Nick C @nickchapman@octodon.social
photographer, coder, husband, and dad.
I know this is just a reddit post, but it has links to lots of seemingly legit stuff saying this was put out by a company trying to manipulate AMD's stock price. Maybe try to get the stock to drop, buy big on the dip...and hope to make killer quick short while the stock recovers? Glad NVIDIA and Intel don't seem to be involved!
crazy about these #amd security flaws in #ryzen and #epyc ! the 24-hour notice they were given is super weird and I'm really hoping this isn't funded by #intel or something. before #meltdown and #spectre were made public, both companies were given like 200 days or something...24-hours is unprecedented, so there really has to be something to it. if they are legit, good to get it out in the public so AMD has to acknowledge / fix / whatever, but that timing!
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-flaws-ryzenfall-masterkey-fallout-chimera,36656.html
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#freesync coming to #xbox - that's pretty cool! i think the #xboxone gets freesync 1 while the s and x variants will get freesync 2. it'd help if some TVs start supporting it. it'll be nice if developers can say, if freesync detected, run at actual framerate (high 30s or low 40s, for example), otherwise run at locked 30.
@20excalibur07 i pondered this in the past and I thought it had something to do with being "a square" which I believe used to mean boring/old/normal...so assumed it was slightly akin to "all the cool kids are coming" or something...interesting take!
@maiki I was half-way through a re-read and honestly, it wasn't too far off at that point. Some obvious abbreviation of character development and a few changes here and there, but overall I approve...and I had tons of thoughts about #thegiver and #endersgame
don't be scared off by the negative critic and audience reviews/ratings...my wife and I both enjoyed it.
I just saw #awrinkleintime and it wasn't nearly as bad as I had thought it'd be (based on reviews/ratings). I read the books as a young adult and enjoyed them. Additionally, I typically furrow my brow at movie adaptations from books I've read...the movie still wasn't a substitute for the book, but was far from a disservice!
Now I feel like I need to read the overwhelmingly negative reviews and see what they disliked that I didn't mind.
#asrock vaguely replied that it should work if the CPU supports it. i'd still love to hear from someone using it.
@catdad i was rattling the other day and found a rock inside a compartment in my heel I had no idea existed. at least you tried!
i haven't seen anything much about #ryzen 2200G or 2400G and #freesync. i believe the vega supports it, but depends on the motherboard's implementation of the on-board video out. seems like it would be a good fit for the 30-60 FPS @ 1080p low/med framerates...especially for people buying but intending to upgrade to a dedicated in the future.
hardware unboxed had a really thorough review if you have 25 minutes and want to really know how the 2200G and 2400G perform.
Looks like the leak I was basing my numbers on was wrong (or severely overclocked?) -- still good numbers, but firestrike was closer to 1030, a little lower than my 7790. Should have lots of legit numbers tomorrow to back up those SonOfATech found yesterday.
i'm extrapolating some data for the #Vega 11 in the #ryzen 5 #2400G and there is no way it can be right. i'm showing the numbers below based on the leaked firestrike score and some reference comparisons based on a computerbase.de 1030 vs 550 comparison:
AMD HD 7790 > 109.34%
Ryzen 5 2400G > 139.01%
AMD RX 560 > 146.15%
GT 1030 > 89.01%
AMD RX 550 > 100.00%
while this isn't too far from the firestrike numbers, I imagined actual game performance of the 1030 to be higher.
real tests ftw!
ugh *can perform like 4c/4t cpu and RX550..
first leak i've seen of #Ryzen 5 #2400G performance looks like a firestrike graphics score of 5900. for reference, my radeon #hd7790 1GB gets 4500 at stock and 5100 overclocked. it is slower than a #rx460 / #rx560 but usually faster than a #rx550. historically, APUs did better in firestrike than actual games (due to power constraints) but that isn't supposed to be the case this gen because of efficiency improvements. here's hope! if the #2200G can perform like 4c/4t cpu and RX500.. big win!
rip #amd #vega implicit primitive dicard? sounds like the hardware was built to support, but implementation was too complex or not worth the potential gains? this was definitely an exciting feature of vega I hoped would get more love as drivers matured. looks like explicit discard is possible, but would take developer attention and given Vega's current market share, *mutters, trailing off*
https://radeon.com/_downloads/vega-whitepaper-11.6.17.pdf (p6)
https://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=11610696#post11610696
#hopefullyjustarumor
@RafiLinux I'm really happy with my #ryzen 1600! I was way overdue for a new build and am still using my aging AMD HD 7790 GPU, but it games reasonably in the light titles I throw at it.
considering how underutilized my processor is (and how rarely I encode or anything), I'd probably have gone with the upcoming Ryzen 2400G which will be cheaper than my 1600 and may game almost as well as my 7790.
to be fair, a i5 8400 on a lower-end motherboard from intel will be a really good option, too!
@amd not official, i'm guessing?
@amd thanks for fixing the dx9 issues with the newest #radeon drivers. i can put some more time into #thewitcher now.
amd #ryzen 2600 zen refresh on 12nm looking to have a 200MHz clock bump (to 3.4 GHz base, 3.8 GHz boost) based on an entry on the SiSoft database. if the entry is valid, it is unsure whether the chip is a final version or an early engineering sample, so clock rate could go up a little...although 200 MHz is about the low end of what I was expecting, but within reason...especially for a 65w variant.
