Recent content by bwang

exactly my point. the benchmark results are being skewed by ISA extensions which are extremely benchmark friendly (the GeekBench crypto benchmark is notorious for this) and E-cores which only help if your workload scales to 12+ threads. if it doesn't (and a lot of workloads don't), I would...

there's definitely something going on, there's no way a 13600K is _four times_ faster than a six core Sandy Bridge and even less chance that a quad core 15W i7 can match a 4.6GHz six core Sandy Bridge - Sunny Cove has something like 1.5x the IPC of Sandy Bridge but the 3930K has two more cores...

I think a lot of horror stories are because the techs at the RMA shop bend the pins and then reject the warranty because of bent pins. Asus was/is particularly notorious for this, they are absolutely ruthless when it comes to enforcing physical damage rules against returns and receive a lot of...

I'd rather spring for a 7800X3D. The 7900X3D fills a legitimate niche of wanting OK multicore performance, OK gaming performance, and a good price, but the problem is games are lassoed to the CCD with extra cache so for gaming, it runs like a six-core CPU. That would be fine, except...the...

A much needed rebranding. The precious metals based scheme was utter chaos, with at one point something like 100 finely segmented SKUs. Conroe to Haswell at least had feature parity across the entire stack (except for the two socket-filler SKUs each generation with no turbo or HT), but once...

yes, by lowering the boost clock or increasing Vcore (which will reduce the boost duration), both of which have a negative impact on performance.

Tricky question. 5120x1440 is the same pixel count as 4K which means nothing other than a 4090 will be futureproof at maxed out settings. The 7900 XTX is a good contender, BUT DLSS is way better than FSR - DLSS uses game-specific learned sharpening filters based on a neural network whereas FSR...

While AMD does have a fair share of issues, the latest stability issues on the Intel side are not confidence inspiring, and furthermore, are obviously traceable to what is essentially a bad factory overclock, something which can't be patched in software. On the AMD side, I wouldn't get anything...

You're saying you want to upgrade and you want Intel, so I think you answered your own question - besides the 14700K and 14900K there aren't any other sensible choices for gaming on Intel right now. That being said, Ryzen 7000X3D is the gaming champ right now and is probably a bit more stable...

they were worth $3K a piece in china right before the sanctions kicked in so there was a ton of scalping. it looks like pricing has settled back down now

yes, but at what cost? at 3 tokens per second you might as well use a CPU. also, cifar-10 in resnet50 is not representative of AI workloads in 2024. the weights and activations are so small that it becomes difficult to achieve high arithmetic intensity, which is why you only see a 2x speedup...

1660S/2060 have way too little VRAM to do anything meaningful. @OP the price of entry is $250, save up for a 3060 12GB or better yet, a 4060 TI 16 GB.

yeah 4090's are an incredibly good deal, you're looking at $500 for a yielded, tested, and packaged chip plus margins, then $100 of VRAM, plus PMICs, cooler, board, testing, packaging and distribution on the AIB side...AIB margins are not so good at $1500.

Are you sure you don't want a...laptop? They run of off DC, are generally designed to have super low idle power, are built out of wide GPUs clocked low and binned for good low power performance, etc. If you were building a new rig you could get a 4080 based laptop for under $2K which would slide...

I think its a design choice, not incompetence. AD102 has 30% more transistors than Navi 31, and performs about 30% faster. AMD's wafer starts are even more strained than Nvidia's - they have to fab Epyc, Ryzen, Navi, and Instinct, parts with wildly different markets and margins, all at the same...