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EricHiggin on 05 December 2018
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Pemalite said: 
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.

I remember reading somewhere that initially Navi was going to be the last of GCN and then Next Gen would be a completely new arch, but a decision was made to turn Navi into a hybrid between GCN and next gen to ease the transition process, which is also why Navi seems to be so far behind. It would help explain some of the rumors and leaks if true.



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