Introducing AMD LiquidVR

LiquidVR™ is an AMD initiative dedicated to making VR as comfortable and realistic as possible by creating and maintaining what’s known as “presence” — a state of immersive awareness where situations, objects, or characters within the virtual world seem “real.”  Guided by close collaboration with key technology partners in the ecosystem, LiquidVR™ uses AMD’s GPU software and hardware sub-systems to tackle the common issues and pitfalls of achieving presence, such as reducing motion-to-photon latency to less than 10 milliseconds. This is a crucial step in addressing the common discomforts, such as motion sickness, that may occur when you turn your head in a virtual world and it takes even a few milliseconds too long for a new perspective to be shown.   

AMD Freesync technology

No stuttering. No tearing. Just gaming.

AMD FreeSync™ technology allows a compatible graphics card and monitor to dynamically change frame rates for the optimum display quality without tearing or stuay.

Industry-Standard Displayport

Freesync uses industry-standard displayport Adaptive-Sync Eliminates screen tearing without all the usual lag and latency

• Synchronizes the refresh rate of a compatible monitor to the frame rate of your content, however much it varies
• Monitor partners are validating with drivers from AMD now 

High Bandwidth Memory

DirectX® 12

DirectX® 12 is a new, “console-like” graphics API from Microsoft® that empowers game developers with more direct and obvious control of PC hardware. This direct or “explicit” control better exposes the hardware resources of AMD Radeon™ GPUs to yield higher hardware throughput and, ultimately, more performance for users. To put it simply: much more efficient hardware through smarter software! At the discretion of a game developer, this superior efficiency can be spent on higher framerates, lower latency (VR), lower power consumption, better image quality, or some calculated balance of all four. In any scenario, gamers stand to benefit greatly from choosing AMD hardware to run their favorite DirectX® 12 game.

AMD Eyefinity Technology

Multidisplay technology for gaming, productivity and entertainment

We are taking you beyond the boundaries of traditional PC displays. AMD Eyefinity technology expands the traditional limits of desktop computing by multiplying your screen area. With multiple monitors, games become more immersive, workstations become more useful and you become more productive (an average of 42% more productive according to one study).

Take your PC games to the next level of reality and immersion. Most modern games look great on three screens, and only AMD Radeon™ graphics offer you the ability to play across five screens for an eye-popping gaming experience. Other combinations and configurations with up to six screens work too.1 Create your dream display.

Black Diamond Choke

Choke is an important component of the graphics card. By working with the component engineer, Sapphire’s black diamond choke is 10% cooler and offers 25% more power efficiency than a normal choke. The graphics card will be more reliable and save energy.

Intelligent Fan Control

For high-end graphic card users,  we always like to get the best performance, running GPU cooler ,quieter and longer life.

Traditional  graphic cards cooling solutions mainly  focus on keeping GPU at lower operation temperature while balance acoustic for end users to enjoy a quieter gaming experience.  At Sapphire our experienced thermal experts always  fine tuning the fan control table for each graphic card we designs.

With more and more transistors and integration of High bandwidth memory (HBM),  we introduce an even more intelligent scheme to monitor and dynamically  adjust the fan speeds.  This so called IFC (Intelligent Fan Control)  not only limited to  cooling GPU cores but also inputs from HBM , Power control logics (like MOSFETS) .  With integrated SMU,  there is a smart algorithm to received temperature reading from  multiple inputs, i.e., multiple GPUs power cores,   external Bridge control logics, voltage regulator MOSFETs.  It will also take the current  application loading,  environment temperature into consideration.

The benefit of this new intelligent  fan control methodology is ,  users can always expect the best performance, quieter environment based on whole graphics systems without need to worry about the manual fan table adjustments.