AMD will be showing off their Zen CPU Architecture and letting people play with it on December 13th

I really hope this isn't like the Bulldozer release: Bulldozer was slower than Stars in a lot of cases.


Last edited by Breeze on 7 December 2016 at 7:52 pm UTC

Can't wait! Really want to upgrade my CPU already.. it will be Zen or Kaby Lake probably. Depends who wins the price/perf ratio and gives me most cores for my money :)

We need the AMD comeback! "Inteldia" is getting very expensive.
Meanwhile in Phoronix: The Rumor Is Back That Future Intel CPUs To Use Radeon Graphics

Quoting: CJORWe need the AMD comeback! "Inteldia" is getting very expensive.
Meanwhile in Phoronix: The Rumor Is Back That Future Intel CPUs To Use Radeon Graphics

Hmmm, apparently so! Interesting times...

QuoteThey will be letting "eSports & Evil Geniuses legend PPD" put it through its paces, I'm not going to pretend I know who that is, should I know?

Retired DotA 2 Player. Captain of the Evil Geniuses squad that won The International 5.

Quoting: CJORWe need the AMD comeback! "Inteldia" is getting very expensive.
Meanwhile in Phoronix: The Rumor Is Back That Future Intel CPUs To Use Radeon Graphics

This notice stay better explained on techpowerup

Article by courtesy techpowerup

https://www.techpowerup.com/228467/intel-could-license-amd-radeon-igpu-tech-for-future-processors

This is some parts of techpowerup article

QuoteIntel and AMD's cross-licensing arrangements could get more equitable in the future, with reports hinting at the possibility of Intel licensing AMD Radeon intellectual property to be used as Intel processors' integrated GPUs.

Rumors of such a deal were first reported by HardOCP this Spring, where it stated that the two companies were negotiating a licensing agreement.

Earlier this week, HardOCP editor Kyle Bennett commented on the site's forums that a licensing agreement has been reached between the two, even though Intel does not want this to be public.

Such an agreement could see AMD sharing designs of its Radeon integrated graphics processors with Intel, which will integrate it into its processor designs, and manufacture them.

Whether the amalgamated graphics solution will continue to be branded "AMD Radeon" or whether it will be marketed under the Intel graphics brands, remains to be seen.

Apparently stay related with intel could use some amd gpu techs (in past them make same thing)

For this reasons intel skylake gpu for example support all DX12 capabilities (thanks them can use some nvidia technologies (previous agreement) and some amd technologies too)

Maybe this new agreement could be announce big changes in vega, some time ago appear information about vega related different design (in vega apparently some units stay deleted for gain better ratio watt/performance) compared to polaris

Only needs wait, however this technologies maybe could visible when intel launch cannonlake with respective gpu (Gen10 ?)

^_^


Last edited by mrdeathjr on 8 December 2016 at 1:12 am UTC

I want the return of the old fashion CPUs: A pure CPU only. I don't want to pay for an integrated GPU garbage that I will not use.

I really miss the old AMD days of CPUs with hidden cores.

Quoting: Comandante oardoI want the return of the old fashion CPUs: A pure CPU only. I don't want to pay for an integrated GPU garbage that I will not use.

I really miss the old AMD days of CPUs with hidden cores.

One of the few upsides to integrated GPUs is they usually come with hardware encoders/decoders. They're also a nice, handy backup for when everything decides to break on you.

Quoting: niarbehtOne of the few upsides to integrated GPUs is they usually come with hardware encoders/decoders.

That's not true. Dedicated GPUs are also equipped with hardware encoders/decoders (VDPAU for decoding and HVENC for encoding in the nVidia's case).

Quoting: niarbehtThey're also a nice, handy backup for when everything decides to break on you.

A really unneeded backup for our money. And in place of more CPU cores which could be put to use, like, in 3D rendering or CFD. Integrated GPU's are garbage for high-perfomance solutions and sholud be only used in "typewriter-PC" machines for text processors as sole video cards.