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So here's the thing. I was recently reading WCCF's article about Pascal and I noticed a mistake. Usman Pirzada wrote "terabits per second" where he should've wrote "terabytes per second". I tried to correct him and he started to defend his math. The problem is that in the article he was talking about the stacked dram on the Pascal architecture, and in his defense he started talking about the NVLInk interconnect memory bandwidth. But those are two completely different things. This was a huge mistake on his part and his article is still sitting there with the wrong information. Not admitting  and/or fixing the mistake was a really proud behavior in a bad way. Take a look at the two attached images. 

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Another reason as to why you should be on point at all times when on wccf

 

Its fine if you get something wrong, just change it if someone corrects you.

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lol, i think Jen-Hsun has a lot more knowledge than this dude.

 

Edit: and yeah, you are right of course! :D

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lol, i think Jen-Hsun has a lot more knowledge than this dude.

 

Edit: and yeah, you are right of course! :D

A lot. A lot.

 

A LOT

 

Before he was CEO of Nvidia he was a microprocessor designer at AMD, and Director of Coreware at LSI. The man knows it inside and out. He isn't just a businessman, he is freakin smart.

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You know how some websites tell you that they use cookies.
WCCFtech should have a popup that states the website uses bullsh*t.

To be fair, Videocarz and WCCFtech, do get things right, but there approach to get stories up without fact checking sometimes backfires and reflects poorly on the website. Mistakes do happen, but pushing stories out to be first is a approach that can be like a double edged sword. Same thing happens on YT and other forms of media.

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Mixing up NVlink with a card's memory bandwidth while working for a hardware news site... although WTF tech is more a joke than a news site. 

 

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although WTF tech is more a joke than a news site. 

One of those really bad jokes that somebody tells at a party and everybody just goes silent out of pity.

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I don't know what to make from all of this. Was I wrong? Was Jen-Hsun Huang wrong?

 

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Excellent, I love quandries like this.

 

*le popcorn*

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On 4/13/2014 at 11:44 PM, thewhitestig said:

I don't know what to make from all of this. Was I wrong? Was Jen-Hsun Huang wrong?

 

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Guess who was right. :)))))))))

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On 4/13/2014 at 7:59 PM, JoeyDM said:

Yes. WCCFTech gets many things wrong.

What you mean when they said Zen would be out and ready like 4 times this year you mean they were wrong? Summit ridge isnt out this month?

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5 minutes ago, it_dont_work said:

What you mean when they said Zen would be out and ready like 4 times this year you mean they were wrong? Summit ridge isnt out this month?

You replied to something from 2 years ago...

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31 minutes ago, it_dont_work said:

What you mean when they said Zen would be out and ready like 4 times this year you mean they were wrong? Summit ridge isnt out this month?

I am a wccftech reader who has come here for the express purpose of shedding light on some of the hypocrisy on LTT. I assume ill be thoroughly insulted and banned within a few  hours. But while I am here, the leaks you are referring to are about roadmaps. Roadmaps change. Anyone remember when Broadwell and Skylake were officially promised by Intel and when they actually came? :) Take this post for eg. Did Nvidia actually launch with a 32hi HBM? no they didn't. His calculations said they were 1 terabits per second per stack (128 GB/s) so for a 4-hi hbm that's 512 GB/s. Did we get a 4 hi stack with 512 GB/s? yes we did. I have been trawling through this forums and 90% of the things you called WCCFTech out on (by you I mean this forum) they were proven right in the long run. 9% of the time they were off by a significant margin and maybe less than 1% of the time they were dead wrong - but that is something to be expected concerning the nature of their work. Not saying that they are oracles of the truth. Just saying that this forum has been the equivalent of a cyber bully and now time has come proven them wrong.

Context: I was actually googling the author "Usman Pirzada" and this thread came up, on the first page. A defamatory thread/title on something the poor chap had been right about :P I hope any mod who comes after me would delete this thread or at least edit the title to reflect the truth.

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