We talked a lot about architecture MCM AMD and although we have provided at that time some details on what we can expect based on cost, we do not yet know all the details.
With MCM AMD was not only able to double the number of cores and leave its competitor less than half its CPU, but the price performance rate against Intel is four times as good as compared to the front-end server, how is this information possible?
Chiplets and their linking: keys to reducing costs
For Ryzen, AMD faced two very different goals in the short term. The first was to maximize the performance of its benchmarking systems to match or surpass Intel, while the second focused on increasing the efficiency of headaches per CPU.
These two easy-to-understand concepts have some meaning, and that is that they have a very important and very little meaning to this: the interaction between their elements, or in other words, how they are linked to each other.
Although AMD did not factor in this, we have already seen the performance of Infinity cloth and its surroundings, as well as I / O Die, are summarized by chiplets and buses as well.
This new design has become an integral part of AMD to save amazing costs compared to traditional monolithic projects, but how much are we talking about cost savings?
Up to 50% of the cost reduction and no option for running a 64-core CPU
Focusing on a completely new design in the form of a product such as processors has many benefits. In addition to renaming its development to other low end processes, internal synchronization allows for better adaptation to market segments.
These types of strategies are referred to as average costs and in the case of AMD they think their Zen 2 build is twice as cheap as it would be when done in a monolithic format.
In other words, if AMD followed Intel's approach, its processors would have been 50% more expensive and would have recalled to all 48 cores, it may not be possible to perform a 64-core CPU under 7 nm of TSMC.
Speaking of processors in particular, AMD states that with the Ryzen 9 3950X it costs twice as much cost than the same monolithic processor. This approach across its product line allows the Ryzen 3000 to offer affordable prices and high quality weddings vendors, or with a mid-range CPU.
This "increased" when AMD reached the maximum number of submissions, which reduced the final number of processors while maintaining both benefits.
What is clear is that the way forward in terms of cost / performance is this way and soon Intel will have to admit that it's too late to fight, no matter how much Foveros / Co-EMIB technology or 2.5D placement is ready. or standard 3D, because there is still some year to see them work so well.
