Sounds like you're a bit out of touch. AMD drivers have been great for years, particularly on Linux. Open sourcing the mainstream driver was brilliant, and they got a lot of loyal customers for that.
Re your mining theory, it probably explains why prices are remain fairly high for Vega 56 and 64, and it might explain why Radeon VII sold out in about two hours, when miners found out about the double precision floating point performance (3.4 TFLOPS.) I seriously doubt that miners are buying 500 series now, especially as there are many used ones on the market if they really do feel the need.
You know what miners really aren't buying? Nvidia cards. It really never made much sense, and now that profitability is marginal to negative it makes no sense at all.
As for the RX580 being top selling, I'm pretty sure that's due to miners.
You can be pretty sure you're wrong, confirmed by Steam's hardware survey that shows RX580 and other 500 series steadily increasing total installed share.
mostly that they're pushing them too hard to hit competitive numbers. You end up with a card that's unstable out of the box.
Complete rubbish, nobody is complaining about unstable out of the box. Rather, there are complaints about buggy tweaking tools. Enthusiasts quickly found that the Radeon VII can be aggressively undervolted at default clock, and in fact can be overclocked while undervolted.
That "loses money" refrain is apocryphal and is based on wholesale price of HBM2 not declining at all in 20 months, thus defying the law of semiconductor gravity. More likely, underestimated demand.
RX 580 retails for under $200 for months now, which is why it's Amazon's top selling card. 1660 isn't going to displace 580, rather it's going to eviscerate the RTX line. Nvidia knows it and that's why they needed the Mellanox distraction.
RX580 is the top selling card on Amazon for a long time, it's hard to argue with the value. But otherwise AMD is barely hanging onto its roughly 17% add-in GPU share. Radeon VII is kickass but who knows when the supply is coming back and not everybody wants or needs a high end card. There is a lot of Nvidia hate going around and from where I sit it's richly deserved. I'm in that camp myself, I'd rather eat a turd than give money to NVidia. Seems like I've got lots of company there.
Attention deficit disorder. Google seems to have lost the ability to see any project through from beginning to end. I look forward to the Google console fiasco, should be about as popular as Google+ given the depth to which Google Smart People[tm] tend to understand or care about actual people.
I predict that an article like this is going to bring the cranks out of the woodwork. Two obvious flaws in this "journalistic impression" of the actual research: 1) The original article has nothing to do with antigravity, it discusses an effect more like buoyancy. 2) A change of one degree is not hard to measure, regardless of the distance it is measured over, because angles do not change with distance. These obviously nonsensical inventions are the result of some journalist's wild imagining about a topic they have no competence to discuss. The whoppers get bigger with the retelling.
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You can still put tape over the camera if you need to do that, not sure what you're going on about.
How exactly do you hold and use a "full screen" display with touchscreen everywhere?
The phone just ignores a band of touch input where the bezel used to be.
Why can't you put tape over it? Having trouble following your rant.
It's easy enough for the phone to ignore touch input from a band where the bezel used to be.
It has practical importance for video chat.
Steam hardware survey says 75% Nvidia, not 85%.
Sounds like you're a bit out of touch. AMD drivers have been great for years, particularly on Linux. Open sourcing the mainstream driver was brilliant, and they got a lot of loyal customers for that.
Re your mining theory, it probably explains why prices are remain fairly high for Vega 56 and 64, and it might explain why Radeon VII sold out in about two hours, when miners found out about the double precision floating point performance (3.4 TFLOPS.) I seriously doubt that miners are buying 500 series now, especially as there are many used ones on the market if they really do feel the need.
You know what miners really aren't buying? Nvidia cards. It really never made much sense, and now that profitability is marginal to negative it makes no sense at all.
As for the RX580 being top selling, I'm pretty sure that's due to miners.
You can be pretty sure you're wrong, confirmed by Steam's hardware survey that shows RX580 and other 500 series steadily increasing total installed share.
mostly that they're pushing them too hard to hit competitive numbers. You end up with a card that's unstable out of the box.
Complete rubbish, nobody is complaining about unstable out of the box. Rather, there are complaints about buggy tweaking tools. Enthusiasts quickly found that the Radeon VII can be aggressively undervolted at default clock, and in fact can be overclocked while undervolted.
That "loses money" refrain is apocryphal and is based on wholesale price of HBM2 not declining at all in 20 months, thus defying the law of semiconductor gravity. More likely, underestimated demand.
...contains a lot of people who have been abused by and consequently hate Nvidia.
Maybe jokes should be funny.
RX 580 retails for under $200 for months now, which is why it's Amazon's top selling card. 1660 isn't going to displace 580, rather it's going to eviscerate the RTX line. Nvidia knows it and that's why they needed the Mellanox distraction.
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RX580 is the top selling card on Amazon for a long time, it's hard to argue with the value. But otherwise AMD is barely hanging onto its roughly 17% add-in GPU share. Radeon VII is kickass but who knows when the supply is coming back and not everybody wants or needs a high end card. There is a lot of Nvidia hate going around and from where I sit it's richly deserved. I'm in that camp myself, I'd rather eat a turd than give money to NVidia. Seems like I've got lots of company there.
Huh? WTF are you blathering about?
jacked up the price and added a huge notch
How'd that Apple envy work out for them? Good thing Samsung in a sudden outbreak of common sense showed everybody how to do it right.
Attention deficit disorder. Google seems to have lost the ability to see any project through from beginning to end. I look forward to the Google console fiasco, should be about as popular as Google+ given the depth to which Google Smart People[tm] tend to understand or care about actual people.
I predict that an article like this is going to bring the cranks out of the woodwork. Two obvious flaws in this "journalistic impression" of the actual research: 1) The original article has nothing to do with antigravity, it discusses an effect more like buoyancy. 2) A change of one degree is not hard to measure, regardless of the distance it is measured over, because angles do not change with distance. These obviously nonsensical inventions are the result of some journalist's wild imagining about a topic they have no competence to discuss. The whoppers get bigger with the retelling.
A saner report. The original paper is paywalled.
I agree, we need special clocks for idiots.
Circular reasoning. Sound, by definition, travels through matter.
The flaw in your third proposal is, staying on summer time year-round does not make it summer year-round.
What is wrong with permanent standard time? Trump upholds idiocracy.
Maybe when it's on and doing things, that's a test. Just saying.