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VorpalFish posted:Would still be a weird move if true. Why shave 2 cores from the top end SKU shortly after introducing 10c to mainstream desktop? If they actually price at $400 it should be plenty competitive against the 5800x I guess? But the supposed leak says i7 under $400 where they could well call the x900 part an i9 so... weird all around if even accurate. I'd imagine a mix of yield (hence price), thermals, and sales figures for the 10900k. 8c/16t is the "hole" in the AMD lineup right now, with the 5800X being an objectively bad deal. If they can hit $400 or lower with it, it'd be competitive there in a way that, say, a $500 10c/20t wouldn't be against either the 5800X or 5900X. But yeah, still feels like they should have a 10c and maybe a 12c part in that lineup somewhere.
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DrDork posted:I'd imagine a mix of yield (hence price), thermals, and sales figures for the 10900k. 8c/16t is the "hole" in the AMD lineup right now, with the 5800X being an objectively bad deal. If they can hit $400 or lower with it, it'd be competitive there in a way that, say, a $500 10c/20t wouldn't be against either the 5800X or 5900X. This is supposed to be a backport of Sunny Cove to 14nm++++++++, no? I would think yields would be... pretty good at this point. Who knows I guess.
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I'd think so, too, but at that point why accept a core deficit vs Ryzen at all? It's very strange, if true.
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It's probably a thermal issue. When AMD was still on 14nm, they topped out at 8/16 for mainstream desktop - they didn't go to 12-core Ryzen 9's until Zen 2. Intel probably threw 10 cores on the 10900 because they needed to have something to compete, but I'm thinking trying to do a 10-core Rocket Lake i9 would either be too warm, or would have to be backed-off too much on clocks.
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Presumably the beefier cores require more surface area, so there's the silicon budget to consider too. They probably wanted to make sure their top end part had higher clocks than the previous generation to fend off accusations of generation on generation regression like we saw with the original cove core release.
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Thermal is actually more of a problem the smaller the process gets. AMD hits some pretty hard thermal bottlenecks on 7nm chiplets. If you reduce your surface area, you reduce your cooling capacity. It's going to be a major problem for high performance computing as we drop down to smaller and smaller nodes and try to push them to high clocks. My guess as to why 8c is that it probably wins them everything that is winnable. If they hit their IPC target, they'll be back in the driver's seat for gaming. However, there's nothing they can do to compete with AMD for highly multithreaded workloads. A 10c part is almost certainly not going to beat the 5950X, and their lead may not even be enough for it to beat the 5900X, especially without being a 500w part or something. It also leaves them room to release a 10c refresh like the 10900k, even if it will also have nothing to really offer vs the 11900k.
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They’re gonna save it for hedt because its not like theres any reason to buy intel hedt
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HEDT is dead as we know it is dead. Intel needs to rework the X chipsets as they were pre-X58. Basically higher end than the Z, but without using a snowflake/server socket to keep the CPU prices competitive. Maybe use it as the beta test platform for bleeding edge stuff like DDR5/PCIE5, just like they did with X48 with DDR3/PCIE2/UEFI. If they time it right, they could beat AMD to having a DDR5 product to market. At least that’d give them something compelling, even if on paper. Basically I’m waiting on DDR5 before my next rebuild, and anything to help that get out the door earlier even by a few months, that’d be swell. 
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Lmao at only 16MB of L3 cache.
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Laslow posted:HEDT is dead as we know it is dead. Intel needs to rework the X chipsets as they were pre-X58. Basically higher end than the Z, but without using a snowflake/server socket to keep the CPU prices competitive. Maybe use it as the beta test platform for bleeding edge stuff like DDR5/PCIE5, just like they did with X48 with DDR3/PCIE2/UEFI. Crunchy Black fucked around with this message at 06:45 on Oct 27, 2020 |
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when did HEDT become A Thing between server-grade and desktop computers, anyway?
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the Pentium Pro was Intel's first HEDT processor
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more intel info! https://twitter.com/aschilling/status/1321814041380245511 https://twitter.com/momomo_us/status/1321815529238089740
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i think im gonna hold off on buying Zen3 until Rocket Lake launches just to see. figure the 8700 in my gaming PC is good enough to push a 3080 at 1440p in the meantime.
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I'm suspecting that we won't see availability until February-March? And I am really skeptical of those IPC improvements...
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Gabriel S. posted:I'm suspecting that we won't see availability until February-March? And I am really skeptical of those IPC improvements... Skepticism is good when you're talking about companies talking about their own products, but ice lake and tiger lake both exist in the wild and have been independently tested at about +18% IPC, and given this is supposedly a backport of... Sunny Cove? To 14nm, there's no reason to think they couldn't/shouldn't be able to hit those numbers. As always wait for independent reviews before making purchasing decisions.
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That makes more sense but the whole model naming that Intel is going with is freaking insane. I need a goddamn Visio diagram.
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https://twitter.com/tum_apisak/status/1322027256701616128 21% single core improvement, dang.
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Gabriel S. posted:That makes more sense but the whole model naming that Intel is going with is freaking insane. I need a goddamn Visio diagram. Dunno man, I think AMD wins this one with the dumb Zen 2/Zen 3 SKU poo poo they’re pulling.
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Cygni posted:https://twitter.com/tum_apisak/status/1322027256701616128 21% single core improvement compared to what? Like what product is X and which product Y is 21% better?
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Ihmemies posted:21% single core improvement compared to what? Like what product is X and which product Y is 21% better? The leaked Rocket Lake results are scored 21% higher than the single-core results of an i7-10700K... ... but I'd still take these results with a boatload of salt, because UserBenchmark is a notoriously pro-Intel website, to the point of repeatedly reconfiguring their benchmark tests to suppress the ability of AMD CPUs to look good.
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I thought the only thing that makes AMD look good was blender.
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https://semiaccurate.com/2020/10/29/intels-palpable-desperation-on-display-with-rocket-lake/quote:Now on to the really bad, this Rocket Lake part and the ‘new’ Cypress Cove core. We will admit we were wrong when we said that Intel would never backport a 10nm architecture to a 14nm process because that is exactly what Rocket/Cypress is, take Ice Lake and backport it. Also backport the Xe GPUs and slap them on for good measure.
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Doesn't the semiaccurate guy like really hate Intel, or am I getting them mixed up with another semi- site?
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I thought Keller was the one pushing for design flexibility and backporting before anyone gets all lol Intel is dumb but I might be extrapolating that from his design portable to other fans talk
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Some Goon posted:Doesn't the semiaccurate guy like really hate Intel, or am I getting them mixed up with another semi- site? Yeah, dude has a semi for AMD.
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Some Goon posted:Doesn't the semiaccurate guy like really hate Intel, or am I getting them mixed up with another semi- site? He does. Raging hate boner. Have to take what he says with a huge grain of salt. Everyone talks up his big hits (which often aren’t hits its him being wrong and spinning it like 10nm) but ignores his big misses
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The performance leaks for Rocket Lake honestly look pretty good so he might need to be prepared for another mea culpa. Whether it’s enough to handle Zen3 is a diff story, but we will see!
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Cygni posted:The performance leaks for Rocket Lake honestly look pretty good so he might need to be prepared for another mea culpa. A competitive AMD causing Intel to pull out all the stops and put Hyper-threading on everything, release non-GPU versions for a few bucks cheaper, and up core counts has been really great for consumers, especially after 4 years of mostly stagnant CPU market.
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Sent from my iPad posted:https://semiaccurate.com/2020/10/29/intels-palpable-desperation-on-display-with-rocket-lake/ This is a pretty dumb take. Backporting is expensive and time consuming but if they either don't have enough 10nm capacity or aren't able to get good enough yields for 8c+ dies on 10nm it's literally what they have to do. An 18% IPC uplift will give them a product that can compete with zen3 if they price aggressively enough, even if it is less efficient.
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Twerk from Home posted:A competitive AMD causing Intel to pull out all the stops and put Hyper-threading on everything, release non-GPU versions for a few bucks cheaper, and up core counts has been really great for consumers, especially after 4 years of mostly stagnant CPU market. Now when is Intel gonna up L3 cache? I'd be real interested to see if something like Broadwell's eDRAM would be of any benefit. It was pretty compelling back then, IIRC, just maybe expensive to produce and slapped on DOA chip series.
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DrDork posted:Now when is Intel gonna up L3 cache? anandtech did a recent retrospective on Broadwell and I think they found it still punches way above its weight due to the cache
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gradenko_2000 posted:anandtech did a recent retrospective on Broadwell and I think they found it still punches way above its weight due to the cache Yeah, it was a pretty interesting way to add performance in some workloads. I wonder how fast they could push it based on a 14++++ process vs the 22nm one Broadwell used? If Intel wanted to re-take the gaming crown (or at least compellingly break away from AMD's near-parity), something like a 11700k(f) with eDRAM and overclocking headroom for a good price might be a solid offering. Which I assume is why we won't see one anytime soon.
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So I can see back-porting not sounding completely loving insane because Intel owns the PDKs themselves and hopefully they interact with their RTL designers such that everyone's using their standard cell libraries outside of the hand-tuned register file / sense amps / analog bits and what not. At the same time, these are tiny, tiny processes and I wonder what team is being hit doing the physical layout and verification work in moving those blocks / designs to the 14 nm PDK, and what work that team is therefore not doing, unless they've staffed up for that specific job which in and of itself has its own set of problems.
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Dismissing release dates, when do we expect Rocket Lake to actually be commercially available? With all of the recent delays, I'm thinking a paper launch in January but nothing until late February. 
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Gabriel S. posted:With all of the recent delays, I'm thinking a paper launch in January but nothing until late February. Yeah, I think Feb-Mar has been the general consensus. Zen3 might have lit a bit of a fire under them, but I don't know if that'd be enough to actually drag the dates left any.
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Gabriel S. posted:Dismissing release dates, when do we expect Rocket Lake to actually be commercially available? March at best, imo.
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DrDork posted:Yeah, I think Feb-Mar has been the general consensus. Zen3 might have lit a bit of a fire under them, but I don't know if that'd be enough to actually drag the dates left any. Freaking lame. Releasing new PC parts in the dead of winter would have been perfect timing.
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gradenko_2000 posted:anandtech did a recent retrospective on Broadwell and I think they found it still punches way above its weight due to the cache I just mentioned this in the AMD thread but Anandtech uses maximum supported memory frequency and JEDEC timings which is probably going to favor Broadwell.
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Arzachel posted:I just mentioned this in the AMD thread but Anandtech uses maximum supported memory frequency and JEDEC timings which is probably going to favor Broadwell. Yeah, on a platform-as-a-whole perspective I don't think anyone would be recommending Broadwell anytime soon. But by keeping the performance lift from RAM somewhat controlled (it's still DDR3 vs 4 for newer platforms), I think it does give a bit better a sense of how interesting and strong those CPUs were.
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