Recent content by Athenau

In theory PCI-E should support peer to peer transfers that bypass host memory, but I don't know if Intel or AMD support this properly. And yes, you wouldn't realize a throughput benefit, only possibly a latency benefit, by enabling this.

But, as I understand it, there is no storage -> GPU path right now even with GPU decompression enabled--a staging area in CPU memory is still required. Which begs the question of, why not just do it on the CPU?

Modern PC's usually have a surfeit of CPU power--I'm surprised no one has explored how an optimized vectorized CPU decompression implementation compares.

In the US, "programmer" and "software engineer" are interchangeable. There is no standards body or widely accepted accreditation for the latter, and job postings for engineers always denote a programmer role, and pretty much everyone in the industry understands the nomenclature. So yes, Cerney...

Waiting on memory isn't going to manifest as low CPU utilization--a process where every memory access misses the cache will still show up as using 100% CPU.

I don't give two shits about the MTX store because it's just cosmetic--as long as you can't pay for power it's fair game in my book. Plus, whales shelling out for cosmetics subsidizes content that I do care about, which is a win in my book.

120 fps was transformational for me on a high refresh-rate monitor, almost as big as the jump from 30 to 60. It's to the point that I would rather drop the resolution to 1440p from 4k if that gets me >100 fps. Is that worth it on a console--maybe not given many seem satisfied with 30 fps with...

I mean, it's Bethesda so you should never not be concerned.

Skylake is 23% faster than Sandy Bridge (geomean) on this set of benchmarks: https://www.anandtech.com/show/9483/intel-skylake-review-6700k-6600k-ddr4-ddr3-ipc-6th-generation/9

That objection oriented abstractions are frequently counter-productive doesn't say anything about the value of abstraction in general. Abstractions are meant to aid understanding. If your abstraction obfuscates instead, find a better one. In many problem domains, writing something provably...

Returnal stutter was caused by raytracing (as confirmed by DF) which the PS5 version doesn't even have, so 🤷? Returnal runs fine without RT on the two PC's I've tried it on (both relatively high-end, but they correspondingly run at much higher framerates and with noticeably better image quality...

The M1 Macbook Pros are excellent software development machines. Having the single-threaded integer performance of a 5800x/5900x in a 5w per core envelope is really nice, especially when your build system can only extract coarse-grained parallelism. They're also dead silent, have great battery...

So what, exactly, is broken in the released RNDA3 hardware, apart from the inability to hit the forecasted clocks?

"Cache scrubbing" isn't relevant to PC's because the GPU and storage aren't coherent in the first place--the programmer has to explicitly manage data movement.

Zen 3 was certainly better than anything Intel pre-Alder Lake--it had a solid year of being top-dog.