Recent content by RetroZombie

Renoir is zen2, so?

And that would mean apple could be on the same place has intel.

Yes that account for 5ns, which ends up with a total of 20ns improvement and that bones well for the consoles.

Going from 16MB L3 into just 4MB gives less 15ns of latency.

Yes it was, but it seams every time people forget, and how much worst are the intel vulnerabities vs the others.

So it's the flop i predicted in my previous posts. The only interesting thing is the packaging, but if it's not going inside a smartwatch with all that tremendous power efficiency...

Spectre and Meltdown doesn't require the UEFI takeover. If your bios is compromised, or it was you who have done it (you are your own malicious attacker) or someone inside your company/house. Or the bios in your board was changed by someone at the foundry or even the postman. But that can be...

Weird way for represent SMT, 2X and 4X instead of 64/128 and 64/256? Otherwise the legend would say logical instead of threads?

Again? I already said it's the number of sockets for sure. The * is a warning that the socket for the 2X cpu doesn't work with a 4X cpu. Edit: No zen4? Two zen3 releases?

Imagine Mark Papermaster talking about everything that isn't inside the cpu, it would be one hell of presentation :p

Completely disagree. It's a UEFI hack that require admin access to the machine. Since all new motherboards sold come with the box open, how sure are you the travel it takes from the foundry until gets into your hands, someone didn't flash an evil UEFI bios on it? Meltdown could compromise...

I don't know, i only know it's more dense. I only found this link with all the nodes densities, but not by chip parts: 7nm vs 10nm vs 14nm: Fabrication Process

Sorry, some very bad copy paste :confused_old:

Stupid question: Since you are measuring the core size by mm2 and not transistors, your measure is based on matisse, right? Since renoir is more dense than matisse, what is the size of the renoir zen2 core in mm2?

This is the part that is very weird because according to anandtech: «Overall, Intel is using the new 10C silicon for the ten core i9 parts, as well as for the eight core i7 parts where those get dies with two cores disabled. The company has a native 6C Comet Lake-S design, but they're also using...