DavidGraham
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Is that dropping PCIe4.0 straight from AMD? Sounds really strange they'd disable it when they're the only ones having PCIe4.0 motherboards and CPUs on the market this year
Is that dropping PCIe4.0 straight from AMD? Sounds really strange they'd disable it when they're the only ones having PCIe4.0 motherboards and CPUs on the market this year
They probably just want to charge more for it on professional cards.
Sorry, I forgot to mention the suggested cut-down concerned the chip as whole - this affects all target markets: HPC, AI, PRO graphics/content creation and gaming.Vega 10 is slower, but not a real cutdown (for gaming) from Vega 20... Same number of units for most things...
This whole VEGA 20 adventure is strange.
A super crazy theory says: the original Greenland - highend chip - complementing Ellesmere and Baffin launch might actually have been VEGA 20@14nm. Things didn't go smoothly (TDP?) and instead we got cut-down and rushed variant known as - VEGA 10 - 14 months after Polaris. The original plan would put a bit slower VEGA 20 to end of 2016. Is there any hard evidence contradicting this?
Yeah, that's straight from AMD.Is that dropping PCIe4.0 straight from AMD? Sounds really strange they'd disable it when they're the only ones having PCIe4.0 motherboards and CPUs on the market this year
I'd guess to protect pro products with higher margins. VII would be a rather beefy video editing product like SSG with 16GB, 1TB/s, and PCIe4 feeding it. Not to mention that INT8 performance.And did you by any chance ask why?
An now they claim they spoke to someone from AMD who told them FP64 would not be unlimited:
AMD’s Radeon VII GPU Will Not Support Uncapped Double-Precision (FP64)
The downside to AMD keeping their cards so close to their chest is that too few people know what's going on, it would seem. It goes without saying that this is not the answer I got last week.An now they claim they spoke to someone from AMD who told them FP64 would not be unlimited:
AMD’s Radeon VII GPU Will Not Support Uncapped Double-Precision (FP64)