Groo (charlie.delete@this.semiaccurate.com) on October 8, 2020 2:48 pm wrote:
> itsmydamnation (no.delete@this.way.com) on October 8, 2020 2:38 pm wrote:
>
> > While its all ARM level marchitecture for performance increase ( :) /s
> > dont kill me ) AMD actually sold themselves short in some regards.
> >
> > What i mean by that is they game tested @ 1080p not 720p which increases how often they are GPU
> > bound in a frame. LOL and CS:GO are by far the lightest GPU loads and also low CPU thread count
> > and they show ~50% performance increase. That extra ~30 points of performance over base average
> > IPC increase is going to be largely from low thread counts having access to 32mb of L3. If they
> > game tested @ 720p and picked some more notorious low thread count games ( CIV5, cities skylines,
> > etc) they could probably skew there gaming performance even higher from 26% perf improvement.
> >
> > Worth noting this is the Same 7nm process as Zen2 and thus no EUV until Zen4.
>
> They gave out numbers at 4K as well, just not in the video. I won't repost or
> quote AMD's benchmark numbers until they get their heads out of their ass and
> properly disclose test setups like Intel does. That said they are out there.
>
> Also the process is NOT the same as Zen 2, it is still a non-EUV 7nm but a different variant than
> before. AMD obviously didn't go into the weeds here when I asked, and TSMC's ever shifting naming
> conventions make things worse every time they update things, but it is not the same as it was.

N7P is the only non-EUV 7nm process that is not the original N7.

Wilco