I don't think so (I haven't found one). Ryan Smith said he was going to post his deep dive several days ago but the Oregon fires (coupled with testing for the 3080 review) might be setting him back. Hopefully his deep drive will be included in the 3080 review on Wednesday.
Your point is well made. The A100 has 40MB of L2 cache, but GA102 has only 6MB (which seems really low) for a full chip (the 3080 has 5MB enabled). https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-30-series-ampere-graphics-cards-deep-dive/
The new consoles played a role too. It was important for Nvidia to have competitively priced cards (esp. the $500 3070) to ensure PC gaming momentum (i.e. which is 80% Nvidia in the discrete market) continues.
I'm just a hobbyist and gamer, so no expert. But, I think it is safe to say that Nvidia didn't get rid of the separate INT unit and concurrent INT/FP performance. It was a big factor in the Turing uplift in "IPC". At the same time, Nvidia admitted at the time that for every 100 FP...
I guess I don't feel the love for HBM. By all accounts, it contributed to significant delays in Vega, possibly will contribute to supply shortages, still cannot meet JEDEC specs, and does not provide more bandwidth or appreciable power savings over a commodity memory, GDDR5X. The fact that it...
Yeah, I agree that there is a value in pushing the cards hard for the halo effect. But (1) I don't think that AMD targeted 1080-level performance when they designed Vega or, another way to put it, I don't think AMD planned for Vega to be merely 30% faster than two year old Fiji and (2) I don't...
Of the many questions I have, I keep returning to a design choice made by AMD. AMD has told that its transistor budget was blown mostly on ramping up clock speeds. In the reviews, it is clear that AMD has pushed the clock speeds on Vega 64 further down the voltage/clock curve than the...
Goodness gracious. From the perspective of a high-end gamer, this launch carries a disappointment for the future's prospects. Vega is going to act like an anchor around the neck of the entire high-end gaming segment for the next year and a half to a year.
There is no where to go up for AMD...
They are really going after you on this point, tviceman.
I tend to agree, though, with the notion that "trading blows," when spoken by a Public Relations agent of AMD (or any company), is not likely to connote the same meaning as when spoken by the average, disinterested Joe. When Joe says...
I think it is important to note that the tests were run at 1080p. Thus, the test shows the average power consumption at that resolution in those games. Vega was built with 4k in mind (or so we are told) and, therefore, should have the rasterization hardware for that resolution. Is it not a...
If you look at the Tegra division as an isolated product, perhaps it makes more sense. A contract with Nintendo for a low margin, high volume Tegra chip might not result in much profit (at least in comparison to the rest of the company), but it will help spread the risk of developing expensive...
It wasn't horsepower (or lack thereof) that killed the Wii U. Many things killed the Wii U. Confused marketing (where there was any marketing at all). A lack of 1st party games. The ongoing lack of 3rd party support (you never see Wii U mentioned or marketed as a modern-gen console... it's...
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