AMD: Volcanic Islands R1100/1200 (8***/9*** series) Speculation/ Rumour Thread
Each L2 slice can service an L1 cache line request per clock, and Hawaii has 16 slices. Each request would be for a 64 byte cache line.
As a side note, AMD announced in mid 14 the first wave of Project Skybridge, which consists of a 20nm A57 and 20nm Cat APU...
Has anyone ever seen something useful about Iceland / Topaz? I'd actually be interested in how this thing compares to Mars / Oland. At least I think it might already be shipping, though it's difficult to find some definitive answer thanks to the magic wonders of marketing (should I call that tactic reverse renaming maybe?) which would make all product names identical to these using Oland.
(It does appear though now in the open-source amdgpu linux driver which supports all 3 VI chips - Tonga, Iceland/Topaz, Carrizo but that doesn't really tell you much more - but yes it really is a 6 CU, 8 rop, 128bit chip.)
(It does appear though now in the open-source amdgpu linux driver which supports all 3 VI chips - Tonga, Iceland/Topaz, Carrizo but that doesn't really tell you much more - but yes it really is a 6 CU, 8 rop, 128bit chip.)
Blazkowicz
Legend
I'm interested to know if Iceland supports VGA output, or is it phased out, ditto Carrizo.
https://www.techpowerup.com/211973/...-to-14-nm-with-arctic-islands-gpu-family.html
So I guess stuff this year is 28nm
So I guess stuff this year is 28nm
eh figured there was always a chance of 20nm at GF
Weren't all the 20nm processes deemed unsuitable for GPUs regardless of foundry?
Intel's would undoubtedly have been great, but they don't allow any GPU manufacturers, so it's all academic unfortunately.
The thing is other fundries was not really on this type of chip.. so their process was more or less only for SOC.
Well, lets be honest, if any 20nm part will have been made, we will allready got them at this point.
Anyway, 2016 could be really a fun year with a jump to 14-16nm.
Jawed
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iMacmatician
Regular
So it's using higher density memory?
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/amd-unveils-worlds-first-hardware-120000844.html
SR-IOV - an additional element of the Tonga mystery...
SR-IOV - an additional element of the Tonga mystery...
It showed up in a slide for Fury as well.
Carrizo's GPU shares their ISA, and has some features outlined that would help, but I have not seen that bullet point for the APU, specifically.
Carrizo's GPU shares their ISA, and has some features outlined that would help, but I have not seen that bullet point for the APU, specifically.
Blazkowicz
Legend
There is an existing "Radeon Sky" series, already.
Not sure but they seem to be on Pitcairn, Tahiti and Hawaii respectively.
Multi-user Windows isn't that cheap either - though even XP Home was perfectly multi-user, but only one desktop can be shown and interacted with at a time.
I've always thought having four copies of a multiplayer game running on a single PC would be very neat. Monitors, keyboards etc. can be directly attached or on underpowered and disparate desktops, laptops and others on the network.
If running a single copy of Windows rather than four ones you even save a few gigabytes of memory.
It's not new stuff by this point, only it's always been kept away from consumers.
Not sure but they seem to be on Pitcairn, Tahiti and Hawaii respectively.
Multi-user Windows isn't that cheap either - though even XP Home was perfectly multi-user, but only one desktop can be shown and interacted with at a time.
I've always thought having four copies of a multiplayer game running on a single PC would be very neat. Monitors, keyboards etc. can be directly attached or on underpowered and disparate desktops, laptops and others on the network.
If running a single copy of Windows rather than four ones you even save a few gigabytes of memory.
It's not new stuff by this point, only it's always been kept away from consumers.