if AMD loses Micro­soft Corporation’s sup­port for its pro­ducts or other soft­ware ven­dors do not design and deve­lop soft­ware to run on AMD’s pro­ducts, its abili­ty to sell its pro­ducts could be mate­ri­al­ly adver­se­ly affec­ted; and AMD’s reli­ance on third-par­ty dis­tri­bu­tors and AIB part­ners sub­jects it to cer­tain risks.  Inves­tors are urged to review in detail the risks and uncer­tain­ties in AMD’s Secu­ri­ties and Exch­an­ge Com­mis­si­on filings, inclu­ding but not limi­t­ed to AMD’s Annu­al Report on Form 10‑K for the year ended Decem­ber 29, 2018.

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AMD Communications
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AMD Inves­tor Relations
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FOOTNOTES

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  1. ECC sup­port is limi­t­ed to the HBM2 memo­ry and ECC pro­tec­tion is not pro­vi­ded for inter­nal GPU structures.