AD102 to of the line chip

• 12 GPC
• 72 TPC
• 144 SM
• 18'432 FP32 units
• 1.8Ghz
• ~66 TFlops FP32 performance
• Samsung production

AMD, along with the launch of the Socket AM5 platform for the new generation Ryzen 7000 (Raphael) processors, will release three chipsets: AMD X670E, X670 and B650.

All three chipsets will reportedly be announced at Computex 2022 next week. The source also said that the X670E chipset version will be "special". The letter "E" in its name stands for Extreme. In other words, motherboards based on it will be flagship solutions.

It is also noted that board models based on the AMD X670E system logic set will receive support for the PCIe Express 5.0 standard, both for graphics accelerators and for M.2 format NVMe solid-state drives. The regular version of the AMD X670 chipset will only support the PCIe 4.0 standard.

Intel posted first images of their discrete GPU.

Lot of industry press post various bullshit on how competitive it will be and such.

In reality here we see 75-120W card with worst possible cooling, obviously made for multi GPU configurations.

Real intended market for this card will be CAD, 10-14bit color editing and similar applications.

GPU itself won't be really powerful.

Whole project is more like a con to distract public from full failure with moving to real 10nm and 7nm.

Some benchmarks

GPU

The PCI-SIG consortium, which deals with the development and standardization of PCI, announced that the final specifications of the new bus version will be adopted in 2025.

A single PCIe 7.0 lane can provide data transfer rates of up to 128 GT/s (gigatransactions per second) or 32 GB/s. Thus, 16 PCIe lanes in duplex (both directions) will be able to transfer data at speeds up to 512 GB / s, which is twice the capabilities of the PCIe 6.0 standard. And an SSD with a PCIe 7.0 x4 interface can theoretically provide read and write speeds close to 64 GB / s in each direction - the limit of upcoming drives with PCIe 5.0 x4 is 15.7 GB / s.

The new PCIe 7.0 standard will require the use of more complex and expensive board layouts. However, the PCI-SIG consortium notes that the choice of the number of PCIe 7.0 lanes will remain with the manufacturers, since not in all cases there is a need to use all 16 lanes. In addition, the whole new bus standard can be easily scaled up. It will be able to find application in a great variety of different electronic devices, ranging from mobile devices to supercomputers.

In the second half of the year, Intel will release Raptor Lake-S processors, which, although they bring evolutionary improvements over Alder Lake-S, will remain compatible with the LGA 1700 socket. new motherboards.

According to a Chinese source, LGA 1851 processors will retain the length and width of LGA 1700 predecessors (37.5 × 45 mm), but the range of their mounting height relative to the surface of the motherboard will start at 6.83 mm and end at 7.49 mm, which is 0.09‒0.1 mm more than that of LGA 1700 processors. Theoretically, this will allow maintaining compatibility with cooling systems that worked on LGA 1700 processors, but the downforce is not so clear due to change in mounting height of LGA 1851 processors.

Capitalism is very efficient, somewhere. DRAM prices (same as NAND) is kind of mad, due to production/consumption issues and cartel agreements that followed.

Note that even EPYC Genoa (Zen 3 bases) will keep SP3 socket compatibility.

So AMD abandoning TR4 socket is pure marketing bullshit decision, as sockets are physically same, except small wiring difference (plus SP3 has more pins used for additional memory channels and PCIe lines).

Note that AMD revolution seems like go into a stop mode. As we'll see same cores, same SMT, same DDR4, just cache will be now shared.

AMD states that they no longer aimed at any meaningful performance increase, but only (like Intel before) at reducing power consumption while keeping performance similar.

EPYC Genoa will be first with some innovation. New socket, DDR5, PCIe 5.0, and most probably, famous 4 threads SMT.

Specs

• Based on M1 Max and M1 Ultra CPUs
• Compact aluminum housing
• Six USB-C (Thunderbolt 4), two USB-A, 10 Gb Ethernet, HDMI, headphone jack and SD slot
• Up to 8TB SSD and up to 128GB RAM
• Model on M1 Max — from $1999
• Model on M1 Ultra — from $3999

AMD now wants to offer entry level 16 core CPU.

Previous lineup had been complete marketing failure outside niche markets and few large corporations.

AMD also jacked up prices for motherboards 2-3x times and this time can jack up another 30%.

Along with the new MacBook Pro, Apple will also release a new MacBook Air, also equipped with the M2 chip.

Apple's M2 chip is expected to have a 10-core GPU, though no other details have been released yet. Speed is expected to be slightly better than M1.

Special artificial limits:

• 4 lines of PCIe 4.0 only, very bad for any video related GPU processing
• lack of HEVC and H,264 encoders
• lack of any modern decoders like AV1

PCI-SIG announced that PCI Express® (PCIe®) 6.0 technology will double the data rate to 64 GT/s while maintaining backwards compatibility with previous generations and delivering power efficiency and cost-effective performance. The PCIe 6.0 specification is actively targeted for release in 2021.

PCIe 6.0 Specification Features

• Delivers 64 GT/s raw bit rate and up to 256 GB/s via x16 configuration
• Utilizes PAM-4 (Pulse Amplitude Modulation with 4 levels) encoding and leverages existing 56G PAM-4 in the industry
• Includes low-latency Forward Error Correction (FEC) with additional mechanisms to improve bandwidth efficiency
• Maintains backwards compatibility with all previous generations of PCIe technology

“PCI Express technology has established itself as a pervasive I/O technology by sustaining bandwidth improvements for five generations over two decades,” Dennis Martin, an analyst at Principled Technologies, said. “With the PCIe 6.0 specification, PCI-SIG aims to answer the demands of such hot markets as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, networking, communication systems, storage, High-Performance Computing, and more.”

“Continuing the trend we set with the PCIe 5.0 specification, the PCIe 6.0 specification is on a fast timeline,” Al Yanes, PCI-SIG Chairman and President, said. “Due to the continued commitment of our member companies, we are on pace to double the bandwidth yet again in a time frame that will meet industry demand for throughput.”

The monitor measures 15.6 inches diagonally and has a 4K resolution - 3840 × 2160 pixels. HDR and VESA DisplayHDR True Black 400 certifications are supported.

The monitor is calibrated at the factory and provides the highest color accuracy - Delta E <1. A 10-bit color representation is used, and the coverage of the DCI-P3 color space reaches 100%.

There is a built-in colorimeter. Users will be able to self-calibrate using software such as Light Illusion ColourSpace CMS.

The equipment includes a USB Type-C port with the ability to supply up to 30 watts of power to the connected device. In addition, there are two HDMI interfaces and a USB hub.

The ProArt OLED PA16DC kit includes two different stands and a lens hood to prevent glare.

It seems that they use notebook panels here.

Usually it is enough to use build in MB automatic feature.

On average it'll be 3.8Ghz for 4 cores mode + 103Mhz BCLK, overall it is 15% performance rise (it takes Intel around 4 CPU generations now to do same :-).

In reality, of course it is simpler to get i2500K for around $51.5 (like Z77, P67 does not support it)

http://aliexpress.com/item/For-Intel-i5-2500K-Processor-Quad-Core-3-3GHz-LGA-1155-TDP-95W-6MB-Cache-With/32635885077.html

Around 95-99% of CPUs work perfect at 4500Ghz, and around 30-40% on good cooler can work at 4.8-5Ghz.

Overclocked Sandy Bridge with GPU like 1050 / RX 460 still is cheapest build for 4K editing, especially with proper editor.

• Zen 3+ architecture
• 2022 release
• 4 channel memory
• DDR5-4800 and LPDDR5-6400 support
• PCIe 4.0 around 16-24 lines total
• USB 4.0 supoport
• Navi build-in GPU with ray tracking acceleration blocks
• Neural network accelerator build in

• New HDR MiniLED screens
• 16" resolution - 3456 x 2234 Retina
• 14" resolution -3024 x 1964 Retina
• Touchbar will be gone and replaced by usual functional keys row
• USB ports
• SD card reader
• More Thunderbolt ports
• M1X main chip will have better performance (up to 75% sustained and up to 120% peak).
• Price hike will happen

• LGA1700 socket (again, each year will be new socket!)
• 45 × 37,5mm size
• PCIe 4.0 or even PCIe 5.0 support
• DDR5 SDRAM
• 4 channel memory support possible

• RX 6970 XT - 6800 stream processors, 425 texture units, 160 ROP raster units, frequency 1600MHz, GDDR6 memory (1750MHz);
• RX 6900 XT - 5120 stream processors, 320 texture units, 128 ROP raster units, frequency 1500MHz;
• RX 6800 XT - 4352 stream processors, 272 texture units, 96 raster units, and a frequency of 1500MHz;
• RX 6700 XT - 3584 stream processors, 224 texture units, 96 raster units, and a frequency of 1400MHz.

Live soon.

Same as COVID Apple greed infected all new computers parts, closed and encrypted everything to prevent reversing or repair.

Life of this things will be miserable and painful, let them rest in peace within next few years.

Huawei likely to release the HarmonyOS 2.0 powered PCs in the domestic (Chinese) market powered by Kunpeng processors.

Several provinces, cities, and regions are cooperating with Huawei to establish its PC industry supply chain. This could play a potential role to bring Huawei in the PC market, starting with its own home ground.

In 2019, Huawei listed its first Desktop motherboard that’s developed based on the Kunpeng 920 Processor. The board is compatible with mainstream hardware such as memory, hard drives, and network interface card (NICs).