News Intel’s Sapphire Rapids Processor in LGA4677 Form-Factor Poses for Camera

[Admin]

Photos of Intel's looming Sapphire Rapids chips have emerged.

Intel’s Sapphire Rapids Processor in LGA4677 Form-Factor Poses for Camera : Read more

 

[greatmaharg]

"[AMD has] inconsistent performance from 4 glued-together desktop die." - Intel marketing dept.

 

[rtoaht]

"[AMD has] inconsistent performance from 4 glued-together desktop die." - Intel marketing dept.

...and they were right. Naples provided inconsistent performance due to the was the memory subsystem was broken down in 4 chiplets. Due to NUMA, whenever one chiplet needs to access the non-local memory (located in other chiplet) via infinity fabric, the performance tanked and it also came with latency penalty. 2nd gen Rome significantly improved (but not fully resolved) this issue with better memory architecture and larger cache. Finally, "glue" is actually a technical term which was previously used by AMD marketing department to deride Intel's old dual core CPUs.

 

[spongiemaster]

"[AMD has] inconsistent performance from 4 glued-together desktop die." - Intel marketing dept.

And Intel was factually correct about the inconsistent performance, though the glue part was unnecessary. AMD acknowledged this when they released the game mode for Threadripper that disabled one of the CCXes.

 

[PaulAlcorn]

Any guesses on what that FPGA is there to fix? 😛

 

[spongiemaster]

Any guesses on what that FPGA is there to fix? 😛

The Pentium division bug?