JEMC said:
But it also cost valuable space so, at the end of the day, one has to wonder is their bet on Infinity Cache is really paying off or if they'd be better going with a bigger memory bus while "wasting" more die space. Who knows, maybe with RDNA3 and its MCM design, the extra cache is a better approach that routing all the extra memory lanes but, until then, it seems overly compicated with no real gains. |
Indeed.
At the end of the day, faster RAM and more die-space to extra GPU hardware is the general preferred approach.
But to implement high-speed, wide memory controllers also costs a ton of die space and power... MCM with stacked cache is likely the end goal that AMD is walking towards, which will also show up in Ryzen as well.
I think it's proven itself on lower-end, 128bit memory buses. A-la. Radeon RX 6600XT where bandwidth is more of a premium.
| JEMC said: I can understand that coal from different places have different dross or unwanted minerals that can affect its combustion, but enough to shut down a plant? Unlikely. What is more likely is that China hasn't found another source that sells them as much coal as Australia did, and that lack of coal is what makes China shut plants down. |
I do mine-site rescue here as part of my response area... And the general consensus amongst employees/managers/staff is that Australia is trying to ditch China as a customer and diversify it's clients in order to reduce risk of Chinese "attacking" us through trade.
And it's not just our natural resources doing this either, grain (Another response area of mine) is doing the same thing with prioritization to South America, Africa and Middle Eastern customers.
Politically and economically we as a nation are changing tact and removing the issue of having all our eggs in one (chinese) basket.
| Captain_Yuri said: Intel Core i9-12900K samples are already available on the Chinese black market for 700 USD Maybe we will get some early benchmarks! |
Will Intel win me back from AMD? Time will tell.
Quad Channel... And a CPU with better single and multi-threaded performance over my Ryzen 9 would be great.
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