The AMD Embedded business provides SoCs and discrete GPUs that enable casino gaming companies to create immersive and beautiful graphics for the latest in casino gaming platforms, which are adopting the same high-quality motion graphics and experiences seen in modern consumer gaming devices.
AMD Embedded provides casino and gaming customers a breadth of solutions to drive virtually any gaming system. The AMD Ryzen™ Embedded V1000 SoC brings CPU and GPU technology together in one package, providing the capability to run up to four 4K displays from one system. The AMD Ryzen™ Embedded R1000 SoC is a power efficient option while providing up to 4X better CPU and graphics performance per dollar than the competition.
Bringing New Embedded GPU Options to Customers
Beyond SoCs, AMD also offers embedded GPUs to enable stunning, immersive visual experiences while supporting efficient thermal design power (TDP) profiles. AMD delivers three discrete GPU classes to customers with the AMD Embedded Radeon™ ultra-high-performance embedded GPUs, the AMD Embedded Radeon™ high-performance embedded GPUs and the AMD Embedded Radeon™ power-efficient embedded GPUs. These three classes enable a wide range of performance and power consumption, but most importantly offer features that the embedded industry demands including planned longevity, enhanced support and support for embedded operating systems.
Continuing to provide our customers with more choice, high performance and better power efficiency, we are launching two new versions of the AMD Embedded Radeon GPUs, the E9560 and the E9390. These two new cards are in the PCIe® form factor, use 8GB of GDDR5 memory and support 4K high-speed video, 3D visualizations and other compute-intensive graphics applications seen in the casino and arcade gaming.
For customers that need the superior performance with an Embedded GPU, the E9560 delivers up to 11%[ii] more performance compared to the existing E9550. It does this with 36 compute units, a TDP of 130W or less and up to 5.7 theoretical TFLOPS of performance.
For the customer that is looking for better power efficiency, the E9390 has a TDP of 75W or less with 28 compute units and provides up to 3.9 theoretical TFLOPS of performance.
Beyond more choice, we’ve heard from our customers about an area of concern when it comes to graphics processors. The memory used by graphics cards, GDDR5, is being phased out across the industry for an updated standard, GDDR6. To help our customers manage this transition, the E9560 and E9390, as well as our existing ‘Polaris’ architecture E-Series GPUs will have planned availability until 2022.
New Platforms Based on AMD Embedded Processors
Our ability to provide customers with high-performance CPUs and GPUs that can power the video and graphics demanded by modern gaming is evident in the companies bringing new systems to the market:
- Casino Technology, a casino gaming company based in Europe, just announced its support for the AMD Ryzen Embedded V1000 SoC, bringing discrete-GPU caliber graphics and multimedia processing to their slot machine customers.
- Quixant announced a new generation of gaming controllers, the QXi-7000 LITE, are using the AMD Ryzen Embedded R1000 SoC, enabling game design to be pushed to the limit.
Come by the AMD booth #3814 at the G2E Casino Gaming convention and you can see how AMD embedded solutions provide the eye-catching graphics and enable the rewarding experiences of next-gen gaming, from touch screens to 3D graphics and more. As well, the booth will have numerous solutions and systems from other casino and gaming companies using AMD embedded products including Advantech, Axiomtech, iBase Gaming, IGT, Scientific Games, Sapphire and TUL.
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Testing done at AMD Embedded Software Engineering Lab on 3/13/2019. The AMD R1505G Embedded scored 360 running CineBench R15 Multi-core and 1,988 running 3DMark11 benchmarks. The Intel Core i3-7100U (Kaby Lake) scored 254 running CineBench R15 Multi-core and 1,444 when running 3DMark11 benchmark which measures Graphics performance. Recommended Customer price for Intel Core i3-7100U is $261 as of 4/1/2019 (check https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/95442/intel-core-i3-7100u-processor-3m-cache-2-40-ghz.html). DBB price for R1505G is $80. System Configurations: AMD Embedded R1505G used an AMD R1505G Platform, with a 2x8GB DDR4-2400 RAM, 250GB SSD Drive (non-rotating), TDP 15W, STAPM Enabled and ECC Disabled, Graphics Driver 18.50_190207a-339028E-AES, BIOS RBB1190B, Microsoft Windows 10 Pro. The Intel Core i3-7100u used an HP 15inch Notebook with i3-7100u with Intel® HD Graphics 620, 1x8GB DDR4-2133 RAM, 1 TB 5400 rpm SATA, Microsoft Windows 10 Pro, Graphics Driver 21.20.16.4627, BIOS F.07. EMB-159
[ii] Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of 10/09/2019 on the AMD Radeon™ Embedded E9550 PCIe module and AMD Radeon™ Embedded E9560 PCIe module on an AMD Dibbler Embedded reference platform using 3DMark® 11. Results may vary. EMB-163
