My understanding is that AMD64 is really just an extension that adds 64 bit addressing mode and widened/added a few extra (64 bit) registers to the existing intel x86 spec.
Well, only in parallel tasks. The 6950x is only a 3GHz device. Single-threaded stuff will suck compared to anything modern. By comparison even the most ghetto $58 kaby lake desktop cpu is running at 3.0.Ghz.
As a software developer where stability, reliability and conformance to x86 standards are critical, Intel has always been my CPU of choice. Also as a gamer seeking the most powerful system possible, Intel has always been my CPU of choice. The only criteria AMD have ever really won on is "Performance per $", which given that I am not particularly budget-limited has never been a significant consideration to me. Certainly not nearly enough to outweigh the others.
Furthermore over decades of working with PCs I have seen a clear pattern that AMD-based PCs always seem to have little quirky things going on, such as more unexplainable blue screens etc, that just doesn't happen with Intel CPUs.
In my experience, exactly the same can be said of their GPUs compared to Nvidia's too.
Its nice to see AMD finally kicking Intel in the performance pants, because Intel are definitely overdue for some real competition at least in order to not just stagnate, however it seems to me that AMD even after decades still have other quirky little quality/reliability/compatibility issues to address that are just as damaging to their potential market deamnd as outright performance.
I see AMD are still up to their old tricks of trying to make gross performance statements based solely on hand-picked benchmarks that capitalize on their product having twice as many cores (or in the case of video cards, twice as many GPUs) as the competitions unit that they chose for comparisons.
I'd like to see a like-for-like benchmark between Ryzen and I7, such as single-thread at the same clock speeds. I suspect AMD won't be publishing that result anytime soon though.
You don't get it do you? Creating a child company, moving all your liabilities over to it, then have it file bankruptcy is a very successful and LEGAL business tactic that nearly all big US companies use. Companies like Apple and Microsoft are doing this shit every day.
-> The key revenue driver for the New York Times has been its digital subscription business,
You forgot the ongoing program of the whole paper being a blatantly hardcore left wing proaganda rag. Thats gotta be worth quite a few undercover $$millions from the Democrat party, the Clinton Foundation and god knows which groups of billionaire social manipulators.
Yeah all sorts of crap appears over time under C:/windows, and in the %appdata% directories. *.log files etc., even if you never install anything. Trouble is its often not obvious what you can and can't safely delete. The problem wouldn't even exist if the Windows programmers didn't continue their hacky culture of just dumping their dogfood all over the system directories, or at least not assume that storage space is infinite and that log files, temp files etc never need to be deleted and cleaning them up is someone else's problem. The disk cleanup utility does help but it doesn't get it all by far.
> I have not noticed any differences. You will need to provide proof/examples.
As much as it pains me to say it, Linux has nowhere near the support of Windows and to claim otheriwise is just ridiculous. Other than Civ6 can you name me any other big game at all from 2016 that is also out on Linux? No mans Sky? Fallout4? World of Tanks? Elite dangerous? Overwatch? The Witcher 3? Dark Souls 3? Battlefield 1? Xcom2? Tomb Raider? Forza3? literally anything for my HTC Vive?
I get the picture, you're right that people love the dramatica back-story but I just can't imagine the same level of emotional attachment to robots.
Can you imagine what would happen to the popularity of American Football if they replaced the players with robots? Same thing would happen with motor racing.
As an F1 fan myself with a lot of frinds that also are, I can tell you that if there weren't drivers in the cars no one I know would even bother watching.
Yes. I've attended many pro races. I've also driven in more than a few club events over the last 30+ years usually saloon cars/GT racing.
What is this thing on Slashdot where people automatically reply with an level of arrogance/rudeness that indicates the OP must necessarily be fucking clueless?
>> And what's the crap with having to re-install one per year?
This!!! I totally have this problem too. Also whats with windows just growing on its own? I have a 256 GB windows partition, every year or so Windows alone grows from maybe 30 GB to consuming a whopping 170GB, consuming about 2/3rds of my whole partition.
Already well aware that Steam has some Linux games on it. None of the games I play are available under Linux yet. Currently that would be World of Tanks, Fallout 4, Elite Dangerous, No Man's sky, then about 50 other games for my HTC Vive.
I use Linux on the desktop for everything other than gaming. I dual-boot to Windows for that, and only because games developers still don't do Linux versions. The moment that changes it will be goodbye windows partition.
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This tool sounds like every PeeCee SJW's wet dream.
The next thing will be facial recognition.
>> AMD invented the X64 architecture
My understanding is that AMD64 is really just an extension that adds 64 bit addressing mode and widened/added a few extra (64 bit) registers to the existing intel x86 spec.
>> The only thing higher end is the 6950X
Well, only in parallel tasks. The 6950x is only a 3GHz device. Single-threaded stuff will suck compared to anything modern. By comparison even the most ghetto $58 kaby lake desktop cpu is running at 3.0.Ghz.
>> I can get exactly the same performance for half the price, and better peripheral support."
Please explain what you mean by better peripheral support?
As a software developer where stability, reliability and conformance to x86 standards are critical, Intel has always been my CPU of choice. Also as a gamer seeking the most powerful system possible, Intel has always been my CPU of choice. The only criteria AMD have ever really won on is "Performance per $", which given that I am not particularly budget-limited has never been a significant consideration to me. Certainly not nearly enough to outweigh the others.
Furthermore over decades of working with PCs I have seen a clear pattern that AMD-based PCs always seem to have little quirky things going on, such as more unexplainable blue screens etc, that just doesn't happen with Intel CPUs.
In my experience, exactly the same can be said of their GPUs compared to Nvidia's too.
Its nice to see AMD finally kicking Intel in the performance pants, because Intel are definitely overdue for some real competition at least in order to not just stagnate, however it seems to me that AMD even after decades still have other quirky little quality/reliability/compatibility issues to address that are just as damaging to their potential market deamnd as outright performance.
I see AMD are still up to their old tricks of trying to make gross performance statements based solely on hand-picked benchmarks that capitalize on their product having twice as many cores (or in the case of video cards, twice as many GPUs) as the competitions unit that they chose for comparisons.
I'd like to see a like-for-like benchmark between Ryzen and I7, such as single-thread at the same clock speeds. I suspect AMD won't be publishing that result anytime soon though.
Yes I have, and no it really isn't an AAA game from 2016.
Just adjust the color temperature on your monitor to be less blue
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You don't get it do you? Creating a child company, moving all your liabilities over to it, then have it file bankruptcy is a very successful and LEGAL business tactic that nearly all big US companies use. Companies like Apple and Microsoft are doing this shit every day.
-> The key revenue driver for the New York Times has been its digital subscription business,
You forgot the ongoing program of the whole paper being a blatantly hardcore left wing proaganda rag. Thats gotta be worth quite a few undercover $$millions from the Democrat party, the Clinton Foundation and god knows which groups of billionaire social manipulators.
>> run a logical fallacy marathon
What the F are you even talking about?
Well done for simultaneously proving my point and yourself to be a total dick.
>> Microsoft is ... giving desktop Windows the worst things of smartphone OS (integrated publicity and spying, touch optimized UIs ...)
The biggest insult is that they've also made those things impossible to uninstall.
Yeah all sorts of crap appears over time under C:/windows, and in the %appdata% directories. *.log files etc., even if you never install anything.
Trouble is its often not obvious what you can and can't safely delete.
The problem wouldn't even exist if the Windows programmers didn't continue their hacky culture of just dumping their dogfood all over the system directories, or at least not assume that storage space is infinite and that log files, temp files etc never need to be deleted and cleaning them up is someone else's problem.
The disk cleanup utility does help but it doesn't get it all by far.
> I have not noticed any differences. You will need to provide proof/examples.
As much as it pains me to say it, Linux has nowhere near the support of Windows and to claim otheriwise is just ridiculous.
Other than Civ6 can you name me any other big game at all from 2016 that is also out on Linux?
No mans Sky? Fallout4? World of Tanks? Elite dangerous? Overwatch? The Witcher 3? Dark Souls 3? Battlefield 1? Xcom2? Tomb Raider? Forza3? literally anything for my HTC Vive?
I get the picture, you're right that people love the dramatica back-story but I just can't imagine the same level of emotional attachment to robots.
Can you imagine what would happen to the popularity of American Football if they replaced the players with robots? Same thing would happen with motor racing.
As an F1 fan myself with a lot of frinds that also are, I can tell you that if there weren't drivers in the cars no one I know would even bother watching.
>> Have you ever been to a real race?
Yes. I've attended many pro races. I've also driven in more than a few club events over the last 30+ years usually saloon cars/GT racing.
What is this thing on Slashdot where people automatically reply with an level of arrogance/rudeness that indicates the OP must necessarily be fucking clueless?
I obviously mean over a year, not once every year.
>> And what's the crap with having to re-install one per year?
This!!! I totally have this problem too. Also whats with windows just growing on its own? I have a 256 GB windows partition, every year or so Windows alone grows from maybe 30 GB to consuming a whopping 170GB, consuming about 2/3rds of my whole partition.
Already well aware that Steam has some Linux games on it. None of the games I play are available under Linux yet.
Currently that would be World of Tanks, Fallout 4, Elite Dangerous, No Man's sky, then about 50 other games for my HTC Vive.
I use Linux on the desktop for everything other than gaming. I dual-boot to Windows for that, and only because games developers still don't do Linux versions. The moment that changes it will be goodbye windows partition.
>> Once you are finished with high school, go back for remedial reading.
Perhaps I'll talk to you again if you ever learn to communicate like an adult.