Future GPU Architecture Talk - MCM, PCI 6.0, ASICs, Infinity Fabric

[Zen]

@mirage335

That is a very ill-informed statement. For better or worse, it is not without good reason that NVIDIA and AMD GPUs are not beat in any relevant performance category by ASICs of any kind. Modern GPUs are very well designed. These companies have basically had thousands of people doing nothing other than optimizing math and graphics performance, both per watt, and per capital cost.

Over the years, I have repeatedly debunked the Parallella, Google TPU, and other ‘alternative’ hardware, doing basic GFLOPS/$$$ and GFLOPS/W estimation. At best, the alternatives to modern GPUs - or even Intel CPUs - are within some reasonable percentage of the ‘real thing’. Those alternative chips exist not for performance so much as not being dependent on NVIDIA/AMD.

Is that the case even if you had a GPU and an ASIC with say X5 the amount of shader cores as NVIDIA or AMD GPUs or whichever component?

of course you’d need seperate ASICS for unreal engine and unity games or havok engine games, etc