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Dylan16807 6 days ago

Other than the market segmentation over RAM amounts, I don't see very much difference. There's some but there's been some for a long time. Isn't AMD re-unifying their architectures?

0x457 6 days ago | parent [-]

> There's some but there's been some for a long time. Isn't AMD re-unifying their architectures?

Yes.

> Other than the market segmentation over RAM amounts, I don't see very much difference.

The difference between CDNA and RDNA is pretty much how fast it can crunch FP64 and SR-IOV. Prior to RDNA, AMD GPUs were jacks of all trades with compute bias. Which made them bad for gaming unless the game is specifically written around async compute. Vega64 has more FP64 compute than the 4080 for context.

I think if AMD was able to get a solid market share of datacenter GPUs, they wouldn't have unified. This feels like CDNA team couldn't justify its existence.