• Mack4285@alien.topB
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    11 months ago

    The desktop APU rumors continue to disappoint. No 7700G? No 7900G with at least 18CU:s? No imminent launch, instead talk about CES or even more far away? And then next year nothing happens. Cycle repeats for 8000G.

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      11 months ago

      How the hell are they supposed to make an 18CU part? The top die stops at 16.

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      11 months ago

      These are rebadged Phoenix chips, which are monolithic to get higher efficiency in laptops. They top at 8 CPU cores and 12 GPU CUs. Even 12 CUs are an overkill for the memory bandwidth made possible by DDR5/LPDDR5/X.

      There are no 18+CU Phoenix chips because there hasn’t been a solid case for >128bit memory width in PCs, nor Infinity Cache in APUs.

      It makes little sense to make up armchair specialist numbers and then complain that AMD didn’t put those in the market.

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        11 months ago

        I read a 18CU and 24CU rumor long ago. If that is pointless then so be it. Thanks for clarifying.