Monday, June 22nd 2015
AMD Doesn't Trust its Own Processors - Project Quantum Driven by Intel Core i7-4790K
One of the three unexpected products based on the "Fiji" GPU, which AMD announced at its E3 event, Project Quantum, or the quest to design a 4K-worthy SFF gaming PC, which runs two "Fiji" GPUs in CrossFire, had the press assume that the rest of the system could be AMD-based, such as AMD-branded (albeit Patriot Memory manufactured) memory, AMD-branded (albeit OCZ manufactured) SSD; and importantly an AMD-made CPU or APU. Given its liquid-cooling, the prospect of a 95W "Godavari," or even upcoming "Carrizo" APU didn't seem far-fetched. Even a 95W FX CPU could have been deployed, since AM3+ on mini-ITX is not impossible.
When taken apart, Project Quantum was shown to be running an Intel Core i7-4790K "Devil's Canyon" CPU, on an ASRock-made mini-ITX motherboard, with its non-essential parts soldered out. The i7-4790K is neighbored by a pair of half-height Crucial Ballistix memory modules, which is excusable, since there are no half-height AMD Radeon memory modules, yet. The SSD is AMD-branded. The unit features a unified liquid cooling solution that's custom-made for AMD, by Asetek. A large (200 mm?) radiator, with a single fan, cools the CPU, the PCH, as well as the two "Fiji" GPUs.
Source:
Kitguru
When taken apart, Project Quantum was shown to be running an Intel Core i7-4790K "Devil's Canyon" CPU, on an ASRock-made mini-ITX motherboard, with its non-essential parts soldered out. The i7-4790K is neighbored by a pair of half-height Crucial Ballistix memory modules, which is excusable, since there are no half-height AMD Radeon memory modules, yet. The SSD is AMD-branded. The unit features a unified liquid cooling solution that's custom-made for AMD, by Asetek. A large (200 mm?) radiator, with a single fan, cools the CPU, the PCH, as well as the two "Fiji" GPUs.
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"As you can see from the diagram above the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 employs a special design using two GPUs, each mounted on its own dedicated PCB. This design offers several advantages over a single PCB design:"
videocardz.com/56588/amd-dual-fiji-radeon-r9-fury-x2-pcb-pictured
Instead of trolling AMD spend your time doing something productive or atleast do your homework when talking about stuff. :laugh:Exactly. that guy seriously is lacking the professionalism expected of a editor. Its easy to rub it in when a company is going through a tough time due to a failed architecture / design. But does that make that commenting moron any more intelligent. No. He can't design shit and here he is proving he is just a troll with not much if any intelligence at all.
Where is the second GPU board ?
Also, if the Block is sandwiched between two GPU's, where does it cool the CPU ?
edit : The dual GPU card is a equivalent/smaller than a standard High end GPU Card of today. Of course it will fit.
All i'm saying, is you are making a broad statement that it is a dual PCB based card, with no facts whatsoever, and images that don't back it up.
This must be nipped in the Bud before it becomes 'Fact' all over the Internet.
and its their Innovation lab, they build cool stuff to show off or for blueprint for oems etc
if oems are gonna sell it, they can make a amd version, its not that hard to switch a motherboard/cpu..
if you want to show off your graphics power, why would you pick something that can bottleneck you against your graphics competitor? (if you did your competitor could pick it...)
its a touchy line to go, but you pick what you competitor can pick and obviously they would have picked intel
"the new Ford Focus is powered by an engine from Audi"
and not something like
"omg the germans took over the usa car industry" or
"ford finally realized they cannot make cars and turned to the germans" or
"History repeats itself, Ford sends money to Germany yet again"
You catch my drift.
Samsung many times uses Qualcomm SOCs instead of Exynos.
Apple uses SOCs from Samsung instead of it's own.
So many other examples probably everywhere in the technology market.
Still the only guilty here is AMD. The company that hardware sites use as a Boxing Punch Bag when they want to sell "objectivity" and "independence" from the hardware manufacturers.
Anyway, I respect AMD for having the guts to put an intel CPU in that thing. Intel is just better for gaming right now. And better for small form factor machines like quantum.
But that clickbait title. I'm pretty sure someone in AMD is mad right now
This shows a render of the topside of the block, without the CPU in the way.
AMD already have Intel setups for compatibility testing too...
to realy check the perf of your graphics you do need to test it on every platforms
I see no problem in using Intel for the time being.
But we are not stupid people and this has atleast so far, not been a sensationalist website.
Our the complained here is completely about that, if you like your sensationalist material then I guess thats your business but not something the majority of the commuters here want to see.
The PC Im on now has an Intel CPU as can be seen on my profile (not that I see how that would matter, infact I would like to know why you asked that.
Look, project Quantum is cool relatively speaking. Its a way to show what they can accomplish with their new GPU's as that is where most of the focus is currently (even on the APU's the focus is on the GPU power more than anything). Why would they chance bottlenecking their newest GPU's in a system that is trying to show off what their newest product could accomplish.
Don't hate the article or messenger, maybe the title could have been phrased differently but if anything he has done the reverse for both sides including calling NVidia out on their recent string of GPU BS (GTX 970 3.5gb, locking out overclocking through drivers twice, etc). So lets just all calm down and stop the war before we start end up with broken keyboards and monitor in our front lawns :P.
Sounds like Kitguru could possibly have some salty squirrel tears going on. The fact that they mention the Mac Pro at the bottom of the article is also suggestive of such a premise. Maybe just a coincidence? In either case to state, as this article does, that AMD does not trust it's own processors is blatantly obvious that this (TPU) article is either click-bait or disinformation (for what ever reason). Especially since not even Kitguru jumped to such a subjective conclusion in their article.
As an aside, the amount of anti AMD rhetoric coming out of TPU staff lately is a little disturbing. There were no editorials about the GTX 970 memory deal that were stating that nVidia was trying to take advantage of the customer. There have been no editorials about Intel being incompetent with falling behind their tick-tock schedule. Yet, when there might be a hint of the smallest of inconsequential things (like 6 months since last official driver, really?), there seems to be something that comes out of the "news" department lately from TPU about AMD being incompetent which usually turns out to be either a misleading title, click-bait, or a blatant lie without effort put in to check the facts.
The amount of integrity that seems to have been thrown out the window lately here is more than a bit disturbing.