PC Perspective Podcast #385 – 02/04/2016
Join us this week as we discuss Rise of the Tomb Raider performance, a triple RAID-0 NVMe array and more!
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Hosts: Ryan Shrout, Jeremy Hellstrom, Josh Walrath, and Allyn Malventano
Program length: 1:16:38
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- Week in Review:
- 0:44:25 Winner: EVGA Winter 2016 Prize Pack and Giveaway
- News items of interest:
- 0:46:35 Gigabyte adds full GIMPS and Prime95 compatibility to Skylake processors
- 0:48:40 So That's Where Jim Keller Went To… Tesla Motors…
- 0:54:40 AMD FirePro S-Series Introduces Hardware-Based GPU Virtualization
- 0:56:15 Who's a pretty boy? Is it you Fallout?
- 0:58:40 OCZ Launches Trion 150, Successor to Trion 100 SATA SSD, Using 15nm Flash
- Hardware/Software Picks of the Week:
- 1:01:30 Ryan: Peavey USB Audio Interface
- 1:04:00 Jeremy: This, a VR headset, a spaceship and you
- 1:07:32 Josh: Use these every day. Best 2.1 Evar.
- 1:09:40 Allyn: I’m gonna let you finish, but this is the best PC puzzle game of all time. (The Witness)
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Josh’s cat chillin’ on the
Josh’s cat chillin’ on the back of his chair – highlight of podcast!
You guys should check out
You guys should check out these romours regarding the preformance in Fallout 4. According to a russian recognized benchmark site AMDs performance has increased dramatically placing the fury x card 10 fps higher than the 980ti. It seems like there is some shady business with gameworks in this title.
I dont have the resources to investigate this. Here is where i picked up the information.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7fA_JC_R5s
http://gamegpu.ru/rpg/rollevye/fallout-4-beta-patch-1-3-test-gpu.html
Nvidia had optimized drivers
Nvidia had optimized drivers from the start, where AMD did not. They should re-test with the new drivers, but most people will only see the original test.
They will need to test all
They will need to test all GPUs over for both DX12 and Vulkan performance, so there will be much need for retesting this time around, and that includes Polaris and Pascal GPUs when they arrive. So it will be time for PCPer to brew up some CDM New Orleans Blend coffee and bench around the clock! That chicory is some powerful stuff, and they will need it because every card from the last few years will need to be retested. Those folks that install the new drivers will notice the difference also, so there will be many intrested in seeing the new results on the newer graphics APIs, and the older ones to see if the driver updates are making a difference before gaming transitions over fully to the latest graphics APIs!
What brand of 1200 baud modem
What brand of 1200 baud modem is Josh using? Has he considered an upgrade. Love ya Josh, but *damn*
Isn’t he in like Wyoming or
Isn’t he in like Wyoming or something?
I have been through Laramie
I have been through Laramie Wyoming, but I don’t remember if I ever actually stopped there. Is there a KFC/Taco Bell there? It seems like they would have better internet with the university there.
One would think, but alas…
One would think, but alas… it is not the case. We do have a Taco Bell AND a Taco Johns.
What about donuts and
What about donuts and pancakes, there has got to be at least a diner/truckstop with good tall stacks of pancakes!
@Ryan – @9:23 (ish) – if you
@Ryan – @9:23 (ish) – if you guys don’t have one hanging around the office to test, I have a Gigabyte Windforce R9-290 (non-x) 4GB card you could borrow for a while for your “is it VRAM or is it Fiji?” question. It’ll easily match your 390 at 1015 MHz. I don’t know about the VRAM though, I’ve only run it at 1350.
It doesn’t seem like it makes
It doesn’t seem like it makes that much sense for Tesla to be designing their own chips unless it is some glue logic to connect CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, or something together. Just because Nvidia is trying to offer an off the shelf solution doesn’t mean that it is really up to the task. The Nvidia solution will take quite a bit of power. Jim Keller does have quite a bit of history working on low-power devices though, so he could be a good choice if they are going to build a complete system from the ground up.
Keep in mind that Keller has been working as a lead architect (or in some cases positions such as vice president) since 1999 with the AMD K8 and HyperTransport. The chief architect is going to be making high level design decisions. The vice president of engineering positions are going to be possibly high-level design decisions, but also managing a team (or teams) of engineers. So as Vice President of Autopilot Hardware Engineering, it is going to be more than just picking components. There is a lot of software infrastructure, in addition to hardware engineering to be done to design a fully self driving car. Tesla mostly just has enhanced cruise control at the moment. Google has been working on self driving cars for a while, so I suspect Tesla has a lot of work to be done. Some one like Keller as VP would be very useful in assembling such a team.
No Keller is for designing
No Keller is for designing specialized fault tolerant CPU cores for car autopilots, it’s about designing systems with 3 or more identical CPU systems on a module with the redundant CPU systems totally independent of the other CPU systems on the module, and all the independent CPU systems communicating to agree with what ever autopilot decision needs to be made to navigate a multi-thousand pound vehicle.
These specialized autopilot CPU cores will have many levels of hardware error correction along with the memory systems that will also have many levels of error correction, so look for specialized CPU cores designed for accuracy. Expect the SOCs to have loads of specialized DSP/other abilities tuned for video analysis and movement/hazard detection. These systems will be getting feeds with terabytes of information per second from all the other computing systems on the car from cameras/IR detectors to engine and tires and suspension/breaking/other systems with loads of accelerometers and other sensors. There is no room for any mistakes with some navigation through highways loaded with 50,000+ pound rigs, and other vehicular traffic!
Why do these forums continue
Why do these forums continue to have a double post issue?
What a total joke the Lenovo
What a total joke the Lenovo Y700 Carrizo FX8800 based “Gaming” laptop is, Lenovo markets it as a gaming laptop and you can not even use the APU’s GPU at the same time as the discrete GPU(1), WTF Lenovo and Best Buy(The Lenovo Y700 Carrizo SKU is a BB exclusive), and what about only using single channel memory for a Carrizo SKU that supports dual channel memory, just so the laptop OEMs do not have to design two motherboards, one for full Carrizo(dual channel), and the other for Carrizo-L(single channel).
WTF Laptop OEMs first you only put the Carrizo FX8800p SKU in laptops that mostly only run the part at 15 watts, then in a “Gaming Laptop” you do have the FX8800p Running at 35 watts, BUT the APUs graphics does not have the driver support to be used with the Laptop’s discrete GPU, and it’s the one Carrizo based gaming laptop on the market! WT Holy F__K Laptop OEM’s especially Lenovo, with your sales dropping, possesses you to gimp a “Gaming” laptop to only being able to use the graphics power in the discrete GPU, and leave the integrated graphics on the APU inaccessible for gaming, and a cost of half the available ACE units on the “Gaming” Laptop! And that F-ING single channel memory, WTF WTF!
AMD Your Carrizo Refresh Mobile, and desktop refresh SKUs better have MUCH better OEM designs this year, and that single memory channel OEM/15 watt mostly nonsence better stop, along with the other Gimping on the laptop SKUs, or the laptop/PC market will continue its decline! This Anandtech article lays it all out there, and it’s not a very good for both AMD and the OEM’s that AMD is allowing to do such product gimping! OMFG the gimping!
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“Who Controls the User Experience? AMD’s Carrizo Thoroughly Tested”
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10000/who-controls-user-experience-amd-carrizo-thoroughly-tested-x4