Discussion RDNA 2 6nm Refresh

[GodisanAtheist]

AMD Allegedly Preparing Refreshed 6 nm RDNA 2 Radeon RX 6000S GPU

AMD is allegedly preparing to announce the Radeon RX 6000S mobile graphics card based on a refreshed RDNA 2 architecture. The new card will be manufactured on TSMC's N6 process which offers an 18% logic density improvement over the N7 process currently used for RDNA 2 products resulting in...

www.techpowerup.com

- 6nm would bring 18% higher density (so more dies per wafer) + some performance or efficiency improvements as AMD chooses to tune the dies (Performance for desktop/Efficiency for laptops I suppose).

My understanding is that 6nm is a clean shrink of 7nm without the complexities and overhead of a full node shrink.

Wonder if AMD will end up running a couple simultaneous lines: 7nm for their 6000 series mainstream and bulk cards, 6nm for their mid to top end 6000 series S cards, and eventually 5nm for their RDNA 3 top end parts. Shift everything down a tier when 4/3nm whatever show up.

 

[RnR_au]

I just posted above where videocarz said N6. Is this BS?

videocardz doesn't mention N6 in that article from what I can see? And the rumour mill on twitter backed away from N6 being used for an across the board refresh back in Feb.

 

[LightningZ71]

RDNA2 AVERAGE frame rates don't scale much with memory overclocking. However, 1% lows DO gain a notable amount from faster VRAM. Cache misses do hurt. Texture loads do take a nontrivial amount of time. Both of those are heavily dependent on VRAM speed.

 

[Ajay]

videocardz doesn't mention N6 in that article from what I can see? And the rumour mill on twitter backed away from N6 being used for an across the board refresh back in Feb.

Heh, the link that took me to that article did. Meh.