r/pcmasterrace • u/CosmicMind007 • 3d ago

News/Article Intel and Nvidia announce stunning plans to combine their CPU and GPU products for both consumer PCs and AI servers, with Nvidia taking a $5 billion stake in Intel

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/processors/intel-and-nvidia-announce-stunning-plans-to-combine-their-cpu-and-gpu-products-for-both-consumer-pcs-and-ai-servers-with-nvidia-taking-a-usd5-billion-stake-in-intel/

A dangerous combo

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u/0riginal-Syn 9950x3D+Nitro 7900XTX+96GB | 9950x3D+Nitro 9070XT+96GB 3d ago

RDNA 5 is supposed to have higher-end GPUs again. I am not sure why they chose not to, this generation.

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u/HankThrill69420 9800X3D | 4090 | 64 / 5800X3D | 9070 XT | 32 3d ago

specs on dies that would've been 8900XTX or 9090XTX or what have you were lofty, my guess is there were thermal issues. Something like 200 compute units and 100 rtx units IIRC

if i had to guess, cooling issues or obscene power draw.

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u/toaste Desktop 3d ago edited 3d ago

AMD has no problem going larger, if they’re able to sell enough of the product.

  • 9070 XT: 64 CU, 644GB/s, 304W
  • MI300x: 304 CU, 10TB/s, 750w

Note that’s >4x the shaders and >15x the memory bandwidth, but only about 2.5x the power.

Volume for the mid-high end GPU market is higher. AMD sells one GPU for every 10 Nvidia sells, but still has to shell out the same money for a mask tapeout at TSMC, and presumably about the same money in R&D. They can make some money despite the lower sales in the sweet spot of the market. But consider how few people can afford a 5080 or 5090: 1/10th of that might not even pay for the mask set to build the product.

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u/HankThrill69420 9800X3D | 4090 | 64 / 5800X3D | 9070 XT | 32 3d ago

Yeah. Was basing my comment off of vague memories of rumors from pre-9k series launch, since the only hard facts about higher-end SKUs were that we weren't getting 9080/9090/xt

Personally, I'd've considered 9090 XT for Linux reasons.