Techpowerup:Intel Says AMD EPYC Processors "Glued-together" in Official Slide Deck

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DrMrLordX

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I'm on intel's site and don't see these "Official" slides..

There is a reason for that, but not the one you think.

Wow, aprox. 20 slides out of 80 from the press event are about Zen.

AMD has arrived. Again?

AMD does glue 4 chips together?

IN SOVIET RUSSIA, 4 chips glue together YOU!

What a country!

How pathetic of Intel, but this isn't out of character for them. Inferior products, superior marking: Intel

How is that superior marketing?
 

coercitiv

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Well in this world media are manipulating us ...I'll wait until making final decision
I would expect members of the press who attended the mid June workshop to readily deny any of this is real, but I really really doubt Computer Base got duped so hard.
 

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Intel had superior products for pretty much every metric that mattered for the past decade until AMD's Zeppelin-based products launched. Superior marketing or not, the giant has grown accustomed to not having to play defense.
This is true but there is a reason for this. When AMD have the overwhelmingly better Athlon 64 products and Intel was paying Dell and others $billions in illegal deals how much more money AMD would have really had to reinvest had it been a free and open market like we want in a capitalist society. The settlements they received was nowhere close to the lost marketshare, revenue, mindshare, and the cyclical investments they would have made.

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ThatBuzzkiller

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Oh come on people! LOOK at this slide.. Look at how anything in red doesn't line up, font size slightly different.. EASILY you can see the red section has been added..




I'm not a fan boy or anything else. If Cyrix made a cpu that I needed I would buy it, but I ALWAYS want the truth! How many of the Zen slides turned out to be bogus?

Just provide an intel link.. That's all ..

A rule of thumb is that if multiple reputable sources repeat the same information then it's probably true and especially so if across partisan lines ...

Intel not posting these slides on their site does not prove that they didn't present the content in question either ...
 
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Phynaz

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I have to wonder, when AMD have the overwhelmingly better Athlon 64 products and Intel was paying Dell and others $billions in illegal deals how much more money AMD would have really had to reinvest had it been a free and open market like we want in a capitalist society. The settlements they received was nowhere close to the lost marketshare, revenue, mindshare, and the cyclical investments they would have made.

Please read the rules you agreed to when you signed up today. This post being so far off topic isn't appropriate and may get moderator action. You certainly don't want to have a black mark of infractions your first day here, do you?
 
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BigDaveX

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If anything, Intel should be glad that AMD are currently restricted to MCM set-ups for Epyc. A monolithic 32C Epyc would probably annihilate Intel's entire line-up. Which, amusingly, gives us a role-reversal of the situation back when we had the K10 Opterons facing off against the Core 2-derived Xeons, with the latter clearly having the better core, but crippled by the combination of an ancient system bus and FB-DIMMs.

That said, Intel probably has room to improve on Skylake-EP as well, given that this is the biggest structural overhaul of their high-end line since Sandy Bridge, and arguably even Nehalem. Wouldn't surprise me if Cannonlake-EP irons out some of the current design's kinks.

I have to wonder, when AMD have the overwhelmingly better Athlon 64 products and Intel was paying Dell and others $billions in illegal deals how much more money AMD would have really had to reinvest had it been a free and open market like we want in a capitalist society. The settlements they received was nowhere close to the lost marketshare, revenue, mindshare, and the cyclical investments they would have made.

Well, to be fair, there was only a three year timespan when the Athlon 64 was beating on Intel's line-up, so bearing in mind AMD's capacity constraints any revenue and marketshare increase probably wouldn't have been dramatic. Not to mention that AMD having extra money doesn't mean they'd have invested it wisely; knowing their management at the time, they'd have just poured it into the ATI buyout.
 

Mopetar

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Oh come on people! LOOK at this slide.. Look at how anything in red doesn't line up, font size slightly different.. EASILY you can see the red section has been added..

I'm not a fan boy or anything else. If Cyrix made a cpu that I needed I would buy it, but I ALWAYS want the truth! How many of the Zen slides turned out to be bogus?

Just provide an intel link.. That's all ..

HotHardware used that very slide in their official review: https://hothardware.com/reviews/intel-xeon-scalable-processor-family-review?page=3. You can even look across reviews from other sites and find that many reviews are using similar slides (see the Core Microarchitecture Enhancements slide from both HotHardware, Tom's Hardware, and Hardware.Info for one example) so its clear that they all received something from Intel.

So do you think that it is more likely that HotHardware dug up (or themselves created) some fake slides to use in addition to all the other slides from Intel they have included in their review, or that Intel actually made these slides? If they were fabrications, it wouldn't take much for Intel to put out some kind of statement indicating they didn't make it. Why would HotHardware do it either as doing so would be a great way to get blacklisted by Intel and at the very least outright thrashed by tech enthusiasts.

If they're not up on Intel's website its because of the amount of flak they're getting over it, so I expect PR to just pretend it never happened because there isn't anything they can say or do at this point to look good.
 

Abwx

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so its clear that they all received something from Intel.

Info has been posted several times in this very thread, they received some popcorn...

https://www.computerbase.de/2017-07/intel-xeon-skylake-sp-purley/3/


Im Rahmen eines Presse-Workshops Mitte Juni an Intels Server-Stammsitz in Hillsboro, Oregon, war eine ganze Stunde des ersten Tages dem Vergleich mit AMD Naples gewidmet. Da die finale Hardware von Naples für Tests aber auch Intel Mitte Juni noch nicht zur Verfügung stand, waren viele der Analysen noch theoretischer Natur beziehungsweise Hochrechnungen von dem, was AMD bis Anfang Juni offiziell gezeigt hatte.

We take our competitor very seriously“ begann Intel die Ausführungen. Doch die Samt-Handschuhe wurden schnell abgelegt. Es folgte eine Präsentation, die die aus Intels Sicht wesentlichen Schwächen des Mitbewerbers in dem Markt zeigte. Dabei nutzte Intel mit Blick auf Naples eine Wortwahl, die AMD in früherer Zeit ganz ähnlich auffuhr: „glued together“. Die Rede ist von AMDs Multi-Chip-Design, das aus vier eigenständigen kleineren Prozessoren (CCX) einen großen macht. Das ist nicht neu: Intel nutzte bei den ersten Zwei- und Vier-Kern-CPUs auch nichts anders als zwei „zusammengeleimte“ Chips auf einem Package oder in einem Die, während AMD seinerzeit vornehmlich native Lösungen bot.

Die Präsentation nutzte dann einen Xeon SP mit acht Kernen bei 2,2 GHz und stellte diesen gegen einen Ryzen 7 mit acht Kernen bei 2,2 GHz – bei diesem Takt erwartete Intel AMDs Epyc seit dem Frühsommer. Dabei wurden die Caches und Speichercontroller vermessen und zusammen mit den bisherigen technischen Angaben von AMD für Hochrechnungen genutzt. Diese sind in vielen Fällen extrem spekulativ und auch dementsprechend anzusehen, im Rahmen des Events bei Intel sorgten sie für erheiternde Stimmung – zumal zu Beginn dieser Nachmittagsrunde Popcorn angeboten wurde.
 
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.vodka

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OUCH!

I don't know what is going on at Intel, but this all looks like amateur hour. Seriously.

All this clusterf*** really puts CanardPC's 31st magazine that was released on December 2016 into perspective.



"A drifting giant" if google translate is to be believed. The translations that one could find at the time painted quite the bleak picture regarding Intel's day to day operation and how the CEO (mis)manages the entire thing based on their sources.

BTW, this is the magazine that included the first Zen ES benchmarks.


Unlike Faildozer, Zen is a great base to iterate upon. I can't wait to see what Zen 2 brings to the table! Improved IF, improved cores (easy low hanging fruit on a new design), more cores per CCX, better process that can do more than 4GHz for the consumer market, etc, they could go everywhere! It's quite exciting. Considering the amount of money that AMD will start to get, it's even better for future R&D (Zen 3 and beyond) unless they get in love with another crazy idea like Bulldozer.
 
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moinmoin

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I would expect members of the press who attended the mid June workshop to readily deny any of this is real, but I really really doubt Computer Base got duped so hard.
German Golem in their article about Xeon also reported about the slides independently of ComputerBase, but didn't post as many of them:
https://www.golem.de/news/xeon-skyl...els-28-kern-cpus-mit-avx-512-1707-128826.html
Subheader of the article's title "Comparison with AMD's Epyc was amusing for it supposedly only consisting of glued together desktop chips."
https://www.golem.de/news/xeon-skyl...s-28-kern-cpus-mit-avx-512-1707-128826-5.html
Shows slide 7, 9, 15 and 17 of the AMD related "Intel Press Workshops" presentation from June.

I don't know why only German media appears to report of that presentation or why only ComputerBase has a halfway complete set of all slides, but for a fake that would have needed to be quite the concerted action.

Here direct links to all available slides at ComputerBase, missing slides are at least 1, 2, 3, 16, 18, 20 and 21.
https://www.computerbase.de/bildstrecke/78687/47/
https://www.computerbase.de/bildstrecke/78687/48/
https://www.computerbase.de/bildstrecke/78687/49/
https://www.computerbase.de/bildstrecke/78687/50/
https://www.computerbase.de/bildstrecke/78687/51/
https://www.computerbase.de/bildstrecke/78687/52/
https://www.computerbase.de/bildstrecke/78687/53/
https://www.computerbase.de/bildstrecke/78687/54/
https://www.computerbase.de/bildstrecke/78687/55/
https://www.computerbase.de/bildstrecke/78687/56/
https://www.computerbase.de/bildstrecke/78687/57/
https://www.computerbase.de/bildstrecke/78687/58/
https://www.computerbase.de/bildstrecke/78687/59/
https://www.computerbase.de/bildstrecke/78687/60/
https://www.computerbase.de/bildstrecke/78687/61/
https://www.computerbase.de/bildstrecke/78687/62/
https://www.computerbase.de/bildstrecke/78687/63/
https://www.computerbase.de/bildstrecke/78687/64/
https://www.computerbase.de/bildstrecke/78687/65/
https://www.computerbase.de/bildstrecke/78687/66/
https://www.computerbase.de/bildstrecke/78687/67/
 
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maddie

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Oh come on people! LOOK at this slide.. Look at how anything in red doesn't line up, font size slightly different.. EASILY you can see the red section has been added..




I'm not a fan boy or anything else. If Cyrix made a cpu that I needed I would buy it, but I ALWAYS want the truth! How many of the Zen slides turned out to be bogus?

Just provide an intel link.. That's all ..
What I see is an entire stack of slides at computerbase.de that is claimed to be from Intel.

If you are claiming that slides are faked, then answer this.

1) Would computerbase.de publish a claimed Intel stack from a fraudulent third party?

2) If not from a third party, but from Intel, how did a few false slides get introduced?

I understand your worldview is collapsing but it's only some tech. Enjoy the transition to a new reality.
 

.vodka

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Look at the slides in question.. Easily visible BOGUS slides!

Again.. Show me an intel link..

I've taken the slides used in TPU's article and ran them through a site that does ELA analysis.

https://fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=74ea750718a466cc9d711739cb596885f9452b09.366698
https://fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=d84cb88da1143279ba194301ff319473a4ca5d38.183314
https://fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=dc5bf88c719fd00ea9b19400c67d802e4083c32b.291103
https://fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=ce355c689f6f7ada26a987e9039c9a141cdf4869.185408
https://fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=3f2c0a4a95fd5718aed8dd31ef5c9b7e4e3f19ef.277325

ELA doesn't suggest these slides were edited or doctored in any way. They're JPEGs saved at 90% quality. Even if they were taken as screenshots out of Computerbase's article (as they don't let you right click -> save as), they're extremely clean, as in done in the same Illustrator/Photoshop/whatever file then saved. Nothing stands out in these slides.

These are most definitely real, apart from being published by many reputable sources.

Your eyes are probably fooling you.
 

Burpo

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I haven't researched any further than the slide that was shown, and all I've said was it looks bogus and amateurish. I asked for an intel link, and have not seen one yet.

That's all I know.

How many slides of Zen did we see that looked like from AMD and turned out to be bogus?
 

maddie

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Everybody better pray that these are faked, for Intel's sake.

If not, then let no one here ever tell me not to quote Wccftech.


Slider #48 quotes Wccftech 1/9/2017 article "AMD Zen Architecture for ....................Naples Will Last Four Years".
https://www.computerbase.de/bildstrecke/78687/48/

After finally stopping laughing, this attempts to portray Zen as not going to have any further improvements for the next 4 years. AMD static for 5 yrs, now Zen then a further 4 years of Naples while Intel Xeon improves on a polynomial curve.

Serious questions here.

Are many server customers that ignorant, naive, stupid?
If not, and knowing a bit of human nature, will Intel's apparent assumption that they are, and using this argument backfire?
 
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Please read the rules you agreed to when you signed up today. This post being so far off topic isn't appropriate and may get moderator action. You certainly don't want to have a black mark of infractions your first day here, do you?

It's inflammatory flamebait but it was a response to user suggesting that Intel hasn't had to compete for a while and might have forgotten how. He isn't wrong in suggesting the 2003-2007 Anti-competitive actions kept AMD from growing and limited their budget to develop which allowed Intel the 10 years without real competition. We really don't want to see Intel "remember" how to "compete".
 

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It's inflammatory flamebait but it was a response to user suggesting that Intel hasn't had to compete for a while and might have forgotten how. He isn't wrong in suggesting the 2003-2007 Anti-competitive actions kept AMD from growing and limited their budget to develop which allowed Intel the 10 years without real competition. We really don't want to see Intel "remember" how to "compete".

THEY ARE ALREADY BACK AT THAT redacted



Some suppliers are only offering Ryzen systems with crippled memory speeds. None of their excuses stack up either.




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That's a BOGUS slide.. look at it.. The AMD crap on the side was added, and doesn't line up, fonts don't match etc..

BOGUS! PROPAGANDA! FUD indeed.. Conjured up slides to stir public attention and paint intel in a bad light.. Those slides don't show up anywhere on intel's site. Intel just wouldn't do that.
I'm surprised at you Abwx.. I expect it from csbin, but not you!

This BOGUS thread should be moved to P&N. It is just click bait.

LMAO, taking this kind of personal aren't you! Relax dude nobody is calling you out. Intel is not perfect.
 
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NostaSeronx

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I am pleased with Intel. AMD did this to Clovertown with Barcelona. The shots have finally been returned.

having a hard time finding the actually super super aggressive slides...
ewh.ieee.org/r5/denver/sscs/Presentations/2007_08_Searles.pdf
//Not above slide:
(Monolithic, Native, True, etc) ((There was one that pointed towards TDP being a huge issue with any MCM approach as well. Implying, that it was worse than NetBurst TDP.))

Quote will have to do instead I guess:
“We came to the conclusion that, given the capabilities and performance with the monolithic design, it was clearly the right answer.”
- Randy Allen, AMD’s corporate vice president for server and workstation products. (2007)

AMD did this first, so it is fair game.
 

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[...] Slider #48 quotes Wccftech
[...]
After finally stopping laughing, this attempts to portray Zen as not going to have any further improvements for the next 4 years. AMD static for 5 yrs, now Zen then a further 4 years of Naples while Intel Xeon improves on a polynomial curve. [...]

Oh man thank yor pointing that slide out, I am literally in tears now. That's the most ridiculous, borderline absurd marketing from any world leading tech firm I remember.
Now I too start to doubt these slides are truly genuine because they are just too absurd, pure comedy. Quite a bunch of people at Intel must either be complete morons or have lost their minds entirly to let such fun piece extraordinare out into the wild.

So the most probable options seem to me:
1) Slides are fake.
2) AMD managed to smuggle a couple of folks inside Intel PR department and executed this as an inside job.
3) Putin hacked Intel, just because he can & for laughs.
 
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