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by dragontamer
1475 days ago
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The main issue I have with the idea of Navi 21 is that its a 32-wide warp, when CDNA2 (like MX250x) is 64-wide warp. Granted, RDNA and CDNA still have largely the same assembly language, so its still better than using say... NVidia GPUs. But I have to imagine that the 32-wide vs 64-wide difference is big in some use cases. In particular: low-level programs that use warp-level primitives, like DPP, shared-memory details and such. I assume the super-computer programmers want a cheap system to have under their desk to prototype code that's similar to the big MI250x system. Vega56/64 is several generations old, while 6800 xt is pretty different architecturally. It seems weird that they'd have to buy MI200 GPUs for this purpose, especially in light of NVidia's strategy (where A2000 nvidia could serve as a close replacement. Maybe not perfect, but closer to the A100 big-daddy than the 6800xt is to the big daddy MI250x). -------- EDIT: That being said: this is probably completely moot for my own purposes. I can't afford an MI250x system at all. At best I'd make some kind of hand-built consumer rig for my own personal purposes. So 6800 xt would be all I personally need. VRAM-constraints feel quite real, so the 16GBs of VRAM at that price makes 6800xt a very pragmatic system for personal use and study. |
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