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Is there info (not rumors) about what are the extra 500 pins on LGA-1700 socket intended to be used for?

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Just a note: It is possible that some future x86 CPUs with heterogeneous cores might feature 128-bit-wide implementations of AVX-256 and AVX-512 due to...

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I believe the AVX-512 part of the following sentence should be deleted from the article because it is misleading: "VPCLMULQDQ - Another instruction...

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I can confirm that Heaven runs nicely with mesa-git, although there is no tessellation yet and switching to fullscreen leaves parts of the screen black....

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Just some notes:

• Some GPUs have fans with bearings that are audible even at the lowest (non-zero) RPM
• The default ZeroRPM temperature is too low.

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Same here, implemented in Go instead of Python (without time-averaged temperature, with an update interval of 2 seconds and with fan spin-down prevention...

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That is my experience as well (Navi). But that might be because the Windows driver is more complex and has more features: image sharpening, power and...

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Maximum CPU frequency (boost frequency) depends on two factors:

• The length of the critical path of a pipeline stage. In a simplified view: max frequency

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10nm i7-1185G7 has a maximum clock of 4.8 GHz when running a single thread. It is therefore unlikely for 14nm Rocket Lake to be able to reach 4.8 GHz...

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AMD isn't the only competitor Intel has. For example, there is a real possibility of the notebook market and/or server market being ruled by ARM CPUs...

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I agree that AMD processors made very good progress, but if we want to be realistic then it is worth mentioning that there is a non-negligible probability...

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Potential µop-cache redesign details: https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/...rpostid=195691...

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I agree that it is possible that the biggest boost might come from the now unified L3 cache, although I would be disappointed if it is true because it...

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Zen+ architecture was almost the same as 1st-gen Zen (the "widths of the cores" are the same). The main advantage of Zen 2 compared to Zen/Zen+...

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IPC uplift: In the video (9m29s) it is mentioned that Zen 3 has increased number of integer units, floating-point units, and loads&stores compared...

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I see on the photo that you are using Noctua fans. Is there any discernible difference in noise between Noctua self-stabilizing oil-pressure bearings...

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Not necessarily. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect...

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Maybe you can use LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose to see the libraries loaded by Mesa:

$ cat steam-zink.sh

#!/bin/bash
set -e

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A non-default driver can be forced by setting environment variables before the game is started (i.e: the game itself isn't choosing the driver).
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In my opinion, it is wrong/invalid to believe that the future is completely unpredictable.

Planetary motions are predictable with a high...