Old Jim/AdoredTV is narcissist.
I don't know why he hasn't been banned from YouTube yet after telling multiple people who disagreed with him to commit suicide.
Joel Hruska (ExtremeTech):
There has been a surfeit of what Alan Greenspan might have called "irrational exuberance" surrounding AMD and 7nm technology for both Ryzen and Navi. It appears to be fed by fanboys with no concept of how over-hyping the technology cycle behind a company can lead to...
Joel Hruska:
There has been a surfeit of what Alan Greenspan might have called "irrational exuberance" surrounding AMD and 7nm technology for both Ryzen and Navi. It appears to be fed by fanboys with no concept of how over-hyping the technology cycle behind a company can lead to fans being...
The videos are classic clickbait.
First, release a video showing things too good to be true
Second, release a subsequent video that's all doom and gloom
No matter how Navi actually turns out, old Jim got all the possibilities covered so he couldn't possibly be wrong.
I guess you've never gone to college because college papers require citing reputable sources.
Heck, this is something that's even taught in the high school.
I am not really surprise that engineering sample exist.
I would be surprised, however, if the initial rollout includes 16-cores parts.
More likely, AMD will hold it back in anticipation of whatever Intel is doing.
Navi is a stopgap on the way to AMD replacing GCN
The money is there. AMD just don't want to drop a lot of it on a stopgap.
It's the same reason that AMD doesn't want to drop a lot of money on Excavator.
That's classic clickbait.
First, release a video showing things too good to be true
Second, release a subsequent video that's all doom and gloom
No matter how Navi actually turns out, old Jim got all the possibilities covered so he couldn't possibly be wrong.
Radeon VII got most of its performance gain from having 1028 GB/s memory bandwidth.
You are not going to come close to that with GDDR6.
To even get Radeon VII’s performance with less than half the memory bandwidth, AMD would have to make great improvement to its delta color compression...
The Forza Horizon 4 demo on Zen 2/Radeon VII that AMD shows at CES...
If you look at the car's license plate, it said "RVIIONR7"
That stands for Radeon VII on Ryzen 7.
So that's a hint right there that the 8-core Zen 2 engineering sample is a Ryzen 7.
Apparently, the Forza Horizon 4 demo on Zen 2/Radeon VII that AMD shows at CES...
If you look at the car's license plate, it said "RVIIONR7"
That probably stands for Radeon VII on Ryzen 7.
So that's a hint right there that the 8-core Zen 2 engineering sample is a Ryzen 7.
What that comes down to is something called Delta Color Compression
It's explained here pretty well:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/10325/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-and-1070-founders-edition-review/8
NVIDIA has delta color compression that's far far ahead of what AMD has.
That's why the...
To get graphics, you need fast memory memory with a lot of bandwidth.
That's why video cards use GDDR6 or HBM2.
The problem with integrated graphics is that it is struck using the system's slow DDR4 memory.
Now, you could technically integrated the fast memory (for example, HBM2) directly on...