Recent content by efikkan

Sure, if it's for comparing quality of lossy compression. If it's for comparing size of lossless files, you can just tell us the results. Paint supports saving HEIC, but not AVIF or JPEG XL. But considering how long it took MS to add PNG support in the first place, I wouldn't expect them to...

We don't need a sidegrade, that would only make decoding slightly faster, not improve compression ratio. Zstd is a generic compression algorithm intended for filesystem compressions, we rather need algorithms tailored for graphics. Hardware decoding is probably coming sometime, as it's based on...

Why should we continue to expand on dead-end formats? PNG uses the generic and obsolete Deflate algorithm. It's time to move on to AVIF (or if there are better alternatives?).

19 pages in, and nobody has yet addressed the elephant in the room; He switched from an 11th gen Intel, a generation known for having very consistent performance and excellent latency in games and applications, to a Zen 3 which is a couple of tiers worse in this regard. You might not like to...

I have been wondering how long they will keep shoveling good money into that pit (mostly the consoles themselves, not the games). Yeah, it's strange how everyone stopped saying that after mass-layoffs in the tech industry started in 2021, not just gaming. And those who are laid off struggle to...

I'm glad to see more options for 10G switches, but I want to stress that most of you probably don't need a 10G switch yet to get started; just run a direct cable between the machines which needs it, buy some used X550s off ebay and have fun. It's when you need more than three machines with 10G...

If you're going to participate in a forum, you should be respectful, kind, and only speak if you have something useful to contribute. Hurling insults, gaslighting and deflecting is typically associated with narcissistic behavior. Recent Linux kernels already support AVX-512 for encryption...

So encryption, file compression and video encoding is unheard of for consumers? Two of those are even used by your web browser, and the OS itself also uses encryption. AVX-512 has already been proven useful for Zen 5, and in the Linux world support is growing, even some standard library...

Unless Intel achieves a massive gain in energy efficiency, we'll be looking at severe throttling by having 16 P-cores (and more) battling over a 150W power budget. Probably great for a few select benchmarks, but all over the place in real life. It does. What we should focus on is what Nova...

I wonder how many of those 1954 socket pins are "wasted" on too much USB. Just imagine if they provided more PCIe lanes instead, allowing the user to decide for themselves.

I was more thinking along the lines of a 24-core Threadripper 9960X, launching next month. And the energy efficiency and scaling of these systems are very good these days, so I'll doubt it will affect your power bill. But I'm not going to push you. ;) (Threadripper 9000 and 7000 series shares...

Stronger than ever demand? Really? When the server market has moved on? I think it's more like stronger than expected. I'm glad I just secured another 64 GB for my Zen 3 system, it took 4 days even though it wasn't even in stock. :) This market is tiny. And in the past year most SKUs have been...

Well, these are just different SKUs from almost 5 year old CPUs, so AMD is getting some cheap publicity and selling out their old stocks. I really hope people aren't considering upgrading an existing system or buying a new system with a Zen 3 CPU unless they have a very good reason, they will...

This is a common misunderstanding. Programs aren't either "single threaded" or scales almost "infinitely" with more cores; when we talk about "single threaded performance" you should think of it as peak performance per core. Pretty much all programs today uses multiple threads, but the load...

Probably pretty low. The only really interesting thing about it would be if it enables AVX-512. That's because this isn't a client roadmap, this is a network/"edge" (small server) roadmap. Bartlett Lake-S was released last year (read the product brief and you'll see it's not a consumer...