I’m having fun playing with a Microsoft ReFS stack right now and that’s been interesting. Performs really well and it was smart enough to point out the stupid shit I did and flag me for it and actually tell me how to fix it. So weird when a Microsoft error actually gives you useful information.
AMD in their most recent papers talk about building the BVH trees inside the infinity cache to offset the bottlenecks the RDNA architecture imposes. The consoles currently do not have an infinity cache.
Those trees are small 8-12MB the cache is more than capable of containing it.
Yes previously they topped out at 4.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounding_volume_hierarchy
Basically it means it is capable of larger search trees checking for things.
ZFS is a great software level raid solution if you are running multiple spindle drives. ZFS is highly optimized for mechanical disks and those optimizations and checks are useless for SSDs and NVMEs and more often than not the commands send to them will just burn the solid state options.
ZFS...
It’s not so random, Snaps hate ZFS as your primary partition, you mix those two and your in for a bad time.
The other side there is when building the package, compression algorithms play a huge role in startup performance and there is not a one size fits all, the high compression formats...
We have one here and since it went in the only time I have ever heard it talked about “positivity” is when somebody on the local FB page brags about how easy it was to use to pay for something.
For them to inevitably be informed that they were scammed and that you can’t pay your taxes, municipal...
https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-brings-receipts-elon-musk-involvement-openai-lawsuit-2024-3
In response to Elons add campaign blasting OpenAI and his lawsuit they have released a bunch of the emails from Elon to them back from 2017 and 2018.
Turns out it he was very vocal on why...
I have not used a Linux desktop environment since the dreaded Ubuntu Gnome 3 rollout…
I only use it on servers though so … I barely count. But it’s good to see they are improving.
Nvidia was selling their crypto cards by the truckload though so it worked well enough for them to offload all the 2000 series chips they had left in stock.
Nah it’s simpler than affecting Xeon sales and way dumber.
Intel didn’t validate them for AVX512 because the voltage change when disabling the E cores to light up the AVX512 causes a frequency and voltage change the OEM’s didn’t want to deal with. It forces them to upgrade their cooling and MB...
The frequency hit hurts production loads too heavily and games loose performance when splitting across CCXs.
So putting the extra cache on both is an overall loose loose while making the part both more expensive to buy and more difficult to produce.
Intel no longer makes their own wafers, neither does TSMC, that side of the manufacturing has become as specialized as the etching process with patents for material compositions and silica alloys and purification methods.
But just like any other component there are the companies who make the...
Not likely the same bus, the channel layout is very different, far more so than GDDR5 to GDDR6, and if each pin is 40% faster and there are twice as many pins for twice as many channels, but the number of pins to each channel remains the same then how much faster depends a lot on what you are...
Apple did, but Intel wasn't helping. Look at Intel Mobile Gen 8-10 and tell me they were good with a straight face. Battery life was terrible, they were hot, required active cooling, and when patched to deal with the vulnerabilities their performance tanked, it wasn't until shortly before Apple...
This is why Apple reluctantly agreed to add RCS base support, but under the conditions that the EU oversee a joint effort with the GSMA to revamp and update the RCS protocols as a base and not rely on proprietary and problematic 3'rd third-party plugins for functionality.
It shouldn't take Apple...
GDDR6 uses 32 pins for 2 independent memory channels, 16 lanes each (16 Gbit), it can be configured to work in burst where they can be combined to function as a single 32-lane channel (32 Gbit) for higher bandwidth to a single chip but that comes with some drawbacks as it essentially becomes a...
RCS as a base standard does not natively support E2E encryption and only supports the delivery of messages between devices directly addressed by an E.164 address, E2E, group messaging, etc, are add-on protocols and Google owns and operates most of those add-ons.
It is not helped that the RCS...
They are, and Google is the owner and operator of the servers that handle all the message encryption as well as mass message delivery as well as group chat communications.
They push it as the "open standard" which RCS is technically an open standard if you want single point-to-point messaging...
Well earlier they blocked access to their service signin on pages from “unauthorized” devices, so it would track they would block access to their messaging network as well.
Epic isn’t a hardware company though, and if they did what would they do different that Valve, ASUS, or one of the others isn’t already doing?
Epic still deals with the whole “Their owned by China” thing so even if they did make one I expect it would go over ‘really well’
But at least UE5 is...
You do know that Unreal 5 has a native Linux build and source available from Git you can compile and develop for already right?
https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.2/en-US/linux-development-quickstart-for-unreal-engine
That would be covered by the VESA Certified Media Display.
AMD’s biggest issue is the VESA Certified Adaptive Sync program announced in 2022 does a better job at ensuring quality than the FreeSync one did, and the VESA programs are scammy as hell.
I'm in the process of rolling it out on a random HP that was brought into my office because "its having troubles", troubles with what? I don't even recognize the laptop, I'm pretty sure I am fixing some random person's laptop that was delivered to the admin desk up front... What ever, it has a...
But the site in question uses tracking cookies from partner sites to get their numbers. So it’s not really counting an install base, if we just look at Linux installs that number goes way the hell higher than 4%.
https://www.tomshardware.com/monitors/amd-updates-freesync-minimum-requirements-144hz-or-higher-refresh-rate-needed-for-1080p-and-1440p-displays
Baby steps forward are still steps forward.
It’s good to see AMD addressing the low end of the display spectrum that has been a victim of the...
“As good as” won’t do, why change up your known functional environment for what is effectively a side grade? There’s too much at risk and too much unknown, AMD and Intel need to be significantly better and not just cheaper to pull customers away.
If AMD or Intel is unable to deliver that within...
Brave, Firefox, and Safari (iOS) all by default block the tracking cookies these site requires as well as the Java Scripts involved. You would need to manually enable them to be tracked. So unless you are a Linux user who is using Chromium, or you have gone through the trouble of implicitly...
Linux users are going to get skewed up on those counters and Mac users similarly skewed downwards
Do you define a unique visitor based on cookies? How do you handle browsers which don't allow cookies?
In this case, each page view is counted as a unique.
Or do you use IP address? How do you...
But then Intel is competing with a lot of other ARM providers, and if they make a socketed ARM board then what’s to stop Qualcomm, Broadcom, etc from making chips for those boards. It’s the Intel, AMD, VIA, Cyrix, days all over again, nah Intel would be better off putting research into RISCV...
They are shitty web gaming sites, hosted emulators that run in a web browser that sort of stuff, they get closed and blocked every couple of days but they just change their domain name slightly and pop up as another site on a .io domain elsewhere, the pages make flashy happy things trying to...
I used to see it all the time, Android has a number of known drive-by vulnerabilities, and those stupid popup .io gaming sites are littered with them.
They also work on ChromeOS to a lesser degree, there though the infections arent pervasive and simply rebooting the machine will clean them, but...
Well, I can say that Google recently made it so a shitload of my devices are not able to sign into any Google services even through the web portals because they don't have the play store, but I am not able to install the play store on them because of the nature of their most recent tracking...
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intels-npu-acceleration-library-goes-open-source
https://github.com/intel/intel-npu-acceleration-library
Nothing to complain about except maybe there aren’t enough of their NPUs out in the wild.
TSMC is the one who needs compensation, the fact Intel is even in the same ballpark as AMD with a 2 gen fab disadvantage is moderately astounding.
Intel and AMD on the same node would be a fight to watch for sure.