I think you're overestimating that a bit. Looks more like about as fast as 6450 ddr3 or HD2500 to me.Yes 128 SP's has been known for a while. I'd guess we're looking at ~ 6450 DDR5/ HD 4000 level.
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I think you're overestimating that a bit. Looks more like about as fast as 6450 ddr3 or HD2500 to me.
Such throughput is too low to challenge anything, but the mainstream discrete GPUs, while at the same time being an off-die L4 cache, the access latency will certainly suffer, regarding the CPU side. Nonetheless, it will definitely be an improvement to the ailing dual-channel DDR3 interface, just how much we have to see.
128 GCN SP's pretty much equal 160 VLIW5
I think that's a bit of a stretch. You can't use 6970 for comparison as it doesn't scale performance with vliw count at all.128 VLIW4 SP's almost equal 160 VLIW5 SP's, but GCN SP usually >30% faster than a VLIW4 SP(*). And this is with old drivers, with new drivers the difference is probably even bigger.
So in performance 128 GSN SP's are closer to 240 VLIW5 SP's than 160 VLIW5 SP's.
I think that's a bit of a stretch. You can't use 6970 for comparison as it doesn't scale performance with vliw count at all.
If you compare for instance HD5770 with HD7770, the latter is maybe 25-30% faster on average at best, and that's with a 17% higher clock to boot for the HD7770.
So 128 GCN SPs should indeed be quite close to 160 VLIW5 SPs. Yes some things (especially compute-related) will run much better, but we were also talking Kabini vs. 6450 in which the latter additionally has a clock speed advantage which would easily make up any 10% or so advantage Kabini could have based on just shader units.
SGI's IrisGL."Iris", hmmm, how'd they come up with that name?
SGI's IrisGL.
"Iris", hmmm, how'd they come up with that name?
I cannot find a richland thread so will post here:
Richland price list (rumoured): http://www.chiploco.com/amd-richland-apu-price-release-date-24236/