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posted by martyb on Tuesday January 15 2019, @12:59AM   Printer-friendly
from the more-and-faster-and-cheaper...how'd-they-do-that? dept.

At AMD's CES 2019 keynote, CEO Lisa Su revealed the Radeon VII, a $700 GPU built on TSMC's "7nm" process. The GPU should have around the same performance and price as Nvidia's already-released RTX 2080. While it does not have any dedicated ray-tracing capabilities, it includes 16 GB of High Bandwidth Memory.

Nvidia's CEO has trashed his competitor's new GPU, calling it "underwhelming" and "lousy". Meanwhile, Nvidia has announced that it will support Adaptive Sync, the standardized version of AMD's FreeSync dynamic refresh rate and anti-screen tearing technology. Lisa Su also says that AMD is working on supporting ray tracing in future GPUs, but that the ecosystem is not ready yet.

Su also showed off a third-generation Ryzen CPU at the CES keynote, but did not announce a release date or lineup details. Like the second generation of Epyc server CPUs, the new Ryzen CPUs will be primarily built on TSMC's "7nm" process, but will include a "14nm" GlobalFoundries I/O part that includes the memory controllers and PCIe lanes. The CPUs will support PCIe 4.0.

The Ryzen 3000-series ("Matisse") should provide a roughly 15% single-threaded performance increase while significantly lowering power consumption. However, it has been speculated that the chips could include up to 16 cores or 8 cores with a separate graphics chiplet. AMD has denied that there will be a variant with integrated graphics, but Lisa Su has left the door open for 12- or 16-core versions of Ryzen, saying that "There is some extra room on that package, and I think you might expect we'll have more than eight cores". Here's "that package".

Also at The Verge.

Previously: Watch AMD's CES 2019 Keynote Live: 9am PT/12pm ET/5pm UK


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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday January 15 2019, @08:44AM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Tuesday January 15 2019, @08:44AM (#786838) Journal

    Are you moving from Ryzen 1700/1800 to 12-16 cores? I could imagine that setup lasting a long time. In fact, it could last until "the end".

    Ryzen will have at least one "7nm+" refresh and make it onto the "5nm" node. From there we start looking into the distance... either a Moore's law abyss of "1-3nm" [semiengineering.com] or a singularity of 3D ICs [darpa.mil] and stackable transistors [soylentnews.org].

    It should become clear where computing is heading by around 2025. If we get the magical developments I linked, we could see classical computing eventually get a thousand or a million times faster, making existing systems look like trash and enabling bizarre new software use cases for home users. If not, I doubt most people will need more than the 16-core Ryzen.

    FYI: Any of the Zen 2 chips should fit into existing sockets. Even a 16-core Ryzen. But certain features might require a new motherboard. Or not, if you're lucky. [tomshardware.com]

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 15 2019, @06:55PM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday January 15 2019, @06:55PM (#786998) Journal

    I have a Thinkpad T440s, with a Core i5-4200U in it. This is just fantasy; I'll be lucky to just be able to afford utilities and rent in the future, even WITH a full-time pharmacy tech job, unless I can pick up extra shifts since it's only 0.7 FTE officially. And I'm trying to help a very sick, very poor friend, which is where any extra goes.

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