I don't know about the whole TDP thing vs Nvidia because we need independent benchmarks but looking at the connectors it does look like more.AMD selling these at rough price parity with the green-badged competitors while having roughly half the die area is pretty telling.
Time will tell.Intel developed a way called EMIB, basically in a silicon interposer method used by AMD they put the whole GPU and the whole HBM on a huge silicon die..AMD doesn't need the performance crown.
If they continue to optimize Vega drivers, and make Vega more efficient, they could use Vega 11 modules (2 HBM stack + 2048 SP's or 1 HBM stack + 1024 SPs) and start chaining them together... they could pull off amazing yields.I think if AMD puts some of the money they get from Ryzen/TR/EPYC into RTG for GPU's... they could pull it off on time.Also if HBM on CPUs works, AMD could kill off the requirement of any RAM at all, at least for the low end market, where 8gb are enough.Then, I'd like to know if AMD is planning on a mid-range Vega SKU. I think AMD is trying to use as much HBM as possible (high demand should mean more investment in production capacity which should decrease prices in the long run).
Posted by. So AMD has a window of opportunity via having the node advantage. GP107 and GP108 are both 14nm.Vega is not even on shelf yet and it is already "wait for Navi"I hope not going to be delayed.The way I see it is this: Polaris is quite efficient as long as it's not clocked too high.
AMD's Navi 2x Needs to be Good, the ASP for Radeon GPUs Fell in Q2 2020 YoY Despite the Navi Launch; Plus sampling of NVIDIA Ampere GPUs is Starting Next Month, No Word on Big Navi Although the YoY revenue of the Computing Group Increased by 26%, the quarterly fell by 7-8%. u/shmedfood.
I still wish they did smaller Vega cards, knowing how well they could perform when not going to the absolute limit of the arch. Mobile is all about efficiency so Samsung would be destroying their own products.
From what I've seen, undervolted Vega was significantly more efficient than the stock clock.In any case, we'll know in a few months.To him Navi seems major overhaul architecturally but simply not good enough. hbm2 should stay for a while as unlike hbm it has all the necessary capacity and manufacturing yield are only going to improve.
A mid-range SKU would probably make things much more interesting in every aspect.At the very least, Navi will be an absolute beast when it comes to compute.Ryzen 2 is going to be a better process, but the arch won't change too much. PlayStation 4 2: Electric Boogalooto me that sounds even better than big navi being halo productExactly.
So far, they blew it though.