With AMD closing the gap with Intel competition in the CPU market is back after a ten year abscense.<p>What I'm waiting for is an AMD GPU that can compete with a top-tier NVidia offering. Vega is nice, but not really a contender on the mid to top end. The G series cpus with vega inside are great, but where is the 2080ti, or even 1080ti, killer? Even something a bit slower, but close, would be great.<p>Is it too much to ask of AMD to handle both? I am unsure, but I would love to see NVidia in a price and performance war at the same time Intel is. Competition makes the resulting products better. Do you think the 9th Gen Intel chips would be octocore without Ryzen?
What happened to Intel? Have they given any official explanations yet?<p>How does a company, who for decades has been 1-2 node processes ahead of the industry, suddenly gets 1-2 node processes <i>behind</i> everyone else.<p>There must be an amazing story behind this that no one seems to be digging into.
One slide noted that their 7nm processor had 13.28 billion transistors per 331 mm^2.<p>Although 7nm/10nm have mostly become marketing terms, is this something directly comparable between fabs/companies?<p>Does anyone have a comparison for Intel? Best I can find is this list: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count</a> (and if that's accurate and up to date, it looks as though AMD will be well ahead).
This is really fun to watch. AMD is giving people EXACTLY what they want (again), and intel is having to fight dirty (again).<p>Possible example (not at all out of character for intel): why are so many people parroting that 10nm technical superiority junk without supplying sources?
Increasing the vector width to 256 bits (assuming no crazy thermal throttling) is a pretty big deal and would get me to move off Intel, unless Intel can figure out 512 bit widths without massive throttling.
This AMD card can compete with NVIDIA's high end Tesla V100 accelerator.<p>At 7.4 TFlops of double-precision, it is smack in the middle between the PCIe version of the V100 at 7.0 and the NVLink version at 7.8.<p>Memory bandwidth for the MI60 is a bit better at 1000GB/s, compared to the Tesla V100's 900GB/s.<p>However, AMD's problems are usually not the actual hardware, but the software around it. NVIDIA has done amazing work with CUDA and the surrounding frameworks, while AMD has not really. They really need to catch up on software that makes writing code for their GPUs more trivial.
Is anyone knowledgeable to comment about the memory bandwidth. I thought Zen-1 was eight channel with 32 core, now the Zen-2 is the same eight channel with 64 core. Wouldn't that cause issue or can the new memory system be that better?<p>The other interesting thing is that they said the memory access would be more uniform kind of like NUMA independent given that the controller is no longer part of the individual chip but a common element. Which definitely makes good performance easier with such a beast of cheap but does it do so at the cost of the lowest possible latency as in when in Zen-1 the memory access was from a channel in the same CPU. I would hope that a massive single piece of IO chip would allow them to design the thing better but does anyone know or care to guess?
I have a feeling this is not a AMD vs Intel or Apple vs Intel.<p>This is TSMC vs Intel. TSMC basically make the 7nm chip for Apple and AMD.<p>It looks like this company HQ at Taiwan provided the bragging right for Apple and AMD…
Video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwX13bo0RDQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwX13bo0RDQ</a><p>Dr. Lisa Su is so inspiring when she speaks - very clear, sure of her product and confident. Hopefully I get there one day!