AMD to make Exascale HSA Enabled Supercomputing chips

32 cores, on die GPU, on die 32GB of HBM2.0, HSA... sounds like a dream more than reality. That die would be so large and that interposer would need to be even larger.
 
Yeah, stuff, but no consumer software will benefit from HSA.

Current consumer programs don't even use not-so-recent instructions ( like AVX and stuff ) and that's why we see so little improvement over CPU generations. Most programs are made with old CPU compatibility in mind... like Pentium 3.
 
Yeah, stuff, but no consumer software will benefit from HSA.

Current consumer programs don't even use not-so-recent instructions ( like AVX and stuff ) and that's why we see so little improvement over CPU generations. Most programs are made with old CPU compatibility in mind... like Pentium 3.

Consumer software doesn't matter. These CPUs in the article are for Supercomputers where they do take advantage of hardware implementations like HSA.
 
Consumer software doesn't matter. These CPUs in the article are for Supercomputers where they do take advantage of hardware implementations like HSA.


I know, I was stressing the fact that we'll probably never use new software tech in a long time, even if it's already available
 
I seem to remember that the amd apu graphics performance was highly dependant on memory bandwidth. Will be interesting to see how HBM will affect this
 
I seem to remember that the amd apu graphics performance was highly dependant on memory bandwidth. Will be interesting to see how HBM will affect this

You are right. It was limited because it was using DDR3 as a memory buffer instead of what GPUs were using, GDDR5. Using HBM on an APU will be a much bigger jump from DDR3 than it was from GDDR5. Also saves on power which means they can clock it higher potentially.
 
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