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AMD Unveils E9170 Embedded GPU (zdnet.com)
AMD is releasing a new embedded Radeon GPU, the first to be based on the Polaris architecture. From a report: But this one isn't aimed at the desktop or laptop markets, but instead it expands AMD's offerings in the digital casino games, thin clients, medical displays, retail and digital signage, and industrial systems markets. The AMD Embedded Radeon E9173 GPU, based on the Polaris architecture, uses an optimized 14-nanometer FinFET manufacturing process to provide up to three times the performance-per-watt over previous generations of AMD Embedded GPUs. And the Radeon E9170 is quite a powerhouse, delivering up to 1.25 TFLOPS at sub-40W TDP board power, and includes 4K HEVC/H.265 and AVC/H.264 decode and encode support, 4K and 3D support, and is capable of driving up to five 4K displays using HDMI 2.0 and/or DisplayPort 1.4. AMD is planning for the Radeon E9173 to have a long lifecycle -- which high-end customers demand -- and plans for it to be available through to 2024.
See ATM machines in Safe Mode all the time, on XP kernels still. So casino games seem like natural frontier here actually.
What about the PlayStation Portable?
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Without Linux drivers? Hah...
1.25 TFLOPs in sub 40-watt? Last I checked Radeon Duo was like 250w and 11.45TFLOPs. Unless the performance per power matches or beats the Duo, this is kinda shit for an embedded solution - not like embedded solutions weren't generally shit to begin with.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
it's up to the gaming board to give an OK.
ATM machines the bank will refund you if they crash and do not pay out.
Have you been to a casino recently? All the spinner games have updated to video interfaces and touch displays with frankly dizzying array of oversaturated color and graphics so busy it's hard to keep track of everything going on. But that's all on purpose. To part you from your money.
There's a reason why all the big game publishers have switched to crapifying their games with lootboxes and other gambling-lite features. They're all trying to get the same payday that casinos have had for years but are instead targeting the one group that casinos can't, legally, for now. Just wait a couple more months and that might change. Then everyone will be on equal footing.
It's sickening that nothing is being done about it.
I'm for anything with high power and low wattage. Congratulations AMD!!! I hope they blaze a path that others follow.
that you can bet on in an effort to draw in the millennials. Ars Technica had an article on a 4 player pac man machine where you put money in a pot and winner take all (less the casino's cut, of course). Millennials aren't playing slots, which is where all the money really was. Poker/Blackjack/etc don't bring in nearly as much. They're looking for something to replace slots. And a bunch of kids raised on smart phones who know your odds after 6 seconds on google and grew up with 32 bit+ video games aren't impressed by slots.
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Actually, AMD is one of the few companies that *pays developpers* for an official opensource stack.
Since quite some time, the opensource stack is the official openGL stack on windows, while the closed source (formely fglrx, now only a user-land GL stack that runs over the same AMDGPU kernel driver) is mainly targetted for the few workstation edge-cases that need some weird quirks for some obscure CAD software.
Since the AMDGPU kernel driver, part of the code is shared accross platforms, thus new feature added to windows (like Freesync, etc.) can be added to Linux to.
Since the past couple of weeks, DC/DAL is in the process of being merged upstream, (so Freesync and co should be working out of the box for linux kernel 4.15).
Since the past couple of weeks, ROCm is also getting merged (so OpenCL should be working for out-of-the box Linux).
The only currently missing bit, is an official opensource Vulkan implementation by AMD.
Instead we currently get RADV which is opensource, but developped by outsiders and is getting more and more feature ful by the week, with lots of games working (though currently not with enormous performance gains normally expected of Vulkan - i.e.: the developpers are currently in 'conformance mode', trying to get the API implemented, they'll get to optimisations afterward).
Notice that, depending on whomever from AMD you ask, they are officially hesitating if they shouldn't perhaps back RADV as an officially supported solution.
TL;DR: opensource linux drivers by AMD is the normal way to go with Radeon.
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although the opensource version currently lacks fancier features such as OpenCL 2.0 and Vulkan
Regarding fancies features :
- the necessary bits are being upstreamed for ROCm, so you should be getting out-of-the-box OpenCL soonish.
- DC/DAL is finally getting submitted for upstreaming, so by the time kernel 4.15 you'll get all the features such as Freesync, etc.
- RADV, though developed, by 3rd parties (not by AMD) is getting rather decent. Conformance is getting good, though authors haven't been started putting lots of effort on optimisation yet.
- Depending on whom you ask on the forums, AMD might consider giving support to RADV as an intermediate official solution.
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Oh good. I'm still waiting for an apology for their last atrocity, the E1 CPU. It's slightly slower than a 1999 model pentium 3 and they tried to run Windows 8 on it.
A hell of a lot of bad news, actually. Maybe save the ATI acquisition for later.
... just in time for when the next generation is done :/
I told my kids a long time a go that as soon as I see a game with gambling in it (even loot boxes), it's off their computers. I have made the exception for Overwatch because unlike LoL and a few others, the loot boxes seem to have no impact on the actual game play, only appearance. So in that case the rule is "no money on loot boxes".
In the case of WoW, when we played it, it wasn't so bad because you could choose what you wanted and buy it. So, I would sometimes buy a pet if there was a campaign where the proceeds would be donated to a charity.
I explain to the kids that gambling is for people who lack the intelligence to understand that when you give someone money, they should give you something of that value in return. There shouldn't be odds or luck attached to financial exchanges. It would be like going to your boss and saying...hey let's spin a wheel each month and see how much you should pay me!
and Matrox.
If the absolute first item on the list is gambling related, then I see a company that considers preying on the weak as a legitimate means of getting ahead.
Sure, AMD isn't running the casino itself... maybe not even making the machines. But they believe it's not in poor taste to openly discuss how they will gladly help companies who do run the games or build the machines to abuse weak people.
Talking about gambling is something you don't do in good company. It's like talking about rape openly. Or child abuse. It's basically something that you DON'T EVER DO and if you do do it, then you take everything you own and sell it, donate the money to the recovery of whomever was harmed and then put a bullet in your head to make sure you never do it again. Gambling and supporting gambling (this includes Wall Street) is a disgusting thing. It takes people who are stupid enough to think they can play the odds and win... all while you sit back knowing that even if the sucker wins a little, it'll just build his confidence up so you can get more from him later. Then you get the really disgusting gambling which screws up peoples retirements and causes them to live in the poor house for years (mutuals, hedges, etc...)
We don't talk openly about being a gambler, taking money from gamblers, helping to take money from gamblers. This is just filthy.
AMD... don't you think it's bad enough there's an American president who believes that it's perfectly ok to intentionally prey on the weak? And that it's legitimate to build your wealth by basically stealing money from stupid people? And the belief of "If they're dumb enough to put their money on the table, then it's practically my duty to take it from them."
Advertising that you support NASDAQ or NYSE etc... I can almost forgive... at least there are some rules there which are supposed to protect people from being preyed upon. But I won't buy for myself or my company any products which openly support casinos or lotteries.
P.S. - When weak people are preyed upon, while it may be their money, it becomes our burden to support them. I'm no OK with Trump, AMD or anyone else profiting from screwing poor people and making it so that I have to pay for their retirements and welfare.
Excuse my ignorance, but what is a "lootbox"?
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I have a hard time understanding why you would even want this as a gamer. The odds are so much against you... Thank you for explaining.
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