Bofferbrauer2 said:
And could be for the same reason: To sell out their stock of last gen GPUs first. Both AMD and NVidia probably ordered way too many chips during the height of the crypto boom and chip crisis, and are now sitting on big stocks of unsold chips and GPUs that need to get cleared out first. |
Given that they'll launch the first RDNA3 cards, the two 7900 by the end of November or early December, it makes sense that we don't get as many leaks about the other GPUs that are further away and will probably get announced/launched by CES.
And there's also the fact that we get a lot less leaks/rumors regarding AMD's GPUs than Nvidia's, which further explains why we've got so little info regarding Navi 32 & 33.
Bofferbrauer2 said:
Yeah, I saw the video when Der 8auer found it out by surprise. Maybe AMD ordered too many chiplets and are using this to get rid of excessive stocks? Though that would be very wasteful for them, it would be nice if someone could disassemble one of those extra chiplets and see if they could be functional if correctly wired to the I/O chip. |
I doubt AMD will throw away perfectly working chiplets just for the sake of it. They're not rich enough for that.
Those are probably dead chiplets that, for some reason, AMD decided to install on the CPU, but hell if I know why they did it. (Maybe for a structural purpose to give the heatspreader a better support?)
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