The guy who posted this never bothered checking out his own links. If you read the story about the guy gored to death by a bull, he was filming two bulls fighting, not actually taking a selfie. Also, the bison death seems unrelated to selfies... so that would mean shark attacks come out ahead, yeh! The sharks win!
Iris Pro was first introduced with Haswell with much fanfare. There were both as desktop and laptop versions. But in reality the products barely existed. There is only a handfull of design wins, which sold in very small quantities. Now, we have a product based on Broadwell Iris Pro that's cancelled. At this point it's looking like Intel were having major yield problems with the production of the on chip eDRAM.
> To keep the competition in the dark? I would doubt it would give the competition any real advantage - given that the it's written specfically for AMD hardware and the competition already have working drivers that are doing the same thing as AMD's drivers. More, likely it's to hide stuff that might be infringing on patients, contain plagarised code, or gaming benchmarks.
These drives are 7 time faster than the fastest SSD, but also more expensive. That should be the other way around to be beneficial to PC users. SSDs are currently too expensive to use as bulk storage, so normally you have a small SSD, which has the OS and other frequently accessed files and then you have a HDD which holds less used large files (i.e. video library etc.) The HDD is an order of magnitude slower that the SSD, so this is really what is slowing down the system. This 3D XCross drive is making the part of the system that is already fast, faster.
I'm quite amazed that Vulkan will support all versions of Windows from XP onwards. So you can have the low overhead of DirectX 12 without forcing your users to upgrade to Windows 10. I can see a lot of game developers migrating to Vulkan, just because they get more sales the more OS versions they support
So, remote execution vunerbility on nearly 1 billion devices... I wonder how much they would have made if they had sold it on the black market, instead of telling Google about it?
Really? How big is your user profile? How big was it when you started? because it happens over such along period time it's difficult to notice that has slowed down, but it has.
If you install Windows from scratch on a PC it will always run faster than the previous version (especially if it's being running for 7 years, as in this case). The reason is because the way Windows works. Certain system files (user profile, registery, etc, etc) continuously get bigger and bigger, so as you use it for several years the system gets slower and slower. Installing a fresh version of Windows (regardless of which version) starts everything from scratch and makes it run a whole lot faster.
Good question. If you go though the problems found - non of them are serious - they are error that could potentially cause problems, but don't actually. In general, static code analysis can only improve the code quality marginally.
Here's what Wikipedia says about it: "The United States stopped producing bulk plutonium-238 in 1988;[5] since 1993, all of the plutonium-238 used in American spacecraft has been purchased from Russia. In total, 16.5 kilograms have been purchased but Russia is no longer producing plutonium-238 and their own supply is reportedly running low" In fact, the Horizons project only got their supply by salvaging a spare from the Cassini mission.
Firstly, what caused the problem was not "Nuclear fear", but failure of the harpoon to hold Philea down. The solar panels would have worked fine otherwise. Secoundly, Plutonium-238 is simply no longer available - nobody makes it anymore. The reason why is because it is created using a dangerous and expensive process by irradiation of neptunium-237.
So, it's slightly slower than the Titan X in games, but the Maxwell architecture suffers poor double precision performance and that could be where AMD make their money. The Firepro version of this card would smoke anything Nvidia has to offer.
Besides that, the data center was only a small part of the Altera business. If we believe that that was the only reason Intel bought them, what are they going to do with all the other stuff?
That is a commonly held opinion, but it's not true. There's nothing illegal about being a monopoly. It's only illegal if you abuse your monopoly position
There is no evidence whatsoever that Xilinx will buy AMD. It's just some random idiot's speculation. Before this it was Samsung will buy AMD, the Chinese will buy AMD, Intel will buy AMD, etc.
Most iOS games are using OpenGL ES which is pretty trivial to port to OSX. If there was any difficulty porting iOS games it's more likely due to the mobile screen size rather than the graphics API.
Tom's didn't compare it, but Anandtech did and Godaveri is actually slower than Kavari for more than half the games they tested. Check the benchmarks if you don't believe me. In Alien Isolation, Total War Attila and GRID autosport the 7870K slower than 7850K. That's 3 out 5 games where it's slower!
AMD are about to release the 390x (with HBM memory) which already has been benchmarked faster than the Titan X, but consumes more power. http://wccftech.com/stacked-hb... The thing is Maxwell is much more power efficient than GCN, but it does so by crippling double prescision performance. That means AMD could see a lot of sales from the FirePro version of the 390x.
It looks nice until you realise that you need to pay a $12 a month for Netflix HD to really make use of it and it can only play videos from a limited number of formats.
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The guy who posted this never bothered checking out his own links. If you read the story about the guy gored to death by a bull, he was filming two bulls fighting, not actually taking a selfie. Also, the bison death seems unrelated to selfies... so that would mean shark attacks come out ahead, yeh! The sharks win!
Iris Pro was first introduced with Haswell with much fanfare. There were both as desktop and laptop versions. But in reality the products barely existed. There is only a handfull of design wins, which sold in very small quantities.
Now, we have a product based on Broadwell Iris Pro that's cancelled. At this point it's looking like Intel were having major yield problems with the production of the on chip eDRAM.
> To keep the competition in the dark?
I would doubt it would give the competition any real advantage - given that the it's written specfically for AMD hardware and the competition already have working drivers that are doing the same thing as AMD's drivers.
More, likely it's to hide stuff that might be infringing on patients, contain plagarised code, or gaming benchmarks.
Asus used Intel because they got the SoC for practically free, thanks to Intels contra-revenue scheme.
> Improved hipster compatibility!
Not really - try getting a iPhone 6 Plus into a skinny jeans pocket
These drives are 7 time faster than the fastest SSD, but also more expensive. That should be the other way around to be beneficial to PC users.
SSDs are currently too expensive to use as bulk storage, so normally you have a small SSD, which has the OS and other frequently accessed files and then you have a HDD which holds less used large files (i.e. video library etc.)
The HDD is an order of magnitude slower that the SSD, so this is really what is slowing down the system. This 3D XCross drive is making the part of the system that is already fast, faster.
I'm quite amazed that Vulkan will support all versions of Windows from XP onwards. So you can have the low overhead of DirectX 12 without forcing your users to upgrade to Windows 10.
I can see a lot of game developers migrating to Vulkan, just because they get more sales the more OS versions they support
So, remote execution vunerbility on nearly 1 billion devices...
I wonder how much they would have made if they had sold it on the black market, instead of telling Google about it?
Really? How big is your user profile? How big was it when you started?
because it happens over such along period time it's difficult to notice that has slowed down, but it has.
If you install Windows from scratch on a PC it will always run faster than the previous version (especially if it's being running for 7 years, as in this case). The reason is because the way Windows works. Certain system files (user profile, registery, etc, etc) continuously get bigger and bigger, so as you use it for several years the system gets slower and slower. Installing a fresh version of Windows (regardless of which version) starts everything from scratch and makes it run a whole lot faster.
I agree.
I did not say you should not use it, just that the type of problems found by static analysis are minor
Good question.
If you go though the problems found - non of them are serious - they are error that could potentially cause problems, but don't actually. In general, static code analysis can only improve the code quality marginally.
Here's what Wikipedia says about it:
"The United States stopped producing bulk plutonium-238 in 1988;[5] since 1993, all of the plutonium-238 used in American spacecraft has been purchased from Russia. In total, 16.5 kilograms have been purchased but Russia is no longer producing plutonium-238 and their own supply is reportedly running low"
In fact, the Horizons project only got their supply by salvaging a spare from the Cassini mission.
Firstly, what caused the problem was not "Nuclear fear", but failure of the harpoon to hold Philea down. The solar panels would have worked fine otherwise.
Secoundly, Plutonium-238 is simply no longer available - nobody makes it anymore. The reason why is because it is created using a dangerous and expensive process by irradiation of neptunium-237.
So, it's slightly slower than the Titan X in games, but the Maxwell architecture suffers poor double precision performance and that could be where AMD make their money. The Firepro version of this card would smoke anything Nvidia has to offer.
Besides that, the data center was only a small part of the Altera business. If we believe that that was the only reason Intel bought them, what are they going to do with all the other stuff?
but they have that anyway. They are already a x86 server monopoly
That is a commonly held opinion, but it's not true. There's nothing illegal about being a monopoly. It's only illegal if you abuse your monopoly position
There is no evidence whatsoever that Xilinx will buy AMD. It's just some random idiot's speculation.
Before this it was Samsung will buy AMD, the Chinese will buy AMD, Intel will buy AMD, etc.
Isn't that called bookmarks?
Most iOS games are using OpenGL ES which is pretty trivial to port to OSX.
If there was any difficulty porting iOS games it's more likely due to the mobile screen size rather than the graphics API.
Actually, Vulkan *is* mantle. There are only minor differences between the two APIs.
Tom's didn't compare it, but Anandtech did and Godaveri is actually slower than Kavari for more than half the games they tested. Check the benchmarks if you don't believe me. In Alien Isolation, Total War Attila and GRID autosport the 7870K slower than 7850K. That's 3 out 5 games where it's slower!
AMD are about to release the 390x (with HBM memory) which already has been benchmarked faster than the Titan X, but consumes more power.
http://wccftech.com/stacked-hb...
The thing is Maxwell is much more power efficient than GCN, but it does so by crippling double prescision performance.
That means AMD could see a lot of sales from the FirePro version of the 390x.
It looks nice until you realise that you need to pay a $12 a month for Netflix HD to really make use of it and it can only play videos from a limited number of formats.