Allen
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Dubbed the Radeon Instinct MI60 and Radeon Instinct MI50, the two cards are aimed squarely at the enterprise accelerator market, with AMD looking to significantly improve their performance competitiveness in everything from HPC to machine learning.
Just my own unsupported observation/speculation...
The new Radeon Vega VII 7nm GPU seems to be the gaming version of the 7nm Radeon Instinct MI50 enterprise accelerator -- which was also supposed to release in the 1st quarter of 2019. As such, the Vega VII would be the RX Vega 64 14nm architecture shrunk to 7nm.
Based on my reading, merely shrinking the Radeon Vega 64 14nm down to 7nm would be a sensible way to build the first 7nm GPU -- as it lowers risk of failure. Basing it to an extent on the overall MI50 package lowers risk/cost further. From my reading, the expected improvement in gaming performance would be approximately what AMD is claiming for Radeon Vega VII -- competitive with RTX2080.
The next step would be to redesign the GPU to make the best use of 7nm. No doubt the redesign has been underway -- maybe that's the Navi that is rumored for roughly mid 2019, or later.
