Recent content by ImSpartacus

I certainly could see a Zen-based Mac Pro in the future, but do you think that would've been feasible for this initial generation? I don't think there was enough time to integrate & validate such a new product like Rome into a brand new device like the new Mac Pro. Remember, we also didn't...

They almost certainly are. There are a couple relatively straightforward points that suggest that Navi 10 is a ~64CU ~150W 256-bit GDDR6 GPU and Navi 11 is roughly half of Navi 10. Polaris 10 & 11 will be three years old next year and they both need to be replaced, especially Polaris 11 for...

Nvidia strongly alluded to the 102-type GPU being 754mm2. If the 104-type GPU is about 2/3 of it's bigger brother, then we're in the 500mm2 range .

2Gbps HBM2 is now in a shipping graphics card. https://www.anandtech.com/show/13210/amd-announces-radeon-pro-wx-8200 So SK Hynix's 2nd gen 2Gbps and 2.4Gbps HBM2 is far enough along to ship (or at least the 2Gbps stuff is).

I gotcha. The wording in that other post made me think the conclusion was that Nvidia increased production "because" the mining craze calmed.

I don't understand. Why would Nvidia increase production after the mining craze and right before their new consumer lineup release? That seems like literally the worst time to increase production. I agree that prices are dropping, but I think that can be explained by the reduction in mining...

That's the interpretation of PCPerspective. Reading the actual paper, I'm getting a different interpretation. From page 4, the authors did performance scaling when you move from 384 GB/s all the way to 6 TB/s inter-GPM bandwidth. From page 10, the authors did performance scaling going...

This is to be expected. Recently, the 100/102-type parts have been roughly 1.5x of the 104-type parts (ALUs, memory bus, etc). The 100-type parts have had as many ALUs as the 102-type parts (at least for Pascal). And then we can apply that knowledge: GV100 has 40% more ALUs than...

I'm not trying to measure AMD's total engineering capacity. I'm trying to find a situation where the "1 chip/year comment" makes sense. If you count "everything", then you blow through 1 chip/year easily. AMD's semi-custom business does an average of 1 chip/year by itself since its...

Aside from process shrink years, haven't we already had basically one major chip per year since GCN? 2012 - 3 - Tahiti, Pitcairn & Cape Verde (28nm debut) 2013 - 2 - Hawaii & Bonaire 2014 - 1 - Tonga 2015 - 1 - Fiji 2016 - 2 - Polaris 10 & 11 (14nm debut) 2017 - 1 - Vega 10 2018 - ? - (Does...

I LOL'ed. I'm seeing some AMD decision-makers in a board room going, "Ok guys, we added too many improvements. We need more detriments to prevent overall speed-ups."

Don't get hung up on the "mid-range" thing. That's a constant source of childish argument since the 104-type parts technically aren't at the top of Nvidia's lineup (that's 100/102-type), leaving them somewhere in the middle (i.e. "mid-range"?), but they are hardly slouches in the performance...

By "mid-range", he probably means the hypothetical 104-type (GT104?) GPU that would show up in an 1180 and 1170. Historically, that "tier" of chip has a 256-bit bus. And yes, that tier of chip probably will match or slightly beat the 1080 Ti. It'll also probably cost about $600-800.

Oh wow, that's a big deal. So the DGX-2 moved from SXM2 (and a 300W power limit) to SXM3 (and a 350W power limit)? I missed that. On this DGX-2 product page, I can see SXM3 mentioned, but do you know of a source that explicitly talks about the 350W power limit? EDIT - I can't for the life...

Yeah, the Powercolor Reddit account made the following post. I agree that this is certainly looking like the 8000 series.