Hardware support: (Extremetech) AMD Has Scaled Ryzen Faster Than Any Other CPU in the Past 20 Years

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(Extremetech) AMD Has Scaled Ryzen Faster Than Any Other CPU in the Past 20 Years

Posted: 09 Oct 2020 07:14 AM PDT

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NVIDIA limits GeForce RTX 3090/3080 Founders Edition US sales to BestBuy - VideoCardz.com

Posted: 09 Oct 2020 01:45 PM PDT

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Confirmed by Microsoft: AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series Graphics supports AV1 decoding

Posted: 10 Oct 2020 01:56 AM PDT

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From a manufacturing point of view, what does the "maturing of a process" actually entail?

Posted: 09 Oct 2020 01:57 PM PDT

It's no secret that when a company like TSMC first move to a new manufacturing process, like 7nm, yields are relatively poor, prices high, and the potential performance of a given processor architecture developed on that process limited. However as time goes on, those yields are improved, costs come down, and the performance potential increases in the form of increased overclocking headroom.

But what, exactly, does this "maturing" entail? It's obviously nothing automatic, like a wine that passively gets better with time. Something happens within the semiconductor company. Is it a change in the lithography machines, hardware changes & fine-tunings allowing for better precision in the lithography process, is it a greater understanding of said machines by their operators such that they're better able to extract more performant silicon out of them?

I was spurred to ask this when listening to Buildzoid from Actually Hardcore Overclocking in a recent video, where he talks about his launch week Ryzen 7 3700X not being able to hit 4.1 GHz all core, but recently produced 3700X's hitting 4.4, 4.5, or even 4.6 GHz with cranked up voltages (in the context of his OC-centric, score-seeking world, I assume, not any long term stable day to day OC). That's a significant change on the same architecture, built on the same process using presumably the same machines.

Any insight on the subject would be most welcome. Thank you.

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Intel Rocket Lake-S PCIe 4.0 performance allegedly tested on Z490 motherboard

Posted: 09 Oct 2020 06:37 AM PDT

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Asus ROG Strix Gaming RTX 3090 Review, Thermals, Overclocking & Gaming Benchmarks

Posted: 09 Oct 2020 10:26 PM PDT

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With what we can extrapolate from the Zen 3 announcement yesterday. What can we expect from the Zen 3 Threadripper cpus?

Posted: 09 Oct 2020 08:25 AM PDT

Like the Ryzen 5000, I expect TR to have the same IO die. However, with the new L3 design. What multicore performance can we expect?

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