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AMD's Executive Vice President Rick Bergman in an interview with The Street shed some light on the company's future plans for Zen 4 and RDNA 3, even as we are still reeling from (or coming in to) Zen 3 and RDNA 2's launches. Speaking on RDNA 3, Rick Bergman mentioned the company's commitment to achieve the same 50% performance-per-watt increase they achieved with RDNA 2, and had some interesting takes on the matter of why this is actually one of the most important metrics:
Rick Bergman then went on to talk about how exactly AMD's Infinity Cache played a crucial role in achieving these performance-per-watt improvements: it's basically a way to prevent power consumption that results from the need to address VRAM and achieving higher memory bandwidths exclusively from larger buses or faster VRAM speeds:
On raytracing, Rick Bergman is confident on AMD's design goals, which were looking at the 1440p resolution as the performance target for high-quality raytracing effects - and doubles down on AMD's advantage of having its raytracing technology shipped with both next-generation consoles in the Xbox family and PS5.
On AMD's response to NVIDIA's DLSS, which the company is calling FSR/FidelityFX Super Resolution (which will be joining AMD's Contrast Adaptive Sharpening), Bergman underlined AMD's approach to an open standard, in opposition to a proprietary one, which would only require ISV adoption:
Moving on to AMD's Zen 4, AMD is counting (naturally) on building upon the success of Zen 3, and Bergman thinks that the current state of x86 demands improvements in power efficiency and instructions per clock - which can be achieved across all areas of chip development, including core counts, frequency optimizations, and overall architecture revisions:
Naturally, the change in process node from current TSMC's 7 nm to the company's 5 nm process with Zen 4 will also factor-in on the performance-per-watt improvement, and the amount of logic that AMD can cram into the same puny die space as their current Zen 3 CPUs require. However, Bergman didn't clarify whether AMD's RDNA3 would also benefit from the 5 nm process transition that is all but set in stone for Zen 4:
It seems almost certain that AMD will prioritize the Zen 4 transition to a denser node rather than that of RDNA3, should they have to choose between one or the other. One need only look at CPU and GPU pricing and compare those with the overall die sizes to understand - put quite simply - that AMD achieves much higher margins on a n (estimated) 180 mm² - 250 mm² Ryzen 7 5800X for $449 (not to speak about the other, higher-priced CPU tiers) compared to the 536 mm² Radeon RX 6800 XT for $649.
Finally, Rick Bergman had this to say regarding Threadripper, which has been absent from AMD's talks on Zen 3:
View at TechPowerUp Main Site
Rick Bergman said:
Rick Bergman then went on to talk about how exactly AMD's Infinity Cache played a crucial role in achieving these performance-per-watt improvements: it's basically a way to prevent power consumption that results from the need to address VRAM and achieving higher memory bandwidths exclusively from larger buses or faster VRAM speeds:
Rick Bergman said:
On raytracing, Rick Bergman is confident on AMD's design goals, which were looking at the 1440p resolution as the performance target for high-quality raytracing effects - and doubles down on AMD's advantage of having its raytracing technology shipped with both next-generation consoles in the Xbox family and PS5.
Rick Bergman said:
On AMD's response to NVIDIA's DLSS, which the company is calling FSR/FidelityFX Super Resolution (which will be joining AMD's Contrast Adaptive Sharpening), Bergman underlined AMD's approach to an open standard, in opposition to a proprietary one, which would only require ISV adoption:
Rick Bergman said:
Moving on to AMD's Zen 4, AMD is counting (naturally) on building upon the success of Zen 3, and Bergman thinks that the current state of x86 demands improvements in power efficiency and instructions per clock - which can be achieved across all areas of chip development, including core counts, frequency optimizations, and overall architecture revisions:
Rick Bergman said:
Naturally, the change in process node from current TSMC's 7 nm to the company's 5 nm process with Zen 4 will also factor-in on the performance-per-watt improvement, and the amount of logic that AMD can cram into the same puny die space as their current Zen 3 CPUs require. However, Bergman didn't clarify whether AMD's RDNA3 would also benefit from the 5 nm process transition that is all but set in stone for Zen 4:
Rick Bergman said:
It seems almost certain that AMD will prioritize the Zen 4 transition to a denser node rather than that of RDNA3, should they have to choose between one or the other. One need only look at CPU and GPU pricing and compare those with the overall die sizes to understand - put quite simply - that AMD achieves much higher margins on a n (estimated) 180 mm² - 250 mm² Ryzen 7 5800X for $449 (not to speak about the other, higher-priced CPU tiers) compared to the 536 mm² Radeon RX 6800 XT for $649.
Finally, Rick Bergman had this to say regarding Threadripper, which has been absent from AMD's talks on Zen 3:
Rick Bergman said:
View at TechPowerUp Main Site
