Friday, October 25
Daily News Stuff 25 October 2024
Eurobleat Edition
She's back! I mean, not back, I've never seen this strange-looking rat before.
Eurobleat Edition
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- Intel's Arrow Lake desktop CPUs - effectively the 15th generation Core chips though they don't call them that - are finally here. Are they good? Should you buy one? No. (Tom's Hardware)
They do post very good results in a couple of AI benchmarks, and generally solid results in multi-threaded productivity tasks, but on games they average 5% slower than the previous (and cheaper) generation, and are even further behind AMD's previous generation gaming-oriented chips like the 7800X3D.
In fact, for games they are often behind the two-generation-old 5800X3D, sometimes behind the budget-oriented 5700X3D, running roughly even with Intel's three-generation-old 12600K. But costing four times as much.
And while these new chips do use significantly less power than the 14900K blast furnace, they still use significantly more power than AMD's offerings.
Intel managed to one-up AMD's Zen 5, which has been nicknamed Zen 5% for its mediocre performance gains on consumer applications, but actually going backwards.
To complicate matters further, new BIOS features to improve performance that should be on by default, aren't, and when they are turned on manually they sometimes make things worse.
The same goes for Windows, with the latest 24H2 update causing some games to run noticeably slower on Arrow Lake, when the same release improves performance on AMD's Zen 4 and Zen 5 chips.
It's a mess.
- And AMD's 9800X3D is due out in two weeks. (WCCFTech)
That looks like the way to go for people who play a lot of recent computer games... Whoever they are, given how poorly received recent titles have been.
If you just need something that works for everyday tasks, something like the 8700G or even the previous generation's 5600GT should do the job nicely.
Tech News
- Would you like to play a game? The Biden Administration - whoever the hell is actually running it these days - has ordered the Pentagon and intelligence agencies the increase their use of AI. (MSN)
The risk has never been in the AI itself. The risk has always been the morons in charge of the AI.
- The Humane AI Pin has received a $200 price cut down to $499. (MSN)
Plus a $24 monthly subscription plan.
It's still completely useless.
- After a 15 year legal battle, the EU has dropped its anti-trust case against Intel. (Notebook Check)
So there's one positive thing.
- OpenAI plans to release its next generation chatbot, Orion, before the end of the year. (The Verge)
A preview version of Orion was proud to announce that its name is an anagram of "they are so great".
No, really.
- The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women - TFEVW, pronounced tfevw, has leaked a 228GB database of victims of violence against women. (HackRead)
You had one job.
You Had One Job Videos of the Day
That bad, huh. You don't even have to watch these, just look at their expressions.
You Have One Job Video of the Day
She's back! I mean, not back, I've never seen this strange-looking rat before.
Disclaimer: I was writing a paper on my PC, and it went bleep-bleep-bleep-bleep...
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But, if you change it to "they in so great" then at least all the letters are there.
Or maybe it's "gather a rose yet". Or "To Greta, a heresy!"
Or maybe it's "gather a rose yet". Or "To Greta, a heresy!"
Posted by: normal at Friday, October 25 2024 09:01 PM (bg2DR)
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Or "Oyster hat agree".
Posted by: normal at Friday, October 25 2024 09:02 PM (bg2DR)
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"And while these new chips do use significantly less power than the 14900K blast furnace"
I read something last night--haven't followed the link yet so I don't know the details--about how these chips might be getting power off the motherboard in a way that hides how much they actually take, and thus that the measurements most people are taking are actually lower than what they really are, and some speculation they may be doing that to hide that they're not really any more efficient than the 14th gen. I think it's in Tech Jesus' video. Will have to read/watch more today.
I'm not going to get one of these as I'm using a 14700K and I think that upgrading from one generation prior is usually silly.
I read something last night--haven't followed the link yet so I don't know the details--about how these chips might be getting power off the motherboard in a way that hides how much they actually take, and thus that the measurements most people are taking are actually lower than what they really are, and some speculation they may be doing that to hide that they're not really any more efficient than the 14th gen. I think it's in Tech Jesus' video. Will have to read/watch more today.
I'm not going to get one of these as I'm using a 14700K and I think that upgrading from one generation prior is usually silly.
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, October 25 2024 10:01 PM (pnaK4)
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Hence phoronix starting to measure wall power when benchmarking, finally.
Posted by: normal at Saturday, October 26 2024 04:07 AM (zx18t)
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Yeah, Gamers Nexus has a whole separate video on how they built their rig to capture the real power consumption.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, October 26 2024 07:36 AM (PiXy!)
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Well, Dooby's re-premier may explain roughly what her other personality is doing with that's former employer.
She also dropped some real factoid, which basically confirmed what people had suspected from her other personality.
She also dropped some real factoid, which basically confirmed what people had suspected from her other personality.
Posted by: cxt217 at Saturday, October 26 2024 11:07 AM (ZLF73)
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An Emmy-award winning debut indeed.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, October 26 2024 05:20 PM (PiXy!)
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