GPU and CPU news and discussions

[Tadasuke]

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX offers 12.17 TFLOPs of FP32 and 6.07 TFLOPs of FP64, measured by AIDA64 v6.92.6616. For comparison, Intel Core i9-13900K offers about 2.5 TFLOPs of FP32. 12.17 FP32 TFLOPs is more than PlayStation 5, AMD Radeon 5700 XT or Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti. The processor costs $9,999.



source: link to @9550pro's tweet

[Tadasuke]

14900K often wins by a slight margin over 7950X or 7950X3D, but AMD Zen 4 uses less energy for the same final effect. Because "5nm" TSMC is better than "Intel 7", which is more equivalent to TSMC's "7nm".

[wjfox]

[raklian]

So... with all those obvious advantages of using a refined glass substrate, why didn't we use it in the first place?

[wjfox]

So... with all those obvious advantages of using a refined glass substrate, why didn't we use it in the first place?

My thoughts exactly!

[wjfox]

Qualcomm brings receipts: Snapdragon X Elite gets benchmarked, completely dunks on Apple’s M2 processor

By Daniel Rubino
published about 4 hours ago

- Qualcomm recently announced its Snapdragon X Elite platform built on the Oryon processor with 12 cores, peaking up to 4.3GHz, while using 1/3 the power of Intel’s current best laptop CPU.

- During the Snapdragon Summit, a live benchmarking session on two differently configured reference design laptops demonstrated how powerful the chips are.

[...]

The results are astounding and the real deal.

On PCMark 10, the results are literally off the chart compared to anything we’ve benchmarked during our laptop reviews. Both configurations hit over 13,000 on the score, whereas the ASUS ROG Strix SCAR with the brand-new AMD R9 7945HX3D, the most powerful Windows laptop we’ve tested, could only muster 9,000. Even the MSI Titan GT77, with Intel’s previous best processor, the Core i9-12900HX, could only muster 8,555.

[...] The critical thing to remember during all these benchmarks is that Qualcomm matches or beats the competition (as of today) at all these CPU and GPU tests, but at less power than the others, sometimes up to 70% less power than Apple or Intel.

https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware ... -available

[weatheriscool]

Samsung Provides Early Details of 1.4nm Chip Process
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/s ... ip-process
Samsung plans to increase its lead with GAA technology to make its 1.4nm chips shine.
By Ryan Whitwam October 31, 2023

Today's most advanced microprocessors have components just a few nanometers across, and precious few companies can produce these chips. Taiwan's TSMC owns the lion's share of the market, but Samsung is running in a distant second. The runner-up's next big chip evolution might help it gain some ground, though. Early details of Samsung's upcoming 1.4nm process node suggest future Samsung chips will offer a significant boost to power and efficiency.

Jeong Gi-Tae, vice president of Samsung Foundry, has offered up a general roadmap that could bring the company to parity with TSMC. Currently, Samsung's foundry offers 5nm (also known as SF5) manufacturing for a variety of chips. It can also manufacture 4nm and 3nm chips, but it appears Samsung only offers this technology for low-power embedded systems. Next year, Samsung will spin up a proper SF3 platform, offering customers 3nm chips with various options. However, we might not see many 3nm Samsung chips right away. Google's rumored 2024 Tensor G4 is rumored to be based on Samsung's 4nm (SF4) tech.

[weatheriscool]

Intel's Dec. 14 Meteor Lake Launch Dubbed 'AI Everywhere'
It's time to prepare for the onslaught of AI-based marketing.
By Josh Norem November 1, 2023

In September, Intel officially unveiled its first disaggregated PC architecture, codenamed Meteor Lake. The company stated it would be arriving on Dec. 14, and now Intel has added a name to the event: AI everywhere. We previously knew the company would be leaning heavily on this feature in its pitch to consumers, but now it appears to be the core subject matter of the launch. Intel is not alone on this bandwagon, as Lenovo just held its annual event with the tagline, "AI for all."

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/i ... everywhere

[Tadasuke]

Top Intel Sandy Bridge HEDT i7 in 2011-2012 ($999, about $1350 now) vs the newest 96-core AMD Zen 4 HEDT Threadripper ($9999):



PassMark comparison can be useful for some workloads and users. Obviously not for gaming or other non-professional tasks.

[Tadasuke]

processors using glass substrate later this decade

I guess this might improve performance by 50% at the same power requirements on the same fabrication node (transistor size)? Possibly even more? Pat Gelsinger already talked on stage about using glass.



Here is Intel's Newsroom article about this:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en ... rates.html