AMD - Zen chitchat

[Xlucine]

AMD GPUs have had fancy boost algorithms for ages, it's standard on modern GPUs

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Very interesting:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comment...md_ryzen_3000/

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Some more RDNA2 leaks:

https://twitter.com/_rogame/status/1...806775296?s=19

> RDNA2 is a step up in both Efficiency & IPC over RDNA1
> Anyone thinking 80CU Navi21 will be competing with 48SM GA104 is insane

Navi21 vs GA102
Navi22 vs GA104
Navi23 vs GA106

> There is no way Nvidia would've launched 3080 for 699$ if "Big Navi" was competing with 3070

> The rumored 3070 Ti 16GB is there for a reason
> The rumored 12GB GA102 is there for a reason
> The rumored 20GB 3080 is there for a reason

Navi22 should be closer to Xbox Series X GPU size/config. That would be a better match for RTX 3070 from a CU/SM count perspective

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comment...080_with_275w/

Igors latest video came up an hour ago and it had some info / rumors on the big navi cards. The written articles in german/english only cover the nvidia part of video for some reason, so if you dont speak german you have to trust me. (Or learn german )

The AMD part starts at about 13:40min. According to him Big Navi with 275 watts is somewhere between 3070 and 3080 and possibly with more power consumption (300W+) somewhere around 3080 performance. Big Navi will not be able to attack the 3090. Take this with a lot of salt.

The AIB part starts at 15:10min He says the AIBs do not yet have a bill of material for the Big Navi cards. It takes roughly 3 month from the bill of material to product on the shelfs so every Big Navi card this year will come directly from AMD. He says if there somehow will be AIB cards this year then these will be rush jobs and come around christmas. The guy is very well connected within the industry, so this is as close a confirmation as one can get.

The last thing he said about AMD ist that they delay the Big Navi launch on purpose to the Ryzen launch so the CPU takes the spotlight. Salt for this one

Thats it, you may discuss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKabGq7N0I8



Says the 6800XT and 6900XT will be launched in October. The 6700XT is Q1 2021.

https://twitter.com/AzorFrank/status...59512136142848

Right under your noses got to wonder what else we've already put out there that you just haven't discovered yet...
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[Corky34]

Maybe a bit overly geeky but i liked it..

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

RGT got some Zen3 datasheets leaked to him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFv0nJAgNdo

[kompukare]

ASRock send CB a Deskmini X300 to review
https://www.computerbase.de/2020-09/...ini-x300-test/
Impressed with the idle power compared to full desktops.

Two 2.5" drives and two M.2 2280 NVMe in 1.92 litres is pretty impressive.
AMD really need Thunderbolt support.

[Corky34]

Rumours circulating that Zen3 will be called the 5000 series, like i don't get confused enough.

[Shante]

Next month Zen3 hopefully it's out, really want to build my rig

[ik9000]

Rumours circulating that Zen3 will be called the 5000 series, like i don't get confused enough.

that makes sense doesn't it. The 4000 is still 2+ just a refresh? Or were they meant to be zen3?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

They are going to align the APUs and CPUs with the same naming and same cores I suspect. Currently you would have Zen2 based 4000 series APUs and Zen3 based 4000 series CPUs.

[kompukare]

Well the Zen 3 successor to Renoir, Cézanne, was supposed to have taped out almost the same time as Renoir itself so this time CPUs and APUs might only have a few months between them.

Lisa Su is meant to have keynote again at CES 2021, and announcing 5000 series APUs may be done there. So keeping the numbers the same makes sense.

[Corky34]

that makes sense doesn't it. The 4000 is still 2+ just a refresh? Or were they meant to be zen3?

I must be senseless then. Do the APU's currently run a series in front or behind the desktop parts?

[Xlucine]

Pre-production ice lake benchmarks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yl_ziFcOA4

Performance seems promising, although some of the benchmarks are a bit contrived (who pastes a 60MB excel spreadsheet into word and expects to get a readable output?). Gaming performance leapfrogs current top-end APUs, so I'm sure AMD will then leapfrog this in turn.

[Shante]

Just a few more weeks, everything so far is sounding good for these new CPU

[Xlucine]

Pre-production ice lake benchmarks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yl_ziFcOA4

Performance seems promising, although some of the benchmarks are a bit contrived (who pastes a 60MB excel spreadsheet into word and expects to get a readable output?). Gaming performance leapfrogs current top-end APUs, so I'm sure AMD will then leapfrog this in turn.

LTT also got one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfd3cO2gVHE

[Krupi]

Will a new mobo range be coming. X670, B650... Etc?