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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.Keep in mind, for AMD, they treat designs like building blocks. The current rumor mill has AMD preparing two mass market chips relevant...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.Notice, I said Strix Point, not Halo... Strix Point is far from the ideal platform for AI development...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.Balance... NPUs become VERY quickly memory bandwidth bound. Enlarging the NPU on Strix without drastically increasing dram bandwidth...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Antivirus maxing out 8 threads.check my edit above...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Antivirus maxing out 8 threads.Haswell can't run an Optane in it's cache configuration anyway, that was 7th gen or later. You CAN try to get ReadyBoost to enable...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.AMD stubbed their toe in two spots: The late changes to Strix Point by removing the MALL cache and inserting the NPU/Die Waste Unit...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Antivirus maxing out 8 threads.Do you have an SSD or a mechanical HDD that it's scanning? If you have an NVME/PCIe SSD, is it one of the el cheapo cacheless ones, or...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.I just don't think that they are getting the kind of traction that they thought they would with HALO. I think that they're going to...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Intel Nova Lake in H2-2026: Discussion Threads.It seems like Medusa won't gain a lot by doing an incremental upgrade of memory bandwidth and 20% more CU. It'll wind up more memory...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.Either they are using the absolute loosest bins possible to get the maximum number of viable dice per wafer, or they used the densest...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Intel Nova Lake in H2-2026: Discussion Threads.This was my original understanding, that Medusa would be just a CCD swap and keep the same IOD. Lately though, I've been seeing rumors...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Intel Nova Lake in H2-2026: Discussion Threads.This isn't a Gaming vs professional type issue. AMD still keeps IPs on node families. They don't have an older IP on N3 to implement...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Intel Nova Lake in H2-2026: Discussion Threads.Medusa Halo will, unless AMD changes their ways, have to be on a post RDNA4 architecture. They don't have an completed N3 family design...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Zen 5 Speculation (EPYC Turin and Strix Point/Granite Ridge - Ryzen 9000).I don't put it past AI bot agents to start joining forums and pumping members for information some day really soon...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion AMD SoC Halo series GPU discussion....AMD, you know you want to make a single CCD Strix Halo with a fully enabled iGPU and call it the Z2Ultra...
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