redtuesday

> I (and many others) would take a 33% increase in core count over a 10-15% advantage in single core workloads. Even the gaming comparison is most of the time overemphasized. Does it really matter if you are getting 88FPS or 80FPS if your monitor refresh rate is capped at 60FPS?

Luckily it seems AMD can probably deliver both with Zen 2. For Epyc the roadmap suggest a 50% increase in core count [0] over Zen 1, and since Ryzen and Threadripper uses the same die as Epyc this will most likely trickle down to Ryzen 3xxx and Threadripper 3xxx.

Depends on your game and monitor I guess. Quite a few people seem to buy ugly 144hz gaming monitors and some games like Warhammer and Far Cry 5 can have ~20 fps difference at the same clocks at 1080p.

> I feel that most of these attacks at AMD and their CPU-s tend to bend the truth a lot, and that isn't surprising, given the shady tactics that Intel has employed previously.

Most of the time the limiting factor is not the CPU but the GPU anyway. The good thing about AMD closing the gap or potentially even overtaking Intel in single threaded performance is that the fanboys, fangirls and corporate shills have one argument less for spreading FUD and suggesting Intel over AMD.

[0] there are even (unlikely) rumors floating around about a 64 core Epyc, but I don't see that happening before 7nm+ on EUV.

I don't really follow the ML space, but when you have a good GPU in your PC (which I assume quite a few people here have) you can learn/use Tensorflow by running things locally instead of paying for Google Cloud etc. Why pay extra money if you already have a good GPU in your computer (unless you really need to decrease the time it takes to run the computation etc.)

AMDs Zen architecture uses 32KB for data and 64KB for instructions (was curious if there are differences between AMD and Intel designs regarding L1 cache).

Since I read about this a few years ago I really want to try it, but I don't want to buy an extra GPU for it. I hope AMD [0] brings their SR-IOV implementation called MxGPU down to their mainstream GPUs, which allows to split a single GPU between host and guests. Apparently this would also be more secure than passthrough?

In order to not affect their pro GPU sales they could maybe limit the number of virtual GPUs from 16 to 2, which would be enough for the host and a single guest.

[0] or Nvidia, I don't care, but since Nvidia is the market leader they have less incentive than AMD.

How would you prevent people who don't even have that from buying these bikes?

> [...] even kids are sent to play covered in full sleeve clothing.

Which is good because if I remember correctly the human skin has quit a bit natural sun protection, but is only fully developed in the twenties.

If I got that mixed up with something else please correct me if I'm wrong.