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Re:The AMD Radeon Instinct MI300A's Giant Memory Subsystem by llm_trw on Sunday January 19, 2025 @12:07AM (#42753844)
Core wise Intel had the advantage until the last generation or two. The same can be true for gpus, just add a ton more memory and watch them fly off the shelves.
Re:The AMD Radeon Instinct MI300A's Giant Memory Subsystem by SecretDreams on Sunday January 19, 2025 @09:12AM (#42757131)
Intel P cores still do well against amd zen5. But their stacking cache is chef's kiss.
Re:The AMD Radeon Instinct MI300A's Giant Memory Subsystem by mschuster91 on Sunday January 19, 2025 @03:01PM (#42761138)
> The same can be true for gpus, just add a ton more memory and watch them fly off the shelves.

Yeah... for datacenters and people attempting to jump on the AI hype train. Meanwhile your everyday regular gamer has zero chance competing for GPUs with the infinite money coffers from AI.

Seriously, the sooner this crazy bubble bursts the better. I thought the shitcoin mining days were bad but at least everyone back then knew the game for GPUs was over once the first Bitcoin ASIC was released, but now? No end in sight and frankly I'm pissed.

Re:The AMD Radeon Instinct MI300A's Giant Memory Subsystem by llm_trw on Sunday January 19, 2025 @10:28PM (#42764690)
The AI bubble will burst the same way the internet bubble did:

First explosively, then never.

Re:The AMD Radeon Instinct MI300A's Giant Memory Subsystem by MindSpunk on Monday January 20, 2025 @12:22AM (#42765238)
Intel can match or outperform Zen 5 in many benchmarks (X3D still trashes them in games) and are trading blows now, they just have to use double the power envelope to do it.

Arc and Battlemage are not very competitive designs with AMD going off die size and transistor count compared to the performance numbers they're posting. Battlemage pricing however is quite good on price to performance, but again suffers from efficiency where AMD has them beat by quite a margin.