I would love to see the E8950 end up in one of these Thunderbolt 3 / USB type C laptop docks with discrete GPUs inside. The consumer version (295m) draws a bit too much power and I think only comes in 4GB configs. GCN1.2, 2048 shaders, 8GB and skirting 100w sounds perfect for the application.
I anticipate that it would end up being more complicated than that.
They would want to at least bin for chips that perform more favorably in those circumstances. I wouldn't be surprised if they would want to make other optimizations to stuff like power delivery.
Embedded systems aren't necessarily mobile, but I know what you mean.
It's just that if you have a pile of hundreds of tonga-based gpus in that lovely mxm format, and you're going to separate them into 100W and 50W configurations, then you're probably going to try to intelligently pick the best parts for each group. I would consider that to be "binning".
Radeon E6465, wow talk about some real vintage chip (Caicos). FWIW the architecture on that isn't exactly "Northern Islands", NI was a _marketing_ family, not a technical (architecture) family. Some of the chips (such as Caicos) were "TeraScale 2", whereas some (the vliw4 ones, albeit in terms of discrete chips that was just one) were "TeraScale 3".
"Finally, the last of the new Embedded Radeons is essentially a carry-over from AMD’s earlier models, and that’s the E6465. Based on the company’s much older pre-GCN 40nm Caicos GPU, the E6465 is specifically targeted at budget and very low power markets with its 20W TDP. AMD offers the E6465 in all three form factors: an MXM card, a high-height PCIe card with 4 mini-DisplayPorts, and finally the soldered MCM package." Shouldn't that last sentence say HALF-height?
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ravyne - Thursday, October 1, 2015 - link
I would love to see the E8950 end up in one of these Thunderbolt 3 / USB type C laptop docks with discrete GPUs inside. The consumer version (295m) draws a bit too much power and I think only comes in 4GB configs. GCN1.2, 2048 shaders, 8GB and skirting 100w sounds perfect for the application.Meaker10 - Thursday, October 1, 2015 - link
MXM board manufacturers can tweak the TDP all they like, it's simply a firmware setting.ImSpartacus - Thursday, October 1, 2015 - link
I anticipate that it would end up being more complicated than that.They would want to at least bin for chips that perform more favorably in those circumstances. I wouldn't be surprised if they would want to make other optimizations to stuff like power delivery.
Gigaplex - Thursday, October 1, 2015 - link
It's already a mobile destined chip. It should already be binned for lower power usage.ImSpartacus - Friday, October 2, 2015 - link
Embedded systems aren't necessarily mobile, but I know what you mean.It's just that if you have a pile of hundreds of tonga-based gpus in that lovely mxm format, and you're going to separate them into 100W and 50W configurations, then you're probably going to try to intelligently pick the best parts for each group. I would consider that to be "binning".
mczak - Thursday, October 1, 2015 - link
Radeon E6465, wow talk about some real vintage chip (Caicos).FWIW the architecture on that isn't exactly "Northern Islands", NI was a _marketing_ family, not a technical (architecture) family. Some of the chips (such as Caicos) were "TeraScale 2", whereas some (the vliw4 ones, albeit in terms of discrete chips that was just one) were "TeraScale 3".
jragonsoul - Friday, October 2, 2015 - link
"Finally, the last of the new Embedded Radeons is essentially a carry-over from AMD’s earlier models, and that’s the E6465. Based on the company’s much older pre-GCN 40nm Caicos GPU, the E6465 is specifically targeted at budget and very low power markets with its 20W TDP. AMD offers the E6465 in all three form factors: an MXM card, a high-height PCIe card with 4 mini-DisplayPorts, and finally the soldered MCM package." Shouldn't that last sentence say HALF-height?