Allen
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Reread rumors that AMD will be going to 12nm (from 14nm) process for Ryzen CPUs and Vega GPUs "early" next year -- because its easy. The original plan was to jump to 7nm in 2019 and stay at 14nm until then.
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At the GlobalFoundries Technology Conference this week, AMD’s CTO, Mark Papermaster, announced his firm would use GlobalFoundries’ new 12nm LP process node for upcoming products.
The new 12nm Ryzen CPUs and Vega GPUs will also feature updated designs. Those combined with 12nm are speculated to provide a 10 to 20 percent improvement in performance. I assume 10 percent or the changes would not be worth doing. We'll see.
I might as well wait for that before trying to buy an RX Vega card. I'm assuming a wait until March/April. But, often things become delayed.
