AMD has announced its new line of Radeon boards based on the Navi 21 GPU architecture. We have heard rumors and hints from AMD about “Big”-Navi for over a year. Our first examination of the new AIB indicates it was worth the wait. AMD hasn’t been a contender in the high-end for a while. As a result, Nvidia has enjoyed … Read more
FLOPS, TOPS, and pops compute accelerators
AMD announced its new AMD Instinct MI100 accelerator AIB. The company claims it is the world’s fastest HPC GPU and the first to surpass 10 teraflops (FP64). AMD assessed performance in their labs using their new MI100 32GB HBM2 AIB and ran it with a 1,502 MHz peak boost engine clock. That resulted in 11.54 TFLOPS peak double precision (FP64). … Read more
Similar chip as used in notebooks
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Building a dGPU that will physically fit inside a thin and light notebook, including its frame-buffer memory, while keeping the power drain down is no simple feat
(Source: Clker-Free-Vector-Images) Intel has been laying the groundwork for its new, Xe line of discrete GPUs (dGPU). The company has a long history in graphics, determined this time to avoid past mistakes. Intel has taken several runs building a discrete graphics chip to take on the market leaders. But the company has had a challenging time. They never seemed … Read more
AMD’s third-quarter was up from Q2 and year-to-year in sales. Revenue was $2.8 billion, up 57% year-over-year primarily driven by higher Computing and Graphics segment revenue. Net profit was 148% quarter-over-quarter and up 225% year-to-year. “Our business accelerated in the third quarter as strong demand for our PC, gaming, and data center products drove record quarterly revenue,” said Dr. Lisa … Read more
For Q3 2020, Intel reported a decline in sales (revenue), profits, and margins even as even though more people bought PCs, as consumers and companies adjusted to work at home. Likewise, organizations and governments pulled back on data center spending. The company also acknowledged its next generation of chipmaking technology was six months behind schedule. Overall PC sales were up … Read more
Test introduces hyper realistic, true gaming type of content
Late last year, Imagination Technologies introduced its IMG A-Series. At the time, they said it was their most important GPU launch since the mobile PowerVR GPU, 15 years ago. Now, 11 months later, the company says it has topped itself and announced the IMG B-Series—a new expanded range of GPU IP. Imagination says the B-series multi-core lets customers reduce … Read more
Nvidia and its founder, CEO Jensen Huang, deserve credit for building and delivering an astounding blivit. A blivit for those new to this channel is 5 pounds of stuff in a 10-pound bag. In the case of Nvidia’s keynote address this week, it was 100 pounds of stuff in a one-pound bag—simply amazing. The good news is, it is recorded … Read more
