Radeon VII: a parting love letter to the era of true GPU compute?

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Oh man. This thread sure when downhill, fast.


Maybe don't dish out, if you can't take it.

I lolled at both your post...

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Uh, no, not really. I like 2D shooters, and there are plenty of good ones on old systems (specifically 16-bit & 32-bit). But, as soon as you get into...

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Well, single-thread performance counts, but it's certainly not as if games don't use multiple cores. Even moreso, as we're transitioning from a baseline...

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With the new I/O die, there's basically no downside (except cost) to going with Threadripper. Before, you'd take a hit of potentially being an extra hop...

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With Arcturus rumored to lack any graphics hardware-assist, it's looking like it will probably mark a turning point of reserving big fp64 horsepower only...

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My hope is that they'll eventually release a 3750X, with a higher-binned die. I don't need more than 8 cores, but I'd like the boost speed to reach the...

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My guess: the Chinese are scrambling to get their own chips fabbed, so that Trump can no longer threaten them with blocks on US chips & associated...

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Then why don't you setup a gofundme page? I'll chip in $0.05....

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The "one-time power-efficiency dividend" I mentioned is a result of lowering the interface speed. As for the DRAM, itself, it requires dynamic...

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I'm not trying to take a position on the issue, though I respect yours.

One can argue that governments should fund innovation at universities,...

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I don't accept those examples, since the only open source one is FreeBSD and that's too niche.

The problem with using Windows as an example...

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Yup. Features are added within an API level, and API levels are tied to Android OS releases, each which have certain kernel requirements (as mentioned...

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Perhaps, if you're only concerned about the issue of driver support for a given kernel. However, having more stability, around these interfaces, would...

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Depending on what you're doing, tile-based processing can be a lot more efficient.

This, and the heavy use of interleaved formats, are my...

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I don't agree with that. CPU caches exist because they provide benefits (which means they must have a decent hit-rate). If CPUs had no caches, then...

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What I'm saying is a false dichotomy is the idea that a stable ABI means never changing it. IMO, a sane middle-ground would be some ABI version numbering...

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I know why it's there. The point was that reading tsc and executing mfence presumably have some overhead.


Yeah, so he should also...

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IMO, it's a false dichotomy to debate whether or not to have a stable driver API. Obviously, there will need to be some incompatible API changes, over...

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Huh? How does Zen show that?...

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I have doubts about support for mmap(), among distributed filesystems. That's one reason I asked....