Recent content by persondb

CPU-Z benchmark has always been bad. It is essentially a look at a best case scenario though. It runs entirely from L1I amd has a bunch of things that are synthetic and easy for modern CPUs.

I think the lack of a PD out for the portable device, is kinda disapointing. It would have been preferable to do a barrel jack connector or something if you can provide a 65W USB PD output. With the multitude of ports that it has, you have to remember that it is a dock and not just a eGPU. For...

Crucial/Micron is already selling the LPDDR5 version of it. It wouldn't be a stretch if they soon offer DDR5 versions as well, it can be a bit of a chicken and egg problem because they need someone to start putting those in MB so there is clients who can buy those. What is likely happening is...

That doesn't mean much about the SoC in general. Consoles have different needs from other devices like smartphones and PCs, so what works best for them does not necessarily means that it's also good for the others. The Tegra X1 was used in a couple other devices(Pixel C) but it end up not...

I hope that when there is a Steam Deck 2 in 2026 or so, it comes with 32GB of RAM as 16GB is getting tight for many games and 24GB will probably be too tight by then.

This is just the cost of doing business for them. They certainly profited far more than 1 million through those pratices.

Well, can you source that? A lot of details are hard and requires adjustements. I would suggest to take a look at the SMT section of this article: Loongson 3A6000: A Star among Chinese CPUs – Chips and Cheese It might not seem much, but it can affect the schedulers and everything which...

The first SMT/HT for Intel was the Pentium, which made a lot of sense considering that it had a high clockspeed but a lot of issues in terms of pipeline and feeding the core. And well, it's not just the synchronization which is an issue but the core itself, the what is happening with the core...

The issue with what you are saying is that it's all entirely relative and we cannot know anything. The thing is that it does not matter if Zen 3 benefits from SMT in some workloads, because a core designed without SMT will have wildly different architectural decisions. Modern Zen cores(as well...

What additional fake core? Also SMT/HT has it's own issues, There are a lot of ways to implement it and they are not equal in terms of performance and transistor budget. Take a look at this article which comments on how the structures can be replicated for SMT...

It's the same connector but in a different configuration, I believe. See the Channel 1 and Channel 0 from the diagrams? What would happen is the Channel 1 would be raised(i.e. have a different height), so you can connect two smaller CAMM modules. As for the difference of LPCAMM and CAMM from...

Well yeah, that would be the point. Have multiple connectors. There is actually a stacked mode.

I would hope that with those, it would finally make it viable to have 256-bit busses for the memory. That and the AI hype train(you need a lot of memory bandwidth for AI).

Except it fails very much so on AMD naming scheme. Like the mendoncino SKU 7520U. Bigger is better, right? So it would be better than a 5600U or 5400U? Not really. Is a 5700U (Zen 2) better than a 5600H(or U)? Not really.

It's about expected, they started the transition just a couple years ago. They are probably going to start fabbing other people chips soon-ish(if it goes well) as there is a whole pipeline of chip development designed for specific nodes.