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Trixanity

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  1. Here you go. Apparently pretty bonkers but it needs some bug fixes.
  2. Polaris won't die for a while. AMD has committed to Polaris until 2024. That's the embedded market though just to be clear.
  3. Any particular reason you can't use AMD's encoder?
  4. I still don't understand how AMD hasn't solved this problem one way or another. Running at massive voltages ootb is getting silly.
  5. AMD has offered perf/$ for years. What's changed now? I've asked this before. AMD undercutting a little bit has hardly ever made any significant difference. Often there needs to be a relatively large difference for the average consumer to change their habits. Many enthusiasts would probably go for the best value which would be AMD. However AMD needs broader acceptance than the 1%. Many contrasts their GPU business with their CPU business and it's obvious that they're much more aggressive on the CPU side. The value proposition for Ryzen is much better versus the competition in the desktop segment (mobile is still not there). On the GPU side it isn't at all clear cut. They need to make it so. Preferably with a small undercut but significant performance gap. Large undercutting can backfire and make it look like you're the discount option and hurt your brand value. AMD is trying to get rid of that stigma but they need to do so much more to accomplish it. I know what jebaited means but just saying it was intentional doesn't mean that it was. Whether it's true or not, it's merely an attempt to change the narrative because people are questioning the move and what it means. Appearances are very important.
  6. Of course we can make the assumption that they're playing 4D chess but what are the chances that Nvidia would want a price war that cuts into their fat margins? I'd call them slim. AMD could easily have called that bluff. Nvidia doesn't want or need to be price competitive when they've got the performance, mind and market share and the developer resources to keep them going well into the next half a decade. Nvidia has yet to challenge the RX570 which is the perf/$ king so why start now? It's of course more complex than we make it out to be but I do think two things are true: 1) AMD messed up the pricing (in multiple ways). 2) Navi 10 is cheap enough that the margins are still excellent; in other words there was room to play with. This announcement is a result of those two.
  7. AMD knew before announcing the price that Nvidia was launching refreshed cards. Not the performance or price (that we know of) but they knew and they launched it at a high price point where they were close to not being competitive and post-Nvidia launch pretty much sealed it. Again: that's my whole point. You'd think they have top men with some foresight to preempt this rather than what ends up looking like a knee-jerk reaction which makes Nvidia look like the one with all the aces up their sleeve. AMD kinda just confirmed that appearances are not deceiving.
  8. Yes but that would indicate that your pricing was wrong before it was even for sale. That's obviously a huge misstep. I'm saying that independently of the response to the E3 event and of any performance numbers. That was my whole point originally.
  9. It seems odd that AMD would lower the prices already. I would have expected it 1-3 months down the line when initial sales figures gave them some data but doing it right out the gate paints a bad picture of how they’ve handled things. Especially considering AMD was aware Nvidia had some cards coming but not necessarily the performance level. So I’m going to take the rumored price reduction with a grain of salt but I hope it’s true because the competitiveness would be much improved.
  10. Why? Because it contains the word glass? Glass fiber is very durable and light. For example it's used in boat hulls.
  11. Probably Apple policies that killed it on iOS.
  12. It’s just as likely that law enforcement and other government agencies are pushing against DNS encryption.
  13. I called it when I said they’d discontinue the old cards rather than drop the price down. People were too quick to assume that Nvidia would hand out the old cards with nice discounts. That’s simply not how Nvidia works.
  14. Ubuntu can apparently work with 2 GB so why is Windows 10 ten times the size? My understanding is that there’s also lots of legacy support in Linux (not yet removed before anyone comments).
  15. Not necessarily but it's an entirely new product family so it makes sense to distance itself from the old crap. 5700 is arbitrary but supposedly far enough away from Nvidia and is symbolically linked to the 50 year anniversary. Additionally, calling it 590 would be indicative of it being in the Polaris family and calling it 690 (or any variant of 90) would be indicative of it being at the top of the stack which this supposedly isn't. Calling me delusional only highlights your poor grasp of the subject and goes to show you have nothing to offer the discussion.
  16. Because naming schemes based on the number of compute units are stupid when seen in relation to the chip and versions of it. It's better to name them after the performance level within the stack. AMD has done that and the naming scheme is pretty much the same as Nvidia's. So if this sucks then they all suck. 1650 is not a number between 10 and 20 by the way.
  17. Depends if they can scale up with the Shader Engines I suppose. It’s still only 4 in Navi so if they can increase the number of Shader Engines without bottlenecking it, then they can effectively break through and challenge Nvidia in the high end. I still think they need to further optimize the power so it doesn’t end up at 300W+ to accomplish that. Maybe that’s why such a chip might be on a new RDNA uarch to improve the efficiency. If they could do 6 or 8 Shader Engines I don’t see why they couldn’t directly compete with Nvidia in the high end considering the performance numbers accomplished with 4 in Navi as long as the power figures are kept in check.
  18. There does seem to be a bunch of stuff left out of Navi that could improve power efficiency from what I understand. Whether there is still GCN dead weight that could be shed is difficult to tell. AMD claims that's it's not GCN but clearly it's made to be able to do GCN workloads with little to no tweaking and do them at the same speed or faster so that it has perfect compatibility. The question is whether that's a limiting factor in what could have been accomplished if compatibility was not favored. Also whether AMD intends to do away with that later especially as software will become more optimized for RDNA.
  19. Yeah, it seems that the client doesn't update to 64 bit on its own. I got tired of the warning message so I removed it entirely and got the latest client from the website. The warnings stopped so it should be 64 bit. It might also be possible to install it over the existing client but I didn't test it.
  20. We see time and time again that the idea to vote with your wallet to control the market rarely works. So sales does not equate acceptance. It's possible that few care but it's just as likely people dislike the change. People still buy MacBooks despite the horrible keyboard. Otherwise we would have to interpret the sales data as it being the best keyboard in the world.
  21. I'm pretty sure that Microsoft said that they found some performance regressions in (some) 64 bit Office applications.
  22. I'd say both yes and no. People follow the path of least resistance. Developers might think twice about being lazy and just sticking to 32 bit if it requires them to do extra work to support the application(s) versus migrating to 64 bit going forward. I get the feeling that many people just do things because that's how they've always done them hence we still have apps relying on 32 bit libraries to this day (not counting unsupported legacy apps). If 32 bit is absolutely necessary then you'll just have to work around it otherwise just fix your stuff and transition to 64 bit.
  23. That's just classic incompetence when management doesn't listen to experts. Another fun but equally frustrating video. However I wouldn't absolve contractors from blame. They develop shit they want to unload. They buy contracts they can't uphold. I wouldn't be surprised if each of those suits had a company that wanted them to push something whether it was the antitank weaponry, the turret or the reconnaissance equipment. I can't imagine stupid ideas come out of nowhere. They've likely been told that a vehicle was in the making and they want their stuff in it. It'll finance their next 10 years of business. Of course it's obviously just an epic clusterfuck when all is said and done. Lots of idiots with no oversight and cash to burn. Regardless of who's to blame. These proceedings should be more transparent so they can be shamed for it. That goes for any project built with taxpayers' money.
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