AMD: Navi Speculation, Rumours and Discussion [2019-2020]
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For Nav21 speculation that is missing the point though, what is interesting is that we now know that the 6800XT is minimum 10k+ points @ FSU. Which means that the 6900XT is probably ~10-15% faster so approx, 11-12.5k points for FSU performance. But purely conjecture.
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We actually don’t know anything yet.
Oh we do:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/1615...6000-card-performance-numbers-aiming-for-3080
Pieces of a puzzle, several known data miners are never wrong together? Or
It is true that we never know anything, it is just multi-subjectively agreed upon realities and/or conclusions.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/1615...6000-card-performance-numbers-aiming-for-3080
Pieces of a puzzle, several known data miners are never wrong together? Or
It is true that we never know anything, it is just multi-subjectively agreed upon realities and/or conclusions.
The original comparison was with hypothetical RT block that only gave intersection results while not performing traversal, which would leave the SIMD in a position where determining the next node addresses would require explicit vector memory reads to data that would have been fetched and parsed by the RT unit already. AMD's method is at least less redundant than that.
AMD's patent doesn't clearly outline where the process resides for the intermediate work between node evaluations. It highlights that the SIMD and CU have substantial storage available at no additional cost versus the likely hardware footprint of implementing sufficient storage on an independent unit.AMD’s patent calls for storing traversal state in registers and the texture cache. It would seem the shader is responsible for managing the traversal stack for each ray and that stack presumably lives in L0. I don’t see how you would avoid thrashing the cache if you try to do anything else alongside RT. Unless of course you have an “infinite” amount of cache
AMD's claims are between their hybrid method and a dedicated unit implementing a unit that might be able to traverse a BVH to arbitrary depths without redoing traversal due to losing the full context of what had been traversed already.
Nvidia's scheme appears to have a traversal stack of finite depth that can lead to redundant node traversal, which makes it less expensive than what AMD was using as its baseline.
Whether AMD's method leverages registers, LDS, or possibly spills to memory isn't spelled out. Even if there were spills to memory, writing out data based on pointers and metadata from completed RT node evaluations to something like a stack seems like it could be less disruptive than the SIMD re-gathering node data on its own.
ROPs were linked to memory channels until Vega, which made them a client to the L2.
RDNA makes them a client for at least some of their traffic of the new intermediate L1.
GCN had a read-write L2, and compute's use or non-use of the cache depends more on what settings were used for the memory accesses. The choice would be based on the level of coherence needed for the data.
Render back ends have had relatively small per-RBE caches throughout the generations. There's evidence that the RBEs still have caches with RDNA, though I haven't seen specific capacities given.
Rootax
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If rumors are true, 72. 80 are 69xx ... ?
And not being power limited, it might also punch a bit above its weight as it would be able to clock very high. If so, the gap between the hypothetical 64CU salvage part and the top 40CU part may not be as high as the difference in raw specifications. Would also explain why there is no 60CU die.
Meaningless comparison. How much does 3080 score?
Would definitely shake up the upper mid-range market. The market has been waiting for this kind of competition ever since the GTX 1070.
neckthrough
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3080 is 10,667 on Fire Strike Ultra per Guru3D.
6800XT is clearly gunning for that perf tier (at least in terms of rasterization). The cache based design (if true) is going to cause some interesting variability in relative perf game-to-game performance. Given that the hardware can get there, it stands to reason that AMD would tune the product to be on average at par with (or even slightly better than) the 3080 — again in terms of traditional rasterization. DXR and ML are completely unknown.
The big question is how AMD decides to price it. From the customer perspective 16GB gives it an edge, but they are going up against NVIDIA brand recognition, DXR, DLSS. I think $599 would make this an interesting proposition and $499 would make it a really excellent value proposition.
I wonder what the equation looks like on the cost/supply/margin side for AMD. They’ve got 16GB and TSMC7 working against them here but perhaps they don’t need as sophisticated a cooler as the 3080FE. Zen is bringing in the big bucks so they don’t need a ton of margin on Radeons, but I doubt they want to sell these close to cost, not when they are competing for Zen wafers.
6800XT is clearly gunning for that perf tier (at least in terms of rasterization). The cache based design (if true) is going to cause some interesting variability in relative perf game-to-game performance. Given that the hardware can get there, it stands to reason that AMD would tune the product to be on average at par with (or even slightly better than) the 3080 — again in terms of traditional rasterization. DXR and ML are completely unknown.
The big question is how AMD decides to price it. From the customer perspective 16GB gives it an edge, but they are going up against NVIDIA brand recognition, DXR, DLSS. I think $599 would make this an interesting proposition and $499 would make it a really excellent value proposition.
I wonder what the equation looks like on the cost/supply/margin side for AMD. They’ve got 16GB and TSMC7 working against them here but perhaps they don’t need as sophisticated a cooler as the 3080FE. Zen is bringing in the big bucks so they don’t need a ton of margin on Radeons, but I doubt they want to sell these close to cost, not when they are competing for Zen wafers.
If the benchmarks samples they gave are a 6800XT with 72 CU, then it looks like it'll be close to 3080 in 4k, but has a lot of potential to beat it handily at 1080p and 1440p. Realtime raytracing will be the most interesting. I'm curious how competitive it'll be at native resolutions.
It seems like some AIB OC model (beefed up VRM, higher PCB etc.).Well, tweets have been removed, but I had a backup
Photo of reference card for reference (weird sentence
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... and some recent tweet
Really impressive if it's really a 256-bit bus @ 16Gbps.
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