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AMD Unveils New Ryzen V-Cache Details at HotChips 33

posted by martyb on Wednesday August 25 2021, @04:35AM   Printer-friendly

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AMD Unveils New Ryzen V-Cache Details at HotChips 33:

AMD gave us more information about its upcoming V-Cache at Hot Chips this year, the annual conference where semiconductor engineers from all over the industry come together to crow over disclose details regarding their technical achievements in the past 12 months.

Earlier this year, AMD announced that it would not advance directly from Zen 3 to Zen 4. Instead, it would iterate on the Zen 3 core by stacking a full 64MB of 7nm L3 cache vertically on the core. AMD claims this can improve performance by up to 15 percent based on 1080p gaming results. The improvement in other applications is unknown.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 25 2021, @07:46AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 25 2021, @07:46AM (#1170709)

    SoylentNews is going to the birds? Thought we were just rid of one feathered raptor.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Opportunist on Wednesday August 25 2021, @10:04AM (2 children)

    by Opportunist (5545) on Wednesday August 25 2021, @10:04AM (#1170741)

    Face it, it doesn't matter at all how good, fast or powerful your chip is if it's essentially unobtanium. Try to solve the supply crisis first before announcing some wonder chips, nobody gives a fuck about it unless we can actually buy it without paying a fortune to scalpers.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 25 2021, @09:37PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 25 2021, @09:37PM (#1170988)

    OTOH it's a gpu not a cpu so, if many here are like me and are text heavy and not miners, I can understand why few comments. Enjoy your 10% year over year performance bump based on iterative design, this impacts me only insofar as the expected value and impact of GPU-gated activities (folding, mining, actual big data, gaming) shift in the world. This is good for GME - minor HW bump means market dollars going into PC HW and more into GME's offerings. This only barely nudges expected foundry throughput expectations. Etc.

    None of these are big news, but it's nice to know as a datapoint.

    If nobody had complained I'd have simply had the above thoughts and not replied either, btw, since all are minor. Again, can see why few replies != few reads. Some things are worth knowing but have little to talk on.

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday August 25 2021, @09:56PM

      by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Wednesday August 25 2021, @09:56PM (#1170990) Journal

      OTOH it's a gpu not a cpu so

      Well, you got it wrong right out of the gate. Maybe follow your own advice next time and don't comment.

      Having said that, rumor has it that RDNA 3's "Infinity Cache" will also be stacked, or if not, it will be massively increased from the 128 MB of RX 6800 (XT)/RX 6900 to up to 512 MB [wccftech.com].

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