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zinfamous

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Man, if I can get an 8c/16t SR chip that clocks ~4ghz for ~$350-400, I think I will be happy.

In my head, that is unreasonable so I'm not going to pretend that it will happen. ....just saying is all.
 

Glo.

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Have you guys considered the possibility of 8C/16T clocking to 4.3 GHz as rumored on all cores and staying within 95W TDP target?
 

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Have you guys considered the possibility of 8C/16T clocking to 4.3 GHz as rumored on all cores and staying within 95W TDP target?
No, since we know that 3.4Ghz already makes it cut dangerously close to the 95W power consumption in a light load.
 

coercitiv

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Shall we wait for the information about the clocks Ryzen is going to ship at, and the information about how much the power consumption increases when you push it beyond the stock speeds?
If above 4.0GHz is commonly achievable as 24/7 on all cores, at let's say over twice the original power consumpion I find the absolute overclock rather irrelevant regardless. Or do you disagree?

Also I haven't found any clock estimations you have made, 9kk prior to the launch of the product? Let alone one which would have potential being more accurate than mine? Hindsight etc
Meh, let's just hang The Stilt, why wait for frequency/power correlation? Never mind that in the New Horizon press event the power consumption info hinted towards Zen having lower static power and a tad higher dynamic power than BDW, the people want 4.5Ghz+ overclocks!

And yes, maybe when calling out members of the forum on their Zen prediction it would nice to link your own previous prediction. You know, just to prevent hindsight overload.

Have you guys considered the possibility of 8C/16T clocking to 4.3 GHz as rumored on all cores and staying within 95W TDP target?
I have two rows of data for you:
i7 4720HQ - 3.4Ghz all core turbo - 47W TDP (mobile cpu)
i7 4790K - 4.2Ghz all core turbo - 88W TDP (desktop cpu)

I wonder if people realize that increasing frequency by 20% when you're close to 4GHz can easily end up doubling power usage.
 

.vodka

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Have you guys considered the possibility of 8C/16T clocking to 4.3 GHz as rumored on all cores and staying within 95W TDP target?

No. You're pushing the silicon far away from its efficient point at >4GHz. 4.2-4.3GHz will easily be 125-140w TDP for an 8C16T CPU, assuming you need a healthy dose of overvolting to get there.

The thing here is the performance that can be achieved at these clocks, if you're willing to put up with the added power consumption and heat.
 

bjt2

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you know....there's an actual word for that.

I am not a native english, but this word was accepted on a scientific paper that i submitted some year ago, so i thought that was ok... Anyway now i tried with google translate from italian and it used this word...
 

The Stilt

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Have you guys considered the possibility of 8C/16T clocking to 4.3 GHz as rumored on all cores and staying within 95W TDP target?

No, unless the fastest 8C/16T Ryzen's have actual power consumption of ~50W despite the TDP of 95W.
And they don't, unfortunately.
 

Glo.

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I will not be that radical, as you guys are.

If you want my opinion, Highest end Ryzen CPU will top at 4.0 GHz base clock, and 4.2 GHz all core turbo and 95W TDP.
 

bjt2

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Shall we wait for the information about the clocks Ryzen is going to ship at, and the information about how much the power consumption increases when you push it beyond the stock speeds?
If above 4.0GHz is commonly achievable as 24/7 on all cores, at let's say over twice the original power consumpion I find the absolute overclock rather irrelevant regardless. Or do you disagree?

Also I haven't found any clock estimations you have made, 9kk prior to the launch of the product? Let alone one which would have potential being more accurate than mine? Hindsight etc


This is the frequency scaling of the NEON FPU test chip 2 years ago. Frequency is GHz. Power is x100mW.
At 2.41 GHz and 0.8V it draw 330mW. At 4GHz it draw less than 600mW.
This test chip has high FO4, so Zen should have scaling shifted on the frequency axis, but anyway if this graph stands for Zen, on the LVT curves if 3.5GHz is 95W (about 4) at 4.9GHz it's under 9, that is about 200W, still manageable with a big air cooler...

EDIT: link at the image if there is hotlinking prevention: http://n.mynv.jp/articles/2015/02/24/carrizo/images/Photo004l.jpg
 
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Abwx

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M Zen having lower static power and a tad higher dynamic power than BDW

I also thought so at first glance, but the chip at New Horizon was overvolted in respect of the usual voltage used in ESs, wich are already safely set, so it may well have quite better efficency than what AMD displayed recently.
 

bjt2

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No, since we know that 3.4Ghz already makes it cut dangerously close to the 95W power consumption in a light load.

It's an ES and was allegedly overvolted for the new Horizon event to stay safe and still managed to stay under 95W at full load (Blender is not light...)
 

krumme

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Shall we wait for the information about the clocks Ryzen is going to ship at, and the information about how much the power consumption increases when you push it beyond the stock speeds?
If above 4.0GHz is commonly achievable as 24/7 on all cores, at let's say over twice the original power consumpion I find the absolute overclock rather irrelevant regardless. Or do you disagree?

Also I haven't found any clock estimations you have made, 9kk prior to the launch of the product? Let alone one which would have potential being more accurate than mine? Hindsight etc
When we guess some will get close some will be far away. Meh thats the nature of it. Its not interesting. But we should be ready to take a bit flak otherwise the betting is not so fun. Your flag was captured. We dont need final freq to know its not gona get 2.8 3.2. The interesting part was imo the high freq came with what we asume is more or less hsw bwe level ipc sans avx2. Its seems you were off here too. Thats two flags at the same time. But man what about smt perf vs HT? I kind of remember that to. Woops. Perhaps its even 3 flags at the same time.
No need to defend when all flags is captured. I ran weeks ago. Just move to next sector before retreat fails.
 

krumme

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I will not be that radical, as you guys are.

If you want my opinion, Highest end Ryzen CPU will top at 4.0 GHz base clock, and 4.2 GHz all core turbo and 95W TDP.
Man that is radical ! - if i understand you correctly?
Look at bwe 8c and see what base it runs at. And thats for a 140tdp. Even if gpu is included whever zen will not get like 20% higher base freq at 95w tdp.
How should it run so high within 95w tdp?
 

The Stilt

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The interesting part was imo the high freq came with what we asume is more or less hsw bwe level ipc sans avx2. Its seems you were off here too. Thats two flags at the same time. But man what about smt perf vs HT? I kind of remember that to. Woops. Perhaps its even 3 flags at the same time.
No need to defend when all flags is captured. I ran weeks ago. Just move to next sector before retreat fails.

You refer to my IPC estimation, which was made based on the inaccurate figure released from AMD?
My estimation regarding that subject never was and never will be inaccurate (for obvious reasons), just the 40% figure from AMD was.

Regarding the average SMT yield, I have nothing to be shamed of

Flags...
You gotta be kidding me
 

Glo.

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Man that is radical ! - if i understand you correctly?
Look at bwe 8c and see what base it runs at. And thats for a 140tdp. Even if gpu is included whever zen will not get like 20% higher base freq at 95w tdp.
How should it run so high within 95w tdp?
How BDE behaves has nothing to do with what will happen with Ryzen. You are looking in the wrong places for clues.
 

krumme

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You refer to my IPC estimation, which was made based on the inaccurate figure released from AMD?
My estimation regarding that subject never was and never will be inaccurate (for obvious reasons), just the 40% figure from AMD was.

Regarding the average SMT yield, I have nothing to be shamed of

Flags...
You gotta be kidding me

Yep. But the 2.8 3.2 assesment was made while using the sb ib ipc.
Secondly the assumption that 40% was sb ib level was questionable also.
You are presenting it like it was amd numbers. No it wasnt. It was yours and some others asumption.
It was debated also back then.
You were wrong here too. Its that simple.
 

krumme

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How BDE behaves has nothing to do with what will happen with Ryzen. You are looking in the wrong places for clues.
If zen is 4 base at 95w tdp how much more efficient than bwe do you think it is then for eg a blender or handbrake load?
 

.vodka

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Yep. But the 2.8 3.2 assesment was made while using the sb ib ipc.
Secondly the assumption that 40% was sb ib level was questionable also.
You are presenting it like it was amd numbers. No it wasnt. It was yours and some others asumption.
It was debated also back then.
You were wrong here too. Its that simple.

Why are you doing this?

On the microarchitecture, AMD stated 40% IPC increase over XV for Zen, a WHILE ago. Whatever the interpretation of that, it lands squarely right at SB level performance and results, the 40% figure, using XV as the base.

It was at new horizon that AMD shocked everyone with Zen equaling or beating 6900k on their own, pubiclicly available tests and the CEO clearly stating that the 40% figure has been exceeded. We were all working with the 40% figure until that day, taking the reports that said Zen was much better than Sandy Bridge as fakes or trolling because they didn't fit AMD's statements. It was AMD sandbagging, just that. (thankfully, we don't need more overpromising and underdelivering like with Phenom I and Bulldozer)

On the other hand, Zen is said to be built on a low power node, 14FF LPE... why on earth would we all even think that Zen could clock over 4GHz on this node, with no reference point because of it being a clean sheet design? Somehow it does. Maybe there's another 14FF version of Glofo/Samsung's process that fits a high clocking CPU uarch better?


The Stilt's predictions were all in line with the data available at the time. The data has changed, right from AMD themselves. The data keeps changing, and will become more solid at CES in two days. What's the problem? He's not to blame.
 

The Stilt

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Yep. But the 2.8 3.2 assesment was made while using the sb ib ipc.
Secondly the assumption that 40% was sb ib level was questionable also.
You are presenting it like it was amd numbers. No it wasnt. It was yours and some others asumption.
It was debated also back then.
You were wrong here too. Its that simple.

So does the IPC dictate the Fmax of the design?
I based my estimation mostly on the known characteristics of the manufacturing process and some of the design parameters (which had been the biggest limitation in the past) such as the L2 cache latency. You may use search if you wish to

Can you provide contradicting data that 40% increase of the IPC of Excavator doesn't result in IPC closely / exactly matching Sandy / Ivy Bridge level?

AMD has directly stated "40% IPC improvement over Excavator" in various official presentations. That isn't a fact, but just an invention of my own?
 

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On the other hand, Zen is said to be built on a low power node, 14FF LPE... why on earth would we all even think that Zen could clock over 4GHz on this node, with no reference point because of it being a clean sheet design? Somehow it does. Maybe there's another 14FF version of Glofo/Samsung's process that fits a high clocking CPU uarch better?

Zen is not using 14LPE, it is using 14LPP:

GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ advanced 14nm FinFET technology (14LPP), supports a wide range of products from mobile devices to servers, such as AMD and IBM’s server chip products. Enabled chip x86 processor performance by 3GHz+, the GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ 14nm FinFET technology taps the benefits of three-dimensional, fully-depleted FinFET transistors, and offers impressive gains over 28nm bulk CMOS with up to 50 percent increase in performance and a 65 percent reduction in total power.

And as I have written earlier, 14LPP is not for low-power designs only, but also for high-performance products.
 
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krumme

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So does the IPC dictate the Fmax of the design?
I based my estimation mostly on the known characteristics of the manufacturing process and some of the design parameters (which had been the biggest limitation in the past) such as the L2 cache latency. You may use search if you wish to

Can you provide contradicting data that 40% increase of the IPC of Excavator doesn't result in IPC closely / exactly matching Sandy / Ivy Bridge level?

AMD has directly stated "40% IPC improvement over Excavator" in various official presentations. That isn't a fact, but just an invention of my own?

IPC doesnt strictly dictate Fmax obviously ... but having a longer pipeline helps it right? The hard job is finding the right balance.
As for the 40% uplift that was for a fact sb ib level where do you want me to look - r11.5, r15 or povray?
 

zinfamous

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I am not a native english, but this word was accepted on a scientific paper that i submitted some year ago, so i thought that was ok... Anyway now i tried with google translate from italian and it used this word...

really? publishing in science and heterogeneous didn't first come to mind?
Google translate would probably do a direct translation of the negative, anyway.


Anyway, OT, I know--it was just funny seeing that use. English is weird that way. It technically wouldn't be improper to create a word like inhomogeneous, but hetero/homogeneity are such prolific scientific terms that it just seems odd to resort to that.
 

The Stilt

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As for the 40% uplift that was for a fact sb ib level where do you want me to look - r11.5, r15 or povray?

I never refer to a specific benchmark, unless I otherwise specify. The average is what counts. For example Phoronix or AT test suite used for reviews will do, or even Geekbench if you have to use a suite.
 

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really? publishing in science and heterogeneous didn't first come to mind?
Google translate would probably do a direct translation of the negative, anyway.


Anyway, OT, I know--it was just funny seeing that use. English is weird that way. It technically wouldn't be improper to create a word like inhomogeneous, but hetero/homogeneity are such prolific scientific terms that it just seems odd to resort to that.
It is not same meaning.Something being inhomogeneous doesn't mean it's heterogeneous;as always context.
Edit: Ah,yes,most appropriate word in this case is variance.
 
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KTE

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These clock Crusades are getting ridiculous. Repeat ad nuseum.

There is absolutely zero independent or verifiable or repeatable information that suggests Zen clocks well at good power.

Or even if it OCs anywhere near BD levels with that IPC.

Nothing.

Building strawmen to make it sound as tho this is already fact makes a few here look very desperate and disingenuous.

There is also absolutely nothing known or verifiable that AMD did not show a low leakage cherry chip.

So what about power?

Sent from HTC 10
(Opinions are own)
 
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