I sort of lucked out playing the second encounter first, then played the others only long after.
What amazed me back then is how well optimized the game was to run on my older PII 450MHz with a poor video card, it was also amazing to see it hold up very well as textures/effects were decent...
If just 1/10 of what they have shown works 1/10 as well as promised it's going to be a blast from day 1. I'm even going to ignore bugs and whatnot at release given the stakes here... honestly I will probably lose hours alone just wandering at scenery and exploring all the nooks and cranny of the...
I wonder what's their future strategy, supporting AVX512 so sparsely these past years... are they killing it entirely, reserved for servers only? Or maybe for newer chips (Arrow etc) so they can claim again that "feature"?
Surely it's a weird step back after making it mainstream on rocket lake...
Weren't some high end Nehalem or Westmere parts used by high frequency traders? They had like 1GHz factory overclock over best consumer parts so definitely binned.
Yeah, here they are
I don't know what else might require that performance regardlless of price even today... maybe some pro gamers...
Well, me havo to train some dumb enough to keep working but for little pay and constant overtime... wait a minute: why that sounds close to the current -humans- situation? We are being played here! :eek:
I try like 1/10 of the freebies myself but that just means more stuff to try later, aside...
This spree of more or less "free" games from several sources is going to the point buying stuff sounds silly, also backlog increasing faster than play time allows...
What cheap PC gaming started a few years ago has turned into a weird situation: I'm actually buying some full price new games I...
I think the Second Encounter is indeed a cut above with regard to maps variations, still very much
tunnels/rooms but at least you are going to have different settings than just Egypt, plus some pretty weird platformer or physics defying segments here and there.
There's plenty of secrets and...
Honestly with their strategy being double and quadruple down on little cores pushing IPC to the max on the big ones like this doesn't sound impossible. A welcome target for sure.
There's also quite a few nodes in between so keeping count at 8 will leave a lot of transistors to play with...
2025... shouldn't Arrow lake already push above with 40 total in 2024, abeit 32 small ones?
For big cores I would guess 16+ won't become more common as AMD implementing big little too could see the amount of large counts lower for higher single threaded performance, same way Intel is supposedly...
End of mining can't come soon enough. It's almost like in a digital world we had to come up with that exploitive concept of mass resources depletion that is real mining... scrape till the last spot/barrel left is profitable.
Anyway I would have liked just one of those, now chugging along with...
Between games, movies, series and music inside stores of all kinds in this age you'll end up paying a fortune just to buy the same thing all over, on different and uncertain platforms long term wise.
You can buy a DVD run it on any device*. Same for music CDs.
But all those digital markeplaces...
Well it's only 1 slot wide... guess there might be some nice water cooling solution that fits in the extra space left ;-)
Or totally passive cooler for extra silence? 140W or such don't sound too much to handle vs the current monster watt GPUs.
Thin and sleek but capable cards? Latest quadros are somewhat appealing looks wise:
A4000, not too shabby for compact builds, low power and blower design helps cooling the case.
Then there's the little ones at half height but those are a bit anemic performance wise for anything above...
First time I see a scaled picture of Palm cove, thank you.
That is basically a Skylake core, but wow Palm is huge compared to a Gracemont core, same IPC on paper!
Lacks what, hyperthreading and 5GHz potential overclock? For twice the area it isn't really worth it... guess adding small cores with...
Plan was to release 8 cores cannonlake, there were even some leaked sample CPUs a while back. They would have had 8 core skylake + IPC in 2016-2017 had all gone well with 10 nm, regardless of AMD, but probably very pricey at the highest end. Not that pricey to be honest as 6 haswell cores...
Sorry, what's the difference to what they have been doing?
Oh right, it isn't even yours nor securely encrypted! xD
As for the 500 millions number running around... wasn't Destiny about that much to develop as a whole? I remember reading some article about those insane amounts that compete with...
We are just waiting the next develpoment in key tech, mass production is behind a few aspects like... not requiring mK temperatures and better interconnect to use the actual quantum bits.
Current CPUs have billions of transistors but only thousands of pins for input/output, that's one issue...
They should have ported golden cove if tiger and ice were truly ready and done arch-wise by 2018 but 10 nm wasn't. Instead launching in 2021 old tech on an ancient 14 nm node feels stupid in hindsight.
Not like alder is that much bigger than tiger given the die size estimates so... slighlty...
I don't even get why miners bother at all when it's been probably more profitable to hold the same money in crypto themselves over the years... not to talk with many of them going proof of stack rather than proof work (mining) there will be an overload of unused or unsold GPUs on the market in a...
Biggest thing happening in the last couple years is aspect ratios outside 16:9 finally becoming commonly available, like 21:9 and larger, or even squarer ones that were dying off.
I'm talking about some incoming 3:2 monitors that make me salivate at the idea: there's already out a Huawei at...
Waiting a bit would net you either Alder or Zen 4 with 40% or higher IPC than a 9600k, something considerable once in a while and not the usual 5-10%.
A discounted Zen 3 right now would be optimal if you jump up with the thread count too, maybe a 12 core to keep up for a few years with the...
Download -buy more ram on the go!
Anyway I'm all against it. Just like with games... pay once and enjoy, can't stand seeing virtually locked virtual content, figure real silicon.
CPUz says 10 nm, speaking the truth! ;)
That aside... this is happening with just 8 big and 8 small cores: consider even using 255 W vs a 11900K at 255 W it's doing great work and efficiency shows. They literally 2x multi-thread in one generation.
Looks like they almost average out area wise, 16 "medium" vs 8 "big"+ 8 "small" cores, power and performance too from the look of it.
In the end silicon is silicon and given similar constraints they'll fall very close, but I guess going on only the hybrid concept will push much further ST/MT...
There's really no point in going back now, making a 10 Golden cores variant wouldn't necessarily work better if the power usage gets even higher... then at that point why not remove the IGP and place 12 whole cores? Or cut HT and add more single-threaded resources?
We can keep at it till it...
There must be something off with the estimate as I don't see that much difference between 6+8+2 and 8+8+1 to justify 120 mm^2 more area.
Tiger Lake 4+2 LP die is 13.6 mm x 10.7 mm = 145.5 mm².
Tiger Lake 8+1 HP die is 18.9 mm x 10.5 mm = 198.5 mm².
Going off those I'd be surprised if 8+8+1...
Honestly that bench shows almost no differences between a 8 core, 16 core and 24 core with different clocks and IPC. Whatever it measures it's moot if all current/next gen CPUs perform almost the same, I'd even take leaked Geekbench scores as more indicative than that suite.
I think the point is they are going to reach and even surpass that ratio long term, Raptor and Meteor lake going 8/16 and 8/32, but for the time being no "big" cores regression from the 8 that Skylake and Rocketlake had. (ignore Cometlake in this argument as they went up to 10 cores out of...
I don't have doubts a "7 nm" port of RKL-S would get >50% perf/watt increase either, just look at Rocket vs Tiger on 10SF for some numbers, now count higher IPC plus small cores and it's definitely not out of reality to get 2x perf/watt even running at max stock performance.
Indeed lower PL2 is...
On one side 40% would be more than what they achieved in 5 years until Skylake, on the other hand if the Gracemont leaks are true, with Atom pushing higher than Skylake IPC on common code, then a 4 times bigger core managing maybe 40% more would look very bad.
Of course even just 30% faster...
Even using those accurate measurements it seems silly to have an 80% increase in area per core on average. I hope whatever inflated size that much is worth it.
Yeah, could be a reason, but at that point I'd really expect a lot more than projected 20% gains, I mean even Icelake over Skylake gets...
I posted earlier in favour of 8+32 core design going forward, would make sense given Raptor has been said to be 8+16, I could see that competitive MT performance happening very soon.
The issue left looks to be area/power of the big cores, unless they are somehow hiding larger IPC gains with...
Maybe they'll double the amount of small cores per cluster instead. Or have two rings one for small and another for big cores connected to each other… that would be better for anything working on big cores only reducing latency from Alder, once more MT grunt is needed 16 extra little cores...
All this AVX-512 debacle, is there some instruction difference between icelake and tremont on Lakefield someone could try? Or on the ARM side with big-little, say even outside windows? If those can do heterogeneous multi-processing already I see no issues, it's not like Alder will go back to...
Isn't that exactly their plan? To make CPU tiles for Meteor on 7 nm (yield and performance reasons) while the rest of the core could be fabbed on 10 nm? Maybe IGP on a separate 10-7 nm tile too, so they can finally have either small or big graphics without being tied to 2-3 layouts from were...
This mesh ugliness just bothers me: I don't see any good in it and future solutions... thousands of elements wasting more power and area in interconnects than actual logic.
One day it will be clear if a few larger cores with extremely wide execution stage will be better, making all that...
Yes, but more of the smaller cores so the parallel workloads get all the speedup while big cores can keep getting larger and faster at single-threaded loads.
Indeed, the point is not only to make them do minimal jobs but keep up with parallel loads that still aren't fit for a GPU.
16, but even 10 big cores start to get moot: we all know Amdahl's law and diminishing returns. Unless all software can magically be made parallel having a few big cores paired with 8, 16 or even 32 small(actually medium) cores is the best plan going forward, from an performance/area point of...
I think we already got the clock regression with Rocket from Comet lake (all core speeds at least) so Alder won't fall as much as presented here. This comparison is still first iteration 10nm vs latest 14 nm servers, not 10nm SF, the same process used in Tiger lake got a large boost over Ice...
That's objectively a better upgrade than any new CPU right now. Heck even Alder or Zen 4 wouldn't be worth switching for when you are bottlenecked by the display itself, unless you prefer games that aren't really frantic and more computationally bound, like strategy or simulation.
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