Intel Reverts Plans, Will Not Support Ubuntu's XMir

[curaga]

Goddamn politics over code quality. This is a bad decision, and I'm saying this as someone who thinks both Mir and Wayland should go behind the sauna.

I can hear libv thinking "I told you so".

[thegeek6]

AFAIK AMD CPUs tend to excel in highly multithreaded scenarios, while Intel has the crown of performance per core. Linux does a better job with multithreading, reducing Intel's advantage.

Floating point performance with Intel is MUCH better than AMD CPU's.

http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/450/AMD_FX-Series_FX-8350_vs_Intel_Core_i7_i7-3770K.html

[curaga]

Floating point performance with Intel is MUCH better than AMD CPU's.

http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/450..._i7-3770K.html

Your link says nothing about floating point...

[curaga]

FYI, just in case you mean the Sandra results on the benches tab, Sandra is compiled on ICC.

[thegeek6]

FYI, just in case you mean the Sandra results on the benches tab, Sandra is compiled on ICC.

I guess you could be right, looking at it though, it seems core for core, it's still pretty tight at multithreading. But lets not forget Power efficiency. or that the 3770K is 3.5GHz, and the FX-8350 is 4.0GHz.

The 3770K is 77W TDP, while the AMD FX-8350 is 125? that's a LOT of power wasted when pushing them.

The Haswell 4770K Claims 84W TDP, and is at 3.5GHz, however, it's still lower than 125W

Overclock the 3770K to 4GHz, and see what happens to the benchmarks then.

[JS987]

How so? A CPU is a CPU.
AMD CPU's are power hungry & inefficient compared to Intel CPUs.

AMD CPUs aren't bad if you are Windows user or live in country with cheap energy and low temperatures.

[blackout23]

Funny how many here have no fucking clue what this decision means.

This does NOT mean that Intel graphics won't work with Mir.
This does NOT mean that XMir won't work with Intel either.

This only means that Canonical has to maintain the patches on their own. That's it.

[thegeek6]

AMD CPUs aren't bad if you are Windows user or live in country with cheap energy and low temperatures.

Very true sir. And they're cheaper too! They're good gaming CPU's too.

But in the end you get what you pay for. I don't feel AMD is innovating much though lately.

[johnc]

Funny how many here have no fucking clue what this decision means.

This does NOT mean that Intel graphics won't work with Mir.
This does NOT mean that XMir won't work with Intel either.

This only means that Canonical has to maintain the patches on their own. That's it.

That's the practical aspect of it.

The political aspect is that Intel has essentially said Canonical should piss off.

[Belial]

To be expected since Intel's main enemy is ARM and Mir will promote mobile devices.

Oh Well Intel is going the way of the Dodo Bird. Clubbed to Death by an ARM.

All the more for AMD, and Nvidia to thrive off.

You do realize Lenovo is on the brink of no longer making surface rt tablets because the new Intel CPUs are just as efficient and much faster?

I know we're talking a different platform, but this is still an indication of the complete opposite of what's going to happen compared to your statement.

Unless, of course, you were just being sarcastic.

source: http://www.neowin.net/news/lenovo-im...for-windows-rt