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[chuckula]

Thanks for running those tests like I suggested. It's not much of a surprise considering how much of Haswell's design made it into Zen minus some AVX...

[chuckula]

Hi Michael, thanks for the review.

It looks like most of the changes come from the major version bump from CLANG 4 --> CLANG 5 with some...

[chuckula]

Good to see multiple contributors working to get HDR implemented. Hopefully at least some of this work provides an infrastructure that is useful for Wayland...

[chuckula]

Pretty much all compilers do the same basic task although the implementations vary....

[chuckula]

RyZen is at least operating pretty well for basic functionality in Linux but it's a little disappointing that they can't even get simple temperature monitoring...

[chuckula]

Interesting to see that Vulkan's biggest positive impact is for lower core count and lower performance CPUs that had more issues with OpenGL.
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[chuckula]

People recognize it precisely because it has the support in the first place and that was 90% of the work that went into the Raspberry Pi project, not...

[chuckula]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for reviewing these boards. In addition to benchmarks, any information about limitations in the Linux distros that work...

[chuckula]

The usual suspect of Cinebench being shown off yet again, which is basically the best-case scenario for Threadripper considering it doesn't stress any...

[chuckula]

Scared of what exactly? A board that was obsolete the day that AMD demoed it in 2014 and that is still almost impossible to buy in 2017?

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[chuckula]

Actually it's quite clear: AMD has abandoned ARM. It could be fun to see what the board does in a review article but these things are basically white...

[chuckula]

I think this email has some more detailed information: https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha.../msg00452.html

[chuckula]

At this point even the Windows drivers are in such bad shape that there are rumors that major features (like tiled rendering) aren't even turned on....

[chuckula]

Hey Mike, thanks for all the work you've been doing with this new platform and all your work around the RyZen launch too.
Just did a $35 tip since...

[chuckula]

Thanks for the additional numbers. Clearly the compiler is quite important for tuning high-performance workloads just right. That SciKit benchmark is...

[chuckula]

So? An error margin of 1.5% that you cannot in any way show is biased in favor or against any CPU in there (because it's connected to the exact same PSU...

[chuckula]

It's a gold rated 750W power supply that seems to be relatively average in what you would expect for systems in this range. If Larabel had used some exotic...

[chuckula]

Excellent article Michael and it's refreshing to see that you are one of only a small number of reviewers on the Internet who understands that efficiency...

[chuckula]

Good to see very strong Linux support right out of the gate for these chips. If you get the time you could try those Open Porous Media benches that you...