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[BillBroadley]

I don't have particularly deep knowledge specific to GPUs, drivers, and related. I do have a fair bit of experience with PCIe connect high performance...

[BillBroadley]

I admit I've not been tracking the PCIe5 support, but like DDR5 it's a chicken and egg problem. Intel needs to ship something to prod the ecosystem to...

[BillBroadley]

Agreed on microbenchmarks, and it's specific latencies, bandwidth, and parallelism that I'm trying to tease out. Anandtech does a pretty good job for...

[BillBroadley]

Yes, that's the nature of the beast. In particular Intel was behind Zen3, wanted a flagship desktop for good marketing, getting marketshare back, and...

[BillBroadley]

I agree that the easiest win for extra bandwidth is a GPU, which will scale well with bandwidth, and also makes use of multiple channels well. Some things...

[BillBroadley]

Yes, modern chips have hardware prefetechers, which help with sequential access (pretty much always) or strided access (depending on the prefetcher),...

[BillBroadley]

Well my point is that X86's are power/heat/cooling limited thus lower performance than you'd expect when using all cores, which generally is going to...

[BillBroadley]

I think the PCIe v5 on Intel was partially to upstage AMD for bragging rights, but does help with functionality like faster M.2 slots, easier handling...

[BillBroadley]

*warning long rant*

Well PCs have a pretty awkward design and are constrained in a bunch of small ways for legacy reasons. Some example...

[BillBroadley]

That doesn't seem fair. It doesn't have a locked bootloader, uses a standard instruction set (AARCH64), has a linux port, and doesn't require any hacking/exploit...

[BillBroadley]

The Milan (Zen3 epycs) look pretty awesome and it's awesome to see the software stack improving. I figured they would be more available than the Ryzen...

[BillBroadley]

Not really, even a semi-nice desktop these days might well have 2 SSDs. For an enthusiast having something like two 1TB WD SN850s wouldn't be unusual...

[BillBroadley]

Multiple OSs and chipsets have created security issues because of SMT (Intel's flavor is called hyperthreading), because one thread can watch the various...

[BillBroadley]

I was wondering the same thing. Can you update the bios via the management board, even if the current CPU isn't recognized? Or do you need a zen1/zen2...

[BillBroadley]

I did some research, the sn850 has a pretty large SLC cache (280GB or so), the samsung 980 pro has a small SLC cache (about half of the sn850), and both...