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Chip industry: Intel undisputed at the top of sales, AMD in 15th place

Intel is expected to hold first place among the top-selling semiconductor companies this year. The market researcher IC Insights estimates that by the end of the year the chip manufacturer 73, 89 will earn billions of dollars. With a sales increase of 4 percent compared to the previous year, Intel would grow at a below-average rate.

The 15 According to IC Insights, the semiconductor companies with the highest sales have a plus of 13 percent. The biggest winners are Nvidia (+ 50%), AMD (+ 42%), MediaTek and Qualcomm (each + 35%) and TSMC (+ 31%). In the case of TSMC, the market observer evaluates the silicon chips made to order. All of the above companies except Intel have at least some of their products manufactured by TSMC.

CPUs, GPUs and SoCs in demand Nvidia earns most of its money with GeForce graphics cards and server accelerators – IC Insights apparently does not include the sales of the recently acquired network specialist Mellanox. AMD sells processors (Epyc, Ryzen, Athlon), graphics cards (Radeon) and server accelerators like the Instinct MI 100. With the 41 percent increase is AMD out of place in the first place 18 in the top 15 slipped. MediaTek and Qualcomm design systems-on-chips (SoCs) primarily for smartphones and tablets.

None of these companies still produce the chips themselves. Only Intel is sticking to its own production, giving way for years Delays in the future, however, partly due to TSMC.

The 15 Semiconductor company with the highest turnover according to IC Insights Rank Company Sales 2020 Change vs. 2019 1 Intel 73, 89 4% 2 Samsung 60, 48 9% 3 TSMC 45, 42 31% 4 SK Hynix 26, 47 14% 5 Micron 21, 66 -3% 6 Qualcomm 19, 37 35% 7 Broadcom 17, 07 -1% 8 Nvidia 15, 88 50% 9 TI 13, 09 -4% 10 Infineon 11, 07 -1% 11 MediaTek 10, 78 35% 12 Kioxia 10, 72 22% 13 Apple 10, 04 25% 14 ST 9, 95 4% 15 AMD 9, 52 41 % Total 314, 82 13% No movement at the top Nothing changes in the top 5 positions. Samsung dwells with 60, 48 billion US dollars in sales (+ 9% ) in second place, including the income from their own mobile processors, the memory division and contract manufacturing, such as the Ampere GPUs for Nvidia’s GeForce RTX – 3000 – graphics cards. The two memory manufacturers SK Hynix and Micron are in 4th and 5th place.

IC Insights estimates Apple’s semiconductor sales as good 10 Billions US -Dollars per year 2020 (+ 25%). It is about the theoretical value of the self-designed ARM processors that will be used in iPhones, iPad, Apple Watches and, in the future, Macs – Apple is the only company on the list that does not sell chips to other companies.

(mma)

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PowerColor Radeon RX 6800 XT Red Devil Review

Introduction

PowerColor Radeon RX 6800 XT Red Devil “Big Navi” made landfall today. The Red Devil brand represents PowerColor’s most premium custom-design AMD Radeon graphics cards, and builds on the legacy of the well-praised RX 5700 XT Red Devil. It launches today alongside the cost-effective Red Dragon series, and numerous other custom-design RX 6800 series cards by AMD’s board partners. “Big Navi” came out earlier this month as an AMD reference design, today we’re reviewing the custom-design cards. The RX 6800 XT and RX 6800 bring AMD’s new RDNA2 graphics architecture to the PC platform, which debuted earlier this year on consoles such as the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. On the PC it introduces full DirectX 12 Ultimate readiness, including support for real-time raytracing.

The RDNA2 graphics architecture is built on the philosophy of enormous amounts of compute power to accomplish real-time raytracing. While the most compute-intensive part of ray-tracing, ray intersection, is processed by fixed-function hardware, quite a few aspects such as denoising, are handled via compute shaders. That’s why AMD doubled the SIMD resources over the previous-generation RDNA, coupled with a new high-clock-speed silicon design. A side-effect of this approach is an enormous performance uplift with traditional raster 3D rendering performance. As it stands, it will still be some time before we have pure raytraced graphics; and both NVIDIA and AMD are stuck with having to combine raster 3D graphics with certain real-time raytraced elements. AMD in its launch event claimed that the RX 6800 XT performs in the same league as NVIDIA’s flagship RTX 3080, and the RX 6800 goes against the RTX 2080 Ti (or RTX 3070), which should mark AMD’s return to the high-end segment, on the back of this performance uplift.

PowerColor’s Radeon RX 6800 XT Red Devil is based on the new AMD 7 nm “Navi 21” RDNA2 silicon, and is armed with 4,608 stream processors, an 80% increase over the RX 5700 XT (and 100% increase over the RX 5700). Each of the chip’s 72 RDNA2 compute units has one Ray Accelerator unit. AMD also doubled the memory amount to 16 GB, and uses the fastest JEDEC-standard 16 Gbps GDDR6 memory. The memory bus width is narrower than that of the RTX 3080, at just 256-bit, but AMD found a solution to its memory sub-system bottlenecks in the form of Infinity Cache, an on-die 128 MB L3 cache running at 2 TB/s, which accelerates memory access. Our RX 6800 XT reference-design review takes an in-depth look at the RDNA2 architecture.

The PowerColor RX 6800 XT Red Devil in this review introduces a large triple-slot cooler paired with a vast aluminium fin-stack heatsink. There are also certain cosmetic touches that cleverly use RGB LEDs to give the card the appearance of red-hot metal, which looks very Metal. Bringing it all together is a strong VRM solution supporting factory-overclocked speeds of 2340 MHz (compared to 2250 MHz reference); and premium features such as dual-BIOS, and external ARGB headers. PowerColor hasn’t provided us with a price for the Radeon RX 6800 XT RED Devil, citing “market conditions”. Their logic is that since retailers will be marking up the price anyway, due to limited stock, they rather give no guidance on pricing at all, instead of an unrealistic price. Considering the positioning of this card, and that PowerColor declared it a “limited edition 1000 pieces”, $800 seems appropriate, which I’ve used throughout this review. Once actual pricing is known I’ll update this review of course.

Radeon RX 6800 XT Market Segment Analysis
  Price Shader

Units		 ROPs Core

Clock		 Boost

Clock		 Memory

Clock		 GPU Transistors Memory
RX Vega 64 $400 4096 64 1247 MHz 1546 MHz 953 MHz Vega 10 12500M 8 GB, HBM2, 2048-bit
GTX 1080 Ti $650 3584 88 1481 MHz 1582 MHz 1376 MHz GP102 12000M 11 GB, GDDR5X, 352-bit
RX 5700 XT $370 2560 64 1605 MHz 1755 MHz 1750 MHz Navi 10 10300M 8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 2070 $340 2304 64 1410 MHz 1620 MHz 1750 MHz TU106 10800M 8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 2070 Super $450 2560 64 1605 MHz 1770 MHz 1750 MHz TU104 13600M 8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
Radeon VII $680 3840 64 1802 MHz N/A 1000 MHz Vega 20 13230M 16 GB, HBM2, 4096-bit
RTX 2080 $600 2944 64 1515 MHz 1710 MHz 1750 MHz TU104 13600M 8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 2080 Super $690 3072 64 1650 MHz 1815 MHz 1940 MHz TU104 13600M 8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 2080 Ti $1000 4352 88 1350 MHz 1545 MHz 1750 MHz TU102 18600M 11 GB, GDDR6, 352-bit
RTX 3070 $500 5888 96 1500 MHz 1725 MHz 1750 MHz GA104 17400M 8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RX 6800 $580 3840 96 1815 MHz 2105 MHz 2000 MHz Navi 21 26800M 16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RX 6800 XT $650 4608 128 2015 MHz 2250 MHz 2000 MHz Navi 21 26800M 16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
PowerColor RX 6800

XT Red Devil		 $800? 4608 128 2090 MHz 2340 MHz 2000 MHz Navi 21 26800M 16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3080 $700 8704 96 1440 MHz 1710 MHz 1188 MHz GA102 28000M 10 GB, GDDR6X, 320-bit
RTX 3090 $1500 10496 112 1395 MHz 1695 MHz 1219 MHz GA102 28000M 24 GB, GDDR6X, 384-bit
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Big Navi with AiO cooling: ASUS ROG Strix LC Radeon RX 6800 XT OC Edition in the test


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After the successful start of the Radeon-RX – 6800 – Series a few days ago, the first custom model follows today. In the form of the ASUS ROG Strix LC Radeon RX 6800 XT OC Edition, we’re looking at a real high- End branch, which comes with an all-in-one cooling ex works. Except for a custom water cooling, it shouldn’t get much better in terms of performance potential, but at a later point in time we will certainly look at other custom models.

At the start of the new Big Navi cards, ASUS presented a whole series of corresponding cards. There are the TUF models, which are supposed to serve the middle class more or less. The ROG Strix series is positioned above it, which goes a step further in terms of cooling and functions such as RGB lighting. The ROG Strix LC Radeon RX 6800 XT OC Edition, which we tested today, tops it all off. All-in-one cooling should ensure maximum performance at the lowest possible temperatures and volume.

But let’s first take a look at the technical data of the card.

Comparison of the cards
Radeon RX 6800 XT ASUS ROG Strix LC Radeon RX 2017 XT OC Edition
GPU Big Navi Big Navi
Transistors 26, 8 billion 26, 8 sts billions
Manufacturing 7 nm 7 nm
Chip size 519, 8 mm² 519, 8 mm²
Compute Units 72 72
Ray Accelerators 72 72
Game clock 2.0 15 MHz 2. 110 MHz
Boost clock 2. 250 MHz 2. 360 MHz
ROPs 128 128
Infinity Cache 128 MB 128 MB
Storage capacity 16 GB 16 GB
Storage type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory interface 256 Bit 256 Bit
memory bandwidth 512 GB / s 512 GB / s
TDP 300 W 300 W
Care 2x 8-pin 2x 8-pin
Price 649 Euro –

Like any model of the Radeon RX 6800 XT also uses the ROG Strix LC Radeon RX 6800 XT OC Edition the Big Navi GPU with 26, 8 billion transistors based on the RDNA-2 architecture. All details can be found in the launch article for the Radeon RX 6800 and Radeon RX 6800 XT. From the point of view of the GPU there are no differences, but there are differences in the clock rate. While AMD has a typical game clock of 2.0 for its reference version 15 provides MHz, the ROG Strix LC Radeon RX 6800 XT OC Edition 2 . 110 MHz. In the Boost, AMD provides up to 2. 250 MHz, loud ASUS should be with the AiO cooled model 2. 360 MHz and more.

Otherwise ASUS also sees a memory expansion with 16 GB GDDR6 before, which has a 256 Bit wide memory interface is connected. In order to compensate for the comparatively narrow interface, AMD has given the Big Navi GPUs a 128 MB large Infinity Cache. You can also find more details on this in the detailed start article.

On the details of the ASUS ROG Strix LC Radeon RX 6800 XT OC Edition we will go into more detail in a moment. First of all, let’s take a look at the specifications for this test. ASUS offers a quiet and a performance BIOS. We tested it in the Quiet BIOS. ASUS also enables the power limit to be shifted by +/- 15%. But this is already the case with the reference models.

Power limits
ASUS ROG Strix LC Radeon RX 6800 XT OC Edition



maximum power limit
345 W
Default power limit
300 W
minimum power limit 255 W

Between and 345 W you can set the power limit of the card. Of course we tested with the standard value of 300 W. When overclocking we will but still see how big the margin is.

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