What was difficult to imagine until recently could already become reality in the coming year: AMD should be well on the way to pushing Nvidia from the performance throne after Intel with the desktop processors now with the graphics cards.
At least that is what he wants for his information and leaks that have been accurate in the past Tech-YouTuber RedGamingTech have found out.
According to this, AMD should have a clear advantage over Nvidia in one decisive point, more precisely through the so-called chiplet design. You can watch the whole video here:
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What is a chiplet design?
In a chiplet design (also called multi-chip module or MCM design), a processor (regardless of the type) does not consist of a single, monolithic chip, but is made up of several smaller chiplets. The advantages of this architecture concept:
- Yield: Increased yield per silicon wafer (the wafers are round, smaller chips fill the area better) and less susceptibility to errors in production.
- Scalability: Graphics units can be scaled better with chiplets in terms of size.
The concept is not entirely new. AMD has been using it very successfully for several years with its Ryzen processors such as the Ryzen 9 5900X from the following GameStar test:
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Why hasn’t chiplet design been used in GPUs for a long time?
A number of problems arise with graphics chips that differ from processors. Compared to CPUs, for example, it is much more important to keep the latencies as low as possible so as not to slow down the image buildup that is fast for graphics.
How does AMD intend to solve this? According to RedGamingTech, so-called “active bridges” are used to connect the individual chip sets with one another. At the same time, all chiplets should access the same cache.
The YouTuber assumes that the top models of the Radeon RX 7000 series consist of up to three chiplets: two with the processing units of the render pipeline and one with the I / O functions.
What is the advantage over Nvidia?
At the moment there are many indications that Nvidia will continue to rely on a monolithic design with the upcoming generation of graphics cards, which will be codenamed Lovelace and will probably be called RTX 4000. According to current rumors, Nvidia will only switch to an MCM design with RTX 5000 (expected release: 2024).
AMD would therefore be able to produce larger chips more cheaply than Nvidia. At the same time, according to RedGamingTech, efficiency should also be significantly increased, which, conversely, could mean even higher clock rates. Here, AMD can already refer Nvidia with the current GPU generation in its place, as does our test on the RX 6700 XT occupied:
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Nvidia isn’t completely helpless
Even if AMD should actually be able to outsmart Nvidia in terms of rasterization performance, there are areas in which Nvidia should continue to have the lead:
For us gamers, the new balance of power in graphics cards is very gratifying, which we have already seen in the comparison between the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT and the Nvidia Geforce RTX 3080.
The big catch However, these generations are known to have very poor availability and extremely high prices. How long these problems will probably last and what the reasons are, you will find out in the following article.
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It is therefore quite conceivable that the next generations of graphics cards from AMD and Nvidia will still have to struggle with such problems, albeit in a hopefully weaker form.
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