About a week ago there was an article at Videocardz where they talked about that rumor of a September launch for Ampere, with some sites even saying August: https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-30-series-expected-to-launch-in-september
It makes sense for September because that was when Cyberpunk 2077 was supposed to launch, after a delay and before another), and what a better way to enjoy a new game that promises to tax your PC than with a new range of GPUs?
Also, that MI100 article... well, that will be the first card with using the new CDNA architecture from AMD, which will be different from the RDNA for the gaming parts. Therefore, we shouldn't take any conclusions about Navi based on it.
Also, and from Videocardz article:
The website further claims that the MI100 will feature 120 Compute Units. Assuming that the CDNA architecture features 64 Processors per Cluster, it would mean that the accelerator has 7680 cores in total (if each Compute Unit had 64 cores). We are intentionally not calling them Stream Processors, because we are unsure if this is the exact name for this architecture.
What does not make sense, however, is the 42 TFLOPs claim on the slide. This would put make MI100 more than twice as fast as NVIDIA Ampere A100 (19.5 TFLOPs). To achieve 42TF, it would require either: 7680 cores running at 2.75 GHz or 15360 cores running at 1350 MHz. The latter would suggest that each CU contains 128 cores, not 64.
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