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  1. f22luke
    How about overclocking on non K sku parts? Didn't Linus just make a video about this; maybe an Intel employee agreed and decided to make it happen....
  2. f22luke
    I have been expecting this for a while now, but the issues are more than just consistency between layers. The heat density is bound to be an issue unless we are also going to include some integrated cooling channels. It will be interesting to see the different approaches taken by the different fabs.
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    I'm surprised you guys haven't mentioned process nodes or the special memory configuration used on M1. AMD will be on 5nm soon so they will then have parity with Apple in fact it's probably nice for AMD to now have Apple running pipe cleaners for them. It always feels like nodes take a bit of work getting them tuned for high performance since they always get small mobile parts run through them first. Now that Apple is running performance parts through the node it just means probably less work for TSMC to get AMD running. As far as memory goes, AMD is limited to DDR4L power draws and can't help that but it does sound like they are aware of it and have some creative solutions of their own coming. They are already more power efficient than their main rival so incremental steps are the correct way to approach these new technologies. AMD did beat the drum on HSA for a long time and they still have that tech and the realizable BAR is also and example of memory performance enhancements coming out from them so I'm sure we will see more from them in the coming architectures. The future is bright for both AMD x86-64 and ARM, and with chip-lets it would be neat to see a hybrid chip maybe a big little that could have a mixture of cores but maybe the software devs will v-toe that idea. Still lets not argue about stuff like this and just enjoy it when it gets here.
  4. f22luke
    Thanks for mentioning qutebrowser. I had never heard of it before and it looks interesting from a project standpoint. I will be watching the developement of it going forward. Have you been following the Vivaldi browser much? I was a big fan of Opera back in the day so I jumped on Vivaldi as soon as I heard about it. It's now my favorite browser.
  5. f22luke
    Don't forget Vivaldi in the Browser list. It's now my favorite browser and it keeps getting better.
  6. f22luke
    Ares was a pinnacle product back when AMD was the only company doing two dies on one PCB. I was hoping that meant we were going to see a new line of GPUs coming from AMD that would be like Threadripper and combine two dies with the infinity fabric. That would be awesome to see a new pinnacle like that and why not bring back Ares to celibate. But no, we were just getting the same old cards with new stickers because AMD users don't like nice things right?
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    We knew this would happen and I bet people are talking to AMD but if there are no written contracts like it implies I don't see how they can pin anything on Nvidia until the damage is already done. Intel got in trouble because some emails were seized so unless we have it in writing it will take even longer than the 10+ years for Intel to finally start paying for their evil deeds.
  8. f22luke
    Arez is a name that they have used in the past for a super high end graphics card from AMD. It was a sub brand to ROG like Strix but they only used it for a few Crossfire cards. The fact that you didn't know this shows just how difficult AMD's position is. Everybody knows Strix and ROG but Arez is new and consumers will not be as open to buying it.
  9. f22luke
    Well they have Nvidia GPUs in them so it must be ok for them to be called gaming laptops but the Kaby Lake G based laptops probably won't be. Let's wait and see what Dell calls those laptops?
  10. f22luke
    I smell a troll. Please show me the Gsync display that is cheaper than an equivalent Freesync panel? I would like to buy it.
  11. f22luke
    Just with a few checks I can confirm that Asrock has at least two sets of ECC ram in the QVL for the Taichi. It is not supported officially by AMD but I don't see how this makes a difference when the board partners are willing to support it. These are the same dies as what we are seeing in the Epyc server chips so it's not a silicon/ hardware issue but rather BIOS/micro code. I grantee the board partners do know quite a lot about the inner working of their own BIOS/UEFI. At this point it's just semantics. Weather or not the end user is confident in the board partner is all it comes down to. Gigabyte and Asrock have gone so far as to list ECC support in their product spec lists and QVL so that's good enough for me. If I ran in to an issue I would be talking with them and not AMD any ways.
  12. f22luke
    Like I said some motherboard vendors will have ECC ram on their HCL. AMD is just saying that they are not pushing the board makers to support it. My statement still stands all Ryzen chips can use ECC given it's paired with the correct board.
  13. f22luke
    All Ryzen CPUs support ECC memory. It's up to the motherboard vendor if they wish to support it and even then you could probably still use ECC. http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/75030-ecc-memory-amds-ryzen-deep-dive.html
  14. f22luke
    Why because they didn't cram in as many meaningless names like Intel? The Intel slide had duplicates and was full of names that had nothing to do with "ecosystem" unless you define it in the broadest possible sense.
  15. f22luke
    I'm waiting patiently. We have seen this before and we know what will happen. It's just a matter of time before we get $170 RX 580s.
  16. f22luke
    Maybe this means Astro will be the gaming brand and then logitech will be the good looking cousin. I feel like lodgitech missed out on a larger market by making their headsets so ugly.
  17. f22luke
    Oh yea I forgot about PCIe encapsulation. Hmm this makes me interested in Ryzen with integrated graphics. If it comes with a stack of HBM on die that would be epic.... aw man now we can't use that word like we used to.
  18. f22luke
    It would have been a dumb move to make a feature specific to just Ryzen given their current market share. I am more interested in weather there is some form of latency advantage on that platform. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the infinity fabric a unified protocol for communication? I was looking for evidence that faster data transfer between the GPU and the CPU can be achieved, given that they may not have to convert everything on die before it's transferred to the CPU. This would not mean that the HBCC is a Ryzen specific feature but merely benefits from Ryzen. AMD has been toting for a while that they are the only company doing both highend CPUs and GPUs but as far as I can tell we have not seen any benefit from the integration. The heterogeneous system architecture was a flop that was only use in certain AMD backed software. It may be possible but would require lots of software tweaks to get this type of communication working. I'm thinking that this is a case of Vega bringing features well ahead of it's time that just can't be utilized till much later in the future when the software is more mature. I suspect that we will have to wait for Navi and Zen 2 before we will see this tech in action.
  19. f22luke
    AMD clearly stated that they are moving the data around on Vega very differently than previous GPUs. The HBCC is supposed to be able to leverage the massive bandwidth inherent to HBM2 is such a way that it can access data elsewhere in the system much faster. Nobody has talked about how the CPU architecture could affect this design.
  20. f22luke
    I'm still looking for Vega reviews where a it was benched on Ryzen. Specifically if there is any performance difference between Ryzen and Kaby Lake. I'm interested to see if the infinity fabric in Ryzen lends an advantage to the infinity fabric in Vega.
  21. f22luke
    I'm bummed that we didn't see any comparisons between different test platforms. I want to see if it works any better on Ryzen with the Infinity Fabric than on an Intel chip. Does anybody know of anybody that has tested this yet?
  22. f22luke
    For the sake of saving face we could claim that the multiple ccx setup in Ryzen is similar to the multi die solutions coming out of AMD.
  23. f22luke
    Yes I agree. I was not comparing the newly announced CPUs with Ryzen but with the older dual die solutions. See the post I quoted.
  24. f22luke
    The new thing about Threadripper/Epyc is the "Infinity Fabric". Before they were very much just two dies slapped together but this new tech will be able to communicate and work together as if it was a single die. So they are claiming to have all of the benefits of small dies with none of the drawbacks from multi die setups in the past.
  25. f22luke
    Also the one spec that stood out most to me was freesync support. No body is talking about that but I think this could be the biggest boon to AMD and could push freesync market saturation like never before. It may not do 4k 60 stable but with freesync it could get away with a few dips. This could mean that developers would be ok pushing hight quality settings than the previously would have been comfortable with and maybe just maybe better PC ports.
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