Raja Koduri hints at June 2020 Intel Xe graphics card launch
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robintson
Raja sure knows how to cook and now at Intels kitchen he is baking some exotic Xe GPUs!
SamuelL421
In the US, some states still require annual registration stickers on the upper corners of the plate. He probably purchased the car in May or June of this year, hence June 2020 registration expiration tags.
Mda400
Better hope Xe performs well or the 'ThinkXe' license plate won't bring a positive memory.
Like a tattoo you regret the next day.
maikai
That's literally when his tag expires.... Hopefully these come to market sooner than later though, time to see some competition
Brit90
Raja Koduri gets too much credit.
Im my eyes, he knows he made a huge fuck up and ran away with his tail between his legs. Then suddenly after he resigned he was hired instanly by Intel.
Nothing to see here, move a long.
vbetts
Moderator
He made GCN. Pretty much used from AMD for years. But what you're saying makes sense. If you're hired by another company, you resign from your previous company oof.
Aura89
To me, this is not a positive. There has never been a time when GCN, no matter which version, was ever a good thing. It'd be the same as someone saying someone was important because they made Bulldozer.
Again, this is just my opinion, but i personally have never been enticed to potentially buy an AMD GPU in the entirety of GCNs tenure.
Astyanax
the last architecture Raja had any hand in was Terascale,
He left AMD in 2009 to work at Apple, before returning in 2013
GCN was released in 2012, lead architect was Eric Demers who left Amd for qualcomm in 2012
Raja kept GCN on life support, it wasn't the architecture he would have wanted.
MonstroMart
Got to agree with this. In fact the 5700XT is the first card from AMD i consider buying since the 5850 ... that was 10 years ago.
MonstroMart
I'm waiting for more mature drivers too but i think my patience with my 1070 as reached its limit. I had to withdraw my overclock recently cause the card had become unstable after 2 years of being stable. So i'm stuck at ~stock speed now. And since i just bought a 1440p144 monitor man my 1070 is being hammered to death in newer titles.
I fear any card i would potentially buy now outside of a 2080 Super/Ti will be temporary. So i'm not spending 2070 Super kind of money for 1 year. 5700XT sounds like a more logical purchase while waiting for better and more affordable ray tracing/2k cards to hit the market.
Dimitrios1983
Thank god I'm not the only one that thinks this. Well said!
Clawedge
Maybe.......just maybe.....
now hear me out....
he is going to run for president...
cowie
just make a console intel
this way you can make a pos vga go around
Kaarme
Considering these two points, he returned to AMD to a situation where he had little money to use in R&D. He should have been one of those guys who can pull off miracles with slim resources. He obviously wasn't. It doesn't tell anything about his capabilities to produce results with Intel's Unlimited Budget Works, but it does reveal he's no outside the box thinking genius. Seeing how Intel itself was led by pure businessmen caring for nothing but maximum profit and the engineers were totally ignored for years, who knows if Koduri is the right man there either. Time will tell. If he succeeds at Intel, it's ironically all thanks to AMD that forced Intel to look around for the first time in years (and replace some of their technology hating leadership).
Backstabak
I can't help it, but the name "Xe" is just the made up pronoun some delusional SJWs use 😀
fantaskarsef
Hmm. I see what you mean, still would have never had that impression in the first place without your mentioning it.
I guess that SJW stuff has sunken deep deep into your brain, regardless if you hate it or not. You should seek help.
Astyanax
Rory Reads doing.
NewTRUMP Order
https://techreport.com/r.x/2018_12_12_Intel_talks_about_its_architectures_for_the_future/raja.jpg
When Raja Koduri was asked how long until XE is released.
schmidtbag
Huh? GCN was absolutely fantastic for compute purposes (though, I would argue TeraScale2 was better, or could have been anyway). GCN, as an architecture hardware, is good (not amazing, but good). The problem ultimately came down to the Windows drivers for gaming, which AMD (and ATI) was never good at developing.
The Linux drivers, on the other hand, are very solid, and improve on a monthly basis. 5 years ago, Nvidia was pretty much the only sensible choice for Linux gaming. Today, Nvidia is actually getting difficult to recommend.
Fox2232
Well, he did lead it. And kept it up 3 more years than it should have lived. Because when you design architecture that starts with 2048SP and can max out at 4096SP at most, you made something very short lived.
AMD had nowhere to go from start other than clock and optimization here and there.
Honestly, intel can and likely did throw a lot of money on it. And that mainly means a lot of capable people. Stating that Xe is his success would be hyperbole as much as saying that it was just his failure of foresight with GCN. But surely, he was one to not admit soon enough that GCN has hard to overcome limitations and they were getting nowhere.
