Intel's Architecture Day 2018: The Future of Core, Intel GPUs, 10nm, and Hybrid x86
by Dr. Ian Cutress on December 12, 2018 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Demonstrating Sunny Cove and Gen11 Graphics
As part of the Architecture Event, Intel ran a number of demos on a chip that was supposedly based on the new Sunny Cove cores and Gen11 graphics.
These were development systems with these funky looking heatsinks and loud fans to ensure there was no thermal throttling. One thing worth noticing is that black bit of tape on the heatsink here, which wasn’t present on one of the other demo units.
Hello Ice Lake-U. Being a U-series heatsink, this means that the Core is likely designed for a 15W scenario.
Perhaps it’s no surprise that Intel wasn’t giving anything away in terms of the exact core count on display, speeds, feeds, and power. The demos that were present involved 7-Zip and gaming.
The 7-Zip demo was relatively straight forward, showing how the new instructions such as Vector-AES and SHA-NI in Sunny Cove can give the processor a 75% boost in performance over an equivalent Skylake based platform at iso-frequency. This falls under the ‘specialist’ improvements to the core rather than the general purpose improvements.
The other demo was Tekken 7, being run on a Sunny Cove + Gen11 machine and compared to a Skylake + Gen9 implementation. It looked a good deal smoother that’s for sure, however it was clear that it had some way to go to be fully out of the 30 FPS minimums.
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prisonerX - Wednesday, December 12, 2018 - link
And you're a special brand of pathetic. Congrats.Don't worry though, one day you'll hit puberty and things will improve.
LogitechFan - Wednesday, December 12, 2018 - link
Oh yes, amdturds are THE breed of stupid to behold...drunkenmaster - Wednesday, December 12, 2018 - link
Would that be Marvell's chip from 3 years ago that suddenly people are talking about... which is just a chip on an interposer with an HBM chip. HBM which AMD co-developed, had prototype APU packages using it in 2011 and launched Fury X with HBM on an interposer 3 years ago.Right, but AMD didn't pioneer it, because Marvell made a dramatically less complex switch using the same concept at the same time AMD did, but you know, AMD co-developed the memory, they worked with the packaging plants for years to be able to mass produce interposer packaged products and Fury X was the reason HBM went into full production in the first place.... but sure, AMD definitely didn't pioneer this latest move.
ajc9988 - Wednesday, December 12, 2018 - link
http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~enright/micro14-inter... http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~enright/Kannan_MICRO4... https://youtu.be/G3kGSbWFig4 https://seal.ece.ucsb.edu/sites/seal.ece.ucsb.edu/... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3RVwLa3EmM&t=...qap - Wednesday, December 12, 2018 - link
Well ... yeah. Intel had multi-chip CPUs almost 15 years ago (look for Pentium D). And it was mocked by AMD and its fans.I thought that the mocking intel did last month was just to remind AMD, what they said then and I found it hilarious. But maybe not. People don't change and it's completely plausible, that it was said by someone, who does't know the history.
Topweasel - Wednesday, December 12, 2018 - link
Never Mocked by AMD. They just made sure to point out that their 2 cores with the X2 and quad with the Phenom where "real" multicore chips. It mattered more back then because Intel's boards had FSB's instead of direct connections and the separate chips had to talk through the FSB and chipset northbridge to talk to each other. Also AMD hadn't been rambling on thier glue tech for years (with no product yet on market using it (Kaby-G isn't actual EMIB)) when they made their statements.AMD promoted their products said they are better because they were real. There is a negative connotation with that. But that is different then calling out your competitor for using "glue".
29a - Wednesday, December 12, 2018 - link
"Well ... yeah. Intel had multi-chip CPUs almost 15 years ago (look for Pentium D). And it was mocked by AMD and its fans."I think pretty much everyone mocked anything P4 related, you have to admit it was pretty bad.
FreckledTrout - Wednesday, December 12, 2018 - link
What's P4? To flush it down the toilet.tshoobs - Wednesday, December 12, 2018 - link
Never heard that one before! So true, the P4 was such an embarrassment.JlHADJOE - Wednesday, December 12, 2018 - link
lol this takes me right back to the days of the P4, and the awesome "x is good... for me to POOP on!" meme