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[bridgman]

Are you talking about Atom cores ? IIRC they were out-of-order starting with Silvermont in 2013, and even the earlier in-order cores used SMT to allow...

[bridgman]

One part of the answer is probably "just to see what it looks like", but I think the primary answer is that in some cases people may prefer...

[bridgman]

Yep. The key question is not "is it as fast as a GPU with dedicated RT hardware ?" but "is it faster than the CPU ?".

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[bridgman]

A hardware block that implements part of the CPU/GPU functionality. Examples for GPU include GFX (the graphics/compute pipelines + shader core), SDMA,...

[bridgman]

One tweak - the issue as I understand it is the combination of (a) signed firmware which prevents substitution of RE'ed FW and (b) not licensing the firmware...

[bridgman]

Intel also has no workstation products....

[bridgman]

We do ? I didn't think we had shipped a control panel for Linux since the fglrx days, and that code won't work with amdgpu even for workstation....

[bridgman]

Can you try revising your post ? I read your post and RahulSundaram's response and from what I could see the response seemed to address your concerns...

[bridgman]

Not sure I understand this. IIRC we sent Michael a 6800XT, 6800, 6700XT and 6600XT on the dGPU side along with a mix of Epyc and Ryzen parts on the CPU...

[bridgman]

The ray tracing instructions are documented (~5 pages) in the ISA guide. What we haven't published AFAIK is our code for accelerating the building of...

[bridgman]

Agreed. I had assumed we would do that as well, but agd5f pointed out that changing the names after up-streaming was a much bigger and riskier effort...