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Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.

PC LOAD LETTER posted:

Stuff like media encoding is what the GPU is supposed to be used for at some point,
No it isn't.

GPUs are good at embarrassingly parallel problems, where thousands of threads can work at once.

Video encoding works well with <32 threads.

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Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.

eames posted:

//edit: To clarify, Quick Sync is faster and almost as good as x86 in quality, whereas GPU based solutions are much worse in quality and in some cases not even faster than x86. GPU encoding also doesn’t scale well, if at all. Here’s the detailed anandtech article. (and check what CUDA does to the police car scene at the bottom of the article).
This article is utterly terrible. It doesn't bother to test x264, despite x264 being the best encoder for H.264.

Secondly, it says that this:


is higher quality than this:


Apparently nearest-neighbor image resizing is awesome?

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.

quote:

The one thing that is for-sure here is that every hardware review website rushed to be the first to publish an AMD FX-8150 review, they all used the same generic benchmarks and NONE did any real world computing. The game is fixed, the big-dog spreads around the most ad-dollars.
IT'S A GIANT CONSPIRACY!!

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.

AMD posted:

AMD is a leader in x86 microprocessor design, and we remain committed to the x86 market. Our strategy is to accelerate our growth by taking advantage of our design capabilities to deliver a breadth of products that best align with broader industry shifts toward low power, emerging markets and the cloud.
http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/29/2596978/amd-committed-to-x86

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.

Longinus00 posted:

This doesn't refute the claim that they're pulling out of the desktop x86 market.
Seeing as it directly says they are realigning to low power processors, even if they aren't pulling out of x86 they won't really be much competition for Intel anymore.

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.
FXAA also blurs everything on the screen slightly, though.

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.
Is there any videocard that is worth upgrading to from the 6850? In BF3 on High at 1280x1024 I get around 45FPS, which is mildly annoying. But I don't know if the cost of an upgrade is worth it.

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.

unpronounceable posted:

What's your CPU? Around 41 fps is what they got over at Tech Report, but at 1920x1080. At such a small resolution, it sounds like you may be CPU bottlenecked.
i7-2600k

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.

SwissArmyDruid posted:

gently caress atikmdag.sys and destinythegame.com's web video being a 100% guaranteed BSOD on my computer/drivers/video card/whatever.
Vine videos on Tumblr in Firefox BSOD me within ~1 minute of watching them, but Chrome is immune. Might want to try switching browsers at least for some content/sites if this is the same for you.

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.
Better than Anonymous Sources

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Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.
What's the hmm for? Bulldozer is 2011 and current AMD CPUs are 4gen Bulldozer.

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