I think borderless phones are a bad idea. When you hold them, your flesh folds over and generates touches accidentally. It already happens...
I don't see how sort middle has any hope of becoming reality now that we're way past the single tri per clock era. It could have been done before,...
I dunno, some of those results are unexpected to me. In BF3 the Ti is 30%+ faster than the base 780. The power consumption is off the...
Again, I'm accepting your claim that HS output may warrant going off chip. And latency is exactly why I think UV streamout can cause stalls....
http://www.valuewalk.com/2013/11/apple-samsung-contribute-to-surge-in-global-smartphone-market/ Nothing unique to Lumia there.
Bingo. This is why AB tests are stupid. There are some things I can tell without any reference image, like plasma vs. LCD black levels. As long...
My mistake. Ignore what I wrote in that paragraph. But sustaining 1000 control points is silly for a shader without texture loads in a...
It doesn't need to be large. Your calculations were dependent on having 1000 HS wavefronts, which is at least 50x too many. It's extremely rare...
Of course they implied it. The G2 was compared to the Note3 throughout the review, including the benchmark section, so harping on Samsung without...
First of all, that's a failure in optimization if AMD is sacrificing high-factor performance to improve low-factor performance. Their own devrel...
That's what I meant by patch data. I was giving a suggestion for even avoiding the UV calculation in the tesselator, but if AMD does do it, then...
It's not just Tessmark. You see it with AMD's DirectX SDK example as well.
If you design the tesselation unit properly, there's no need to generate all the DS verts at once. The hardware tessellator should have access to...
I'm still disappointed in AMD's tessellation implementation. http://techreport.com/review/25509/amd-radeon-r9-290x-graphics-card-reviewed/6...
Really? Then why bother increasing performance at all? Or do you have some way of telling the difference between 10% difference from BW and 10%...
There's no such thing as "need" and "doesn't need" when it comes to BW. Almost all games will present some fraction of the rendering workload that...
To add to what Dave said, lower chip temperature can reduce power consumption at the same performance level. So it's not necessarily a less...
I don't know what's the big shame. Perf/$ is all that matters unless you have FX5800 type noise. If NVidia thinks they can get more...
In case anyone is curious: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH2hjhcfWic#t=5497
In a lot of games, you can turn down a marginally useful visual effect to boost framerates a lot. From raw specs alone, it's reasonable to expect...
Thanks. I mirrored it.
Well that's a given. You can't avoid that. By FF you mean fixed function? Actually, I'd be even happier with that, but I don't think AMD did FF. I...
Well, I'm hoping that putting the geometry units inside the shader engines is symbolic of AMD reworking the data flow instead of algorithmically...
Do you know this from some inside info? I'm hoping AMD changed things a bit. The way they've done tessellation in the past - tessellating a whole...
At first the fillrate didn't make much sense to me, since there's only 5 bytes/pix of BW at 64 GP/s. Opaque pixels are usually shader bound while...
Price points almost never change with a new launch, aside from the HD 4000 series. AMD and NVidia price the new parts with a fair value of what...
You make a very good point, but that last part is key.
Nebu is 100% right. The impression I got from that Ars piece is the LG G2 being the primary comparison, and they didn't do much to see if LG did...
The 7850 has 60% more BW (and twice the ROPs), yet is only 15-20% faster with equal tflops. It's a bit of a stretch to say that the 7790 is...
Vaio has always been about margins before volume. The Tap 11 is incredibly thin and light for a Haswell tablet, so Sony will find buyers.
To me it was pretty clear from the beginning that it wasn't going to be an open or collaborative standard. I think AMD is sick of being the...
I wonder how involved MS is with XBO's low level graphics API. If it's entirely AMD's baby, then they could very well have a similar API for PS4...
You're missing the point. Just because a competitor can nearly match you with 256-bit doesn't mean that 384-bit or 512-bit is useless. They would...
People are too quick to draw a line in the sand about what is 'balanced', 'needed', etc. The reality is that a GPU goes through a variety of...
The Asus Transformer T100 looks like it packs incredible value, and the tablet part is very light. It's about damn time that Windows tablets...
From Q4 to Q1, you will often see a decline in total sales, even with smartphones. Even if it's flat, multiply it by Nokia's declining share and...
No, a premium is always needed in a buyout. If a company is not healthy, then its stock will be lower than it used to be, but you still need to...
Fine, but it is still proof of a market transition. MS would not deprecate it if they could keep selling it as WP grew. They never stopped selling...
So the third option you're talking about involves selling off the devices division in 2010/2011 to some chump for 2-3x the $7B that MS paid? Or...
You really are clueless about the stock market, aren't you. Every company that buys most or all of another needs to pay a premium. What are you...
Maybe you should heed your own advice. If I used YoY, then 1Q2009, 1Q2010, and1Q2011 show flat sales. Does that prove everything is peachy? Even...
Steady decline?!? WinMo lost over 50% of its sales from 1Q2011 to 2Q2011! The platform hadn't seen anything remotely that bad during it's whole...
Maybe and maybe not, and that's really the only point I'm making. Nokia hasn't exactly had spectacular execution on the hardware side (some unique...
Yeah, going down a dead end path that most other manufacturers were bailing on because it had no future. You call it a cash cow but it was no more...
I noted it for a reason. It matters, but not by a factor of 8. Didn't Intel do that with Clovertrail as well? This isn't a permanent decision, is...
So basically, Intel's 2W SDP part has roughly the same performance as AMD's 15W TDP part (or as Anand put it, a 2010 MBA). Yikes. I don't know...
I doubt it. You mentioned build quality being a plus for Nokia, but where is the correlation between build quality and sales when you look at...
I've gone silent about what, exactly? The start of Nokia's decline was well before WP8. It was with their complacency in the era of multitouch...
You already pointed out yourself that there's probably a faulty OIS system there. It's obvious that this type of blurring is camera shake, not a...
Once again, it's noisier because there's less noise reduction. That one guy you posted about definitely had something wrong with his OIS. The...