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afaik RDNA 2 game/mining performance is much higher than Ampere, RDNA1 or Vega, something to do with cache not helping the mining. I also saw information that 6700XT production has awesome efficiency, with good bins and low failure rate, making them able to produce 2 6700s per one 6800XT. I only wonder if that's additional fab capacity, or getting sucked from other models... I'd love to get the non-XT version, it's probably going to be the performance I need.

Or use https://www.mailboxde.com/, for me it's a bit over 12 Euro additionally, I bought my Oneplus One using it years ago and everything worked well.

After the next crypto crash the prices are bound to drop when miners sell their cards. As long as they keep on buying more of them there is no incentive to go down. Beats me when that's going to happen. One might also hope AMD is able to meet demand since their cards are nerfed for mining, but iirc they produce less than Nvidia atm so the influence is smaller. My GPU acted ugly yesterday, I was terrified of buying in the current market.

I think GPUs are very likely, some CPUs are unlikely and top CPUs are highly unlikely. The nm measure is, as mentioned before, mostly for marketing purposes, what's more it can be efficiency oriented, frequency oriented, or something else. TSMC has N7FF, N7P, N7FF+ and N6(probably called 6nm), the latter two using EUV and noticeably better.

It may be a true leak... of things they considered. Maybe even things they will make available, but possibly not everything in 1 CPU model. Perhaps special editions that cost a hefty premium because if they are able to fit 12 channels in there and there is a client ready to pay extra for everything that comes with such feature, it can be a useful for the future too. If they keep on increasing the core count sooner or later those channels will make more and more of a difference, so training in this gen could lead to it becoming a standard in, say, 128 core Zen 5.

3 Disk box is not that bad though. Sounds like a great backup solution, if the cost reach ends up comparable to tapes I can see it being very useful(offering random reads/writes, even if it/s 2 operations/second). Media distribution should abandon plastic disks already, but yeah, when you just need to keep the files it can be environmentally positive. Though with such density I wonder how painful a scratch could be, if the disk would degrade, what speeds would the user get and how expensive the disk drive would end up. I guess post another news when more is known.

Woah, this looks very useful! I think you meant 5800X? The argument whether it is or isn't available, which moved to if it's going to be unavailable in a moment, should end with something like: 1. Basically unavailable in USA and many other parts of the world. 2. Basically available in Europe, though things might change quickly. It's been a week or two though so I am hopeful. Going back to judging prices, where the mention of 5800X's unavailability was just an addition to deciding between 3900X and 5800X, it just depends on the individual situation of the person buying, as well as their requirements. There were some tests of 6 core Zen parts in regards to fps and a Zen 2 CPU only limits fps in some 1080p with top of the line GPUs, though many may wish to upgrade GPU only later. Thread heavy tasks and playing games on current GPUs should work bes on 3900X, especially above 1080p, super-high fps or other tasks requiring single-core speeds will benefit from newest Intel CPUs and Zen 3, in the end we are getting a better choice, an alternative which should mean Zen3 availability is better too. I think 5900 and 5950 are getting much smaller supplies, but when 5600X and 5800X went out of stock people started ordering them too just to get a piece of the newest hottest generation of CPUs, now AMD seems unable to fulfil those orders so far and I suspect many 12/16 core parts were ordered by people who don't need that many cores.

Poor guy. Hate to break it to you but it's already 2021. We're going to survive somehow, I hope.

Their own protocol, eh? Imma update my PMS.

I take more issue with how useless that is, and apart from mining you get equipment that I think much of won't find another home after it becomes unprofitable, though I have to wonder what the footprint is compared to physical money which is still a thing.

There are many problems, quoting Verge's article from the OP: I've had similar problem here, I found some analysis performed by the government and the place where I live is also rated at 'broadband over 25mbit available', which is true and false at the same time. 1. Cables offer only ADSL, speeds of maybe 6/0.5mbit/s 2. 4G is available and goes over 50/30 mbit, there are unlimited offers, we pay ~$20 monthly for one. 3. But the 4G gets overcrowded so much, I get timeouts 16-23, basically the most important part of the day is often spent with unusable connection. After years of fruitless struggle an ISP has showed up and promised to install fibre by the end of q1, since I've heard of this there wasn't a day I haven't thought about it, $30 for 800/80, which is going to be max for now, but as it's fibre it should be able to increase over time like ADSL used to.

I remember reading that our eyes are more or less 2mpix resolution at focus point and the rest is very low res, so the eye-tracking method could work... if they manage the delay somehow and I am not sure if that's feasible. I agree that it's a step in a good direction though. The optical elements seem to be just as important, but I think Apple would have them well designed too. I am not a big VR fan, but it is becoming more and more interesting.

Probably lost a secret underground duel with some other filthy rich person.

I am also not sure how much better Apple's design is than Zen3. There is no doubt M1 is way better than even newest AMD product in laptops, but... 1. It seems designed exactly for this purpose, Zen seems to be affected by being made with 8/16 core desktop designs, with plenty of IO etc. That's why double cores for AMD are nowhere near double energy cost etc. My point is that I am not sure how well will Apple scale it, is it going to be just as impressive, or a bit less, I don't doubt it's going to be great anyway. 2. Some of the difference can be attributed to process node, just a quick search returns TSMC's 5nm technology is 15% faster with 30% lower power than 7nm. Though this is a moot point because I fully expect Apple to be a node or two in front for the foreseeable future. We'll see, although I'd prefer Apple to use less of TSMC's capacity, M1 is a revolutionary thing and if others copy some of their improvements, it should be positive for everyone in the long term. The improvements for a new architecture should be big too.

Still a great improvement, I am happy to see it.

8k 60 fps AV-1? I'd love to hear that's not a missing "*AV-1 up to 4k" or something.

I lost Google News because of link tax in EU, which I got back after switching to US in my phone settings, it doesn't seem world-first, but maybe it is much more severe version of the same bullshit. Google is trying to influence them, that's true, but first thing first they should really think hard about what they're trying to achieve. Last time I saw it, the argument was seeing bits of articles on Google News meant the news sites get less traffic, because people can get what's in the article from the short bit, and thus whoever shows parts of it in link preview should pay for the privilege, IMO that's crap, a good article has enough info that reading the opening part will make me want to open it, using Google News I always open what I am interested in, the news sites are getting less traffic because their content is less interesting in the face of memes, especially when they write 300 words reiterating the same things that I already know... from memes. Should Google Maps pay me when my friend uses it to get to my house? Because that's what Google does, it's role is providing search results, the news outlet benefits from being found on Google, it loses nothing. This is a problem, but they made it possible to somehow pay ~1% tax for ad contracts, instead of adding bullshit taxes they should make sure Google pays normal rates in full.

Fuck, I need to talk with my gramps, for the future, he has no such magnets in his phone magnets now, but it's better to know it.

TIL there's nmap for Windows, good.

Do you really think the supply is able to take care of 100% of the demand? I bet some would say it's even less than 90. Anyway I agree with general opinion that monopolies and duopolies are bad, just in this particular situation having more players from today on wouldn't guarantee immediate progress. If it happened long ago maybe some other company could've kept Intel on its toes when AMD was in shambles, ordering from other fabs, making them prepare for bigger orders, but at the same time I'm afraid AMD would just die if that were the case. I am in no way informed enough to say what's true, just based on surface level clues I have concluded that more players being present would present some problems that could outweigh, or at least come close to, what duopoly does.

Nah, I think I've seen examples of 4/8 doing decent framerates but with micro stutters, or even 6/6 and 8/8. Here is a recent vid from Hardware Unboxed that shows couple 6/12 CPUs and 10900k next to them, basically proves your theory that 6/12 is currently capable of running anything. I will add that imo 8/16 is the way to go for the future, but that means maybe couple games that work much better on 8 cores in 3 years.

I don't think the answer is so simple, if we had more players, say, right now Intel has capacity to handle 65% of orders and AMD 25%, but the CPU efficiency is very easy to measure and that makes 10% difference is everything, but even if you split it into multiple producers with their own fabs and also multiple producers purchasing fab capacity from TSMC and the likes, whenever one of them makes a product that everybody wants, they won't have the power to produce enough chips, if it's purchased they could quite easily buy more assuming their rivals get less orders, but the fab owners would be in a pickle(and you get up to whatever capacity fabs have, excluding fabs owned by your competition, so the best product will never get 100% of the power, even if making it work on every process was feasible). And we know the time it takes to increase capacity is so long, you won't be able to do anything before your super in-demand product gets obsolete. This is giving me a headache, I mostly agree with not buying products that are so massively overpriced if you don't have to, but with each month it's getting more and more frustrating.

Standard as a projector, apart from Imax the commonly used ones start at 1.85:1(this one is nearly 16:9) and end around 2.39:1(2.(3) would be 21:9), which means 2:1 is making the best use of available space while playing all variants of them. But that's not the thing, I just read back then that digital cinema projectors are either 2048x1024, or 4096x2048, or the majority of them at least and it was what I fount to be true the one time I was able to dig up the data about one local cinema(that they indeed only had machines of those resolutions). This is not something I know, it's a thing I vaguely remember, just wanted to make clear what I meant.

IIRC it was the standard in cinemas, but don't quote me on that. I also recall seeing those resolutions in digital screens, but those were very specialised devices.

I was into 4k before it was popular. Back then on Wiki 4k was described as 4096x2048, with 2k as 2048x1024, I can accept kibi instead of kilo, it's capital 'K' anyway. Nowadays for some fucking reason the marketing people found the need to call UHD resolution 4K and even people from countries using kilograms and kilometres can get lost with what the 'k' means.