My buddy just spent $2k on a gaming rig only to complain his game wasn't better.
Turns out he was 1920x1280 at 60fps because Windows defaulted to that with his HDMI. Does it really matter AMD/Intel when average consumers buy top end stuff only to not know the correct cables and settings matter?
How about a philosophical CPU pair of 'cores' sharing the same shared rectangular map of execution units. RISC commands run through from its wide side with a huge register to float massive parallel workloads using narrow pipelines. CISC commands run through from the narrow end using long...
This comment shows how green you are. He is correct that computer manufacturers called memory arrays attached to a channel as a memory bank. Just because its an older term doesn't mean its obsolete. It just means you never heard of it
Too bad they cannot do opposing sockets or stack the CPU on a dedicated RAM-module board. The former could be on the opposite side of the maiboard as your CPU. The latter probably is more of a notecard shape than a square. Both would cut your trace lengths down considerably, while still...
Same as in 1995, it seems like AMD still needs to figure out how to run asynchronous memory to bus. Intel's patent lock on the breakthrough should be expired by now. Surely there is a solution to take better advantage of these non-synchronized memory speeds.
Microsoft is turning itself over as a corporate raider. The AI tools will be used to size people up regarding productivity. It will identify the definition of productivity, decypher how these high performers function, then attempt to replace them synthetically through software. But when 75%...
AI is a double edged sword. Microsoft and every other vendor (and hack) will use it against you much more likely than you would use it to help yourself. It would be akin to having an autism kid with access to your savings account. Q: Where did my money go? A: I gave it to the nice man.
APU is the future for general markets. Virtual machines pretty well are taking over office spaces, so power efficient dumb terminals will only continue to become the norm in the corporate and educational ecosystems. Simpler is better here. The real threat to AMD future sales, as chromebooks...
Well then there is always a redesigned CPU package option to add integrated memory. As long as your whole APU package stays fairly compact, why not? Your OEMs would still have the option to create their sub-packaging for their own memory choices. But AMD could offer APUs with 96-bit, 128-bit...
When I suggested on chip and on package memory a few years ago - to compete with Apple products - people lost their freaking minds. They said memory access couldn't discern which memory was what speed so this was nonsensical. They also said it would be too complex. And there were impossible...
Wasnt over-selling low value what led to their previous need for Jobs to return?
Honestly, theyve flipped the script where low end is no longer good enough. Maybe its because they have something new on the horizon where they just stuck to literally a rehash this cycle not to be too similar to...
From what I've been reading, SSD controllers tend to improve quite a bit going from 256gigs to 512gigs, and performance jumps again once you get in the 1 terabyte range. That would be a bigger bottleneck than DDR4 RAM.
Your old registry holds the history of your hardware. When moving to new...
You think those are big factories? You have never seen major factories then because although large they have nothing on food producers, which in turn have nothing on the heavy industrial giants. The big boys have their own rail systems moving through and around them.
Instead of a simple focus on core count the future is focused on modular layouts that spread thermals on the micro, and optimizes I/O across the macro. Do you really want to cram cores onto one side of a chip, where the maximum load in one core impacts performance across all of the cores? Or...
If your corporate manager has a bunch of CAD guys making $60-80k/year and can leap productivity enough to cut 10%+ of the positions, you just justified the price point. Its all about bang for the buck, not necessarilly cost per unit.
Best Buy? After the training leak last week I'd be looking elsewhere if not for their already stupid product choices. They literally were an Apple, Lenovo, and HP shop with not much else. They haven't showcased much else for the past two years. I can buy direct from Dell or shop aggregate...
Why fight AMD when you have a niche that actually is unassailable? Seems like Intel does exceptional on IPC. If the IPC for top games was the focus they would achieve an undisputed performance crown.
We are reaching a point where single thread performance is hamstrung by throwing too much...
My wife likes to buy Walmart options because she twists up her cables. The OEM cable lasted a very short time, even less then her Walmart junk. The OEM quality is something to be desired. But you get what you pay for. I bought a $40 fast charge cable for her and its so thick she hasn't...
It makes sense in a sick way for Apple to provide an official USB-C support via dongle that requires the dongle to be from them. Satisfy the EU with a middle finger.
Honestly, its difficult to believe Apple hasn't absorbed Nintendo by now. Its the one vendor that could do it well considering Apple's existing (stable) ecosystem.
I wonder how much statistical analysis by AMD goes into CPU design and microcode instruction design. If 25% of your microcode is used by 95% of programs, do you target performance across recognized bottlenecks, at that 25%, at the 5% of programs using less common microcode, or spread efforts...
Why do we allow developers from BRIC countries that have every incentive to create mediocre results? There once was a time such behavior was supporting the enemy. Justifications often involve the price. Cheap is cheap, never breeds good results.
Some crazy talk goes on when people talk about AMD and the size of their L1. Large L1 caches are a luxury, not a compromise. Having a bump in L1 will mean a successful higher hit rate of a very important small percent increase for minimal penalty in latency gain. Every other level of cache...
I will be disappointed if they don't expand L1 caches. The single most effective cache is L1. Seems pointless to overload a long in the tooth L1 design with each Zen# release.
Funny story about the great recall. Intel bragged about Pentium having doubled the memory bandwidth and everyone knew video edits are bandwidth limited. Was going from an Intel 486 DX2/66 to P60 for video editing and it actually was worse performance. So much for Intel doubling memory...
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