AMD Announces 7nm Rome CPUs and MI60 GPUs - Breaking News

11/6/2018 AMD Announces 7nm Rome CPUs and MI60 GPUs - Breaking News
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We're here at AMD's New Horizon Event to bring you up to the minute news on the company's 7nm (Update)
products. This is breaking news, so check back frequently or refresh the page for updates.
AMD is expected to make major announcements about its new 7nm CPUs and GPUs. Intel continues
to struggle with its 10nm manufacturing process, which is delayed until late 2019. If AMD can field
7nm processors early this year, it will mark the first time in the company's history that it has had a
process node leadership position over Intel. That should equate to faster, denser, and less power-
hungry processors than Intel's 14nm chips.
AMD CEO Lisa Su is delivering the opening statements. She is recounting the path of the EPYC data
center processors to market and discussing many of the key roles those processors are used for,
such as workloads in HPC, cloud, hyperscale, and virtualization environments. AMD sees the data
center as a $29 billion opportunity by 2021, and GPUs are playing a larger role as the industry shifts
to artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads.
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Amazon Web Services, one of the world's largest cloud service providers, announced that, beginning
today, it is offering new EPYC-powered cloud instances. The R5a, M5a and T3a instances purportedly
will offer a 10% pricing advantage over AWS's other cloud instances.
Mark Papermaster will cover the new Zen 2 cores and AMD's 7nm process technology. AMD will also
revel more about the 7nm Mi60 Instinct GPU for the data center. AMD will also provide early
specifications for AMD's Rome, the first x86 7nm processor for the data center.
AMD is already sampling its 7nm Rome processors, which mark th debut of the Zen 2
microarchitecture, to customers. The firm also has its Zen 3 processors under development. This
third-gen microarchitecture will debut on the 7nm+ process, with the "+" indicating this will be a
second generation of the 7nm node (a "tock" equivalent).
The new processors features faster, smaller, and lower-power transistors. As with all new nodes,
development requires a significant investment from both AMD and TSMC, which will fab the parts.
Zen 2 will provide up to 2X the compute power per node, improved execution pipeline, doubled core
density, and use half the energy per operation. AMD has doubled floating point performance with
the Zen 2 microarchitecture.
AMD has improved the branch predictor and pre-fetching. AMD also doubled the vector width to
256-bit. We'll follow up with deeper analysis. This type of technical data isn't well suited for live
public disclosure.
AMD has improved the Infinity Fabric. AMD is now using the second-gen Infinity Fabric to connect a
multi-chip design with a 14nm I/O die serving as the linchpin of the design, tying together 7nm CPU
chiplets. We'll follow up with deeper analysis of this design. Note that the DDR4 controllers are all
attached to the central I/O chip. That will result in higher memory latency for all connected
controllers, but the latency will be consistent for all compute chiplets (assuming perfectly linear data
delivery across the fabric). That should be a major step forward for AMD to address concerns about
performance variability.
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David Wang displayed the world's first 7nm GPU. The die wields 13.28B transistors and measures
just 331mm2. The GPU is based on the advanced Vega architecture and is the first PCIe 4.0 GPU on
the market. It also is the first to use the Infinity Fabric over the external PCIe bus. The first GPU to
have 1TB/s of memory bandwidth. offers up to 7.4 TFLOPS FP64, 14.7 TFLOPS of FP32.
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AMD also presented performance benchmarks highlighting the generational performance gains
relative to 12nm GPUs, and also scalability benchmarks to highlight gains due to the increased PCIe
4.0 bandwidth. The company also provided direct comparisons to Nvidia's V100 GPUs. These results
are, of course, vendor-provided, so we'll have to dive deeper into the conditions of the benchmarks.
AMD presented its new GPU roadmap. Shipping MI60 this quarter. "MI-Next" is in development, but
with no firm date given for delivery.
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PAUL ALCORN @PaulyAlcorn
Paul Alcorn is a Contributing Editor for Tom's Hardware US. He writes news
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Feel the hype!
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Damnnn this is looking good!!
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Next Horizon*
New Horizon happened nearly 2 years ago ffs.
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