Recent content by Erinyes

There is the 60CU salvage die of course. And they're clocking the 40CU die ~10-15% higher apparently, while giving it 75% of the memory bandwidth of the 80CU die. Should result in it being within ~20% of the 60CU die.

It's not a drop, but a price increase. The current 8 core 10700k is ~$350 USD. Given the (lack of) availability of Zen 3, I think they'll still sell. Yes the power rating also necessitates a high end motherboard and cooling system to get the best out of Rocket Lake (also because Intel does not...

They did say they wanted to do yearly refreshes but it's not clear whether that means a Zen 2 XT style refresh or something else. Given that they apparently have 4 GPUs in the RDNA2 stack (N21, N22, N23 and N24), and the entire stack will launch only by Q2'21, I have a hard time seeing RDNA3 by...

The 8 core has a "TDP" of 125W and PL2 of 250W so power is not going to be good obviously. It would likely be priced in between Zen 2 and Zen 3, I'd expect around $400 for the 8 core.

It wouldn't make much sense to tape out another 5nm chip with a similar configuration. The iPad Pro volumes are not large enough to justify this (one of the reasons we saw the update earlier this year use the 12Z instead of a new A13X). I'd wager it'll be the M1 with 7 GPU cores enabled, and...

Probably just fake bids from people trying to make life difficult for scalpers -

10nm was a bit more than a half node, with about 30-40% area scaling, and was only meant for SoCs, somewhat like 20nm was. But 14nm to 7nm gives you around 70% scaling, which is around what it traditionally has been for full nodes.

Yes it is a bit obfuscated with all the half nodes in between, but only 7nm is a "full node" ahead of 14/16nm. And 5nm is the next so called "full node", which would make 7nm the N-1 (again slightly obfuscated by the variants such as N7+ and N6). There is also the possibility that the slide...

I checked out that video and it was interesting, thanks (Link if anyone's interested). To note, it was a RTX2060 Super they were using, not a vanilla 2060. And it was compared to a 52CU RDNA2 GPU at 1.8 Ghz with no infinity cache. A 72/80CU 2.2 Ghz RDNA2 GPU with Infinity cache will likely...

The other point is Infinity Cache also appears to be a forward looking feature, which could also be used on CPUs & APUs. And since SRAM traditionally scales better than analog, it's cheaper in the future than adding more PHYs. SRAM scaling seems to be slowing down however, with TSMC only...

I came across this slide presented by AMD at ISSCC 2020. Note the wording "N-1 generation silicon" for the IO, instead of explicitly mentioning either 14/12nm.

Misattributing quotes still provides no data to back up your claims. Certainly there is some Ampere revenue, no one's disputing that. But there is also ample evidence of the lack of supply. Can you state for a fact that Turing revenue did not in fact go up? No, you can't. Ampere offers nothing...

Yes I was referring to the new IO die of Genoa (Zen 4) and the generation after (Zen 5), both of which will use DDR5. So if they follow the same strategy as with Rome and Milan, the IO die will remain the same. So then it would make even less sense to be on a 14nm class process. The one major...

Oh my mistake, I read through the section hurriedly on TPU and read it as they weren't able to OC the memory. Just re-read it and saw that they were in fact able to OC it to the max allowed (2140 Mhz). Do you happen to know what the benefits are purely from memory OC without any core OC? Yea I...

So Nvidia had a record quarter with and record gaming revenue and they're also projecting similar revenues for the upcoming quarter. So where are the Ampere cards in the market? Is it just simply a matter of extreme demand outstripping supply? Several retailers and AIBs have said otherwise but...