Quote from: NikoB on April 24, 2023, 11:26:01The entire x86 industry is in a dead end - the memory bandwidth ALREADY should be at least 3 times more than its best solutions in the consumer mobile segment (and this is no more than 85Gbyte/s on average and only for Intel, not for AMD, whose memory controllers are traditionally lose to Intel controllers by about x1.3-x1.5) to cater for all ports and technologies...The day that x86 becomes obsolete and we get everything ARM soldered is the day I buy the WEAKEST ARM laptop with best battery life and use it as a zero client. Memory usage of stuff is only going up, the paltry 8gb memory they make the minimum is not enough, and I am not fond of keeping my data on a soldered computer. I would have to sync everything to cloud and smash the computer if they fail. Most don't offer options for 64+ gb ram, and if they do expect to pay crazy overpriced prices.
Apple needs to finish off the x86 camp by making its Arm platform freely available to all laptop manufacturers. Only in this way will it be able to turn the tide with x86's overwhelming market share and overwhelming software market share. Someone at Apple, as brave as Jobs once was, must finally make this decision.
Quote from: bk on April 24, 2023, 19:23:31both of AMD's 7900 cards are quite a bit faster than the RTX 4070
Quote from: kek on April 24, 2023, 16:27:23"Strix Halo that is slated to take on Apple silicon with RTX 4070-class RDNA 3.5 graphics"
lmao, sounds like AMD fanboy mental delusions. Not even their current card lineup can match Nvidia (and that's without power limits like on a laptop).
Maybe they meant "RTX 2070"
Quote from: NikoB on April 24, 2023, 12:34:55At the moment, both USB40 and TB4 are morally obsolete - even TB5 at 80 Gbps, not even appearing in laptops, is already morally obsolete, because. you already need at least 200-300Gbps to service modern video cards in eGPU mode.
Quote from: NikoB on April 24, 2023, 12:34:55Quote from: kuro68k on April 24, 2023, 11:49:36To date both Ryzen 6000 and 7000 series have been hobbled by not having native USB4/TB supportZen4 Phoenix - first Zen with USB40 integrated 2 ports. But USB40 not equal by capabilities for TB4 controllers from Intel...
At the moment, both USB40 and TB4 are morally obsolete - even TB5 at 80 Gbps, not even appearing in laptops, is already morally obsolete, because. you already need at least 200-300Gbps to service modern video cards in eGPU mode.
Copper cables can no longer provide the required speeds. time to switch to optics. But as I already wrote in other topics, the problem is in the extremely slow memory controllers of all x86. In order for everything to work without friezes and lags with such ports and the pci-e 5.0 bus, memory controllers must be 3-5 times faster than they are now.
x86 is at a dead end when it comes to RAM performance.
Quote from: NikoB on April 24, 2023, 11:26:01Actually, the whole value of these rumors about Zen 5 (when the false AMD still cannot release Zen4 Phoenix laptops, although it is already the end of April 2023) is that AMD admits to its significant technological loss to Apple by more than 2.5 years !!!
256-bit memory controller (moreover, soldered, like Apple, and therefore significantly limited in volume, and we need ALREADY 64GB minimum, if the built-in video chip requires 16-24GB for share memory - otherwise what is their point in games?), in 2 times slower than Apple's 512-bit memory controller in the M2 Max, which is already in production and on sale.
At the same time, GDDR6x video memory in NVidia solutions is still 2-5 times faster, which means that there will be no performance level of GTX4070, a priori. At best, some "GTX4050Ti". Sometime in AMD's distant hazy future....
The shameful 128-bit memory controller in the Zen4 7945HX cannot even physically handle the 28 pci-e 5.0 lanes that AMD integrated there for some reason, instead of the integrated graphics of the Zen4 Phoenix level (which we have not even seen in any review), even without Taking into account the integrated video card, chips of the 7945HX level already need memory with a bandwidth of at least 400Gbyte/s, at least 200. But in reality, the slow 7945HX memory controller has a shameful bandwidth of only 60-65Gbyte/s! It's like putting tractor wheels on a Formula 1 car...
The entire x86 industry is in a dead end - the memory bandwidth ALREADY should be at least 3 times more than its best solutions in the consumer mobile segment (and this is no more than 85Gbyte/s on average and only for Intel, not for AMD, whose memory controllers are traditionally lose to Intel controllers by about x1.3-x1.5) to cater for all ports and technologies...
Apple needs to finish off the x86 camp by making its Arm platform freely available to all laptop manufacturers. Only in this way will it be able to turn the tide with x86's overwhelming market share and overwhelming software market share. Someone at Apple, as brave as Jobs once was, must finally make this decision.
Quote from: kuro68k on April 24, 2023, 11:49:36To date both Ryzen 6000 and 7000 series have been hobbled by not having native USB4/TB supportZen4 Phoenix - first Zen with USB40 integrated 2 ports. But USB40 not equal by capabilities for TB4 controllers from Intel...