Only AMD's Pirate Islands GPUs and Radeon R9 380X Will Debut on the 20nm Node Alleges Report

The start rumblings of what AMD has in store for 2022 are reaching the leak scene. We previously published a post on how the give-and-take on the rumor manufacturing plant is that the time frames for the new Pirate Islands R9 380X GPU is in the kickoff half of 2022. Well, today nosotros take a very authentic-rumor (pardon the contradiction, simply notice the 'rumor' part) from one of our oldest Chinese source, namely Chris Low over at VR-Zone.com.

AMD's R9 380X and Pirate Islands GPUs Will exist based on the 20nm Node

Chris states that his internal sources have confirmed that Pirate Islands are going to be on the 20nm process. This should come as a relief to skeptics that were expecting the 20nm delay to continue till after the second quarter of 2022 (Yes, that was/is a possibility and one of the primary reasons why Nvidia might keep the GM200 GPU hidden every bit a trump card). They also mention that AMD is going to have a leaf out of Nvidia's volume and release the R9 380X 'Fiji' GPU first, followed past the flagship R9 390X 'Bermuda' GPU some time later. Pirate Islands is also going to become HDMI 2.0 (an upgrade from HDMI 1.4) and Display Port 1.3 depending on a few variables.

At that place is also word that AMD will non be utilizing the 20nm Process for CPUs anytime soon. An unconfirmed report from Bitsandchips.it claims that infact, AMD won't even apply the 20nm node for APUs. The reason they give is that 20nm Planar is non mature enough to be used for the complex architecture that is an HSA based APU. This would crave the use of double patterning and triple patterning techniques which are currently not possible at TSMC'south 20nm Process. They say that it is likely that the Carrizo APU stays at the 28nm node for now and after that AMD will leap directly to 16nm FinFET.

This recent bout of rumors is very enlightening, because if AMD is indeed releasing a 20nm GPU (Radeon R9 380X 'Fiji') in Q1 2022, and then Nvidia will well-nigh certainly launch the Maxwell GM200 GPU before the twelvemonth ends. This would be in sync with the release pattern of the GM204 and allow Nvidia to savour almost half a year of absolute monopoly. However, if TSMC doesn't play favorites, the actual Red Vs. Light-green battle will begin afresh on the 20nm Node, when the GM204 / GM200 20nm ports are pit against the Pirate Islands fries. Monopolies are the killers of innovation and regardless of which army camp you pitch in, you lot don't want Red to loose the state of war completely. Information technology looks like AMD has accepted the loss this time and is preparing for the 2nd round in 2022; then here is me wishing AMD the very all-time of luck.

Interesting study from the chinese rumor manufactory: #AMD will only use 20nm for GPUs for now. http://t.co/2h6SdVdSX9

— Usman Pirzada (@usmanpirzada) September 29, 2022

Source: https://wccftech.com/amds-pirate-islands-gpus-radeon-r9-380x-debut-20nm-node-alleges-report/

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