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None of what you said actually explains how HBM could require 3x the wafers. The base interface die has eight or 12 memory dies stacked on top of it. The wafer cost of that interfa…

> (each HBM3 die is >1000mm² of silicon) Did you mean that each HBM3 stack is that large? Because it only takes one glance to see that the memory chips are much smaller than reticl…

> who knows? You could try reading the footnotes, which include a link to https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/solutions/a...

In a hypothetical world where AMD wasn't allowed to do AMD64, and Intel stayed committed to Itanium: Itanium would still have sucked, and both PowerPC and SPARC would have out-sold…

I've seen enough complaints about features like automatic emergency braking to be quite scared—not of the tech features, but of the drivers who are so overconfident that they are u…

Reads don't wear out flash memory to any meaningful extent.

OEM versions of Windows are just copies with license terms dictating that they are to be installed on and tied to a specific new PC, as opposed to a full retail license that is not…

AMD's Strix Halo has a 256-bit memory bus. Apple's Max class chips have a 512-bit memory bus, Ultra class chips have a 1024-bit memory bus. Unless you want to go for datacenter har…

LLM inference is a two-phase process. The first phase is prompt processing aka prefill. It's compute-heavy but requires relatively low memory bandwidth. The second phase is token g…

> A very frequent real-world workload is the compilation of a software project, which scales almost perfectly with the number of cores. Geekbench has that as a subtest. > For the o…

> While it would be nice to have a multi-threaded benchmark that demonstrates a realistic scaling towards many threads, I have no reason whatsoever to trust that the Geekbench impl…

I don't think you've put forth a coherent argument here. SPEC CPU is distributed in source form, to be compiled by the end user. There are restrictions on what kind of compiler opt…

Geekbench is not just intended to be used to benchmark consumer systems, it is intended to be used by consumers to benchmark their systems and to have its scores interpreted by con…

Yes, they have a valid reason for the change. But I think it's still making a tradeoff, and has a clearly identifiable downside because the content of the multi-core test suite is …

> But, of all of the 2-pick-only options, choosing a custom mix and calling it multi-core requires guessing your actual workload on both the content of the mixed test suite as well…

Geekbench is not intended for benchmarking large workstations. Look at how the web site actually describes the benchmark. It's for phones and laptops and similar devices. A test mo…

Please stop framing the multi core scaling issue as a matter of the benchmark being good or bad. Geekbench 5 scores scale better than Geekbench 6 scores because Geekbench 5's multi…

The client/consumer desktop market hasn't actually disappeared, and soldered memory is almost unheard-of in that market segment.

The iGPU's video decoder could even be drastically less efficient than the dGPU's decoder, and it would still be better to use the iGPU, because just powering up the PCIe link and …

You might want to not only re-evaluate what you consider a real GPU, but also take a look at what the latest Intel integrated graphics is capable of (Panther Lake laptop chips with…

I was including USB history before USB-C, because HDMI and DisplayPort have been around much longer than USB-C. And limiting the discussion to "fully-featured USB-C cables" is igno…

The critical difference is that USB versions keep adding new wires and active components, while the display cables largely stick to tightening the analog signal integrity requireme…

> I guess I just don't really buy your argument, because if their CPUs had turned out poorly, you could have applied the same argument to their CPUs instead of the GPUs. Doesn't th…

You say "that's exactly why they do it" then go on to describe something entirely different: an organization with plenty of options to spend their development resources on, and the…

> Yes, get-childitem is a little weird to remember, That's not the problem. The problem is that it's way too much typing , and with the default tab completion behavior it's often w…