haxxiy on 07 November 2018
I expected AMD could do something like this to counter the difficulties of the 7 nm process in 2019 to potentially get an advantage over Nvidia and Intel. A low-power process, coupled with the CCX design (so smaller dies instead of monolithic designs for reasonable yields) were successful with the first Zen already, so they are going to try it again on both CPUs and GPUs. That's my take, at least.
Edit - eh, on the other hand, power consumption of the upcoming 7 nm Radeon Instinct seems disgusting. Unless there are huge IPC gains to make up for it anyone expecting next-generation consoles to be >10 TF beasts are going to be sorely disappointed, unless MS and Sony go for huge dies at low frequencies.
Last edited by haxxiy - on 07 November 2018
