AMD's 'Revolution' will be televised ... if its CPU-GPU frankenchip Kaveri is a hit

The Register ^ | 14 Jan 2014 | By Rik Myslewski,

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Graphics and x86 cores are all just 'compute units' now for our games, videos and apps

AMD has released its long-awaited Kaveri processor, the first accelerated processing unit (APU) to incorporate both on-die CPU and GPU cores in a heterogeneous system architecture (HSA) with a shared memory architecture.

Behold Kaveri, in which CPUs and GPUs are equal 'compute unit' partners (click to enlarge)

"We're going to need to create a new term," AMD product CTO Joe Macri said at a Kaveri briefing, "because HSA has really changed what can be done on the graphics part of the die."

That new term, Macri explained, is compute cores. "The compute cores can either be CPU cores or graphics cores," he said. "We based them on the historical definition of what a CPU is," meaning that in an HSA system, each compute core – CPU or GPU – is programmable, capable of running at least one process in its own context in its own virtual memory space, and do so independently from all the other cores on the 2.41-billion transistor, 245mm² die.

[Lx]

Will it run DOS?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Probably... in a Virtual Machine.

[adorno]

graviton particle beam from the secondary nadion emiiter

I think you went way wrong in your explanation with the part.

It's not "particle beam", but, "particle bursts".

The rest of your explanation is 100% correct.

[Marine_Uncle]

RE: "WHAT??? If you can run flighty Simulators and ...you can understand this stuff."

I guess I'm just an over the hill gang member at this this juncture in time.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The i5 will beat it on non graphic stuff.....

The Kaveri will absolutely smoke anythig Intel has on its IGP.

[Advil000]

It’s WAY short on general purpose CPU power. They’re ignoring traditional computation to achieve interesting benchmark numbers in multimedia apps.

It’s very good at things most people don’t care about. And even gamers may not like its hit-and-miss performance depending on the title.

The only place it really shines is as a hybrid HD video/light gameplay crossover. It’s fully capable of that.

And if you have tried to install a discreet video card into one of AMD’s A-series systems, you know how screwed up they are.

[adorno]

Will it run DOS?

It will run DOS, and TRES, and CUATRO, etc.

Using such a powerful chip on just "DOS", is like using an A-bomb to toast a marshmallow.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Getting tecnical...just saw this:

6-core 16nm FinFET ARM Cortex-A57 chips spotted in the wild

So I guess TSMC is close to Intel and well ahead of Global Foundaries process node.

[Marine_Uncle]

RE: "Remember...It is a "frankenchip Kaveri""

Well perhaps the towns people will have a good excuse to run the chips over as they are flung into the streets.
They may gouge the chips with hot torches and pitchforks as well.

On a serious note. I just have lost any interest in following this stuff. But thank you for the ping.

[GraceG]

[ I think you went way wrong in your explanation with the part.

It's not "particle beam", but, "particle bursts".

The rest of your explanation is 100% correct. ]

Thanks, you saved me, i would have had to explain to the admiral why this:

Happened at my court martial...

[adorno]

Don’t mention it.

We want our science and technology to be sound, as opposed to that of the “global warming” shysters. ;)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Read the interview.,....it is aimed at the laptop niche so that a laptop does not need a Nvidia Optimus graphics card.

/They have a leg up on Intel in that little niche.

They also spit out the desktop chips,,....but not so potent in that arena.

May wipe out the market for Graphic cards selling for less than ^100 dollars.

Nvidia got is Maxwell cards out quickly for the just over 100 dollars...

[Charles Martel]

Many complain that does not have enough serious traditional CPU horsepower,...no much complaining about the serious graphics horsepower

Sounds like it could be a great choice for small home theater PCs with silent/passive cooling and the next generation of Roku-type streaming video boxes. If the power requirements and heat generation aren't unmanagable, of course.

[GraceG]

[ We want our science and technology to be sound, as opposed to that of the “global warming” shysters. ;) ]

They thinkt he carbon Balance on a M-Class planet is finicky.... HAH, you can have HUGE variations on Minshara Class planets with little effect...

NOW Anti-Matter... that stuff is TRICKY!!!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See #32.

That seems to be where they were aiming....

But the A10-7850K needs a good cooler.

[adorno]

NOW Anti-Matter... that stuff is TRICKY!!!

It gets less involved if you just call it "TRICKY Matter", because, there's a trick to finding the stuff.

[GraceG]

[ It gets less involved if you just call it “TRICKY Matter”, because, there’s a trick to finding the stuff. ]

You don;t find it, you make it, you just take regular run of the mill Deuterium and then simply rotate it along the 4th dimensional axis to make it into anti-matter....

And by simply I mean that is the “Trick”...

[FXRP]

This probably means that three years from now I won’t have to buy a graphics card for my new desktop builds and I’ll still be able to afford the computer.

Does anybody know of an affordable graphics card that will run three monitors simultaneously or do I have to buy two cards?

[adorno]

You don;t find it, you make it, you just take regular run of the mill Deuterium and then simply rotate it along the 4th dimensional axis to make it into anti-matter....

And here I thought all along that, it was "muon mesons" that had to be rotated, and that it had to be done in the 5th dimension thru the 11th.

I would propose that, the "5th Dimension" is preferable, since, muon mesons are more musical that way, and musicality makes them transientially inclined. which makes them the essence of anti-matter and antimasons.

The science isn't settled on that issue, and it's open to more debates. We'll have to consult with Gore and M. Mann for the consensus view.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest.

6-core 16nm FinFET ARM Cortex-A57 chips spotted in the wild
http://semiaccurate.com/2014/03/03/6-core-16nm-finfet-arm-cortex-a57-chips-spotted-wild/