chipsandcheese

chipsandcheese , 11 months ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is a deep-dive on how raytracing workloads behave on Intel's B580 GPU and where the strengths and bottlenecks of the BMG architecture lies for RT workloads.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://open.substack.com/pub/chipsandcheese/p/raytracing-on-intels-arc-b580

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/03/14/raytracing-on-intels-arc-b580/

chipsandcheese , 11 months ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today AMD has released their new RDNA4 architecture found in the RX 9000 series, with the RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT GPUs launching first.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://open.substack.com/pub/chipsandcheese/p/amds-rdna4-architecture-video

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/03/05/amds-rdna4-architecture-video/

https://youtu.be/lVzVOs-5Qb0

chipsandcheese , 11 months ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is on Zen 5's frequency behavior when dealing with AVX512 instructions and seeing just how differently Zen 5 behaves to Skylake-X.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://open.substack.com/pub/chipsandcheese/p/zen-5s-avx-512-frequency-behavior

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/02/28/zen-5s-avx-512-frequency-behavior/

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is on Intel's Battlemage Architecture found in the B580 dGPU and what improvements have been made compared to the last generation Alchemist architecture.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://open.substack.com/pub/chipsandcheese/p/intels-battlemage-architecture

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/02/10/intels-battlemage-architecture/

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is on Alibaba/T-Head's Xuantie C910 core which has in part been open sourced and is T-Head's first out of order core.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://open.substack.com/pub/chipsandcheese/p/alibabat-heads-xuantie-c910

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/02/03/alibaba-t-heads-xuantie-c910/

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is looking the performance of 2 of the highest performance RISC-V cores you can buy today, the C910 core from T-Head and the P550 core from SiFive.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://open.substack.com/pub/chipsandcheese/p/a-risc-v-progress-check-benchmarking

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/01/30/a-risc-v-progress-check-benchmarking-p550-and-c910/

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,
Today's article is on SiFive's P550 microarchitecture. The P550 core is one of the fastest RISC-V cores available currently and is claimed to be comparable to ARM's Cortex A75.
Hope y'all enjoy!

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/01/26/inside-sifives-p550-microarchitecture/

https://open.substack.com/pub/chipsandcheese/p/inside-sifives-p550-microarchitecture

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is on what happens when you disable Zen 5's op cache to look at the clustered decoder setup that Zen 5 uses and what impact does disabling the op cache have.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://open.substack.com/pub/chipsandcheese/p/disabling-zen-5s-op-cache-and-exploring

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/01/23/disabling-zen-5s-op-cache-and-exploring-its-clustered-decoder/

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today is looking at the GPU side of AMD's Instinct MI300A, how much difference there is between 550W and 760W, along with comparing it to the MI300X and others.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://open.substack.com/pub/chipsandcheese/p/sizing-up-mi300as-gpu

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/01/20/sizing-up-mi300as-gpu/

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Thanks to GIGABYTE and their Launchpad service we got access to AMD's Datacenter Class APU the MI300A. Which can be found in the fastest Supercomputer to date, LLNL's El Capitan

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://open.substack.com/pub/chipsandcheese/p/inside-the-amd-radeon-instinct-mi300as

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/01/18/inside-the-amd-radeon-instinct-mi300as-giant-memory-subsystem/

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Nvidia had a massive keynote at CES 2025 where they announced the RTX 50 series, ConnectX-8, and Project DIGITS using GB10 co-developed with MediaTek.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://open.substack.com/pub/chipsandcheese/p/nvidias-announcements-at-ces-2025

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/01/15/nvidias-announcements-at-ces-2025/

https://youtu.be/gsTuTPtuzpU

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today we have an Interview with Mahesh Subramony, AMD Senior Fellow, about AMD's upcoming Strix Halo chip and what is under the hood.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-strix-halo-under-the-hood

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/01/13/amds-strix-halo-under-the-hood/

https://youtu.be/yR4BwzgwQns

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today we are covering AMD's CES 2025 Keynote where they talked about new CPUs and APUs but there was a lack of any dGPU talk during the keynote.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-ces-2025-keynote

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/01/11/amds-ces-2025-keynote/

https://youtu.be/pgOsCoE45xk

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today we are talking about Intel's Keynote at CES 2025 where Intel announced products such as Arrow Lake U, H, and HX along with a refresh of N-series

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/intels-ces-2025-keynote

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/01/09/intels-ces-2025-keynote/

https://youtu.be/NpZJVARJBFw

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks.

Today we are digging into the driver overhead of Intel's new B580 GPU and its drivers on various APIs such as DX12 and Vulkan.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://open.substack.com/pub/chipsandcheese/p/digging-into-driver-overhead-on-intels

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/01/07/digging-into-driver-overhead-on-intels-b580/

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is on the memory subsystem of Arrow Lake from the perspective of Lion Cove and looking at the behavior of Lion Cove compared to Skymont and Zen 5.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://open.substack.com/pub/chipsandcheese/p/analyzing-lion-coves-memory-subsystem

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/01/05/analyzing-lion-coves-memory-subsystem-in-arrow-lake/

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

I made a mistake with my last post, we have one last piece from SC24 which is about NeuReality and their NR1 chip.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/neureality-a-server-on-a-pcie-card

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/01/03/neureality-a-server-on-a-pcie-card/

https://youtube.com/shorts/dnyM7Uyak_E

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

As the New Year rolls around our final SC24 article is on d-Matrix and their Corsair card which has 256GB of LPDDR on board for fitting AI models on.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/d-matrix-corsair-256gb-of-lpddr-for

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2024/12/31/d-matrix-corsair-256gb-of-lpddr-for-ai-models/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6dkZVeZ8R-4

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today we have an interview with the Chief Architect of Power CPUs at IBM, Bill Starke, where we talk about the future of Power and more.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://open.substack.com/pub/chipsandcheese/p/ibm-power-whats-next

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2024/12/26/ibm-power-whats-next/

https://youtu.be/v9S_w_Bj3oo

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today we are looking at the version of Skymont found in Arrow Lake and comparing it to it's Lunar Lake compatriot along with to MTL, Zen 2 and Zen 4.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://open.substack.com/pub/chipsandcheese/p/skymont-in-desktop-form-atom-unleashed

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2024/12/20/skymont-in-desktop-form-atom-unleashed/

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today we are covering Rebellions which is a startup that originally focused on the High Frequency Trading sector and now is transitioning to AI.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://open.substack.com/pub/chipsandcheese/p/rebellions-from-high-frequency-trading

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2024/12/16/rebellions-from-high-frequency-trading-to-ai-acceleration/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZu7vBOh8FA

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today we return to our SC24 coverage with Fujitsu's Monaka CPU which an ARMv9 based CPU with SVE2 that uses 3D stacking and is due in 2027.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://open.substack.com/pub/chipsandcheese/p/fujitsus-monaka-cpu-armv9-sve2-and

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2024/12/13/fujitsus-monaka-cpu-armv9-sve2-and-3d-stacking/

https://youtube.com/shorts/9w1TrEdyr6s

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today we look at disabling Zen 4's op cache for fun and giggles as well as seeing just what kind of effects this would have.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://open.substack.com/pub/chipsandcheese/p/turning-off-zen-4s-op-cache-for-curiosity

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2024/12/10/turning-off-zen-4s-op-cache-for-curiosity-and-giggles/

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today we have a short on Cornelis Networks and their upcoming 400G family of NICs, Switches, and Director Class Switches, the CN5000.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufduf5MM0kY

https://open.substack.com/pub/chipsandcheese/p/400g-omnipath-is-coming-cornelis

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2024/12/08/400g-omnipath-is-coming-cornelis-networks-at-sc24/

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is on examining Arrow Lake, Intel's newest client CPU, at the system level and comparing it to its UMPC counterpart in LNL as well as to other systems.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://open.substack.com/pub/chipsandcheese/p/examining-intels-arrow-lake-at-the

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2024/12/04/examining-intels-arrow-lake-at-the-system-level/

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today we have a Youtube short about an EPYC exclusive that Azure has in the form of AMD's MI300C, and no I will not apologize for the pun.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PgQFH0RebEM

https://open.substack.com/pub/chipsandcheese/p/an-epyc-exclusive-for-azure-amds

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2024/12/02/an-epyc-exclusive-for-azure-amds-mi300c/

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet Folks,

Today's article is about a curious change in a later AGESA that Chester found, that change being that AMD disabled the loop buffer on Zen 4.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://open.substack.com/pub/chipsandcheese/p/amd-disables-zen-4s-loop-buffer

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2024/11/30/amd-disables-zen-4s-loop-buffer/

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today we have an interview with the CEO of NextSilicon, Elad Raz, talking about why are they putting HPC first and what does the Maverick 2 do differently.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://open.substack.com/pub/chipsandcheese/p/nextsilicon-putting-hpc-first
https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2024/11/28/nextsilicon-putting-hpc-first/
https://youtu.be/wmLfIcObDQ8

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today we have something new for y'all in the form of a YouTube Short about Ayar Labs and their second generation of co-packaged optics.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://youtube.com/shorts/Kssi8YZZ0DQ?feature=share

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/ayar-labs-at-supercomputing-2024

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2024/11/25/ayar-labs-at-supercomputing-2024-making-light-move-bits-youtube-short/

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet Folks,

Today we are looking at what happens when you push several different generations of AMD's Infinity Fabric to its limits and how it behaves under significant load.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://open.substack.com/pub/chipsandcheese/p/pushing-amds-infinity-fabric-to-its

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2024/11/24/pushing-amds-infinity-fabric-to-its-limits/

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

We are here at #SC24 and the 64th TOP500 list has been published and we have a new number 1 Supercomputer, El Capitan at @Livermore_Comp and we have a video about it and more!

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://open.substack.com/pub/chipsandcheese/p/sc24-the-top500-video

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2024/11/20/sc24-the-top500-video/

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today I'm super proud to announce that we have launched a brand new framework for the Chips and Cheese microbenchmark suite.

Hope you enjoy and are inspired to create by this announcement!

https://github.com/ChipsandCheese/CnC-Tools/tree/main

https://open.substack.com/pub/chipsandcheese/p/chips-and-cheeses-microbenchmark

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2024/11/13/chips-and-cheeses-microbenchmark-framework/

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is on the V-Cache before AMD's V-Cache, that being Broadwell's 128MB eDRAM from all the way back in 2015.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://open.substack.com/pub/chipsandcheese/p/broadwells-edram-vcache-before-vcache

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2024/11/01/broadwells-edram-vcache-before-vcache-was-cool/

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Intel's been known as the company whose products "just work". But with this latest set of launches, Intel may be putting that reputation at risk.

https://youtu.be/RE0HO-GMrj8

https://open.substack.com/pub/chipsandcheese/p/stability-the-cost-of-intels-time

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2024/10/26/stability-the-cost-of-intels-time-to-market-approach-video/

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is looking SPEC CPU 2017 on both Loongson and Zhaoxin CPUs and seeing how they compare to CPUs from the Western vendors such as Intel, AMD, and ARM.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://open.substack.com/pub/chipsandcheese/p/running-spec-cpu2017-on-chinese-cpus

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2024/10/18/running-spec-cpu2017-on-chinese-cpus-and-more/

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today we have both an article and a video for you about AMD's Turin CPUs; we were able to get access to 9575F for some testing and data thanks to Jordan from StorageReview!

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://youtu.be/O_NRYy59eEA

https://open.substack.com/pub/chipsandcheese/p/amds-turin-5th-gen-epyc-launched

https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2024/10/11/amds-turin-5th-gen-epyc-launched/

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet Folks,

Today is a big day for Chips and Cheese, we are moving to Substack.
Here are our reasons why we have moved to Substack from WordPress.
https://chipsandcheese.substack.com/p/the-next-stage-for-chips-and-cheese?r=318kfp

Hope y'all understand and stick with us through this move and into the future!

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article we looking at Intel's new E-Core codenamed Skymont.
We compare Skymont not just to the LP E-Cores in Meteor Lake but also to the standard E-Cores found in Meteor Lake as well as to Zen 5c.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/10/03/skymont-intels-e-cores-reach-for-the-sky/

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today we have an interview Ronak Singhal, Intel Senior Fellow, about Intel's brand new Granite Rapids CPUs and what it brings to the table.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/09/30/chips-and-cheese-interviews-ronak-singhal/

https://youtu.be/rrBQGHvNDy0

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is on the brand new Lion Cove architecture from Intel found in the new Lunar Lake series of CPUs and what has changed from the prior Redwood Cove architecture.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/09/27/lion-cove-intels-p-core-roars/

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's content is a video about Cheese's initial impressions of Intel's brand new Granite Rapids CPUs launching today.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/09/24/intel-granite-rapids-a-step-in-the-right-direction-video/

youtu.be/Yg-AkVQSIGk

P.S. Any constructive criticism on the video is welcome!

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is on Intel's Redwood Cove core found in Intel's Meteor Lake CPUs as well as their upcoming Granite Rapids series of server CPUs.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/09/22/intels-redwood-cove-baby-steps-are-still-steps/

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is on the SPEC CPU 2017 benchmark and looking into the different tests across a range of CPUs as well as digging deeper into the performance counters on Intel's and AMD's newest cores.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/09/19/running-spec-cpu2017-at-chips-and-cheese/

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is on AMD's much talked and written about Zen 5 core. At Hot Chips we managed to get a chance to catch up with some folks from AMD to talk about Zen 5 after getting to test it ourselves.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/09/15/discussing-amds-zen-5-at-hot-chips-2024/

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

In our continuing Hot Chips 2024 coverage, today's article is on FuriosaAI and their new RNGD Tensor Contraction Processor for AI which is built to be more flexible than other AI accelerators.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/09/11/furiosaais-rngd-at-hot-chips-2024-accelerating-ai-with-a-more-flexible-primitive/

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today's article is about IBM's Telum II and the unique virtual L3 caching strategy that IBM has employed since the original Telum.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/09/08/telum-ii-at-hot-chips-2024-mainframe-with-a-unique-caching-strategy/

chipsandcheese , 1 year ago to random

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Today we have our second video interview from Hot Chips, this time with Susan and Christian from IBM to talk about the new Telum II chip and Spyre AI accelerator card.

Hope y'all enjoy!

https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/09/05/an-interview-with-susan-eickoff-and-christian-jacobi-from-ibm-at-hot-chips-2024/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Da7nGDOjM

P.S.This was the first video that was shot using the new camera equipment and of course there were some issues with the audio which is a running gag at this point with me and anything A/V.
So I'd just like to thank the folks at CnC who managed to fix my screw up.
Thanks y'all!