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The Gamers Nexus video on the 9800X3D said that previously, X3D SKUs were kinda skunkworks things that happened after die development. And that they have wanted
by soganess 2y ago
The Gamers Nexus video on the 9800X3D said that previously, X3D SKUs were kinda skunkworks things that happened after die development. And that they have wanted to do this since 2019. Zen 5 is just the first time they had a chance to implement it because the X3D team had input on die design.
- throwaway48476 2y agoRyzen X3D was the skunkworks project not 3d cache. X3D was developed for HPC and EDA industries. They also had plans for 3 hi stacks but I guess a customer for it never materialized.
- seanw444 2y agoI wish they put the kind of effort they put into Ryzen, into Radeon. Legitimate ray tracing competition, and something at least approaching what CUDA does. I know they already do ray tracing, but the disparity is large. And I know they're already working on GPGPU tooling, but seemingly at a snails pace.
- zaptrem 2y agoIMO ray tracing remains a gimmick and the die space would be better spent on more normal compute hardware. Basically every game that doesn't have a day/night cycle can prebake their lightning and have it look nicer than any possible real-time ray tracing. Ray/Path tracing does look nice in Cyberpunk, though.