Re: AMD shows off Carrizo, declares it on time and coming in first half of 2015
2014/11/23 17:02:15
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My only interest with these CPU+IGP processors is the IGP itself, and most leaked or rumored specs of Carrizo reuse the same 512-sp as Kaveri, my guess is the clock has been increased. It better be, the Broadwell IGP uses 48-executions units, up from the count of 40 used in the Haswell IGP flagship "Iris Pro 5200". So it would make sense to marginally increase the IGP performance to compete-- but it doesn't impress me.
The Skylake iGP flagship expected to have 72-execution cores, that is 50% more than Broadwell and 80% more than Haswell. What on Earth is AMD doing about this? I'm guessing the big deal with Skybridge is ARM and x86 socket compatibility, I'm not sure if the IGP is being improved to compete with Skylake (but I'm sure the ARM APU will have a more powerful IGP than all other ARM processors in existence).
With Skylake, Intel would have taken the only advantage AMD had in x86, i.e. a better IGP.