Reader Mail for May 2021 Loose Ends

...... Frog slayer Dan? I was thinking it was Dan the crispr men

Dragonetti 031

Do you feel Intel's lack of live comparison at Computex between engineering sample 'Alder-lake' and a Zen 3 in gaming was potentially telling?

JBG84

Tom, any new thoughts on nVidia 'Hopper'? Consumer or datacentre? And when?

JBG84

Hi Tom and Frog slayer Dan. I just wanted to brag about my wild guessing in that die shrink that RDNA3 MIGHT have some 3d stacked SRAM involved, thanks to some paper I read about bumpless TSVs on HBM, which has certainly been somewhat vindicated by that Zen3D announcement :D On a more serious note, as i'll be looking to buy DG2 next year, do you know if it has any arbitrary performance limiters for pro/CAD apps such as Solidworks. I would like it if I weren't shegged for the sake of trying to push me towards a more expensive Quadro/intel pro equivalent that i'll never buy. Thanks you guys, and keep up the hard work!

AC_666__

Hey Tom do you have any word on Intel's 11900KB, according to Intel's website it is a Tiger Lake 10nm 8 core 16 thread processor for desktop . I have seen only one article about it a week ago and no one has mentioned it since, do you have any information about this?

Kinihun25

You talked about amd and nvidia needing to have a proper lineup by the time supply starts catching up with demand, so whats up with the 3050 and 6500/6600 gpu's? 6600xt might come out very soon on desktop but the rest i havent heard anything about. (3050's are in laptops but im talking desktop)

Uwhm

Do you think Intel adopting FSR will guarantee it becomes adopted in the industry?

With the 3070ti assuredly not being more than 10% than the 6800 in performance, do you think that the 3070ti will be competitive in the long term? Why did Nvidia not put 9 or 10 gb on the 3070ti.

I know you continued to say that Intel XE will be a transcoding monster, but will the quality increase? Current encodes are unusable in a professional setting (think tv production) while Nvidia gets close they are not as good as industry grade transcoding software and hardware.

Alexandru Tudorica

How much pressure do you think Nvidia is going to be under to get FSR integrated into/optimized for their drivers? The 1060 AMD used in their demo is obviously a shot across the bow, but since Nvidia kept G-Sync monitors alive for years before adopting FreeSync in their own stuff, it seems like they might just push DLSS more for a while instead of integrating FSR.

Cleansweep

Keep up the good work, your podcasts are the best for long distance driving sold my GTX 1080 for 550$ last month. Slummed it with a R9 380 that i borrowed, now im waiting on my RX 6800XT that i got at msrp of 649$ just wanted to share the good news.

I Dude

Why haven’t either AMD or Intel put RAM on package for laptop chips like Apple did with M1?

Deepest Learners

Any knowledge on zen 4 and 3D? The chip looks tall and I’m excited by the possibilities. Cache doesn’t scale so well. So a zen 4 die with less integrated cache on 5nm and vcache at 6nm could make a lot of sense. Also any potential for a shared memory architecture like Apple m1? Side note, tsmc’s conversion of 7nm to 6nm looks like how they are managing to increase capacity for 7nm.

Andrew

Will riscv be the linux of hardware world

Valko Milev

When do you expect AMD to create an APU using chiplet technology rather than a monolithic die. I would think that chiplets would offer AMD a great deal more flexibility in creating APUs by doing that.

sidlives

How excited are you about FSR? What implications would this have for laptop longevity, particularly in conjunction with RADEON Chill? And given Xe's performance likely stacks up against the 3070, how much can Intel benefit from FSR?

The Immortal Cameraman

With zen 3+ leaks suggesting it's more or less off the table at this point, and the vcache demoed at Computex being confirmed to be in consumer Ryzen is it fair to say that this vcache will be the basis of a zen 3 refresh of some sorts? And further, what place would it potentially have in zen 4?

qhfreddy

Besides the podcast episode with Jarrod's tech. What are your thoughts on rdna 2 in laptops based on other reviews (if you've seen any). How do you feel about the 6700m? Do your laptop recommendations change in light of FSR and all AMD laptops?

yoda king