| JEMC said: Yep. Goodbye to those 4, 6 or 8 Ryzen chips and to welcome the 6, 8, 12 & 16 ones that go up to 5 GHz... I know that the new 7nm process woul allow them to clock higher and that the chiplet design would, in theory, allow them to push the frequencies up a bit more too, but 5 GHz for a 16 core processor looks rather suspicious. It would be easier to believe for the 6 core parts, not the higher end ones. But we'll see in roughly a month at CES. |
The move from say... 14nm to 7nm is pegged at 2.8-3x in terms of transistor density. - That's massive and opens up a ton of possibilities.
Power, clock scaling and so on have seen just impressive gains from 14nm to 7nm. - I don't think people realize how inherently limiting 14nm has become... Especially until they realize Sammy/GlobalFoundries 14nm is based on a 20nm process with Finfet.
6-Core CPU's for the low-end sounds amazing though, it was only a couple years ago where dual-cores reigned the low-end segments.
| haxxiy said: I call BS on the rumours, given what we know already about the power consumption and performance of the 7nm Radeon Instinct. And Navi is another GCN part, so yeah. I remember how it went for the Fiji, Polaris, Vega rumours etc. as well, and this looks exactly the same sort of baseless hype WCCF thrives with. |
Navi seems to be compared to Pascal at most outlets. - You would think it would be compared to Turing? But I digress.
Maybe AMD has fixed up and enabled primitive shaders and draw stream rasterization and introduced some new aspects to drive home efficiencies in Navi? If they are just relying on fabrication to draw improvements from... Well. That's just Polaris 2.0.
--::{PC Gaming Master Race}::--
