Quote:
Originally Posted by RussianNeuroMancer
|
ROCm is actually something different from HSA/hUMA as you can see that it also lists "Carrizo" APUs as 'Not Supported' even though Carrizo was in fact the first APU with full HSA/hUMA support (AMD would advertise Kaveri, the gen before, as only having "HSA features").
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by https://www.amd.com/en-us/press-releases/Pages/amd-discloses-architecture-2015feb23.aspx
The additional transistor budget also allows Carrizo to become the first processor in the industry designed to be compliant with the HSA 1.0 specification developed by the HSA Foundation.
|
----------------------------------------------------------------
Quote:
Originally Posted by iwod
We finally have a decent alternative to Intel x86.
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by mzso
Oh? What is that?
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by foxyshadis
ARM64 is a darling in some circles...And then, of course, there's GPU.
|
I'd just like to point out that
all Ryzen processors support AVX2, and this even includes the lowly Ryzen 3 2200U and Ryzen Embedded V1000 (both of which are 2core/4thread parts much like their Pentium equivalents). I'm not sure how much Doom9-ers keep up with PC hardware news, but Intel has made a
major fumble with their 10nm node which has left the door wide open for AMD's Zen2 + 7nm architecture to quite possibly clean house next year.
And of course, most of the lower core-count Ryzen parts (4c/8t and less) also have a relatively powerful iGPU as well (there's only a few 4core Ryzen parts that lack an iGPU, and they're all on desktop anyway).
Also,
technically this isn't a "finally" as AMD was very competitive with Intel in the first half of the 2000s (Athlon XP to Athlon 64 x2) as well as with the late 2000's Phenom II parts (particularly the Phenom II x6). It's only been since 2011 with Intel's release of Sandy Bridge and AMD's "Faildozer" that Intel became so absolutely dominant in the CPU space.
...unless you were talking about the ISA of x86, in which case you can largely ignore everything I just said. :P It is worth pointing out though that 64bit x86 (that is, "x86-64") is actually an AMD creation and therefore both Intel and AMD cross-license with each-other.
But in other non-x86 related news, both AMD
and Nvidia not only make ARM CPUs but are also part of the RISC-V Foundation.