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The [s]rent[/s] GPU prices are too damn high!

my old card died finally, so I picked up a rx 570 8GB, as it was affordable ($119 after rebate) and faster than my old card. I didn't think it was worth $60-80 more for a rx 590, when I'd prefer a 200-250 RDNA based card. I'll wait until small NAVI comes out, this should be fine for my limited...
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- Post #65
- Sep 18, 2019
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Speculation: Ryzen 4000 series/Zen 3

1] yes. Though I would hope for a new socket to optimize max IPC gains and increase BW 2] 3-6% 3] ~5% at same TDP 4] 7nm+ to be safe. Won't go to 5nm until 2021 5] Won't until AVX 512 is common. Took them forever to get to 256. AMD will do 2x 256 = 512, like they did before for 256 6] Q1 2021
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- Post #5
- Jul 16, 2019
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Is 7nm the practical limit?

Cool, haven't herad about fork sheets yet. I do think they'll get GAA to work, but not sure how many people will use it. I can see a 3nm++++ process, which are only minor tweeks for CPUs. So if you like Intel's architecture lasting years, get ready for the future. Then maybe years down the line...
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- Post #31
- Jun 25, 2019
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Is 7nm the practical limit?

Here's a new article posted on 5nm and potential 3nm. Seems 5 will be done, though 3nm can probably be done too, though the big question is how many customers will there be for 3nm if costs to develop a chip are 500m -1.5b https://semiengineering.com/5nm-vs-3nm/
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- Post #24
- Jun 24, 2019
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Design changes in Zen 2 (CPU/core/chiplet only)

I think the chiplet design is a great move and it's about time it finally happened. I think they could eventually go FD SOI for that I/O uncore portion or use FD SOI for a DRAM chip, phase memory or other large cache on chip or even on the I/O die. This would work especially well if GF ever...
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- Post #98
- Jan 22, 2019
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Com'on AMD, bring us a Vega II Nano

Running the MI60 at MI25 frequency looks liek it will save a bunch of power, as the curve for power increase hasn't yet gone exponential yet. How much is saved is unknown. Though AMD could use a killer low power micro card that performs well
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- Post #9
- Jan 16, 2019
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Is 7nm the practical limit?

years ago I recall seeing this but we were at 28nm, and maybe intel just was ramping 22nm. IIRC, I thought around 10nm was the limit, around 50 silicon atoms wide between features. This would be about a 7nm node from Samsung or TMSC, 10nm for intel. I think a 5nm technology is getting close to...
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- Post #10
- Dec 7, 2018
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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[Anandtech]: GlobalFoundries Stops All 7nm Development !!

Node nomenclature doesn't exactly equal the actual size of transistors. However, I think if at each node drop half of the designs don't move to that process, overall revenues drop raising the cost for everybody that does move to the node. Hopefully the costs to produce the node drop...
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- Post #174
- Aug 30, 2018
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel reveals more details of their Neuromorphic Chip named Loihi

only after it trains itself by smashing your car against the first couple hundred cars it doesn't recognize. "Why would they put a gas burner on the road? That's a vintage...wait the car doesn't recognize it?....*smash*
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- Post #9
- Mar 5, 2018
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Decided to update an old core size comparison

looks good, can't wait to see moar cores added . Insert/moar cores.jpg
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- Post #2
- Feb 16, 2018
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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AMD using TSMC for CPUs and GPUs

MY guess is stick with GF for CPUs/APU and TMSC for GPU and custom semi
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- Post #11
- Feb 10, 2018
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Official AMD Ryzen Benchmarks, Reviews, Prices, and Discussion

I don't see many people's problem. We never expected 7700k performance. Going from Excavator to this is a HUGE jump, more than I expected from AMD. Their MT pe4rformance is great and was expected since they are aiming for workstation/server. This was never going to be a top of the line choice...
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- Post #2,876
- Mar 3, 2017
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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100k salary elitist club.

Got my first "real" job outside of academia in a small biotech. Only reason I got in was through a connection and I bust my ass during my PhD and post-doc getting many papers out. Still underpaid a bit but in a hot field where I had little experience so it's worth the trade off, as I hope to be...
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- Post #215
- Feb 23, 2017
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Following the CPU market has lost it's excitement for me

I'll be excited when somebody decided to put on die (interposer) HBM or the switch to new materials SiGe for transistors so we can have a Ghz race to 10Ghz
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- Post #18
- Dec 9, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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If a revolutionary CPU came out today, what would software look like tomorrow?

Or SOI
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- Post #32
- Nov 8, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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