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Re:AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th by Miraste on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @01:27PM (#24921573)
> new and untested Samsung 8nm process.

It is not new and untested, it's been in use since 2018.

Re:AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th by kllrnohj on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @02:31PM (#24922411)
It's been used since 2018 for smaller, power optimized designs. This would be the first significant high performance design, and at comparatively huge die sizes. Also claimed the process was semi-custom for nvidia, not the "standard" 8nm. Unclear what exactly was different, though, but depending on the changes (if any) it may actually not be yielding as well as a 2 year old process should