Article: AMD's Mobile Strategy
By: Ricardo B (ricardo.b.delete@this.xxxxx.xx), January 4, 2012 5:39 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Dan Fay (daniel.fay@gmail.com) on 1/4/12 wrote:
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>What I could see as possibly more realistic is for AMD to provide a fast, local
>DRAM memory in the neighborhood of 256-512MB (perhaps something like GDDR5) on its
>processors to improve embedded GPU performance. This memory could then be repurposed
>on servers and/or HPC systems as a high-speed, local, general-purpose memory.
On die?
I'm afraid eDRAM is expensive.
And again, it's access time aren't that better so it doesn't help that much with latency bound single thread workloads.
And in terms of GPU performance, AMD has no problems.
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>What I could see as possibly more realistic is for AMD to provide a fast, local
>DRAM memory in the neighborhood of 256-512MB (perhaps something like GDDR5) on its
>processors to improve embedded GPU performance. This memory could then be repurposed
>on servers and/or HPC systems as a high-speed, local, general-purpose memory.
On die?
I'm afraid eDRAM is expensive.
And again, it's access time aren't that better so it doesn't help that much with latency bound single thread workloads.
And in terms of GPU performance, AMD has no problems.