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my homelab is ready.
Really not wanting to poop on anyone's parade but an off lease Dell/HP/Lenovo workstation used from eBay will beat the pants off anything else for homelab. You can get an E3-1240 V2 with 8Gb RAM for the kingly sum of ... $200. Including motherboard, chassis and PSU.
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Yes, I do care. A lot. Actually if it's just 50ms I care. Slow main thread is a huge annoyance, and that's 99% of my computer use. On the other hand, I don't care if asynchronous tasks (encoding etc.) take 30 or 40 seconds or whatever; I can get a cup of coffee or check my email. Also, major parallel workloads are done on the GPU anyway.
What? I've never run a parallel op on the GPU but I do on my CPU multiple times a day. GPU acceleration besides games is still extremely rare. You're grasping straws here. You're also missing that even on chrome the js and layout engines run different threads. Same with audio and video rendering. Same with downloads. The average page is probably running things on 10-20 random threads. And the average user has multipl…
Not even. Video acceleration, browser acceleration, flash acceleration, and much more, are becoming increasingly GPU-oriented.
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>If I was after rendering performance, I wouldn't buy a Ryzen But why? http://www.anandtech.com/show/11170/the-amd-zen-and-ryzen-7-... The benchmarks show Ryzen being the obvious choice other than cinebench single threaded.
The reason he said that is because it makes infinitely more sense to use a renderer that does it's work on the GPU with CUDA or OpenCL. Only if you are using a shitty software renderer or are completely stupid would you do rendering on the CPU. The Ryzen performs nicely on the encoding tests, though that will be performed by the GPU soon. It already can be (NVENC and AMD VCE), but the quality isn't quite as good as e…
Nooooooooooooope. Was looking forward to a nice SLI rig but looks like Ryzen just died for my choice on upgrade. Guess I'll stick with the power-hungry beast.
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>If I was after rendering performance, I wouldn't buy a Ryzen But why? http://www.anandtech.com/show/11170/the-amd-zen-and-ryzen-7-... The benchmarks show Ryzen being the obvious choice other than cinebench single threaded.
The reason he said that is because it makes infinitely more sense to use a renderer that does it's work on the GPU with CUDA or OpenCL. Only if you are using a shitty software renderer or are completely stupid would you do rendering on the CPU. The Ryzen performs nicely on the encoding tests, though that will be performed by the GPU soon. It already can be (NVENC and AMD VCE), but the quality isn't quite as good as e…
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my homelab is ready.
Really not wanting to poop on anyone's parade but an off lease Dell/HP/Lenovo workstation used from eBay will beat the pants off anything else for homelab. You can get an E3-1240 V2 with 8Gb RAM for the kingly sum of ... $200. Including motherboard, chassis and PSU.
I imagine if such a design existed, it would disincentivize proper multi-core utilization in software to some degree. It would likely further complicate parallel programming as well.
At the same time, multi-core computing has been a thing for well over a decade now, and the reality is that a CPU's single-core performance still matters.
Are the efficiency advantages inherent in symmetrical core designs simply too great? Would asymmetrical designs not be suited for use with existing OS schedulers? Is operating a chip at multiple frequencies simultaneously somehow insane from a design perspective?
http://techreport.com/review/31366/amd-ryzen-7-1800x-ryzen-7...
From the reddit AMA today with Lisa Su (CEO): 7th) Will all Zen products have all of the instruction sets and platform extensions, or could lower end chips lose features like virtualization? A7: In the consumer client space we have no plans to turn off virtualization or features. 9th) Does AM4 / consumer ZEN support ECC memory? A9: ECC is enabled on Ryzen and AM4. [ https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5x4hxu/we_are…
Link to the comment of the CEO of AMD confirming that Ryzen supports ECC memory: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5x4hxu/we_are_amd_crea...