AMD Radeon (big NAVI) again rumored to get 80 Compute units

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  1. Fediuld

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  2. cucaulay malkin

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    no wonder mi100 has IF links,mi100s are linked with an IF bridge
    even RVII Pro cards are linked with IF bridge
    Maybe they'll think about using it on Navi,but CF support is dead

    your logic is weird.with old gcn they made more of an attempt to compete in the high end than with navi.
     
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  3. Is just a re-tool of existing SOC in the consoles far as the AIBs are concerned. Really a niche product?
     
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    MI100 is CGN (Arcturus an evolution over GCN Vega) not Navi and don't confuse Crossfire with Infinity Fabric.
    We know from the publication releases IF2 and IF3 are effectively making the whole system a big APU between various parts were even the VRAM can be used by the CPU.

    Also on IF3 is relying the upcoming MCM generation of GPUs from AMD, while we have no idea how it NV will use the MCM on their cards from next year (2021).

    So comparing IF with Crossfire is like comparing Q6600 glued cores to Zen 2 based CPU.
     
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    so how is this IF link used on navi 21 as opposed to linking two cards ?
     
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    ^
    Via pcie?
     
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    IF with no bridge ?
    and how is this going to do anything more than CF ?
     
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    Infinity Fabric is more than just a physical bus, it's also a communication protocol that can be applied across different bus's like PCI-E.
     
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    CF no longer works because of software support, game devs don't wish to add additional work by programming for it. IF is different it's hardware solution to scale up multi gpu dies, no software needed IF links the dies together at hardware level, so basically you get CF levels of performance without software problems associated with CF solution. AMD can just keep gluing more dies together to increase gpu performance using IF will also be cheaper than using monolithic gpu dies.
     
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    There is cache coherency which will be great for easing certain programming tasks.

    For the M100 in particular each GPU has two Infinity Fabric links, running at 1333 MHz, with a per-direction bandwidth of 42 GB/s. This brings the total bidirectional bandwidth to a 168 GB/s—more than twice the PCIe 4.0 x16 limit of 64 GB/s.

    So in short its better than CF because of reduced latency, increased bandwidth, and better communication protocol which allows things like cache coherency. Basically its better than CF in every measurable way.
     

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    on hardware level it seems
     
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  13. negates software layer for driver support is entirely self contained hardware & protocol *gosh :D
     
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    @Denial the thing of the gtx 480 was that it was running too hot 95 Celsius or so and was the first card ever to have a sticker warning about serious burns in touch ... The 250 watts was not that much of an issue if it was maxing out to 80-85 degrees.... But the combination of that first seen sticker temperatures to warrant it etc gave bad rep to the card was different times i remember seeing the 9700 pro requiring 4 pin molex and thinking darn that's too much .
     
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    AMD didn't use bridges since 2013, everything goes through PCIe.

    Infinity Fabric is hardware interconnect of multiple components for the AMD ecosystem.
    Upcoming Infinity Fabric 2 (Zen 3/RDNA 2/CDNA) and especially Infinity Fabric 3 (Zen 4/RDNA 3) are making the whole system effectively a behemoth APU where everything is accessible and shareable, including the VRAM to the CPU. (look at the new consoles).

    Also AMD said last October that all these are coming with the new I/O designed for the Zen 3 which is a very intelligent chip similar to the one used on PS5 which has direct access (via IF) on the NVME drives and sound chips also (where ever applicable). PS5 uses a 1 CU graphic chip for it's Tempest sound processing which can be ordered to use it's process power to boost graphics when not used and is connected through IF to the rest of the system.

    Ofc those going down the Intel/Nvidia route won't benefit from anything of the above.
     
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    so how is this going to function on rdna2 ? I'm not asking for zen 3 or console audio information so stay on topic.
    how will this differ from the usual AFR/SFR ?
     
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    It won't work on non AMD system and it would work the same as if you have 1 GPU.
     
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    not what I'm asking.
    since you corrected me that CF and IF is like q6600 to zen 2 how is this IF link thing on rdna2 gonna be 15 years ahead of what we have now ?
     
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    Still I cannot understand what you cannot understand. AMD the last 3 years used Infinity Fabric to link successfully multiple CPU chiplets to a single logical unit (CPU), is now using IF to link GPU chiplets and CPU chiplets in the same machine into a big APU.

    The GPU "chiplets" could be multiple monolithic graphic cards or multiple MCM GPUs. The system would be agnostic and a game will see the whole lot as 1 GPU.
    Also wrote the term "APU" because the CPU will have direct access to the VRAM of the GPUs as a single entity.

    SLI (and Crossfire) idea is archaic tech designed at the start of the century by 3dFX. We are 20 years later and things moved on.

    Now how Nvidia and Intel would try to combat this, I do not know. For certain AMD will keep IF locked to it's ecosystem as is a big boon to sell products especially servers.
     
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    Most of this isn't happening anytime soon.

    They'll use IF to communicate across PCI-E to the GPUs but if you run multiple-GPUs it's not going to show as one big GPU. They are still really far away from doing that and it would require massive, sweeping changes to the scheduler of the GPU + it would probably never happen to discreet GPUs, only across chiplets themselves.

    Nvidia already has NVLink - Nvidia's problem is that it can't get NVLink in CPUs outside of IBM.. which is probably where the whole buy a stake in ARM rumor is going. Intel had Omniband but they recently discontinued it.

    It will probably offer similar benefits that NVLink does over the old SLI bridge on Nvidia cards.
     
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