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Introduction of new features without properly fixing existing issues is questionable:

• There are a number of HiDPI issues
• FreeSync does not work properly

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It is possible to use KDE's Task Scheduler (kcron) to easily setup a personal or a system cron job to run some executable located in e.g. $HOME/bin/cron...

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Just a note (this isn't meant to be an insult of any kind): It is probable that his life expectancy is about another 30 years unless he loses some we...

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The meaning is obvious.



2500K was released in year 2011. It doesn't support AVX2. I don't have non-AVX2 CPU at the moment,...

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$ mplayer -vo yuv4mpeg:file=/dev/null "4K HEVC 59.940 Broadcast Capture Sample.mkv"
$ mplayer -vo yuv4mpeg:file=/dev/null "Big Buck

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An 8-core 35 Watt notebook CPU consumes about 35/8=4 Watts per core under load. If a single core is able to decode a video (without going to boost frequencies...

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I think maybe once I saw a similar table like the one below but containing AVX, unfortunately I am unable to find it in a short time.

(Source:...

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I do not mean always.



I am measuring a saving of about 4 Watts at the outlet ("mplayer -vo vdpau" vs "mplayer...

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Some notes:

• Nowadays 3 CPU cores with AVX2 are able to decode any video type up to 4K 10-bit HDR 60Hz, the CPU might only have issues handling 8K v

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I doubt you are right. By what method exactly did you determine that Intel is cheating? The outlier results might actually be the two where 2*Xeon 8280...

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A definition of wallclock time: $ man clock_gettime

It seems the best way of explaining what the problems are is to follow these steps:

1. Delete

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It isn't the best way. Some issues:

• GALLIUM_HUD=frametime GALLIUM_HUD_DUMP_DIR=$PWD:
  • The file "frametime_(ms)" is a list of values without

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RX 570. The Witcher 3 failed to display anything with mesa-git irrespective of whether RADV_PERFTEST=aco was set. I reinstalled mesa-19.2.0....

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The Witcher 3 fails to start with mesa-git.

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It would be nice to compare frame rate stability between Mesa-default and Mesa-ACO, with an empty shader cache in both cases.

In case of...

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USB is for shorter ranges compared to Ethernet.



These issues will most likely be resolved over time and wireless audio transmission...

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It is possible that in 10 years USB and network connectors will be the only connectors on an x86 desktop computer, displacing all other kinds of connectors...

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Unfortunately, it is very true. I have core dumps enabled for all applications and I am seeing several new core files per week belonging to XFCE desktop...

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Dynamic power consumed by CPU = frequency*capacitance*square(voltage), with the constraint/relationship that an increase in frequency requires an increase...

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Yes, but the programmer would need to enable LTO compilation in order to maintain runtime performance if using an optimization level that enables inlining,...