Something that AMD currently offers that no other chipmaker offers is the ability to customize processors. Who most takes advantage of this is Microsoft, which works very closely with AMD for the development of the SoCs of its console. Microsoft's demand is very high and it wants to offer the most powerful console on the market. Now they have shown images of the SoCs of the Project Scarlett prototype.
Obviously, a series of development chips were made for the development of the console. These first chips would be the basis for the final solution, as this is quite a long process. The funny thing is that we see a monolithic chip, not the chiplets we are used to.
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Microsoft shows the Project Scarlett SoC
It may be that the processor shown by the company is not the same as the one we will finally see on the console. The size of the DIE is quite large and it must contain eight cores and 16 threads. Possibly the GPU is integrated in the same silicon, although there is no record of the same. Typically the iGPU is a DIE independent of the CPU.
Perhaps in this great DIE we will have a version close to the final graph that will be integrated. It is speculated that the GPU based on the RNDA2 architecture will count 56 Compute Units, which is equivalent to 3584 Stream Processors. To give us an idea, the RX 5700 XT has only 2506 Stream Processors.
The one who posted the image is Xbox Senior Director of Hardware David Prien. Phil Spencer, Director of Xbox has confirmed that it was the development SoC of the console. The situation could also occur that the GPU is independent of the GPU. But what possibly changes is the construction of the DIE, since the Zen2 processors are based on the chiplet system.
Source: G3D
