Specifically, NVIDIA doesn't have the experience going for performance in the deep power management scheme required for laptops. Everything else they've done has been more about managing thermals while pushing for peak performance, or just throwing out a bunch of resources for the user to just...
While I don't want to excuse poor execution, I do want to point out that Google Tensor SoCs have never been performance leaders. They have typically delivered good enough performance on mainstream handsets and pushed forward Google's vision for on device AI capabilities. They have lagged on...
Medusa still strikes me as needing a bit too much juice to be IDEAL for the handheld market. Even with a new process, it's going to suffer in a sub 10w environment with the rumored core count. 3 watts for the iGPU and 3 watts for the CPU cores with 1W for extra system power doesn't give you a...
Think like a lawyer. Aboriginals often receive aid from the government and other programs. If the process of acquiring that aid is made more expensive for the various entities that provide it, then less aid makes it to them. Even if they never get any aid, the government is working to address...
Significant hardware errata this deep in the product cycle is kind of a big deal. The microcode changes to render those bugs benign often sacrifices notable amounts of performance and full mask response to correct them can take quite a long time to reach production quality.
Arguably, every company in the PC industry that wasn't directly pocketing intelbucks was harmed by the distorted market, and following from there, every human being alive was in some way affected by the increased costs of that distorted market, both by having to pay more directly for computers...
Yeah, this does strike me as a value part. I would ask if Kraken is going to be kept as a long cycle part, but a quick look at Amazon still shows 3xxx parts and a bunch of new built Zen2 laptop parts in the channels, leading me to believe that they are all essentially forever products already.
So, 8CU of RDNA4 3.5+ on N3P as opposed to 16cu of RDNA4 3.5 on N4P.
That's going to be a regression on the computer side, but due to memory bandwidth limits and no MALL cache, the real difference may not be that great. Looking at how well Kraken's iGPU does vs. The 12cu of Phoenix point, it...
The argument is that without Intel interfering in the market, more products with AMD products would have been produced, which would have driven demand for AMD processors, which would have resulted in increased revenues for AMD, which would have resulted in greater R&D activity, which would have...
Ahh, the classic "kick the can further down the road so that I can pad my current income and dip in a few years so that my replacement can deal with the consequences" tactic...
Dropping from 16cu to 8cu for the gfx part is either an acknowledgement that very few notebooks are being made with just an APU on that segment of the market, or they have unlocked the secret of massively clocking the iGPU massively higher. If you are seeing Strix Point, or for when this was...
I was replying to @marees. WoA can't require popcnt because that is an x86 instruction in the SSE 4.2 group. ARM has a broadly similar instruction called CNT that may be required for WoA, but I don't know either way.
Windows 11 added the requirement recently, likely having to do with...
As said up thread, Factorio is not the greatest game to be testing this with in the first place. Factorio's performance is HIGHLY dependent on how each factory is built. While a better CPU can let you get away with certain sins deeper into the game, eventually, it all comes down to efficient...
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