What resolution is that display?
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Yet, unlike the Zumwalts, they are considered a good boat.
Per AMD
>Notably, AMD's closed-source Vulkan driver currently uses a different pipeline compiler, which is the major difference between AMD's open-source and closed-source Vulkan drivers.
And if their children are underperforming in schools it would be important to know.
Otherwise I don't think there is a single horse-owner who would go through that. We have all seen what cats do with their living food.
And I really doubt the applicability of the luxury approach to software. People will vastly overpay to have a 5% faster automobile because it's a personally-owned status symbol and has racing-pedigree. I don't recommend building a company around a new 5% faster database since it isn't a source of prestige for anyone. For many potential customers it'd barely put a mark in their bottom line. And it might be negative if it compromised in any other aspect to obtain it. Benchmarking isn't a reliable winner-take-all marketing approach like racing-based marketing (and it sure isn't as popular).
As you say that's almost entirely due to demand. But the focus should be on how does Ferrari consistently keep such a large portion of the high end car market? Because that's the key to their success. Many companies can make cars that they can sell out in small volumes at Ferrari prices. But they don't see it scaling, while Ferrari does.
Ford did try before. For example, the 2006 Ford GT. In comparison, the similarly-priced Ferrari F430 of the era was the mass market automobile with about 5x as many made.
So I wonder how much one should draw from these rationalizations of prestige marketing. At the end of the day Ferrari still uses its larger super-car production capacity to keep even Ford only an occasional entrant into the low-end of market.
It seems more like verification theatre.
What's with the obsession with actually verifying identity? Just make a web API available to determine if the current user is configured as a child account. Why isn't that enough to gate-keep access to adult content?
Brushing off lock-in is a short term luxury.
Yes, as long as the $2 trillion dollar American corporation beholden to shareholders to maximize profits doesn't try to milk its captive customers you'll be fine. Shouldn't be a problem.
Maybe another regression in Blackwell.
It's ~$12 billion a year with a high gross margin by the standards of every other hardware company. They want to make sure neither AMD nor Intel get that revenue they can invest into funding their own AI/ML efforts.
Efficiency: https://tpucdn.com/review/gigabyte-geforce-rtx-5050-gaming-o...
Vsync power draw: https://tpucdn.com/review/gigabyte-geforce-rtx-5050-gaming-o...
The variance within Nvidia's line-up is much larger than the variance between brands, anyway.
Adapting Zen to a simpler-to-decode architecture would cost more than licensing a core from ARM. The Zen 5 front-end is adapted for working around deficiencies of x86 with dual-decode SMT craziness.
Skymont area efficiency should be compared to Zen 5C on 3nm. It has higher IPC, SMT with dual decoders - one for each thread, and full rate AVX-512 execution.
AMD didn't have major difficulties in scaling down their SMT cores to achieve similar performance per area. But Intel went with different approach. At the cost of having different ISA support on each core in consumer devices and having to produce an SMT version of their P cores for servers anyway.
It doesn't imply any causality or relationship.
It's no Nvidia but Meta has ordered AMD GPUs.