Carzy Zarx’s PC Gaming Emporium - Catch Up on All the Latest PC Gaming Related News

[JEMC]

BasilZero said:

JEMC said:

^How far into FF VIII are you, Basil?

About 65% into the first disc/part I would say.

There's a total of 4 discs/parts.

I smell a 50 part series?

BasilZero said:

Also why no news!?

Also I was wondering why no one posted in over a day :O

Family things. Let's leave it that way.

 

Also, a couple more hardware news:

AMD Zen Delivers Double The Performance Of The FX 8350 – Zen 8 Core CPU Die Shot Revealed

http://wccftech.com/amd-zen-cpu-performance-double-fx-8350/#ixzz49VHobP00
Also interesting: https://semiaccurate.com/2016/05/22/38688/

AMD has revealed that Zen will have double the performance of the FX 8350 and will trade blows with Intel’s eight core i7 5960X Extreme Edition. Not only that but a die shot of “Summit” what will be the basis of AMD’s long awaited next generation high performance FX Zen CPUs has finally been revealed.

AMD has finally published additional performance figures for Zen beyond the 40% IPC improvement over excavator that the company talked about last year. The 40% IPC uplift figure represents the architectural performance per clock improvement of Zen vs AMD’s last CPU architecture, code named Excavator. And while comparing the architectural capabilities of zen to Excavator may have been informative, it doesn’t offer a direct real-world product to product comparison. Thankfully, we do finally have direct real-world performance figures for Zen.

Compared to AMD’s “Orochi” quad module, eight core die powering the FX 8350, the Zen based desktop Summit Ridge eight core CPU delivers double the performance in Cinebench R15. This means that a single Zen core is in effect equivalent to two Piledriver cores in performance, which is incredibly impressive. This dramatic performance difference comes from the significant architectural performance per clock improvements in addition to Zen’s simultaneous multithreading capability.

It’s important to remember that AMD’s latest Orochi dies feature Piledriver cores rather than Excavator. Excavator cores are roughly 15% faster per clock than EXcavator. This in turn puts Zen at a lead in excess of 60% vs Piledriver in terms of performance per clock. Doubling the performance of the FX 8350 puts Zen in direct competition with Intel’s eight core i7 5960X.

Along with the performance numbers that we just discussed above, AMD has also published a wafer shot of the company’s upcoming eight core “Summit” die.

 

>>Let's wait until real reviews appear late this year to give those intention the credit they deserve.

 

 

AMD Radeon R9 480 3DMark11 benchmarks

http://videocardz.com/60253/amd-radeon-r9-480-3dmark11-benchmarks

You guys gave me no choice, so here are the benchmarks of Polaris 10.

Please note: codenames aka ‘Driver Names’ were shown before Futuremark removed this line from result page. Results vary by 20% while 3DMark shows the same clock, so lower scores were either run with older, unsupported drivers, or higher scores simply show overclocked scores. You are the judge here. I didn’t want to post this because I simply could not confirm which results are showing stock performance.

>>I don't like to take conclusions based on synthetic benchmarks, but it would fall in line with the previous rumor.