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  • …but if you think AMD hasn’t gone to all this trouble to break away from monolithic designs with MCDs and GCDs, and not iterate with a multi GCD design…then I dunno what to tell you bro…🤷

    It’s not as impressive as you make it out to be. Splitting the MCDs and GCDs is certainly pretty nice, but both Intel and AMD have shown to have better and more advanced packaging capabilities in their GPUs- with MI300 and PVC- the only reason they haven’t come to consumers yet is cost and complexity chiefly.

    However, if AMD using something MI300esque with RDNA 4… and failed, then yes, it stands to reason that only the monolithic skus would remain.

    Alternatively, the base RDNA 4 arch could just be so cooked they thought it wasn’t worth the effort of developing the more expensive and complicated chiplet skus.

    Or who knows, maybe it’s a combination of the two, or something else.

    Also, the idea that AMD has N44/N48 and can just glue the two together to act as their flagship is also wrong. There has to be additional interconnect logic among other things added to the two dies. If the chiplet dies are canned, then they have to do expensive and time consuming respins on their existing planned RDNA 4 dies (N44/48) in order for them to be allowed to be used in chiplet designs.







  • when MTL has a 128MB cache on SOC die.

    It doesn’t tho

    And the renders for the on package memory have the two memory chips separate from the die with no safe area on the package border, when Intel would traditionally try to have them right next to each other.

    Idk, it looks very similar to this

    And why use N3 when Intel will have Backside power with their 3nm node?

    Bcuz they are lame lol.

    Intel talked about using TSMC N3 nodes in their products before. It won’t be too surprising to see it in client CPU tiles as well.