News AMD's Third-Gen Infinity Architecture Enables Coherent CPU-GPU Communication

[Admin]

Renamed Infinity Architecture, AMD's 3rd-gen interconnect now allows for CPU-GPU coherency and grand performance and efficiency leaps.

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[TheOtherOne]

Maybe my next GPU upgrade will end up going AMD too. Or the one after that will be the whole PC upgrade, rather than just the GPU. Unless of course nVidia comes up with something better and interesting and maybe even "team-up" with Intel for something similar.

 

[Blacksad999]

Nvidia has had something similar for awhile now that they've been working on.

NVIDIA GPUDirect® is a family of technologies, part of Magnum IO, that enhances data movement and access for NVIDIA data center GPUs. Using GPUDirect, network adapters and storage drives can directly read and write to/from GPU memory, eliminating unnecessary memory copies, decreasing CPU overheads and reducing latency, resulting in significant performance improvements. These technologies - including GPUDirect Storage, GPUDirect Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA), GPUDirect Peer to Peer (P2P) and GPUDirect Video - are presented through a comprehensive set of APIs.

GPUDirect for Video
Offers an optimized pipeline for frame-based devices such as frame grabbers, video switchers, HD-SDI capture, and CameraLink devices to efficiently transfer video frames in and out of NVIDIA GPU memory, on Windows only.

 

[VforV]

Maybe my next GPU upgrade will end up going AMD too. Or the one after that will be the whole PC upgrade, rather than just the GPU. Unless of course nVidia comes up with something better and interesting and maybe even "team-up" with Intel for something similar.

No way intel will team-up with nvidia. Intel already said they are directly competing with nvidia in GPU space with intel ARC and their XeSS.

This is the only battle where I am behind intel, my popcorn is ready. Of course I support AMD, before both, until they screw up, if it ever happens.

Both AMD and intel will have CPU+GPU combos and nvidia is in the worst position from now on. Let's see how and what they do next in this situation (Arm CPU?) to fight back... it's not looking that good for them.

 

[renz496]

Both AMD and intel will have CPU+GPU combos and nvidia is in the worst position from now on. Let's see how and what they do next in this situation (Arm CPU?) to fight back... it's not looking that good for them

actually nvidia are the most flexible. they can use ARM, PowerPC and x86. and when it comes to x86 nvidia can choose both intel or AMD. in the past some people think that AMD will be the only one have the tech to combine their CPU & GPU properly (same case with intel). but to avoid this from becoming an issue nvidia end up acquiring mellanox which is extremely popular for it's interconnect tech. also the past few years nvidia has been building tons of ecosystem. this is where nvidia major strength is. if anything those that against nvidia acquisition of ARM are not really afraid nvidia to withheld ARM best tech to themselves only. with nvidia even if they still have access to all ARM latest tech going forward they won't be able to compete with the complete ecosystem that being provided by nvidia. so to them the moment nvidia allowed to own ARM is the moment they will be dead.

 

[VforV]

actually nvidia are the most flexible. they can use ARM, PowerPC and x86. and when it comes to x86 nvidia can choose both intel or AMD. in the past some people think that AMD will be the only one have the tech to combine their CPU & GPU properly (same case with intel). but to avoid this from becoming an issue nvidia end up acquiring mellanox which is extremely popular for it's interconnect tech. also the past few years nvidia has been building tons of ecosystem. this is where nvidia major strength is. if anything those that against nvidia acquisition of ARM are not really afraid nvidia to withheld ARM best tech to themselves only. with nvidia even if they still have access to all ARM latest tech going forward they won't be able to compete with the complete ecosystem that being provided by nvidia. so to them the moment nvidia allowed to own ARM is the moment they will be dead.

😆🤣 Love those 2 parts, especially. Must be nice up there, with your head in the clouds...

 

[husker]

If I recall correctly, the gaming benchmarks showed maybe a 5% boost with Infinity enabled using an RX 6900XT. I'd love to see some updated numbers.

 

[TJ Hooker]

Contrary to the comments above, I don't think this article or the technology discussed therein have anything to do with consumer PCs or gaming. As far as I can tell, that would require replacing the PCIe x16 slot(s) on consumer motherboards with a proprietary IF connection, which I can't see happening.

This is for HPC/supercomputers.

 

[husker]

@TJHooker - Ah, makes sense, thanks.