I don't see how you could conclude his post was saying AVX made things worse. I think both his post and the data from the article support the idea that AVX offers tremendous speedups to applications that can fully take advantage of it, but those applications are a small minority of all HPC...
As a scientist who actually uses a number of HPC programs to run calculations, I take issue with your statement that HPC is "100% AVX workloads." While there certainly are programs out there that support AVX and gain a significant speedup by using it, the number of programs that use AVX and...
I can't speak much to its use for web server purposes. However, it looks quite promising for calculations and HPC purposes, so I definitely think it will have a place in computational clusters and workstations. It's multithreaded performance and power efficiency look very good, and if AMD prices...
"Some reason" may have something to do with the fact that you're getting 2x the cores...
The ryzen 8c/16t cpus may not be the fastest in gaming, but having 8 cores vs 4 is a significant increase for a number of applications, so to argue that it shouldn't cost more simply because it's slower...
As a chemist who uses a lot of chemistry-related HPC software and stays up to date on latest developments in the field, I can personally say that few chemistry software programs are able to use AVX yet, let alone the later versions. Those that can use it aren't able to achieve much of a speed-up...
Though I believe that they're working hard on the release, especially with some of the last minute bios fixes, I had a good laugh at your post. They do seem to love doing those kinds of reviews.
http://wccftech.com/intel-core-i7-6700k-skylake-overclocked-52-ghz-air-cooling-135v/
How did that turn out? A 6700k at 5.2ghz on air would be an extremely rare find today.
I wouldn't buy any of these reports or at least take them with a serious grain of salt. Intel could be sending out...
It's too early to make this type of decision. It really depends how Zen's performance and price end up. There are some AMD desktop processors currently out that I wouldn't use for gaming even if given for free. On the other hand, if Zen ends up being a good value, it would be a great deal for...
Compares previous generation hardware but the idea (many slower cores vs fewer faster cores) is the same.
http://www.techspot.com/review/1155-affordable-dual-xeon-pc/
It's highly unlikely Intel will come after you. If they wanted to shut it down they would be shutting down the sellers on ebay, but it seems like they are ok. I've seen posts from Intel people on forums recommending against their purchase and warning that they are unsupported, but no threats...
Gaussian does use AVX in their most recent builds (Rev E.) Get this distribution if you can. There is no GPU acceleration yet (rumors are that Gaussian might have it in the next version), but your relative might want to look into TeraChem if he's interested. I haven't used it myself, but I have...
I've done plenty of bitching about this processor on this forum.
$1700 is ridiculous for a consumer processor. As others have eloquently said, this thing is the processor equivalent of a gold plated HDMI cable - something for the epeen of people who have too much money and want something...
The impression I got after reading numerous such discussions is that buying two memory kits, even two identical ones, and combining them is an unsupported by memory and motherboard manufacturers and might not give you the rated performance. That doesn't necessarily mean that combining kits won't...
Completely agree with all you said. This processor is purely for ego purposes. Was able to snap up one of the last 5960x available at Microcenter, the one near my place falsely said they had it in stock so I had to drive one further away... Still worth it though.
From all I've seen the 5960x...
No professional trying to maximize productivity would buy an unlocked 10 core processor with a consumer-oriented X99 mobo. Theyd be buying Xeon workstations and servers (which offer even more cores), and theyd be willing to pay extra for all the features associated with those platforms, such...
I don't buy the argument that the 6950x should be priced higher because it offers higher productivity.
First, if your task scales well enough to take full advantage of the 10 core 6950x, then chances are it will benefit from going to 12+ cores of the Xeon setups. So even though its...
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