Ever wondered whats inside your GPU?

[Nuckles56]

Are dragon teeth silicon?

That's kinda cool.

That's why he's toothless, because all his teeth were taken to make GPUs for the current mining boom

 

[T4C Fantasy]

you all can take the silicon die out of its casing (kind of) just have a lot of heat and 36 hours of epoxy sanding (includes 24 hour wait) and some water, plastic sheeting

 

[R-T-B]

The die laser cuts were a thing of old, when they designed a chip with single or dual cores and it was easier to shine a laser on purpose built bridges if defects were found that cut power to certain areas of the die, or lowered the voltage to run at a maximum frequency limit, now its all done with software programming on EPROM or PROM memory on die, which is why certain motherboards could override the programmed model, core, and other configurations. Each chip gets tested either while still on the wafer or after cutting and they use either specially constructed traces through key parts of the die, or other tests to determine the quality of the die, and also why some people get chips that overclock amazing, and some get crap luck.

Actually, they started lasering off die sections precisely to prevent bios mods that enabled additional shaders on Radeon X800 series I think, so it's really the other way around. That was the earliest I remember them lasering off and it was to prevent what you are describing as the "new method."

W1zzard would remember better, likely. He did a lot of research into it back then.

 

[MxPhenom 216]

This stuff to fully understand exactly how everything is made, assembled, and works really does take some kind of engineering degree. Beyond me, all i know is what's faster in games.

Electrical and Computer Engineering with VLSI, ASIC and digital systems education. Which is exactly what im going to school for.

 

[T4C Fantasy]

want to know whats inside your cpu?
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[johnspack]

Boolean algebra, all written in it! Yes, I took engineering, but I still think of tribesmen going boola boola!

 

[ozkisses]

Boolean algebra, all written in it! Yes, I took engineering, but I still think of tribesmen going boola boola!

I don't know what I was impressed with most, the images or the way you guys explained the magic of it.

 

[T4C Fantasy]

I don't know what I was impressed with most, the images or the way you guys explained the magic of it.

what impresses me the most, is the magic going into photo printing it on silicon

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

I was wondering what was inside my GPU so i had a quick look

 

[T4C Fantasy]

I was wondering what was inside my GPU so i had a quick look

lol i guess its not sand afterall

 

[Filip Georgievski]

Wow and i actualy thought my GPU ran on magic, and BOOM games go faster and better XD

Seriously now, i know how CPUs and GPUs came to life.
Just like babes came from storks, we all heard this tale before.
I believe CPUs came from canaries, and GPUs came from eagles.
See anything suspicious??
Anything reminds you of a bird logo on a GPU or something??
Hell i could have sworn GB had AORUS and a bird logo.

 

[Papahyooie]

Seriously guys, you all are wrong. Graphics cards (and indeed most computer parts) don't run on sentient silicon, or alien technology.

It's magic smoke.

It's true. It's all the magic smoke inside, causing all those beautiful graphics, and calculating all those numbers.

Don't believe me? Just look at what happens when you over clock too high, or accidentally drop your screwdriver onto the motherboard. It springs a leak and you let the smoke out. It doesn't work anymore.

 

[T4C Fantasy]

Seriously guys, you all are wrong. Graphics cards (and indeed most computer parts) don't run on sentient silicon, or alien technology.

It's magic smoke.

It's true. It's all the magic smoke inside, causing all those beautiful graphics, and calculating all those numbers.

Don't believe me? Just look at what happens when you over clock too high, or accidentally drop your screwdriver onto the motherboard. It springs a leak and you let the smoke out. It doesn't work anymore.

and you sir are puffing the magic dragon

 

[dorsetknob]

Your all wrong
Since Roswell in 1947 Alien Tech called nanite robots has been used.
Nanites robots push nanite scaled wheelbarrows full of pixels around the inside of chips
when two or more Nanites robots crash their wheelbarrows into each other you get a BSOD.

 

[Sasqui]

16nm FinFET Layout

Vey cool Out of curiosity, I looked up Finfet vs. Tri Gate (intels tech) and found this: http://semiengineering.com/finfet-vs-tri-gate/

 

[T4C Fantasy]

 

[londiste]

Actually, they started lasering off die sections precisely to prevent bios mods that enabled additional shaders on Radeon X800 series I think, so it's really the other way around. That was the earliest I remember them lasering off and it was to prevent what you are describing as the "new method.

earlier than that. i myself had a 9500 modified to 9700 ( \o/ ) and there were similar opportunities before that.
there was nothing new about the technology even then, at one point the benefit started to outweigh the trouble and cost of laser cutting.
these days, disabled parts of chips are mostly laser cut, with few exceptions.

Electrical and Computer Engineering with VLSI, ASIC and digital systems education. Which is exactly what im going to school for.

and once you finish you realize that you have high-level knowledge of all this but still couldn't explain in enough detail how a chip is built.
at least that's the way i feel. i went for more of the computer engineering side of things though.

 

[MxPhenom 216]

earlier than that. i myself had a 9500 modified to 9700 ( \o/ ) and there were similar opportunities before that.
there was nothing new about the technology even then, at one point the benefit started to outweigh the trouble and cost of laser cutting.
these days, disabled parts of chips are mostly laser cut, with few exceptions.

and once you finish you realize that you have high-level knowledge of all this but still couldn't explain in enough detail how a chip is built.
at least that's the way i feel. i went for more of the computer engineering side of things though.

I am going for Electrical Engineering with Computer Engineering focus. We will see once I finish. A lot of information on how they are built seem to be covered in the Electronic Materials class ill be taking this coming semester. Considering itll go into detail on the doping process and holes, and what that does to silicon and its characteristics as a semiconductor.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

so fridays here and ive found a little nugget of wtf

during my 480 to Rx580 conversioning i had this happen twice ,i only got one screeny but still its a hot tasty wtf , and while the card didnt work and i considered it a bad flash (taking another flash to fix , its still weird)

what indeed is inside

 

[T4C Fantasy]

View attachment 90374 so fridays here and ive found a little nugget of wtf

during my 480 to Rx580 conversioning i had this happen twice ,i only got one screeny but still its a hot tasty wtf , and while the card didnt work and i considered it a bad flash (taking another flash to fix , its still weird)

what indeed is inside

strange, how would that even happen

 

[jboydgolfer]

i KNOW whats inside My GPU. Tiny Dorito's Crumbs, Pubes, dust, skin flakes, and Spider carcasses

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

strange, how would that even happen

Don't know mate but thats an unadulterated image on my whole families life, probably a missread ,it was a bad flash ie it didn't work right or at all tbh.
2304 shaders in 36 compute units equals 64 ,a nice round number all good.
4096 if divided by 64 would be 64 compute units a surely not number.
Most chip makers now incorporate a loss policy in their chip design but that would be something else.
I did often wonder since if amd made polaris to really shine but found it to be too low yeild or power hungry in full config , and not competitive with nvidias offering , given they were busy at the time it would have made sense to try it , especially on a new node too but im speculating on a probable missread.

 

[T4C Fantasy]

Don't know mate but thats an unadulterated image on my whole families life, probably a missread ,it was a bad flash ie it didn't work right or at all tbh.
2304 shaders in 36 compute units equals 64 ,a nice round number all good.
4096 if divided by 64 would be 64 compute units a surely not number.
Most chip makers now incorporate a loss policy in their chip design but that would be something else.
I did often wonder since if amd made polaris to really shine but found it to be too low yeild or power hungry in full config , and not competitive with nvidias offering , given they were busy at the time it would have made sense to try it , especially on a new node too but im speculating on a probable missread.

hahahahah LOL

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

hahahahah LOL

Your point.
I did say its a likely missread, im good enough at paintshop sure but I've also seen many missread bits of shit in all types of software , and yes even gpuz gets it wrong sometimes.
At the moment it says my vegas core voltage is 1.35 coincidentally the voltage the hbm runs at , not the core.

 

[T4C Fantasy]

is there anything smaller than a transistor that has been pictured inside a chip?