Those were very specifically optimized runs, not generalized performance tests. It is extremely easy to fake that, by targeting weaknesses in the hardware you don't like and strengths in your hardware. Floating Point CPU computation units and hardware video encoding for specific codecs being things that my boyfriend pointed out. And we only got two real tests, most of the presentation was just demos. Needless to say, I'm very suspicious, especially since this is reminding me a lot like how they demoed Bulldozer. :/
I really am hoping AMD is able to jump in IPC, as that is what they really need if they are to be competitive and Intel could really use a smack right now! But based on this, I think the rumored 40% increase is true. That a huge single generation increase, but I'm worried that won't be enough considering how behind they have been.
(12-14-2016, 11:10 AM)MayImilae Wrote: [ -> ]Those were very specifically optimized runs, not generalized performance tests. It is extremely easy to fake that, by targeting weaknesses in the hardware you don't like and strengths in your hardware. Floating Point CPU computation units and hardware video encoding for specific codecs being things that my boyfriend pointed out. And we only got two real tests, most of the presentation was just demos. Needless to say, I'm very suspicious, especially since this is reminding me a lot like how they demoed Bulldozer. :/
I really am hoping AMD is able to jump in IPC, as that is what they really need if they are to be competitive and Intel could really use a smack right now! But based on this, I think the rumored 40% increase is true. That a huge single generation increase, but I'm worried that won't be enough considering how behind they have been.
Correction, Intel could really use plenty of smacks right now!!! They have practically done nothing major all these years that amd was behind to increase cpu performance, instead they have focused on the igpu performance that most gamers don't care anyway since they will go for a discreet card. Also they kept prices up and high so... yeah. Many smacks...
There was an interesting conversation over on [H] a few months ago in regards to competition.
It's pretty much at the point where Intel is competing with Intel, and Nvidia is competing with Nvidia. AMD is irrelevant - these companies new products need to outperform their old counterparts enough to convince people to upgrade. If either one stagnates too much (which they were for a bit), then they start loosing sales drastically, since people just aren't upgrading. Failure of these companies to compete with themselves will hurt them far more than other competitors ever did. This is why Nvidia currently has 3 tiers of cards above AMD - they aren't competing with AMD, they're competing with 980ti owners.
You can really see this in the new Intel ads, as the ads are literally marketing that "our new processors are significantly faster than our old processors". They don't even need to consider AMD as a threat.
Guess we need them to run the Dolphin benchmark
Right now, focusing on multi-cores CPUs is the only viable strategy for AMD. I think trying to keep up with Intel IPC would be a dead end for them, Intel is just too good. Instead, it's smarter to offer an alternative CPU that is good at multi-threading at a much lower price than Intel ones.
Who needs IPC anyways except very specifics programs like Dolphin.
AMD's IPC is more than enough for "casual" single core programs, and many softwares are multi-threaded now. Games are. Especially multi-platform games that needs to be threaded on PS4 and XOne.
Shiiiiet. Just got rekt by a technical job interview for the 2nd time. So I get 45 minutes to read through some undocumented C++ code on bounding planes and tell how it works. I don't finish it in time, but the interviewer say it's normal, it's supposed to be too little time. And I answer the remaining question in the remaining time of 2 hours total. But then the recruiters tells me it was too bad, although they also were supposedly hiring newly graduated people, and we already went through another interview/personality tests and all kinds of shit.
Now I had the only A grade in my C++ exam of 70+ people at my university, and I made an RTS from a lockstep simulation framework which have barely any documentation, but this company "only hires the best 5%" which apparently is some illuminati elite programmer specimen who already has 5 years experience in all future technologies when they graduate. Getting real tired of this shit, where can I find a company that would appreciate my AI master's degree where I evolved neural nets and shit like that
Just tried the latest bleeding edge build of Citra, i don't know what they changed but it seems to be running pretty fast here compared to previous builds. I can run zelda at acceptable speed for the first time. Especially all those videos that crawled seem to run fine now.
(12-14-2016, 11:10 AM)MayImilae Wrote: [ -> ]this is reminding me a lot like how they demoed Bulldozer. :/
Remember, AMD demonstrated Bulldozer (4m/8t) against an i5-2500k (4c/4t) and an i7-2600k (4c/8t) rather than against a i7-3930K (6c/12t) which
destroys Bulldozer.
This time, AMD actually demonstrated Ryzen (8c/16t) against an i7-6900k (8c/16t) rather than against an i7-5775C or i7-6700k (both 4c/8t).
I go away for a couple days and Dolphin forum layout changes. What happened?
(12-15-2016, 06:41 PM)KHg8m3r Wrote: [ -> ]I go away for a couple days and Dolphin forum layout changes. What happened?
You accidentally installed a browser extension that changes how it looks?
I say this because it looks the same to me...