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The Zen 4 design is a lot closer to Zen 3 than most people think, regarding memory performance: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-zen-4-part-2-memory-subsystem-and-conclusion Sure, DDR5 has 50% more total bandwidth. But by the time you need that you already stalled the pipeline.

"Starved" is a very strong word. Keeping pipelines fed is very much a function of the internal core design and cache structure, in order to minimize latencies, and internal cache bandwidth matters a lot more. Zen 4 is not that different from Zen 3 in a lot of the internal aspects...

Very much a physical socket design issue: in order to safely draw additional current you have to increase the area (or the pins would melt). You can do that by either using larger, wider wires (standard electric installation solution), or in the realm of semiconductors, by using more pins...

The socket is mostly the interface that connects the CPU to memory, power, and I/O. So there is nothing technically stopping AMD from releasing versions of Zen 4 or Zen 5 on AM4, it is mostly a business decision. While others focused on the memory and I/O aspects that AM5 introduces, a big one...

Yeah, and the 5800X3D is on a much cheaper node with an even cheaper I/O die and with higher node yields. So, costs a lot less to make a run, and whatever dies can't reach spec they will certainly rehash as a new 5700X3D re-release. The non-X3D 5800XT is still available as new in lots of places...

The fact that both chips clock the same (meaning the Zen 4 one is faster) and the older one costs more just shows there is nothing "kind" about the release - just meeting demand at a premium.

For the past couple weeks I keep getting this when I try to access the Ars website from Firefox: The message shows as unsecured http:// instead of https. It usually takes 2-3 tries for the site to load. Seems related to challenge.js.

Kinda. The current chip is powerful enough that you can just do software decoding instead - no battery drain concerns. And older nodes/wafers are much cheaper to produce than replacing to a chip made on newer nodes.

But you are still confusing things: The process node of the chips has no direct relationship to the physical interface of the socket. Also, historically, AMD shies away from this kind of stuff, even more so since divesting from Global Foundries and later dropping them, and also did not really...

I think you are confusing the chip architecture (Zen) with the socket, which is a physical interface (AM5). The purpose of the socket is to provide power, and inter-connectivity - memory channels, PCIe lanes, USB ports, display and audio interfaces and a bunch of serial interfaces. Unless you...

You do know they intend to stay on AM5 for Zen 6 and Zen 7, right? In fact, at this time, AM6 is a very far off prospect.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2TBHppHX1o

You can watch the Gamer Nexus interview with the Intel drivers guy, he explains in detail things like instruction scheduling - the driver has to choose the best order to send instructions to the GPU. Games are developed using APIs that are not the native code run by the GPU, there is always...

The record companies would loose some of the share, as indie artists would benefit. Deezer has been trying to do the model you described for years now.

Its not like this at all. All the hours of every account are added together before being split. However what you described is what Deezer wants to do: the money you pay is split only towards artists you listened to. The record companies are not having it.

Linux support for AMD GPUs has been stronger than Windows support for quite a few years now. Take a look at things like ROCm, or GCN driver updates.

RDNA 1 was kind of treated as second class almost from the get go, which as a RX 5700XT owner bothered me a lot. I only ever had ATI/AMD cards since a Mach64 in 1997. A couple months ago I bought my first ever NVIDIA card as an upgrade, and seems just in time.

Sorry Andrew but I don't understand why the press is adding words to AMDs responses. AMD is going out of its way to not promise any more features and updates to RDNA 1 and 2, including in the latest update to Tom's Hardware...

Same over here. Before I always had one or two go through warranty every year, and now I haven't done that in years!

It is not, they already sell digital download codes in physical packages. This is a way to offer that but with a resellable shell.