AMD Won't Be Selling 20 nm GPUs This Year
Sadly, it seems we also won't be seeing any 20 nm GPUs from AMD this year either.
Recently, we heard a rumor that there likely wouldn't be any 20 nm GPUs from Nvidia this year. Now, it seems that the same applies to AMD.
The meeting in which the information came to light was about AMD's finances, but a couple of details about AMD's future plans also came up. AMD's Senior Vice President Lisa Su indicated that AMD is working on designing 20 nm GPUs, but they won't be arriving this year.
"So what we've said in the past is certainly this year all of our products are in 28-nanometer across both, you know, graphics client and our semi-custom business. We are, you know, actively in the design phase for 20-nanometer and that will come to production. And then clearly we'll go to FinFET. So that would be the progression of it."
"I think what I said earlier sort of what we're doing in terms of technology strategy, we are 28 this year, we have 20-nanometer in design, and then FinFET thereafter."
It is not clear what this means for the graphics market. Expecting 20 nm chips to hit shelves this year still might have been a bit ambitious. Whether AMD is working on another generation of graphics hardware based on the 28 nm lithographic process is unclear, but it is possible that the Rx 300 series of cards, or at least the introductory cards, will still be based on the 28 nm fabrication. This is simply a thought though, so do be sure to take that with a grain of salt.
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but AMD please spoil something new for us, like nvidia did with gtx 750 ti
Guess I should do some research before I post... Tri-Gate is Intel's version of FinFET. So AMD is will be three or four generations behind when they finally manufacture on it.
Just do what intel does and take the same die design and shrink it onto the 20nm process and pray for a successful hail mary...
If anything, it seems like AMD may skip planar 20nm and wait for FinFET.
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(being that nVidia simply OC'd and re-badged the 600-series)
Damn, AMD is losing battles in all fronts!
Damn, AMD is losing battles in all fronts!
no, the gap won't lessen. amd has made a big performance jump with kaveri's igpu. intel's igpu is weaker by design and gets worse support from drivers.
that's not the most important reason. the most important reason is price. intel's top desktop sku with iris pro cost more than twice kaveri's price and comes soldered to the motherboard.
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(being that nVidia simply OC'd and re-badged the 600-series)
Are you slow or just stupid? It is called the tick-tock strategy and every tech company uses it. You release a new generation of processors on a new die shrink, then you release a 2nd generation of it under optimal conditions/tweaks.
That is how it has always worked, that is how it will always work, until we hit a wall with modern computing and have to move on to the next great thing.
400->500
600->700
800->900
Same thing with CPUs and same thing with AMD. They all do this, it is how you operate.