AMD's Focus on Ryzen and the CPU Landscape

It's no secret that AMD has been focusing its attention on Ryzen processors, with plans to expand its lineup in the coming years. The company's strategy has been shaped by the current state of the CPU landscape, which is still evolving with the rise of System-on-Chip (SoC) designs. At present, AMD's Ryzen 5000 series cpus are facing stiff competition from Apple's custom Arm-based silicon, known as M1, which is set to push the ARM ecosystem into new fronts.

Apple's Custom Arm-Based Silicon

The introduction of M1 has significant implications for the CPU market, and AMD cannot afford to be left behind. With its own custom Arm-based designs, AMD may need to rethink its strategy to remain competitive in the growing market. It's possible that AMD is working on reviving its K-12 architecture, which was initially shelved due to technical limitations at the time.

Reviving the K-12 Architecture

There have been rumors circulating about AMD potentially resurrecting the K-12 architecture, which could be an interesting development in the CPU landscape. However, it's essential to note that this is still a rumor, and we haven't been able to substantiate its validity. Nevertheless, the prospect of AMD revisiting its K-12 design is certainly plausible, given Apple's successful debut of M1.

The Future of CPU Design

Apple's M1 has already started shaping the future of CPU design, with manufacturers closely watching its reception. As Apple expands its own Apple Silicon to compete with the reigning x86 class, it's likely that AMD will need to adapt its strategy to remain relevant in the market. While we can't confirm the rumors about AMD reviving the K-12 architecture, it's clear that Apple's M1 is pushing the boundaries of what's possible with custom Arm-based designs.

AMD B550 and X570 Stability with XMP

Some users have been experiencing issues with enabling XMP on their AMD platforms and Ryzen 5000 series cpus. When using certain memory kits, they've found it necessary to manually adjust the timings to get the system stable. For those experiencing similar problems, the solution involves disabling XMP and then loosening the timings until the system boots.

The Ryzen Memory Profiler

For users struggling with XMP-related issues, AMD offers the Ryzen Dram Calculator as a resource. This tool provides a lookup table for optimizing memory settings, which can help identify potential problems. By using this calculator and tweaking the timings accordingly, users may be able to resolve stability issues and get their system up and running.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everyone welcome back to another hardware news recap for the week in this one we'll be talking about a brief gn slowdown for the end of the year and video on its gpu supply issues commenting more officially and publicly about what's going on the steam hardware survey with some interesting metrics to look at especially on the cpu side so that'll be kind of fun to dig through some of that data there's news on new research for graphing heat pipes and moving from copper heat pipes in this research piece there's intel and xeon discussion an accidental leak from msi on rocket lake asrock adding clever access memory following up on amd smart access memory and a couple of other things before that this video is brought to you by the corsair 4000d airflow case we recently reviewed the corsair 4000d airflow as a return to high performance cases by corsair but also talked about its attention to detail on color matching the individual components of the case the 4000d airflow is marketed as an affordable performance focused chassis with ease of installation features like refined cable management routing and pathways learn more about the corsair 4000d airflow at the link in the description below so first up some quick stuff on the gn side we're gonna have a brief period of slow down for content publication probably what's gonna happen is we'll end up publishing some old content so we've had several things that have been done for months and months now like part two of that apple refurbishment was done a long time ago but i haven't personally qced it yet so i need to watch through it get it published so we're gonna have about maybe a five days to a week period where we're going through some older content we have some stuff left over from our our factory tours in march and taiwan so there's one factory tour left there that'll be really fun that's for electrophoretic deposition and that'll be going up in the next few weeks sometime as well this is not something i particularly feel the desire to share but i feel like i i have to i'm on the day that the 6900xt reviews go live tuesday the 8th i'm actually going to be having a minor surgery it's not a big deal don't want anyone to show any kind of concern or anything it's just an injury-related surgery that i've been putting off for about a year now because i've been too busy to get it done so i chose december 8th thinking surely this will be a time that won't be busy chose that months in advance and then that turned out to be not only the launch day for the 6900 xt but also the launch week for cyberpunk which we want to cover as well so i don't know how long i'm going to be slow at my job or just generally unable to work following the you know the recovery period for that surgery it's between one day and one week from what i'm told but i'm hoping i can be working uh same day or next day but we'll see so only reason i'm putting this out there is because we're not going to have immediate follow-ups to the 6900xt we will have a 6900 xt review and i can say that much but we're not going to be doing follow-ups so if there's some major like oh look at this interesting behavior of the 6900xt look at this driver anomaly whatever someone else discovers it's very unlikely we'll be following up on that and that's because i won't be able i will be physically incapable of doing so so the only reason i'm sharing that is because if i don't say it people are gonna freak out at us when we don't follow up with content if there's some sort of 6900xt discovery that people want us to cover so don't expect anything from us there uh that's the only reason i'm really putting it out there otherwise i wouldn't bother so yeah not a big deal just an injury-related uh surgery from from an old injury so uh all right and then another quick giant update is this shirt so the gn gold foil shirts that were a limited run for the one million subs milestone which seems like it came and went real fast this shirt's finally in so we are shipping them out to all the people who backward them over the next probably a week or so there's a good amount of them so our team's doing qc and has started shipping you may have gotten a shipping notice email already and if you have anything you need to you want to follow up on your order for updates or you maybe need to change your shipping address if you moved or anything like that just email support gamersnexus.net and they'll help you out and as soon as you get a shipping notice though you'll have tracking so just wanted to update everyone on that as well and we still have the drive going for even reforestation projects as well where if you grab something on store.cameratexas.net we are going to plant 10 trees via eden reforestation projects per item sold through december 18th and that's a campaign we've done uh we did last year and i think we started working with them the year before that 2018 i think so anyway we're doing a drive with eden reforestation project watch last week's news episode for more information on how that works if you'd prefer to just donate to them directly because you like the cause and you don't need more stuff by all means don't buy stuff from us that you don't need just so that we'll plant the 10 trees via them just donate to them directly and we're going to do a match up to 1500 with our viewers anyway and we'll have the links for that below okay moving on steam hardware survey so november's steam hardware survey is here and as we might expect at this point it shows the amd ryzen cpu is appearing more in the graphs as time moves on they are steadily moving up in the charts and we'll we'll sort of preface this with the usual disclaimer that steems data is not all-encompassing it's not a look at the entire market steam is a significant percentage of the gaming market and is the widest used gaming platform so fairly wide sweep there but its survey doesn't go out to all of its users and steem is still not representative of the entire computer market so all that said the data is still very interesting and it's been the largest platform useful to see what's popular in the pc gaming segment and this data captures that through steam survey it looks like amd cpus now account for more than a quarter of steam's installed user base that would include the fx series as well but obviously more recently the rise and stuff is what's moving that number upwards so that's an increase of 0.72 percentage points from october and just back in july amd was sitting at 23.73 for the total cpu market on steam for its cpus additionally in november of 2019 so about one year ago amd and its cpu percentage was at 20.5 percent versus intel obviously as the other one so that marks an increase of six percentage points year over year it's a massive jump meanwhile intel is still commanding a significant share at 73.49 but that share is reducing effectively every single report that seems releasing right now so it'll be really interesting to see how these numbers shape up probably in the next quarter once ryzen 5000 and rocket lake are both out we don't know really where rocket lake s is going to perform as of right now but uh amd 5000 series cpus have will have at that point been on the market for a few months so that may move the numbers further in amd's favor as for core presence in computers steam's hardware survey is showing that there's a significant increase over time of six core and eight core computers and it's shown that uh thus far it looks like there's an inc or the biggest decrease in four core but also two core they've shared a roughly equal decrease in the last interval of polling for the steam hardware survey and these gpus aren't faring quite as well as its cpus are so nvidia cards still claim 9 out of the top 10 slots now and amd's rx 580 is the the one that's in the top 10 for amd so that's actually in a distant number 10. and these overall gpu share for steam comes in at 16.53 percent which is a slight improvement over last year's 15.5 with the rx 5000 series coming out in between those two intervals and the only has two out of the top 20 slots the rx 570 is the other one and that ranks at number 15 of the other 18 the the non-amd cards 17 of those belong to nvidia with one going to intel's uhd 620 integrated graphics processor there's steam on a lot of laptops out there as well even if it's just for steam friends that will still get counted if the user opted into the steam hardware survey so keep that in mind it'll dilute the data a little bit between a pure gpu to gpu comparison uh in terms of the d gpus so andy's rx 5700 xt is down at 0.95 percent total share that ranks it at number 24 at the time of filming the nvidia rtx 30 series also briefly appeared in the charts it came out somewhat close to the steam hardware survey also there haven't been uh that many out there so the 30 70s are not in here yet the 30 90 is not in here yet the 38 is the only one that's stuck in and that's at 0.23 share the next theme survey will be the one that will get us a better gauge on new gpus but the 3080 if you're curious is ranked around 73 or so assuming we counted it correctly but it's around the 73 mark in the the top 100 that are listed the rest of the data from operating systems resolutions to ram all that stuff is mostly unchanged from period to period in the steam hardware survey very slight changes in windows 10 adoption versus systems that use dx12 gpus without windows 10 but otherwise they're mostly the same as previously up next nvidia official commentary on supply issues so as the rtx 30 series drought continues nvidia offered a surprisingly sober update on its current supply and availability nvidia indicated that it can't get enough silicon to meet demand it uh seems that the supply limitations extend as well to other components including the substrates that green piece that sits under the the dye the substrate and commented on some other component non-gpu component limitations so the update came from a webcast over at nvidia's investor page where nvidia cfo collect crest commented we featured some of these comments or different comments rather in the previous news video as well also from colette cress crest stated quote we do have supply constraints and our supply constraints do extend past what we are seeing in terms of wafers and silicon but yes some constraints are in substrates and components we continue to work during the quarter on our supply and we believe that the demand will probably exceed supply in quarter four for overall gaming the quote continues we do expect it to probably take a couple of months for it to catch up to demand but at this time it is really difficult for us to quantify so we stay focused on trying to get our parts to the market for this very important holiday season each day things continue to improve but before the end of the quarter we'll be able to provide some more information crest said and nvidia's quarter wrap up will probably be in january up next some indications as to what tsmc might be helping intel with tsmc has been rolling into a support role for intel for the last year or two at this point intel also previously rolled back some of its chipsets to a variant with a i think it was a 22 nanometer process to sort of save some fab space for 14 at the time when it was facing severe shortages but now a job listing which is no longer viewable for a qat design integration engineer suggests that certain intel and atom skus may be among those on the list that would be built by tsmc rather than intel's own manufacturing intel it remains in control of its own fabs amd has moved to fabulous a long time ago at this point nvidia is fabulous so intel is the last one standing as a chip designer that's also making its own stuff at least in this space so intel's manufacturing troubles are well documented at this point we previously mentioned that intel would be moving some key manufacturing roles to third parties early in the next year primarily decisions regarding which chips it will manufacture elsewhere are still not out into the public fully but it looks like some of those are going to tsmc's the job listing appears to have been taken down but it offered the following job description quote job description as a member of the qat design team you will work as the rtl integration lead with the custom logic asic engineering group in dcg you will play a key role in the development and integration of qat into atom xeon based soc on intel and the smc processes you will work with the ipsfc integration team and collaborate with the soc design validation and emulation teams to ensure successful integration validation of the qat ip we're assuming that intel probably doesn't really need your resume most likely if you can explain what all those initialisms mean they'll hire you on the spot so as to what soc intel is referring to that's anyone's guess at this point the key phrase in there if you caught it was the brief glimpse of tsmc and working with them so we'll see what the soc is later at some point may it's it may not be something that we cover but still interesting to see tsmc finally starting to pop up in an official capacity in what intel is working on up next new research into graphene heat pipes this is super cool actually so a new research paper out of sweden is interestingly extolling the benefits of graphing heat pipes and if you need a primer on heat pipes in general we have several pieces on them we have an old old one on how heat pipes and heatsinks work but more recently we have a really cool factory tour of heat pipes getting made that was at one of cooler masters factories and we filmed the whole process from the big machine that just shakes like centered copper powder into the tubes to the very tiny needle injection that puts the couple dots of liquid in there for the heat pipe anyway that's up there if you're curious to learn more about how those are made this research paper itself is fairly lengthy the paper outlines the current struggle with power density in lightweight and portable ics and electronics and how cooling solutions are struggling to scale with them historically heat pipes are made of copper or aluminum or copper or aluminum-based alloys and use different tubing materials inside to transfer the heat through the pipe most heat pipes used in electronics that we cover are copper with a sintered powder inside sometimes you'll encounter things like grooves or mesh as well but sintered and copper are pipes that is are the most common the research paper lays out how the researchers built a graphene heat pipe based on graphene assembled films they're calling gf three different inner wick structures are discussed made from plasma treated graphene films carbon fiber mesh and carbon fiber bunch an ethanol-based fluid is also discussed in the paper as being used in the pipes the heat pipe was tested in length of 90 130 and 150 millimeters the paper then demonstrates how this heat pipe can handle a 10 watt heat load thermal conductivity can be compared directly in situations where the testing was conducted the same way and as far as we can tell the numbers within this paper can be compared against each other as one would expect since it's all done by the same researchers the paper concludes by saying quote in summary we have demonstrated for the first time the application of using graphene to build heat pipes for cooling purposes with optimized wick structure a ghp exhibits specific thermal transfer coefficient as high as 7230 which is 3.5 times higher efficiency than the well-designed commercial copper based heat pipe besides a heat transfer model was built to explain the contribution of gf in the ghp it opens the possibility to use a graphene for thermal dissipation especially in situations where lightweight is required as a priority so really interesting paper if you want to read bits and pieces of it it will be linked in our show notes document below where we have all the sources for all the stories for each week and i definitely recommend if you're interested in this stuff and new technology checking that one out previously not in this this week's news but previously we talked about uh sort of liquid cooling inside of the cpu as the story that that uh everyone ran with but we talked about that in the last probably a couple weeks ago at this point another really interesting research paper and unfortunately research papers are not not too common to come out in the pc industry or in general just because the amount of work behind them but they're always really fun to give you a glimpse of what's getting worked on even if it's not coming to consumer technology it's still still fun stuff to stay on top of asrock adding amd sam on intel z490 msi next msi also accidentally leaking information but we'll talk about that in the next story asrock z490 tai chi motherboard recently got a bios update that adds the pcie resize whole base address register or bar or rbar which is what amd has branded as smart access memory this requires some optimization on the gpu driver side as well so it's not as simple as flipping a switch and turning it on there is some work that needs to be done or you can have potentially a regression and performance rather than an improvement so it's not just a universal performance improvement but anyway this was pushed ahead of nvidia's official push via motherboard makers nvidia as previously discussed is working on implementing pcie resizable base address register features for its gpus on intel and amd platforms asrock though is doing it on its own or maybe with some help from intel we're not exactly sure the arrangement but uh so far that's for the company z490 boards and the tai chi and currently asrock has this feature available in a beta uh the bios is version number l1.72 if you're interested in trying it out that was released on december 4th and the description reads quote adds clever access memory function it's not quite not quite smart access memory it's clever access memory not sure you want to associate with the the initialism of camp though or the academic camp as a reminder pcie rbar is not again a magic bullet to all games there's a pretty significant uplift in some benchmarks though so when we tested the 6800 xt with smart access memory on and off and a b testing on an amd platform the largest gain we saw was if memory serves hitman 2 specifically at 4k and higher maybe ultra settings that was about 10 11 improvement in pure a b testing on versus off so that's pretty good but in a lot of the other games we tested it was close to zero percent so your mileage may vary on it there is again some development work that goes into it this is why nvidia's been slow to respond because they're not just flipping a switch and it's also why it took either of these two companies amd included a while to get it integrated to begin with so amd and nvidia have both told us that they're doing driver level optimizations where they can either optimize out of a negative or into a more meaningful positive gain for games with ba rbir on or they can toggle the feature entirely if necessary for games where it might show a significant negative impact we're not sure the exact details of those they don't typically share that with us they just turn it off in the driver instead and don't talk about it so that's how the feature kind of works at a driver level and msi also claims that it's working on its own pcie rbar enablement for its motherboards for the 400 series of intel boards the company put out a press release that it has since redacted that was dated december 4th and it included notes if you check the webcache of supporting z490 b460 and and h410 stating that z490 would likely get the updates first and that's from msi directly but again it's been redacted and it's only available through web cache now up next msi leaks the intel rocket lake specs we're not sure why msi redacted its previous announcement on the rbar feature being added but perhaps this is related to it so looking at the webcache version of that announcement from the previous news story you might notice a cpu-z screenshot showing a codename processor rocket lake which is intel's next processor coming up and a cpu identifier of zero zero zero zero zero although it is possible that intel would use such a name it seems like there's probably going to be some more numbers in there in the mix so we don't know what cpu it is just yet cpu z if it can be trusted in that screenshot indicates an 8 core 16 thread processor it indicates a maximum multiplier of 50x on that specific model it is however an engineering sample and so the cores and threads there probably will be an 8 core 16 thread cpu but we can't necessarily take the multiplier number as how it'll ship it might be a more lockdown es version so anyway that's what we know from that so far it has a cpc reported tdp of 125 watts it says 14 nanometer technology and uh then we've got the multiplier range some voltages and some cache numbers but that stuff will kind of save on commenting further on until the cpus get closer to launch up next a rumor this one is a bit of a stretch but we'll talk about it anyway just keep in mind that it's a rumor and it's a bit of a stretch so uh we aren't currently able to substantiate any of the alleged information that's present here but for the sake of speculation we'll discuss it briefly a bit of background first once upon a time during jim keller's reign at amd project skybridge laid out amd's ambitions to develop pin compatible arm and x86 socs with the k-12 core and that being amd's first custom arm 64-bit arm v8 cpu core the k-12 design was destined to replace the operon a1100 series that used arm cortex a57 cores and was supposed to show up at some point in 2016. fast forward a few years and the k-12 never showed up although amd has neither confirmed nor denied that the project was scrapped rumors insist k-12 was shelved to focus on ryzen and that the cpu landscape at the time wasn't ready for socs that married x86 and arm cores it's likely that the k-12 wasn't abandoned entirely and yet still lives in some form this would lend a bit of credibility to the new rumor that amd may be resurrecting the k-12 in some capacity to now address the burgeoning arm market apple's custom arm-based silicon which recently debuted in the form of the m1 is set to push the arm ecosystem into new fronts and it's probable that amd doesn't want to limit itself to x86 forever as we've said before you can be sure chipmakers are watching the reception to apple's m1 closely and whether or not amd trots out some new derivative of the k-12 or something else entirely will likely depend on what happens over the next year or so as apple expands its own apple silicon to compete with the reigning x86 class so again just to be really clear that one is a rumor and we haven't been able to substantiate the possibility of amd resurrect in its arm-based designs but it's something that is probable in some way whether or not it's the k-12 or something else but apple's m1 really does sort of start shaping the future for that being a possibility one last quick one to throw in here too we've had a couple people email us asking about amd b550 and x570 stability with xmp so this is something we've noticed but i haven't really looked into too far because we immediately got hit with gpus after the cpus but on some platforms the for x570 for example what we were working with the memory kits we were using were being tuned too tightly out of the box and we had to manually adjust them to get it stable so related to that we've seen a couple posts from people and emails where they're asking for help with or commentary on the fact that enabling xmp can cause a failure to boot with some of the amd platforms and ryzen 5000 series cpus we haven't looked too far into it but if you're having problems with this generally speaking the best way to solve it unfortunately is going to be to manually loosen the timings so what we do is typically enable xmp then go to the timings and loosen all of them so you make all the numbers larger you can start with primary if you want to keep it simple and just do the four primary times might be presented as five in your bios depending and set those maybe one to two ticks higher each see if that boots if it doesn't the next things to look at would typically be rfc tf aw or four active window and tcwl is another one just try increasing everything a couple points until it boots and then once you get it booted at loose bad timings you can then work towards reducing them again if that sounds like too much work one option and it is not necessarily you know quick depending on what you're working with but one other option you have would be the ryzen memory profiler i forget the exact name of it uh ryzen dram calculator that's it so it's not really a calculator it's more of a lookup table but that'll give you a good starting point for where the memory should run and you can maybe loosen those timings a little further and uh and try that so that'd be the best way to fix it again we're not really looking into the issue that deeply so if we've missed some aspect of this story then i apologize but just trying to help the people who've been asking for assistance lately and in one quick video to say uh just try loosening the timings that'll at least get you booted and then you can tune it from there that's it for the news this week again uh tuesday we're publishing the 6900xt review i will be incapacitated i'll be on an operating table when it goes up but no worries it's a minor thing like i said it's just for an old uh old sports injury so that'll be taken care of but we are going to be slow for publishing that week i just want to make sure everyone's clear on that we're not gonna have a bunch of follow-up stories for the 6900xt but we do have some old content that's been filmed and ready to go for a while now that we just need to sort of do all the uh the youtube side work for and click publish so that'll probably be going up a bit next week but thanks for watching you can go to store.gamersnexus.net if you want to pick something up these shirts are already sold out but they'll be shipping out if you had an order in previously over the next couple of days and you'll get notices for those you can go to patreon.com gamersnexus subscribe for more we'll see you all next timehey everyone welcome back to another hardware news recap for the week in this one we'll be talking about a brief gn slowdown for the end of the year and video on its gpu supply issues commenting more officially and publicly about what's going on the steam hardware survey with some interesting metrics to look at especially on the cpu side so that'll be kind of fun to dig through some of that data there's news on new research for graphing heat pipes and moving from copper heat pipes in this research piece there's intel and xeon discussion an accidental leak from msi on rocket lake asrock adding clever access memory following up on amd smart access memory and a couple of other things before that this video is brought to you by the corsair 4000d airflow case we recently reviewed the corsair 4000d airflow as a return to high performance cases by corsair but also talked about its attention to detail on color matching the individual components of the case the 4000d airflow is marketed as an affordable performance focused chassis with ease of installation features like refined cable management routing and pathways learn more about the corsair 4000d airflow at the link in the description below so first up some quick stuff on the gn side we're gonna have a brief period of slow down for content publication probably what's gonna happen is we'll end up publishing some old content so we've had several things that have been done for months and months now like part two of that apple refurbishment was done a long time ago but i haven't personally qced it yet so i need to watch through it get it published so we're gonna have about maybe a five days to a week period where we're going through some older content we have some stuff left over from our our factory tours in march and taiwan so there's one factory tour left there that'll be really fun that's for electrophoretic deposition and that'll be going up in the next few weeks sometime as well this is not something i particularly feel the desire to share but i feel like i i have to i'm on the day that the 6900xt reviews go live tuesday the 8th i'm actually going to be having a minor surgery it's not a big deal don't want anyone to show any kind of concern or anything it's just an injury-related surgery that i've been putting off for about a year now because i've been too busy to get it done so i chose december 8th thinking surely this will be a time that won't be busy chose that months in advance and then that turned out to be not only the launch day for the 6900 xt but also the launch week for cyberpunk which we want to cover as well so i don't know how long i'm going to be slow at my job or just generally unable to work following the you know the recovery period for that surgery it's between one day and one week from what i'm told but i'm hoping i can be working uh same day or next day but we'll see so only reason i'm putting this out there is because we're not going to have immediate follow-ups to the 6900xt we will have a 6900 xt review and i can say that much but we're not going to be doing follow-ups so if there's some major like oh look at this interesting behavior of the 6900xt look at this driver anomaly whatever someone else discovers it's very unlikely we'll be following up on that and that's because i won't be able i will be physically incapable of doing so so the only reason i'm sharing that is because if i don't say it people are gonna freak out at us when we don't follow up with content if there's some sort of 6900xt discovery that people want us to cover so don't expect anything from us there uh that's the only reason i'm really putting it out there otherwise i wouldn't bother so yeah not a big deal just an injury-related uh surgery from from an old injury so uh all right and then another quick giant update is this shirt so the gn gold foil shirts that were a limited run for the one million subs milestone which seems like it came and went real fast this shirt's finally in so we are shipping them out to all the people who backward them over the next probably a week or so there's a good amount of them so our team's doing qc and has started shipping you may have gotten a shipping notice email already and if you have anything you need to you want to follow up on your order for updates or you maybe need to change your shipping address if you moved or anything like that just email support gamersnexus.net and they'll help you out and as soon as you get a shipping notice though you'll have tracking so just wanted to update everyone on that as well and we still have the drive going for even reforestation projects as well where if you grab something on store.cameratexas.net we are going to plant 10 trees via eden reforestation projects per item sold through december 18th and that's a campaign we've done uh we did last year and i think we started working with them the year before that 2018 i think so anyway we're doing a drive with eden reforestation project watch last week's news episode for more information on how that works if you'd prefer to just donate to them directly because you like the cause and you don't need more stuff by all means don't buy stuff from us that you don't need just so that we'll plant the 10 trees via them just donate to them directly and we're going to do a match up to 1500 with our viewers anyway and we'll have the links for that below okay moving on steam hardware survey so november's steam hardware survey is here and as we might expect at this point it shows the amd ryzen cpu is appearing more in the graphs as time moves on they are steadily moving up in the charts and we'll we'll sort of preface this with the usual disclaimer that steems data is not all-encompassing it's not a look at the entire market steam is a significant percentage of the gaming market and is the widest used gaming platform so fairly wide sweep there but its survey doesn't go out to all of its users and steem is still not representative of the entire computer market so all that said the data is still very interesting and it's been the largest platform useful to see what's popular in the pc gaming segment and this data captures that through steam survey it looks like amd cpus now account for more than a quarter of steam's installed user base that would include the fx series as well but obviously more recently the rise and stuff is what's moving that number upwards so that's an increase of 0.72 percentage points from october and just back in july amd was sitting at 23.73 for the total cpu market on steam for its cpus additionally in november of 2019 so about one year ago amd and its cpu percentage was at 20.5 percent versus intel obviously as the other one so that marks an increase of six percentage points year over year it's a massive jump meanwhile intel is still commanding a significant share at 73.49 but that share is reducing effectively every single report that seems releasing right now so it'll be really interesting to see how these numbers shape up probably in the next quarter once ryzen 5000 and rocket lake are both out we don't know really where rocket lake s is going to perform as of right now but uh amd 5000 series cpus have will have at that point been on the market for a few months so that may move the numbers further in amd's favor as for core presence in computers steam's hardware survey is showing that there's a significant increase over time of six core and eight core computers and it's shown that uh thus far it looks like there's an inc or the biggest decrease in four core but also two core they've shared a roughly equal decrease in the last interval of polling for the steam hardware survey and these gpus aren't faring quite as well as its cpus are so nvidia cards still claim 9 out of the top 10 slots now and amd's rx 580 is the the one that's in the top 10 for amd so that's actually in a distant number 10. and these overall gpu share for steam comes in at 16.53 percent which is a slight improvement over last year's 15.5 with the rx 5000 series coming out in between those two intervals and the only has two out of the top 20 slots the rx 570 is the other one and that ranks at number 15 of the other 18 the the non-amd cards 17 of those belong to nvidia with one going to intel's uhd 620 integrated graphics processor there's steam on a lot of laptops out there as well even if it's just for steam friends that will still get counted if the user opted into the steam hardware survey so keep that in mind it'll dilute the data a little bit between a pure gpu to gpu comparison uh in terms of the d gpus so andy's rx 5700 xt is down at 0.95 percent total share that ranks it at number 24 at the time of filming the nvidia rtx 30 series also briefly appeared in the charts it came out somewhat close to the steam hardware survey also there haven't been uh that many out there so the 30 70s are not in here yet the 30 90 is not in here yet the 38 is the only one that's stuck in and that's at 0.23 share the next theme survey will be the one that will get us a better gauge on new gpus but the 3080 if you're curious is ranked around 73 or so assuming we counted it correctly but it's around the 73 mark in the the top 100 that are listed the rest of the data from operating systems resolutions to ram all that stuff is mostly unchanged from period to period in the steam hardware survey very slight changes in windows 10 adoption versus systems that use dx12 gpus without windows 10 but otherwise they're mostly the same as previously up next nvidia official commentary on supply issues so as the rtx 30 series drought continues nvidia offered a surprisingly sober update on its current supply and availability nvidia indicated that it can't get enough silicon to meet demand it uh seems that the supply limitations extend as well to other components including the substrates that green piece that sits under the the dye the substrate and commented on some other component non-gpu component limitations so the update came from a webcast over at nvidia's investor page where nvidia cfo collect crest commented we featured some of these comments or different comments rather in the previous news video as well also from colette cress crest stated quote we do have supply constraints and our supply constraints do extend past what we are seeing in terms of wafers and silicon but yes some constraints are in substrates and components we continue to work during the quarter on our supply and we believe that the demand will probably exceed supply in quarter four for overall gaming the quote continues we do expect it to probably take a couple of months for it to catch up to demand but at this time it is really difficult for us to quantify so we stay focused on trying to get our parts to the market for this very important holiday season each day things continue to improve but before the end of the quarter we'll be able to provide some more information crest said and nvidia's quarter wrap up will probably be in january up next some indications as to what tsmc might be helping intel with tsmc has been rolling into a support role for intel for the last year or two at this point intel also previously rolled back some of its chipsets to a variant with a i think it was a 22 nanometer process to sort of save some fab space for 14 at the time when it was facing severe shortages but now a job listing which is no longer viewable for a qat design integration engineer suggests that certain intel and atom skus may be among those on the list that would be built by tsmc rather than intel's own manufacturing intel it remains in control of its own fabs amd has moved to fabulous a long time ago at this point nvidia is fabulous so intel is the last one standing as a chip designer that's also making its own stuff at least in this space so intel's manufacturing troubles are well documented at this point we previously mentioned that intel would be moving some key manufacturing roles to third parties early in the next year primarily decisions regarding which chips it will manufacture elsewhere are still not out into the public fully but it looks like some of those are going to tsmc's the job listing appears to have been taken down but it offered the following job description quote job description as a member of the qat design team you will work as the rtl integration lead with the custom logic asic engineering group in dcg you will play a key role in the development and integration of qat into atom xeon based soc on intel and the smc processes you will work with the ipsfc integration team and collaborate with the soc design validation and emulation teams to ensure successful integration validation of the qat ip we're assuming that intel probably doesn't really need your resume most likely if you can explain what all those initialisms mean they'll hire you on the spot so as to what soc intel is referring to that's anyone's guess at this point the key phrase in there if you caught it was the brief glimpse of tsmc and working with them so we'll see what the soc is later at some point may it's it may not be something that we cover but still interesting to see tsmc finally starting to pop up in an official capacity in what intel is working on up next new research into graphene heat pipes this is super cool actually so a new research paper out of sweden is interestingly extolling the benefits of graphing heat pipes and if you need a primer on heat pipes in general we have several pieces on them we have an old old one on how heat pipes and heatsinks work but more recently we have a really cool factory tour of heat pipes getting made that was at one of cooler masters factories and we filmed the whole process from the big machine that just shakes like centered copper powder into the tubes to the very tiny needle injection that puts the couple dots of liquid in there for the heat pipe anyway that's up there if you're curious to learn more about how those are made this research paper itself is fairly lengthy the paper outlines the current struggle with power density in lightweight and portable ics and electronics and how cooling solutions are struggling to scale with them historically heat pipes are made of copper or aluminum or copper or aluminum-based alloys and use different tubing materials inside to transfer the heat through the pipe most heat pipes used in electronics that we cover are copper with a sintered powder inside sometimes you'll encounter things like grooves or mesh as well but sintered and copper are pipes that is are the most common the research paper lays out how the researchers built a graphene heat pipe based on graphene assembled films they're calling gf three different inner wick structures are discussed made from plasma treated graphene films carbon fiber mesh and carbon fiber bunch an ethanol-based fluid is also discussed in the paper as being used in the pipes the heat pipe was tested in length of 90 130 and 150 millimeters the paper then demonstrates how this heat pipe can handle a 10 watt heat load thermal conductivity can be compared directly in situations where the testing was conducted the same way and as far as we can tell the numbers within this paper can be compared against each other as one would expect since it's all done by the same researchers the paper concludes by saying quote in summary we have demonstrated for the first time the application of using graphene to build heat pipes for cooling purposes with optimized wick structure a ghp exhibits specific thermal transfer coefficient as high as 7230 which is 3.5 times higher efficiency than the well-designed commercial copper based heat pipe besides a heat transfer model was built to explain the contribution of gf in the ghp it opens the possibility to use a graphene for thermal dissipation especially in situations where lightweight is required as a priority so really interesting paper if you want to read bits and pieces of it it will be linked in our show notes document below where we have all the sources for all the stories for each week and i definitely recommend if you're interested in this stuff and new technology checking that one out previously not in this this week's news but previously we talked about uh sort of liquid cooling inside of the cpu as the story that that uh everyone ran with but we talked about that in the last probably a couple weeks ago at this point another really interesting research paper and unfortunately research papers are not not too common to come out in the pc industry or in general just because the amount of work behind them but they're always really fun to give you a glimpse of what's getting worked on even if it's not coming to consumer technology it's still still fun stuff to stay on top of asrock adding amd sam on intel z490 msi next msi also accidentally leaking information but we'll talk about that in the next story asrock z490 tai chi motherboard recently got a bios update that adds the pcie resize whole base address register or bar or rbar which is what amd has branded as smart access memory this requires some optimization on the gpu driver side as well so it's not as simple as flipping a switch and turning it on there is some work that needs to be done or you can have potentially a regression and performance rather than an improvement so it's not just a universal performance improvement but anyway this was pushed ahead of nvidia's official push via motherboard makers nvidia as previously discussed is working on implementing pcie resizable base address register features for its gpus on intel and amd platforms asrock though is doing it on its own or maybe with some help from intel we're not exactly sure the arrangement but uh so far that's for the company z490 boards and the tai chi and currently asrock has this feature available in a beta uh the bios is version number l1.72 if you're interested in trying it out that was released on december 4th and the description reads quote adds clever access memory function it's not quite not quite smart access memory it's clever access memory not sure you want to associate with the the initialism of camp though or the academic camp as a reminder pcie rbar is not again a magic bullet to all games there's a pretty significant uplift in some benchmarks though so when we tested the 6800 xt with smart access memory on and off and a b testing on an amd platform the largest gain we saw was if memory serves hitman 2 specifically at 4k and higher maybe ultra settings that was about 10 11 improvement in pure a b testing on versus off so that's pretty good but in a lot of the other games we tested it was close to zero percent so your mileage may vary on it there is again some development work that goes into it this is why nvidia's been slow to respond because they're not just flipping a switch and it's also why it took either of these two companies amd included a while to get it integrated to begin with so amd and nvidia have both told us that they're doing driver level optimizations where they can either optimize out of a negative or into a more meaningful positive gain for games with ba rbir on or they can toggle the feature entirely if necessary for games where it might show a significant negative impact we're not sure the exact details of those they don't typically share that with us they just turn it off in the driver instead and don't talk about it so that's how the feature kind of works at a driver level and msi also claims that it's working on its own pcie rbar enablement for its motherboards for the 400 series of intel boards the company put out a press release that it has since redacted that was dated december 4th and it included notes if you check the webcache of supporting z490 b460 and and h410 stating that z490 would likely get the updates first and that's from msi directly but again it's been redacted and it's only available through web cache now up next msi leaks the intel rocket lake specs we're not sure why msi redacted its previous announcement on the rbar feature being added but perhaps this is related to it so looking at the webcache version of that announcement from the previous news story you might notice a cpu-z screenshot showing a codename processor rocket lake which is intel's next processor coming up and a cpu identifier of zero zero zero zero zero although it is possible that intel would use such a name it seems like there's probably going to be some more numbers in there in the mix so we don't know what cpu it is just yet cpu z if it can be trusted in that screenshot indicates an 8 core 16 thread processor it indicates a maximum multiplier of 50x on that specific model it is however an engineering sample and so the cores and threads there probably will be an 8 core 16 thread cpu but we can't necessarily take the multiplier number as how it'll ship it might be a more lockdown es version so anyway that's what we know from that so far it has a cpc reported tdp of 125 watts it says 14 nanometer technology and uh then we've got the multiplier range some voltages and some cache numbers but that stuff will kind of save on commenting further on until the cpus get closer to launch up next a rumor this one is a bit of a stretch but we'll talk about it anyway just keep in mind that it's a rumor and it's a bit of a stretch so uh we aren't currently able to substantiate any of the alleged information that's present here but for the sake of speculation we'll discuss it briefly a bit of background first once upon a time during jim keller's reign at amd project skybridge laid out amd's ambitions to develop pin compatible arm and x86 socs with the k-12 core and that being amd's first custom arm 64-bit arm v8 cpu core the k-12 design was destined to replace the operon a1100 series that used arm cortex a57 cores and was supposed to show up at some point in 2016. fast forward a few years and the k-12 never showed up although amd has neither confirmed nor denied that the project was scrapped rumors insist k-12 was shelved to focus on ryzen and that the cpu landscape at the time wasn't ready for socs that married x86 and arm cores it's likely that the k-12 wasn't abandoned entirely and yet still lives in some form this would lend a bit of credibility to the new rumor that amd may be resurrecting the k-12 in some capacity to now address the burgeoning arm market apple's custom arm-based silicon which recently debuted in the form of the m1 is set to push the arm ecosystem into new fronts and it's probable that amd doesn't want to limit itself to x86 forever as we've said before you can be sure chipmakers are watching the reception to apple's m1 closely and whether or not amd trots out some new derivative of the k-12 or something else entirely will likely depend on what happens over the next year or so as apple expands its own apple silicon to compete with the reigning x86 class so again just to be really clear that one is a rumor and we haven't been able to substantiate the possibility of amd resurrect in its arm-based designs but it's something that is probable in some way whether or not it's the k-12 or something else but apple's m1 really does sort of start shaping the future for that being a possibility one last quick one to throw in here too we've had a couple people email us asking about amd b550 and x570 stability with xmp so this is something we've noticed but i haven't really looked into too far because we immediately got hit with gpus after the cpus but on some platforms the for x570 for example what we were working with the memory kits we were using were being tuned too tightly out of the box and we had to manually adjust them to get it stable so related to that we've seen a couple posts from people and emails where they're asking for help with or commentary on the fact that enabling xmp can cause a failure to boot with some of the amd platforms and ryzen 5000 series cpus we haven't looked too far into it but if you're having problems with this generally speaking the best way to solve it unfortunately is going to be to manually loosen the timings so what we do is typically enable xmp then go to the timings and loosen all of them so you make all the numbers larger you can start with primary if you want to keep it simple and just do the four primary times might be presented as five in your bios depending and set those maybe one to two ticks higher each see if that boots if it doesn't the next things to look at would typically be rfc tf aw or four active window and tcwl is another one just try increasing everything a couple points until it boots and then once you get it booted at loose bad timings you can then work towards reducing them again if that sounds like too much work one option and it is not necessarily you know quick depending on what you're working with but one other option you have would be the ryzen memory profiler i forget the exact name of it uh ryzen dram calculator that's it so it's not really a calculator it's more of a lookup table but that'll give you a good starting point for where the memory should run and you can maybe loosen those timings a little further and uh and try that so that'd be the best way to fix it again we're not really looking into the issue that deeply so if we've missed some aspect of this story then i apologize but just trying to help the people who've been asking for assistance lately and in one quick video to say uh just try loosening the timings that'll at least get you booted and then you can tune it from there that's it for the news this week again uh tuesday we're publishing the 6900xt review i will be incapacitated i'll be on an operating table when it goes up but no worries it's a minor thing like i said it's just for an old uh old sports injury so that'll be taken care of but we are going to be slow for publishing that week i just want to make sure everyone's clear on that we're not gonna have a bunch of follow-up stories for the 6900xt but we do have some old content that's been filmed and ready to go for a while now that we just need to sort of do all the uh the youtube side work for and click publish so that'll probably be going up a bit next week but thanks for watching you can go to 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