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I wonder if the die pictures in the article are accurate representations of the difference. They surprised me, as they don't look like "adjusted layout for dif
by saltcured 3y ago
I wonder if the die pictures in the article are accurate representations of the difference.
They surprised me, as they don't look like "adjusted layout for different process options", as the 4c variant has been previously described in the press. Instead it looks more like "chopped off entire controller or coprocessor subsystems, and also shrunk a tiny bit"...
- wtallis 3y agoThat slide is clearly just an artist's imagination, not really derived from any die photo. Which is a little odd, because AMD has previously shown realistic depictions of the cores excerpted from real die shots.
- wmf 3y agoIt's not accurate. They actually didn't chop anything; Zen 4c is exactly the same as Zen 4, just lower clocked.
- JonChesterfield 3y agoIt's the same ISA, but the thing is physically smaller so it's more than turning the frequency down