AMD Launches Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Bundle for Radeon and Ryzen

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Get the game with select parts through December 30, 2023.

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AMD launched its new gaming bundle for its latest Radeon RX 7000-series graphics cards and Ryzen processors, as well as desktops and notebooks containing these parts — some of the best graphics cards and best CPUs for gaming. In collaboration with Ubisoft, AMD is giving away a free copy of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.

From November 7 through December 30, 2023, those who purchase an eligible Radeon RX 7000-series graphics card, a Ryzen 7 or Ryzen 9 7000-series CPU, a desktop containing one of these, or a laptop powered by an AMD processor and a Radeon RX graphics processor, will get a code for a free copy of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. The offer is available worldwide, except in China, Belarus, Burma, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, Sudan, Venezuela, Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk.

For AMD, the Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora game is a way to demonstrate the advantages of its FSR 3 upscaling, frame generation, and latency reduction technologies. In fact, this is the first title ever to support FSR 3 right out-of-box. Here's the breakdown of which products are eligible for the promotion.

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Just like James Cameron's Avatar movies, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora offers incredible visuals, including ray traced reflections and shadows. The PC version is set to support more features and higher visual fidelity than console versions, so it makes sense to play the game on a high-end PC. It remains to be seen whether it will play better on AMD or Nvidia GPUs.

AMD bundles coupon codes for the standard PC edition of the game valued at around $70 with its hardware. Coupon codes must be redeemed no later than January 27, 2024. Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora will be available on December 7, 2023, for PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Amazon Luna. Will the game be any good? Early impressions from our sister site PC Gamer are unfortunately not particularly promising. This could be yet another entry in a growing string of disappointing AMD or Nvidia promoted games.

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Anton Shilov
Anton Shilov
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Anton Shilov is a contributing writer at Tom’s Hardware. Over the past couple of decades, he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from modern process technologies and latest fab tools to high-tech industry trends.

2 Comments Comment from the forums
  • emike09
    Doesn't look great at all. Looks like a game from 2014 in all the footage I've seen so far. This is embarrassing.

    Sure, AMD's top-tier CPUs are awesome (Intel, do better), but their GPUs lack everything unless you're running pure raster rendering. They've got a long ways to go to catch up to Nvidia. We can't keep rendering frames like we used to. Kinda like when we moved away from pixel pipelines to shader cores back in the 8800 GTX days from the late 2000s.

    AMD really needs to step up their GPU game. RT/PT is the future, whether you like it or not, and not having silicon dedicated to optimizing that is leaving AMD behind. Sure, their latest cores can technically handle it via instruction sets, but it completely cripples the card at the same time.
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  • Sleepy_Hollowed
    emike09 said:
    Doesn't look great at all. Looks like a game from 2014 in all the footage I've seen so far. This is embarrassing.

    Sure, AMD's top-tier CPUs are awesome (Intel, do better), but their GPUs lack everything unless you're running pure raster rendering. They've got a long ways to go to catch up to Nvidia. We can't keep rendering frames like we used to. Kinda like when we moved away from pixel pipelines to shader cores back in the 8800 GTX days from the late 2000s.

    AMD really needs to step up their GPU game. RT/PT is the future, whether you like it or not, and not having silicon dedicated to optimizing that is leaving AMD behind. Sure, their latest cores can technically handle it via instruction sets, but it completely cripples the card at the same time.
    That's like, your opinion.

    AMD GPUs are excellent if you don't care about the nvidia proprietary stuff AND don't care about 4K with lag which nvida enables, unless you can shell for a 4090.

    If all you do is play games at lower than 4K or don't care about lag, AMD is an absolute solid choice, especially for games already out.
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