Radeon™ RX Vega: What is Rapid Packed Math?

A short explanation of Rapid Packed Math, with Nick Thibieroz, Chris Hook and Ubisoft.

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[blondbassist]

Is Rapid Packed Math related to Science?

[AnalogFoundry]

So, Rapid Packed Math aka double rate FP16 will be used on PS4 Pro as well as its GPU also has the same Vega tech. Nice.

[Wander]

I came in knowing nothing and ended up knowing nothing...

[ginger]

Is this a trailer/teaser for a explanation video coming up that explains what rapid packed math exactly is? Can you also show some comparisons?

[VirtuaMe]

RPM is supported in PS4 Pro. Not supported in Xbox One X.

[denissssss]

Is that for PS4 pro a new Feature where we can get more power for games?

[esswasim]

Very nice Rapid Packed Math but I have a bad news from Thailand, Your Rx Vega 64 Aircooled is sold for 27, 900 baht i.e $840 and Gtx 1080 Ti's are selling at same Price, I dont know AMD what is your marketing team doing? It is a shame.

[stivenhernandez]

is this mark cerny" talking about for the ps4 pro to reach 8.4tflops if its true damn"this is a huge upgrade

[georgesamaras]

I'm really woried about algorithimic accuracy when using half precision floats. There is no free meal. Double the speed or tensor cores or whatever it's 16bits of precision. End of story. I would probably train a neural net with double precision, then use 16bit floats to replace coefficients.

[joshuaminke]

Just sounds like marketing hype to me, let's see what it can actually do, I'll wait benchmarks of games that use this feature, and compare it against the similarity priced gtx 1080

[vxfwqen]

Put that on the xbox one x IT WILL BE A BEAST

[mrrainbow]

How can these commentators bash AMD after what intel and nvidia have done to it?
-Intel pays companies billions of cash just to use them forever and block AMD shipping
-Nvidia uses gamework to totally smash it's performance
This is why i am an AMD fanboy, yea i admited it, AMD survived and didn't quit for more than half a century although it is near dead, do you know how much does AMD love gamers to stay alive for that amount of time

[f.d.]

I keep reading „Rapid packed Meth“.
To much Breaking Bad, I guess...

[Rankhole]

Now even noobs will be able to have high RPM :)

[Kcimor]

ok so this means vega will beat gtx1080 by 8fps in far dry 5? cool. what about other games?

[MaggotCZ]

hey look another additional tech that will still not push it over Nvidia competitive product LOL

[hardcandy]

go and fix hashrate drop for ethereum miners, if you don't wanna be bankrupt all miners moving to nvidia p106 AMD will be bankrupt soon hehehehehe

[chewhuatwai]

RX 580 = GTX 1060
RX Vega 56 = GTX 980 TI OC
RX Vega 56 = GTX 1070
RX Vega 64 = GTX 1080
One GPU card GTX 1080 kill all AMD GPU
Hahaha I'm not waiting next years. I'm make sure next years buy GTX 1080 TI