JPR: Q3’22 marks the biggest GPU market drop since 2009
https://videocardz.com/press-release/jpr-q322-marks-the-biggest-gpu-market-drop-since-2009
"Overall GPU unit shipments decreased by -10.3% from last quarter, AMD shipments decreased by -47.6%, Intel’s shipments rose by 4.7%, and Nvidia’s shipments decreased by -19.7%."
That of course includes iGPUs. They will likely show their dGPU only market share in a follow up article but suffices to say, if you are in the camp of Nvidia GPUs only sold so much because of mining, it's time to rethink that assessment.
How AMD is Fighting NVIDIA with RDNA3 - Chiplet Engineering Explained
It's mainly just architectural talk with their lead engineer and what it sounds like to me is they tried to push chiplets onto their GCD similar to what they did with Ryzen but the requirements of using chiplets in GPU die was much higher than CPU. So instead, they settled for MCD which is their infinity cache instead. The connectors they used is insanely fast but still not fast enough to overcome the bottlenecks a full chiplet GCD requirements. The main benefit that RDNA 3 has is of course, decreasing the die space and going forward, they can reuse the MCD from RDNA 3 onto RDNA 4 if they so chose as the MCD is decoupled from the GCD.
Overall my thoughts is that RDNA 3 was an experiment to try and make their GPU into another Ryzen but that didn't quite pan out the way they were hoping. We will see the implications of this during the reviews but while the die size is 306mm, the full die including MCDs is 533mm. 4080 is 379mm while 4090 is 608mm. If the 7900XTX ends up performing closer to 4080, then it's a failure but if it performs similar to 4090, then it's a success.
Samsung 3nm GAA Yield Rate at an Abysmal 20%, Aims to Improve Output Through Cooperation With U.S.-Based Firm
https://wccftech.com/samsung-3nm-gaa-yield-rate-20-percent-aims-to-improve/
Simply horrible. Hopefully they will improve it significantly otherwise TSMC will remain dominant
AMD Ryzen 7000 CPUs get official ‘New Low Prices’ on AMD webstore
https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-7000-cpus-get-official-new-low-prices-on-amd-webstore
"Update: PCGamesHarware claims that Ryzen 7000 price cuts are only for the Black Friday Week sales. Therefore, those are time-limited offers."
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX & 7900 XT Launching In Reference Flavors, Custom Cards To Appear 1-2 Weeks Later
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