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Captain_Yuri said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Interesting about Alder Lake - it just doesn't say what the base is. If it's 20% uplift from Comet Lake, it won't be enough to beat Zen 3, and twice as much in multithread compared to Rocket Lake would still be behind the 5950X. And while Alder Lake will be able to use both DDR4 and DDR5, I doubt that the boards will have slots for both standards, so you'll need to choose wisely here.

As for AMD increasing the orders by 80%, the big question is how it's split up between CPU and GPU dies. I fear the bulk will be CPU dies for EPYC, but even if just 10-20% of that increase goes to GPU, it would mean a sizeable increase in volume. With GPU mining slowly starting to reduce (like with the GPU mining craze before, specialized chips are starting to get produced that are cheaper and/or more powerful), we could actually get some GPUs by summer if all goes well.

The fact that DDR4 and Nand prices will go up was to be expected considering how low they dropped. It sucks, but unlike the price hike in the GPU department this one at least is understandable.

Yea that's true. I'd be surprised if it's not at least 20% faster than rocket lake in Single Threaded on the Big cores due to it being on 10nm. If it's only 20% uplift compared to comet lake, that would be a big flop. The biggest question for me is going to be the price cause I can't imagine it being cheap with DDR5/PCI-E 5 and how big the CPU itself is. Hopefully for Intel, it doesn't turn into their own version of a modern Bulldozer.

I didn't see any size being mentioned, and Intel stopped telling the size of their chips after they lost the lead in manufacturing technology. It does look like it won't be small, but the exact size will be another matter. I'm expecting something between 200 and 250mm², so not much larger than Rocket Lake.

Last edited by Bofferbrauer2 - on 21 March 2021