Recent content by jihadjoe

Holy hell Pascal cards just got old real quick. Lots of async compute at work? Even the 2060 is nipping at the heels of the 1080ti. IIRC Guru3D has the 2060S in their charts and it beats the 1080ti.

TSMC 7nm production capacity cant handle all its orders - GizChina TSMC 7nm chip supply remains tight - Digitimes TSMC Announces Major Expansion to Feed 7nm, 5nm Demand - ExtremeTech CPU Shortages Might Be Set to Take a Toll on PC Industry Once Again - TheStreet There you go. TSMC is actually...

Ashes of the Benchmark showed us early on that Pascal wasn't very good at ASYNC compute. Thing is no one else was using it back then so it sort of masked Pascal's weakness in this aspect. Now that we have more games built natively for DX12 and Vulkan that gap is only going to get bigger. Sucks...

TSMC 7nm is also running at 100% capacity. AMD is selling every Navi and Zen2 chip they can make, so there's no choice but to keep producing 14nm chips so they can make additional money. Same thing with Intel still manufacturing 22nm chips because their 14nm+++ node is completely occupied.

Ryzen DRAM Calculator is such an awesome tool! I'm on Intel but using the calculator to determine my OC. Figured that since Intel's IMC is better, any timings that work on Ryzen will work equally well with Coffee Lake. And the SK Hynix CJR G-Skill 3600 CL19s are great! Got them because they...

I use Linpack for stability testing, but IMO the appeal behind Cinebench was that it was kinda representative of a real-world rendering load, especially with R20 finally updating the codebase to be more consistent with current versions of C4D, which does have a solid presence in the 3D rendering...

Voted yes. More interestingly IMO this move makes the Freesync monitors more attractive compared to G-Sync, because they are now usable across both Radeon and GeForce GPUs.

I found the performance per dollar charts really amusing lol. AMD has just managed to build the second worst value consumer card ever, beaten only by the 2080Ti!

Yeah, between the long-term ability to drink beer vs early access to raytracing I think I'd go for beer.

So I got to watch that PBS Nova documentary (with Niel Degrasse Tyson!) mentioned at the top of this page. It seems experts pretty much agree with the "direct collapse" scenario for the creation of supermassives at the centres of galaxies. Huge gas clouds collapse straight into a black hole...

I've never thought about naming my motherboard 'Meg'.

Intel's model is actually the reverse. Consumer chips come out first, and HEDT and Server sometime later. Like now their mainstream consumer line is already getting Coffee Lake, while the Skylake is just making its way onto HEDT and Server platforms.

That doesn't mean you can't bin them again. Intel/AMD will do coarse binning and find chips that do 4.7GHz/4.1GHz to sell as 8700k/1800x, but companies like caseking and siliconlottery will sift through those again to find the ones that do 5.0/4.2.

Also yields could have improved between now and at Pascal's launch. 16nm was very new back then.

Caseking sells tray versions of the 8700k which come with no retail packaging at all. I expect they're binning from those. The ones that OC well get the premium+delid treatment, the rest go back in the pile.