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    LightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion AMD SoC Halo series GPU discussion.

    If I wanted 4 P cores, 4 C cores, and HALF the iGPU, I would. I wanted more iGPU and generally better than Hawk Point in every way instead.

    35 minutes ago
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    LightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion AMD SoC Halo series GPU discussion.

    AMD shot themselves in the foot with strips point. They chased core count with a dual CCX design that didn't give them a massive MT...

    Today at 5:10 PM
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    LightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread.

    Yes, they are real world benefits. The question is, did the cell networks do the proper background work to make sure that all of those...

    Today at 9:33 AM
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    LightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread.

    5g has shown to be useful in a handful of cases: When you've got sparse cells, you can get better performance in the range where 4G...

    Yesterday at 11:52 PM
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    LightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread.

    The problem that I see in most mmWave implementations is that while the radio can certainly meet the spec and transfer data at crazy...

    Wednesday at 11:05 PM
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    LightningZ71 replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.

    Remember, it's a triangle. You get efficiency on one point, performance on the second, and density on the third. You can tweak the...

    Wednesday at 11:00 PM
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    LightningZ71 replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.

    Ahh, the regular AMD hype train is getting started again. I'm going to be cautiously but reservedly optimistic. The old slide with the...

    Mar 28, 2025
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    LightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Google Tensor SoC thread.

    GPU performance on tensor was not a priority. Stability and having a fixed validation target was higher on the list. I suspect that...

    Mar 25, 2025
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    LightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Zen 5 Speculation (EPYC Turin and Strix Point/Granite Ridge - Ryzen 9000).

    It's already there on the SoC. If it failed, then the chip isn't marketable to the west. If it didn't, then it keeps the product...

    Mar 25, 2025
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    LightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Zen 5 Speculation (EPYC Turin and Strix Point/Granite Ridge - Ryzen 9000).

    It's fairly typical for an AMD refresh, they just speed binned the highest end parts.

    Mar 25, 2025
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    LightningZ71 replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.

    Yeah, I keep forgetting that they frame rate lock consoles. I guess it would make more sense to add more cores.

    Mar 25, 2025
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    LightningZ71 replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.

    What I'm more interested in is if the next Gen game consoles get 3dCache? If their primary use case is exactly what that is targeted...

    Mar 24, 2025
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    LightningZ71 replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.

    More than likely, AMD is getting more Xtors per $ with Samsung 4LPP than with TSMC N4C. We heard about AMD booking S4nm capacity about...

    Mar 22, 2025
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    LightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Leading Edge Foundry Node advances (TSMC, Samsung Foundry, Intel) - [2020 - 2025].

    Even though RDNA4 offers improved memory utilization efficiency over RDNA3.5, it's not enough of an improvement over it to warrant...

    Mar 21, 2025
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    LightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Zen 5 Speculation (EPYC Turin and Strix Point/Granite Ridge - Ryzen 9000).

    If you are doing HPC development or even doing workstation work using those same applications, a dual 3dCache Epyc 4XXX processor would...

    Mar 19, 2025

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