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Piledriver against Excavator with no L3 and half the L2:
But it seems even a quarter of L2 in Phenom II X4 and Athlon II X4 (also no L3) can't stop them from being quite faster. They have twice the FP units after all.
It would appear that the X6 could beat the 8-core Piledriver at the same clock here (comparing to Excavator FX is less clear).
But it seems even a quarter of L2 in Phenom II X4 and Athlon II X4 (also no L3) can't stop them from being quite faster. They have twice the FP units after all.
It would appear that the X6 could beat the 8-core Piledriver at the same clock here (comparing to Excavator FX is less clear).
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I think there are very few games that have moved past SSE3, or that make it mandatory at least.
And it seems they mostly get patched later after gamer uproar.
What is especially annoying is when they are made incompatible just because of some DRM library.
And it seems they mostly get patched later after gamer uproar.
What is especially annoying is when they are made incompatible just because of some DRM library.
I think the current Ryzen 3 CPUs stopped making much sense, so if the graphics in a Ryzen APU are not enough, it might be worth considering an Athlon X4 900-series (AM4) plus an RX560, as I don't think the GT1030 or RX550 make much sense either over a Ryzen APU.
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Is StoreMI transparent? That is, the hard drive can be moved around and cloned as usual unlike crappy "Fusion Drive" and the WD Dual Drives that required a driver?
Can it be used with data drives?
Can one just deactivate in the BIOS and boot?
Does it work transparently with all OSes?
Can it be used with data drives?
Can one just deactivate in the BIOS and boot?
Does it work transparently with all OSes?
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The Steam survey had been massively broken since last August. It was counting multiple user machines ("cyber cafés") more than once. This seems fixed now, but not retroactively.
It does not mean it's problem-free (I am still puzzled by PrefetchW).
It does not mean it's problem-free (I am still puzzled by PrefetchW).
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April Creators Update messed up my Ryzen 1700X rig. Machine posts but won't load Windows. I can't even get a recovery USB to boot.
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Few information about Zen 2(3000 series):
Up to 16 cores, on AM4 platform.
95W TDP.
IPC around Skylake/Kaby Lake/Coffee Lake architecture
As high clocks, as Coffee Lake architecture.
Prices - roughly the same as current SKUs.
Threadripper: Up to 32 cores, PCIe 4, prices roughly the same as current offerings. The rest is obvious.
Up to 16 cores, on AM4 platform.
95W TDP.
IPC around Skylake/Kaby Lake/Coffee Lake architecture
As high clocks, as Coffee Lake architecture.
Prices - roughly the same as current SKUs.
Threadripper: Up to 32 cores, PCIe 4, prices roughly the same as current offerings. The rest is obvious.
I lost interest in Apple hardware, sadly, apart from iDevices.
Back to Merit. Good news? Not for Apple ecosystem.
Anything Apple will do, it will be immediately outdated, and worse - with no upgrade path for future. Intel's 10 nm process is pretty much dead with HVM in 2020. That is 1.5 years BEHIND of what AMD will offer:
https://twitter.com/TMFChipFool/status/996480113901539349
First time in history, AMD is going to be first on new node.
Apple is stuck with Intel and 14 nm+++ node's for another, 1.5 years.
Skylake Architecture will be used for 4 years straight!
Well, I am even less interested in that!
And I don't care about Android or ChromeOS, either.
Or Windows tablets and phones.