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Internet I have two of the stars of CES 2019 right here world's first seven
nanometer consumer Radeon card all kinds of goodness $6.99 16 gigs of HBM memory
as you can see there's two eight pin powers power plugs not much there
because this is this marks am DS return to high-end PC obviously some people
think it's underwhelming but you only are gonna have to wait until probably
next month to see just how this car performs against competing cards what
people really want to know about since you're gonna know what's gonna happen
next month with this is this am DS matisse aka third-generation rising I
cannot pick up this chip we are under restrictions we can't we can only
photograph it sitting on the table totally cooled because this is the side
you want to see anyway as you can see there is the i/o chip it has the memory
controller has PCIe all on this this is a 14 nanometer part and it's hooked up
by magical infinity fabric to this eight core core well eight core cluster I
think it's an OCD or something that they're calling it but eight cores IO
gyp it's a chip lit design why is this not built on seven nanometer well some
things really don't need to be on 7 nanometre so you can do it on 14 great
you save some money some things actually run better on 14 nanometer the important
thing is these cores are seven nanometer and because it is 7 nanometre tsmc AMD
says we can just get all kinds of crazy efficiency and crazy performance out of
it and if you watch the keynote this morning from lisa suit you saw this chip
pull dead even with a core I 999 hundred K and etho is playing its cards very
close to his chest it did this with rising it did this with dread Ripper it
does it with all this chips the chip won't be available until middle of the
year so why would they want to tell Intel what they're gonna do so Intel has
six months to get ready for it so I think AMD understands people want
to know what what everything about it the clocks and all that stuff what the
Singletary performances they're not gonna tell us today but certainly
multi-core performance shown to us live on par with the core I $9.99 2k but
here's the thing MDE says that doesn't mean this part
will come out at only poi 990 hundred K performance we've got a lot of time we
just got the silicon buck maybe we tuned this up it could be
faster than a coin ionizer game I mean say that but they're very much strongly
implying that they are just showing off there it is at least as fast as a ninety
nine hundred K you could expect then it may be well north of a 900 K in
performance and of course the internet conspiracy right here see you see it
just like the face on Mars there is space in fact Lisa sue I will read you
the quote some people may have noticed the package on the package some extra
room there is some extra room in that package and I think you might expect
that we will have more than eight cores yeah so at least suit yourself has
pretty much confirmed it we're looking at it it's got room there
holy smokes folks this thing could come out probably eight core version with SMT
and maybe a sixteen core version with SMT we don't know everything in between
tube because right you have multiple tips use the other big news is first
consumer CPU for CPU with PCIe for all in this package here the cool thing is
am DS policy of not leaving by the board's behind will still be there if
you have an existing a.m. for motherboard you open it up you put in
your matisse after you flash the BIOS you boot it up you'll get PCI 3 and some
motherboards that do validation you will get PCIe 4 if they're not if they don't
validate if you say well we want you to buy a new motherboard you're gonna have
to buy a new motherboard to get the PCI you for but I'm gonna Majan we're
looking at 16 PCIe 4 legs which is basically like 32 PCI 3 lanes and
remember MD actually I think has another 4 built into it you're going to think
well I need all this for the GPU Radeon 7 is a pcie 3.0 device if you've got a
frowny face it really doesn't matter we're not pushing all the bandwidth of
PCIe by 16 4 graphics a lot of the PCIe that that you're gonna get from by 4 is
really gonna go towards storage if you think about it a lot of the small
sockets you know non thread Ripper boards you want to do for EM dot - it's
a problem you're pushing it all through a single interface it really you hit a
bottleneck so once we get 2 by 4 you could use a lot of that extra excess
PCIe lanes for storage to run for PCIe m2 drugs and not hit that same
bottleneck you might with PCI 3.0 so again you know MD says this is do the
middle of 2019 which to me might indicate June they don't say but the
cool thing about that folks is it gives you six months to guess what clock
little run at how many cores it'll have what cooler it will come with and how
much it'll cost so enjoy the next six or seven months
folks