AMD Responds to Non-working Shader Prefetch HW Claims and Says That the Experimental Feature Is Supported but Not Intended for 7900 XT/XTX Cards

[Peter_Brosdahl]

The claims, made by Kepler said in a tweet dated December 14, were reported on Friday but in a statement to Tom's Hardware AMD responds that the shader pre-fetch function is an experimental feature not intended for these RDNA 3 graphics cards.

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[Zarathustra]

Yeah, I don't understand the big hullaballoo over this.

Ever since the very beginning silicon chips have been designed with the ability to disable certain portions of them, sometimes used for just making different versions of something using the same process to save on volumes, sometimes for binning, etc.

I remember buying a dual core Athlon in ~2009 to 2010 unlocking two disabled cores, and some disabled cache and turning it into a quad core Phenom II and then pushing it to 4.2Ghz. It wasnt the fastest thing on th emarket, but **** if it wasn't quite the bang for the buck.

This little tempest in a teapot only illustrates that this new generation of children opening their mouths on YouTube don't know **** about ****.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

I tried to express the same in a PC way.