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Intel 8th Gen Core with Radeon RX Vega GPU Presentation
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#12I wonder if OEMs will find it easier to design a single 100W cooling system instead of 2 45W cooling systems to fit inside an ultrabook. Hoping for a new XPS15!
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#13Only 8x PCI-E 3.0? That's a little on the low side for a regular card, not to mention chips on the same interposer, no?
It's enough. Even top end discrete cards can't saturate 16x PCI-E 3
I guess I'd like to see much tighter integration between the two chips so that we don't have to write code that avoids the PCI bus at all costs. Today you fit your entire working set into VRAM and don't touch it from the CPU, so it's sort of hard to say "it's not a deal we don't saturate the bus anyway" when that's only because we bend over backwards to not touch the bus in the first place.
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#1442% Growth CAGR in Retail Gaming NB Sales over the last 3 years
What are NB sales?
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's enough. Even top end discrete cards can't saturate 16x PCI-E 3
I guess I'd like to see much tighter integration between the two chips so that we don't have to write code that avoids the PCI bus at all costs. Today you fit your entire working set into VRAM and don't touch it from the CPU, so it's sort of hard to say "it's not a deal we don't saturate the bus anyway" when that's only because we bend over backwards to not touch the bus in the first place.
Isn't that the kind of optimizations that you can only make for consoles, where you know that all users have the same hardware?
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's enough. Even top end discrete cards can't saturate 16x PCI-E 3
I guess I'd like to see much tighter integration between the two chips so that we don't have to write code that avoids the PCI bus at all costs. Today you fit your entire working set into VRAM and don't touch it from the CPU, so it's sort of hard to say "it's not a deal we don't saturate the bus anyway" when that's only because we bend over backwards to not touch the bus in the first place.
I would imagine that they took the best GPU chip they could afford the space and power for, and found that 8 channels was enough for 99% of their customers?
I assume adding more channels takes space, perhaps the GPU would have had to be lower performance to add more channels?
(speculating)
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#1742% Growth CAGR in Retail Gaming NB Sales over the last 3 years What are NB sales?
Took awhile to figure it out but it's "Notebook Sales" (as opposed to DT, Desktop).
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#1842% Growth CAGR in Retail Gaming NB Sales over the last 3 years What are NB sales?
Given the context, I'd assume that NB is short for "notebook."
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#19Only 8x PCI-E 3.0? That's a little on the low side for a regular card, not to mention chips on the same interposer, no?
AFAICT, Coffee Lake has 24 PCI-E lanes, 8 of which are used to connect to the chipset. If they used all remaining 16 for the GPU, then NVMe and thunderbolt connections would have to go through the south bridge, affecting latency and throughput.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I guess I'd like to see much tighter integration between the two chips so that we don't have to write code that avoids the PCI bus at all costs. Today you fit your entire working set into VRAM and don't touch it from the CPU, so it's sort of hard to say "it's not a deal we don't saturate the bus anyway" when that's only because we bend over backwards to not touch the bus in the first place.
Isn't that the kind of optimizations that you can only make for consoles, where you know that all users have the same hardware?
No, modern GPU APIs give you plenty of control over data layout, and it's the model AMD had been pimping for a while with their 'HSA' push.