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NVIDIA has allegedly gone on a huge spending spree to acquire some of TSMC's next-gen 5nm wafer supply for its next-gen GeForce RTX 40 'Ada Lovelace' GPUs.
NVIDIA Goes on TSMC 5nm Spending Spree, Billions of Dollars Paid To Acquire Wafers For GeForce RTX 40 'Ada Lovelace' GPUs
NVIDIA's Ada Lovelace GPUs powering the next-generation GeForce RTX 40 series graphics card lineup are expected to utilize TSMC's 5nm process node. Both AMD and NVIDIA are expected to utilize the node for its next-gen lineup but it looks like NVIDIA is very serious in making sure they get enough wafer supply for its lineup and as such, they have paid the Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer several Billions of dollars as an advanced payment for 5nm wafers.
According to industry sources, TSMC’s requirements for Apple, MediaTek, AMD and other three major customers are relatively low. They do not need to pay too much deposit in advance to stabilize production capacity. Customers like NVIDIA need to pay huge advance payments in advance if they want to obtain 5nm production orders.
MyDrivers reports that NVIDIA has prepaid TSMC around $1.64 Billion US in Q3 2021and will pay $1.79 Billion US in Q1 2022. The total long-term 'Multi-Billion' dollar deal is set to cost NVIDIA an insane $6.9 Billion US which is much higher than what they paid last year. NVIDIA will not just use this money to procure wafer supply from TSMC but also from Samsung but it looks like that the majority of the amount will be spent on TSMC's 5nm technology.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Graphics Card - Ada Lovelace Powered AD102 Flagship GPU
Based upon previous rumors, there have been whispers that NVIDIA would utilize TSMC's N5 (5nm) process node for its Ada Lovelace GPUs. This includes the AD102 SKU too which will be an entirely monolithic design. Talking about specific GPU configurations, the flagship AD102 GPU is said to feature a clock speed as high as 2.5 GHz (2.3 GHz average boost). The specific tweet states that the GPU clock for Ada Lovelace 'AD102' could be 2.3 GHz or greater so let's take that as a baseline and previously leaked specifications to figure out where the performance should land.
The NVIDIA AD102 "ADA GPU" appears to have 18432 CUDA Cores based on the preliminary specs (which can change), housed within 144 SM units. This is almost twice the cores present in Ampere which was already a massive step up from Turing. A 2.3-2.5 GHz clock speed would give us up to 85 to 92 TFLOPs of compute performance (FP32). This is more than twice the FP32 performance of the existing RTX 3090 which packs 36 TFLOPs of FP32 compute power.
The 150% performance jump looks huge but one should remember that NVIDIA already gave a big jump in FP32 numbers this generation with Ampere. The Ampere GA102 GPU (RTX 3090) offers 36 TFLOPs while the Turing TU102 GPU (RTX 2080 Ti) offered 13 TFLOPs. That's over a 150% increase in FP32 Flops but the real-world gaming performance increase for the RTX 3090 averaged at around 50-60% faster over the RTX 2080 Ti. So one thing we shouldn't forget is that Flops don't equal GPU gaming performance these days. Furthermore, we don't know if 2.3-2.5 GHz is the average boost or the peak boost with the former meaning that there could be even higher compute potential for AD102.
Aside from that, leaks have also stated that the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 flagship would retain a 384-bit bus interface, similar to the RTX 3090. What's interesting is though that the leaker mentions G6X which means that NVIDIA won't be moving to a new memory standard until after Ada Lovelace and utilize the higher pin-speeds of G6X of 21 Gbps for its next-generation cards before we see a newer standard (e.g. GDDR7). The card will feature 24 GB of memory so we can either expect single-sided 16Gb DRAM or dual-sided 8Gb DRAM modules.
NVIDIA CUDA GPU (RUMORED) Preliminary:
GPU | TU102 | GA102 | AD102 |
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Flagship SKU | RTX 2080 Ti | RTX 3090 Ti | RTX 4090? |
Architecture | Turing | Ampere | Ada Lovelace |
Process | TSMC 12nm NFF | Samsung 8nm | TSMC 4N? |
Die Size | 754mm2 | 628mm2 | ~600mm2 |
Graphics Processing Clusters (GPC) | 6 | 7 | 12 |
Texture Processing Clusters (TPC) | 36 | 42 | 72 |
Streaming Multiprocessors (SM) | 72 | 84 | 144 |
CUDA Cores | 4608 | 10752 | 18432 |
L2 Cache | 6 MB | 6 MB | 96 MB |
Theoretical TFLOPs | 16 TFLOPs | 40 TFLOPs | ~90 TFLOPs? |
Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6X | GDDR6X |
Memory Capacity | 11 GB (2080 Ti) | 24 GB (3090 Ti) | 24 GB (4090?) |
Memory Speed | 14 Gbps | 21 Gbps | 24 Gbps? |
Memory Bandwidth | 616 GB/s | 1.008 GB/s | 1152 GB/s? |
Memory Bus | 384-bit | 384-bit | 384-bit |
PCIe Interface | PCIe Gen 3.0 | PCIe Gen 4.0 | PCIe Gen 4.0 |
TGP | 250W | 350W | 600W? |
Release | Sep. 2018 | Sept. 20 | 2H 2022 (TBC) |
The NVIDIA Ada Lovelace GPUs will power the next-generation GeForce RTX 40 graphics cards that will go head-on with AMD's RDNA 3 based Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards. There's still some speculation regarding the use of MCM by NVIDIA. The Hopper GPU, which is primarily aimed at the Datacenter & AI segment, is allegedly taping out soon and will feature an MCM architecture. NVIDIA won't be using an MCM design on its Ada Lovelace GPUs so they will keep the traditional monolithic design.
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AMD's high-end Ryzen 9 7845HX 'Dragon Range" CPU which will be targetting high-end laptops has been leaked within the AOTS benchmark.
AMD Dragon Range Allegedly Leaks: Ryzen 9 7845HX With 12 Zen 4 Cores For High-End Laptops
Ashes of Singularity has quite a fanbase and is a widely-known collaboration with AMD for graphics and processing power and Valve (the company optimized the game for the Steam Deck). In a recent benchmark posted on the AotS: Escalation website, an entry of AMD's high-end Ryzen 9 7845HX 12-core CPU has been unearthed.
The screenshot from the AOTS benchmark shows that the AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX CPU comes with 12 cores and 24 threads. The chip will be based on the latest Zen 4 core architecture & since this is a laptop, it was equipped with 8 GB of memory which sounds a bit low but it could also be an AMD reference platform that this was tested on.
The leaked AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX CPU is set to release in early 2023 as a part of the Dragon Range lineup. The model year is from the 2023 portfolio, focusing on the Ryzen 7 or 9 market segment. The architecture used is the Zen 4 architecture, and the processor will be a higher model within the segment. Still, Dragon Range is specified to be isolated to the "5" terminology because of its performance, feature set, and unique TDP.
AMD Ryzen 7000 CPU Lineup (Official):
CPU Name | Family | Process Node | Cores / Threads | Base / Boost Clock | Cache | iGPU | iGPU Clock | TDP |
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AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX | Dragon Range-H | 5nm | 12/24 | TBD | 64 MB | AMD Radeon Graphics (2 CU RDNA 3) | TBD | 55W+ |
AMD Ryzen 5 7640U | Phoenix-U | 4nm | 6/12 | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | 15-28W |
AMD Ryzen 5 7520U | Mendocino-U | 6nm | 4 / 8 | 2.8 / 4.3 GHz | 6 MB | Radeon 610M (RDNA 2 2 CU) | TBD | 15-28W |
AMD Ryzen 3 7420U | Mendocino-U | 6nm | 4 / 8 | TBD | 8 MB? | Radeon 610M (RDNA 2 2 CU) | TBD | 15-28W |
AMD Ryzen 3 7320U | Mendocino-U | 6nm | 4 / 8 | 2.4 / 4.1 GHz | 8 MB? | Radeon 610M (RDNA 2 2 CU) | TBD | 15-28W |
AMD Athlon Gold 7220U | Mendocino-U | 6nm | 2 / 4 | 2.4 / 3.7 GHz | 4 MB? | Radeon 610M (RDNA 2 2 CU) | TBD | 15-28W |
The most important thing to note here is that this is an 'HX' part with a TDP design of 55W which means that it will be competing with Intel's Alder Lake-HX and the upcoming Raptor Lake-HX lineup which feature up to 24 cores and 32 threads. The Intel high-end laptop CPUs also feature a 55 Watt TDP but end up with a higher boost TDP.
AMD Dragon Range "Ryzen 7045" Series Mobility CPUs
The AMD Dragon Range CPUs will be aimed at the high-performance segment with more cores, threads, & cache than what AMD has offered us previously while Phoenix Point will be aimed at the thin and light laptop segment. The Dragon Range CPUs will have a TDP rating of around 55W+ while Phoenix Point will have TDPs of around 35-45W. The 55W TDP is for the base configuration and we can expect the chip to be configurable up to 65W for laptop designs with high-end cooling and bigger form factors.
Considering that AMD's current laptop lineup peaks out at 8 cores and 16 threads, AMD will be targetting up to 16 cores and 32 threads with its Dragon Range family of Ryzen 7000 CPUs. The CPUs will also feature more cache of up to 80 MB versus just 20 MB featured on AMD's current fastest laptop chip, the Ryzen 9 6980HX. Considering up to a 74% improvement versus Zen 3 in multi-threaded applications at a 65W TDP threshold, we can see a huge gain in performance and that would also exceed Intel's existing Alder Lake-HX lineup which features up to 16 cores and 24 threads.
The new Dragon Range CPUs will feature a die similar to the Raphael SKUs on the desktop AM5 platform as such, they will also carry the 2 RDNA 2 Compute Units. The CPUs will be featured in various enthusiast laptops with high-end discrete graphics cards from all vendors but primarily NVIDIA & AMD.
AMD Ryzen Mobility CPUs:
CPU Family Name | AMD Strix Point | AMD Dragon Range | AMD Phoenix | AMD Rembrandt | AMD Cezanne | AMD Renoir | AMD Picasso | AMD Raven Ridge |
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Family Branding | AMD Ryzen 8000 (H-Series) | AMD Ryzen 7045 (H-Series) | AMD Ryzen 7040 (U-Series) | AMD Ryzen 6000 AMD Ryzen 7030 | AMD Ryzen 5000 (H/U-Series) | AMD Ryzen 4000 (H/U-Series) | AMD Ryzen 3000 (H/U-Series) | AMD Ryzen 2000 (H/U-Series) |
Process Node | TBD | 5nm | 4nm | 6nm | 7nm | 7nm | 12nm | 14nm |
CPU Core Architecture | Zen 5 | Zen 4 | Zen 4 | Zen 3+ | Zen 3 | Zen 2 | Zen + | Zen 1 |
CPU Cores/Threads (Max) | TBD | 16/32 | 8/16 | 8/16 | 8/16 | 8/16 | 4/8 | 4/8 |
L2 Cache (Max) | TBD | 16 MB | 4 MB | 4 MB | 4 MB | 4 MB | 2 MB | 2 MB |
L3 Cache (Max) | TBD | 32 MB | 16 MB | 16 MB | 16 MB | 8 MB | 4 MB | 4 MB |
Max CPU Clocks | TBD | TBA | TBA | 5.0 GHz (Ryzen 9 6980HX) | 4.80 GHz (Ryzen 9 5980HX) | 4.3 GHz (Ryzen 9 4900HS) | 4.0 GHz (Ryzen 7 3750H) | 3.8 GHz (Ryzen 7 2800H) |
GPU Core Architecture | RDNA 3+ iGPU | RDNA 2 6nm iGPU | RDNA 3 5nm iGPU | RDNA 2 6nm iGPU | Vega Enhanced 7nm | Vega Enhanced 7nm | Vega 14nm | Vega 14nm |
Max GPU Cores | TBD | TBA | TBA | 12 CUs (786 cores) | 8 CUs (512 cores) | 8 CUs (512 cores) | 10 CUs (640 Cores) | 11 CUs (704 cores) |
Max GPU Clocks | TBD | TBA | TBA | 2400 MHz | 2100 MHz | 1750 MHz | 1400 MHz | 1300 MHz |
TDP (cTDP Down/Up) | TBD | 55W+ (65W cTDP) | 15W-45W (65W cTDP) | 15W-55W (65W cTDP) | 15W -54W(54W cTDP) | 15W-45W (65W cTDP) | 12-35W (35W cTDP) | 35W-45W (65W cTDP) |
Launch | 2024 | Q1 2023 | Q1 2023 | Q1 2022 | Q1 2021 | Q2 2020 | Q1 2019 | Q4 2018 |
News Sources: Benchleaks, Ashes of Singularity, VideoCardz
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AMD has officially confirmed the unveiling of its 4th Gen EPYC CPUs codenamed Genoa on the 10th of November.
AMD Unleashes 4th Gen EPYC Genoa CPUs on The 10th of November, Server Dominance Continues
The AMD Zen 4 lineup will be split into three families, the standard Zen 4 for EPYC Genoa, the Compute Density-Optimized Zen 4C for EPYC Bergamo, and the Cache-Optimized Zen 4 V-Cache within the EPYC Genoa-X series. Furthermore, the lineup will be featuring a cost-optimized and entry-level server offering known as EPYC Siena which will feature the same Zen 4 cores but on an entirely new platform known as SP6 which will once again focus on optimizing TCO compared to SP5. The lineup will be branded under the EPYC 8004 family. We covered the initial specs for the Zen 4 server family here already.
Join us online November 10th at 10 am Pacific to watch the unveiling of our next-gen server processors. #AMD#TogetherWeAdvance#datacenters
— AMD (@AMD) October 24, 2022
Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced “together we advance_data centers,” an in-person and livestreamed event to unveil the next generation of AMD EPYC data center processors. AMD executives, along with other key ecosystem partners, will present details on the next generation data center processor and solutions.
AMD EPYC Genoa "Zen 4" Server CPU Lineup
The standard Zen 4 lineup will feature up to 12 CCDs, 96 cores, and 192 threads. Each CCD will come with 32 MB of L3 cache and 1 MB of L2 cache per core. The EPYC 9004 CPUs will pack the latest instructions such as BFLOAT16, VNNU, AVX-512 (256b data path), addressable memory of 57b/52b, and an updated IOD with an internal AMD Gen3 Infinity Fabric architecture with higher bandwidth (die-to-die interconnect).
The platform will feature support for 12 DDR5 channels with up to 4800 Mbps DIMM support and include options for 2,4,6,8,10,12 interleaving. Both RDIMM & 3DS RDIMM will be supported with 2 DIMMs per channel for up to 6 TB/ capacities per socket (using 256 GB 3DS RDIMMs). There will be 160 gen 5 lanes available on the 2P platform, 12 PCIe Gen 3 lanes (8 lanes on 1P), 32 SATA lanes, & 64 IO lanes supporting CXL 1.1+ with bifurcations down to x4 and SDCI (Smart Data Cache Injection).
AMD EPYC 9000 Genoa CPU SKUs 'Preliminary' Specs:
CPU Name | Architecture | Family | Total CCDs | Cores / Threads | L3 Cache | Base / Max Clocks | TDP | CPU Positioning |
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EPYC 9754 | 4nm Zen 4C | Bergamo | 8 | 128/256 | 256 MB | 2.05-3.20 GHz | 360W (320-400W) | Density Optimized |
EPYC 9734 | 4nm Zen 4C | Bergamo | 8 | 112/224 | 256 MB | 2.00 - 3.20 GHz | 320W (320-400W) | Density Optimized |
EPYC 9684X | 5nm Zen 4 V-Cache | Genoa-X | 12 | 96/192 | 1152 MB | TBD | 400W | Cache Optimized |
EPYC 9384X | 5nm Zen 4 V-Cache | Genoa-X | 4-8 | 32/64 | 384-768 MB | TBD | 320W | Cache Optimized |
EPYC 9284X | 5nm Zen 4 V-Cache | Genoa-X | 4-8 | 24/48 | 384-768 MB | TBD | 320W | Cache Optimized |
EPYC 9184X | 5nm Zen 4 V-Cache | Genoa-X | 4-8 | 16/32 | 384-768 MB | TBD | 320W | Cache Optimized |
EPYC 9664 | 5nm Zen 4 | Genoa | 12 | 96/192 | 384 MB | 2.25-3.80 GHz | 400W (320-400W) | Density Optimized |
EPYC 9654P | 5nm Zen 4 | Genoa | 12 | 96/192 | 384 MB | 2.05 -3.70 GHz | 360W (320-400W) | Density Optimized (Single-Socket) |
EPYC 9654 | 5nm Zen 4 | Genoa | 12 | 96/192 | 384 MB | 2.05 - 3.70 GHz | 360W (320-400W) | Density Optimized |
EPYC 9634 | 5nm Zen 4 | Genoa | 8 | 84/168 | 384 MB | 2.00-3.70 GHz | 290W (320-400W) | Density Optimized |
EPYC 9554P | 5nm Zen 4 | Genoa | 8 | 64/128 | 256 MB | 2.70-3.70 GHz | 360W (320-400W) | Density + Frequency |
EPYC 9554 | 5nm Zen 4 | Genoa | 8 | 64/128 | 256 MB | 2.70-3.70 GHz | 360W (320-400W) | Density + Frequency |
EPYC 9534 | 5nm Zen 4 | Genoa | 8 | 64/128 | 256 MB | 2.30 - 3.70 GHz | 280W (240-280W) | Balanced |
EPYC 9454P | 5nm Zen 4 | Genoa | 8 | 48/96 | 256 MB | 2.25 - 3.70 GHz | 280W (240-280W) | Balanced |
EPYC 9454 | 5nm Zen 4 | Genoa | 8 | 48/96 | 256 MB | 2.25 - 3.70 GHz | 280W (240-280W) | Balanced |
EPYC 9354P | 5nm Zen 4 | Genoa | 8 | 32/64 | 256 MB | 2.75-3.70 GHz | 280W (240-280W) | Core Strength |
EPYC 9354 | 5nm Zen 4 | Genoa | 8 | 32/64 | 256 MB | 2.75-3.70 GHz | 280W (240-280W) | Core Strength |
EPYC 9334 | 5nm Zen 4 | Genoa | 4 | 32/64 | 128 MB | 2.50-3.70 GHz | 210W (200-240W) | Balanced |
EPYC 9254 | 5nm Zen 4 | Genoa | 4 | 24/48 | 128 MB | 2.40-3.70 GHz | 200W (200-240W) | Balanced |
EPYC 9224 | 5nm Zen 4 | Genoa | 4 | 24/48 | 64 MB | 2.15-3.70 GHz | 200W (200-240W) | Cost Optimized |
EPYC 9124 | 5nm Zen 4 | Genoa | 4 | 16/32 | 64 MB | 2.60-3.70 GHz | 200W (200-240W) | Cost Optimized |
EPYC 9474F | 5nm Zen 4 | Genoa | 8 | 48/96 | 256 MB | 3.60-4.00 GHz+ | 360W (320-400W) | Frequency Optimized |
EPYC 9374F | 5nm Zen 4 | Genoa | 8 | 32/64 | 256 MB | 3.40-4.00 GHz+ | 320W (320-400W) | Frequency Optimized |
EPYC 9274F | 5nm Zen 4 | Genoa | 8 | 24/48 | 256 MB | 3.30-4.00 GHz+ | 320W (320-400W) | Frequency Optimized |
EPYC 9174F | 5nm Zen 4 | Genoa | 8 | 16/32 | 256 MB | 3.20-4.00 GHz+ | 320W (320-400W) | Frequency Optimized |
'AMD's EPYC 9000 "Genoa" CPU lineup for servers is going to offer a huge uplift in performance. We have already seen a partial 128-core / 256-thread configuration defeating all of the current-gen server chips so a 192-core and 384-thread dual-socket configuration is going to shatter some world records for sure. The AMD EPYC 9000 Genoa CPU lineup is expected to enter servers by the end of this year and this will be far ahead of Intel's Sapphire Rapids-SP Xeon lineup which is pushed back into early 2023.
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2022 is poised to be an exciting year for GPUs — Intel is all set to debut its mainstream Arc Alchemist offering while significant iterative upgrades are on the anvil for AMD Radeon and Nvidia GeForce cards. While we've seen some early rumors about Navi 31 and Lovelace before, some additional information has just trickled in.
Once again, @greymon55 on Twitter seems to have gathered a few details about Navi 31 and Nvidia AD102 GPUs. We have known so far that Navi 31 RX 7900 XT (?) will be a multi-chip module (MCM) configuration featuring a combination of 5 nm and 6 nm parts with 256-bit GDDR6 memory. @greymon55 now notes that Navi 31 will feature 120 workgroup processors (15,360 streaming processors) and a 256-bit 32 GB GDDR6 memory that may run at 18 Gbps.
For perspective, the Radeon RX 6900 XT features a Navi 21 XTX GPU with 5,120 SPs and 256-bit 16 GB GDDR6 VRAM at 16 Gbps, so we are looking at 3x the shading unit count and twice the VRAM with Navi 31.
Navi 31 is also likely to offer 256 MB or 512 MB of Infinity Cache. Information on the exact amount of Infinity Cache is still scarce and not confirmed. While most sources point to a 256 MB cache, RedGamingTech says a 512 MB cache is not out of bounds either. What they all seem to be sure of is that RDNA 3's Inifinty Cache will be a 3D stacking solution unlike what we've seen with RDNA 2. A clock speed of 2.4 to 2.5 GHz is likely yielding an FP32 performance of 75 TFLOPs.
Coming to Nvidia Lovelace AD102, we already know that this will be a 5 nm GPU with 18,432 CUDA cores in 144 streaming multiprocessors. AD102 will offer 24 GB GDDR6X memory on a 384-bit bus running at 21 Gbps. RedGamingTech notes that GDDR7 is also being tested by Nvidia, but that's for a future architecture and not Lovelace.
Interestingly, @greymon55 says the FP32 performance could be between 85 to 92 TFLOPs, which is a significant bump over the 66 TFLOPs we heard previously. Of course, TFLOPs alone are not an indicator of performance but if true we stand to see about a 1.4x increase from Ampere. Nevertheless, at least a 2x to 2.4x performance increase in general can be expected in moving from Ampere to Lovelace as per current rumors.
It is still quite early to speculate — the cards are only expected sometime in Q3 2022 anyways — but it looks like AMD Navi 31 may end up costing more than Nvidia AD102 given the seemingly complex chip architecture. However, AMD will continue to use the cheaper GDDR5 VRAM and rely on advances in 3D Infinity Cache in order to remain competitive in terms of pricing against Nvidia.
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The AMD Ryzen 7000 CPUs come with an integrated RDNA 2 GPU that can be overclocked up to 3 GHz with little effort with MSI's new BIOS.
MSI Demonstrates AMD Ryzen 7000 RDNA 2 iGPU 3 GHz Overclock, New AM5 BIOS With AVX On/Off Switch & More
In a new video published by MSI's in-house and legendary overclocker, TOPPC, we get to see some new features and tricks for AMD Ryzen 7000 CPUs on the latest BIOS. First up, we have the thermal limit profiles tested with PBO Enhanced Mode. This is a new feature introduced by MSI on its X670E and X670 motherboard that really helps lower down the temperatures without comprising a lot on performance. We exclusively covered the feature in detail over here.
Secondly, MSI is also introducing AVX Control Options for AMD Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPUs on their AM5 motherboards. Currently, all AMD Ryzen 7000 CPUs have AVX512 support set to enabled by default and there was no option to disable it. However, with the new BIOS, users can disable and enable all AVX modes (AVX2 / AVX512). We have also talked about how Ryzen 7000 CPUs AVX-512 capabilities make them the top option for game emulators such as RPCS3 (Sony PS3).
And the final option that MSI is giving is the option to enable RDNA 2 iGPU overclocking. All AMD Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPUs come with an integrated RDNA 2 GPU that features 2 compute units or a single WGP (128 cores).
By default, the iGPU is clocked at 2200 MHz or 2.2 GHz but with MSI's latest BIOS, users will get overclocking support within BIOS. However, it should be noted that the iGPU is sharing voltage with the CPU so overclocking the GPU can affect CPU overclocking & performance.
With that said, MSI showcases overclocks of up to 3 GHz on the AMD Ryzen 7000 iGPU. With a 3 GHz overclock using the JEDEC DDR5-4800 spec, the RDNA 2 chip can offer up to 20% higher GPU performance in 3DMark Fire Strike. If you are using DDR5-6000 memory than the higher memory bandwidth can lead to an additional 2% performance gain of up to 22% which is quite neat. Now it must be pointed out that the RDNA 2 iGPU on the Ryzen 7000 CPUs is in no way intended for gaming purposes but it will still be cool to see some benchmarks in games that the tiniest RDNA 2 GPU has to offer.
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