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Pemalite said:

JEMC said:

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.

Or it has 240 Compute units @64 stream processors each.

Or it could be none of the above.

192 CU's @ 1.72Ghz could get you there as well... That would essentially be 3x Fury or Vega 64.

We need to remember that CDNA is ditching allot of the rasterization baggage and dialing home the compute, that's a ton of free extra transistors that can be dedicated to the task of more shader cores.

This will be a big win for Cryptocurrency though.

And, with all due respect, none of those extra options matter given that the original rumor from AdoredTV mentions 120CUs.

Pemalite said:

JEMC said:

And we should also remember that the 2080Ti was actually CPU limited at anything lower than 4K by any processor except the 9900K, and the newer and more powerful cards could fare the same problem, probably even worse.

Zen 3 is coming this year as well.

We saw how games still prefered the fast Intel CPUs over to the more capable (IPC wise) Zen 2 so, despite all the changes the new CPUs will bring like unified L3, unless AMD manages to make the new Zen 3 processors at least 500MHz faster than Zen 2, we'll still be in the same situation.

They'll be closer, but Intel will still win in games.