AMD WITH HUMA, ARE SMALLER AND FLOATS

More and more that I see, read and hear about about AMD's upcoming APUs and CPUs based on both Steamroller and Jaguar leads me to believe it is comeback time for AMD.

These are based on three simple things...

1) No shared Floating Point Unit

2) Die Shrink meaning less power consumption and higher frequencies (though the latter is but always the case)

3) Memory sharing of the same pool which reduced editing time and speeds things up, known as hUMA (Heterogenous Unified Memory Access at a wild guess lol)

Plus there will no doubt be others mainly little refinements and improvements. An example of this is the Resonant Clock Mesh which wad only introduced with the last set! This of more likely to be in got refinement that anything else.

Hopefully some other technologies will be moved on chip that are late to the table, admittedly lol.

Certain fanboys will live stating that they did out to save money our out was the cheap option. But they are deluded.

I had long thought that the PC's hardware was not being optimized that much for one thing.

For another the PS3 and XBOX 360 have been out like 6 or 7 years now. We still have 6 months before we see the Sony PS4 and the XBOX ONE on the shelves and I seriously doubt that after all these years that the next gen consoles will only seem few years ahead of the last two?!

I would put alot of money on it! Especially with this global financial crisis they sure will aware that they need a bloody big WOW FACTOR and I cannot readout to see ask of these wow factors being scrutinised by all!

Still have a bit of a wait, yes. But around end of August to mid September you can bet that the screen shots to the titles coming on both platforms will start to surface with new graphics bring explained?! They might even drop a free hints regarding the technologies used?!

Oh I hope so, lol.

INTEL PROFITS ON BIG FALL

I was waiting for this one.

Waiting quite awhile as I knew the tide was turning and on top of this the announcement of the consoles and the CPU being used would make this fall greater still.

You see I was sure that many would realise what the implication of this would be. If I am correct then I think that later in the year there will be another announcement that contradicts what they state on this report.

You see they blame people moving seat from traditional computers. But what I think will happen, our technically IS happening, is that later in the year when the AMD desktop chips all come out  CPU AND GPU, that closely resemble what the consoles are using will sell like 'hot cakes'?! This will be the jaguar and steamroller core based CPUs which I think are going to give a nice and pleasant surprise when it comes to performance?!

The noises and decision making coming from all the companies seen to suggest that the forthcoming chips are more than up to the job. More in next post.

That is my prediction at any rate and I should be right there building my own rig and capturing it on video and posting out on?!

That IS the plan, lol.

Did not expect IBM to have a fall though but out of hard times.

PLAYSTATION 4 ORBIS ME TEMPTED

Best pictures of the PS4 can be found at the following link in New Zealand of all places, lol.

Hmm apparently it is surprisingly small and now I have read that I do notice in the pictures it looks small, compared to someone hands holding it or the controller, which granted could be a foot across, lol.

http://www.gamefreaks.co.nz/2013/06/11/sony-debuts-playstation-4/#/

Not much I can find for the odd looking guadrilateral cube that also plays games films and music, lol.

What I can tell you is the fangirls have already started spitting venom at each other from the pink armchairs in their bedrooms!

OK so what we know is that like the XBox One the PS4 has..

8 Jaguar Cores
8000 or 9000 Radeon, either GCN 2.0 or 3.0 as from cryptic rumours
Sony PS4 is Cheaper
No limit to used games (HATS OFF!!)

The CPUs will be custom designed further beyond the fact it is 8 Jaguar cores and that bit we still no nothing about. Both Microsoft and Sony have had their own design input.

The swings and rouandaboouts bit now comes with the following...

Despite them being very similar the XBox One does have fewer GPU shader cores than the Sony PS4 and on paper looks to be slightly slower.

But there are two things to consider here

1) Microsoft's long term experience with x86 CPU Hardware and GPUs

2) Also when it comes to both designing hardware and software for these chips. Unless they do a Windows HATE on us, oooh I AM sorry I mean Windows 8.

I am somehwat confused over waffle over both the pre-owned game fiasco now as there was also mention of monthly fees?!

Now it surely is high time that these companies stop trying to fool and rip off people, just charge what you need to and that is it, fangirls will just have to stop whining.

It costs what it costs so get over it.

But do NOT start fecking around with the OS's again to bind people over to your wants and do NOT charge monthly fees that is so dead in the water you do not wanna know.

Oh and Microsoft?! That thing with the pre-owned games and the Windows refusing to play with Linux?! Oh dear. Bad people, BAD! LOL.

Yes OK I wish I had not tried the Linux version that I did now but you are so narrow sighted, hell bent on control and greedy for power that if you are not careful you will find yourselves with none of those.

I am rather surprised that in all these years Linux (like Ubuntu) did not rise up to be a real threat to you but while you are chuckling at that you failed to realise you are being broadsided from the starboard bow Cap'n, could no resists that.

Now that you are turning to see that you have released that there are two OS's shooting at you in the name of Android (GROAN GOOGLE AGAIN) only to be hit in the backside Mozilla!!

So reports of Android on the PC, a Mozilla OS on the PC, Linux on phones and two new games consoles, two new generations of graphics cards and a die shrink on the AMD CPUs?!

*THUD!!*
...

Eh?! What's this? Where am I? WHy am I laying on the floor?! WHAT IS MY NAME?!?!

LMAO!!

PARALLEL PROCESSING GAMES TO EMBARRASS FANBOYS BIG TIME STYLEE!!

I was reading about the AMD Jaguar chip to be found inside the new Sony PS4 and the XBOX when a couple of things occurred to me!

First off there was all this talk when Bulldozer released form so-called gaming experts about ho there are NO games that use more than a core or two for processing and how HARD it is to do this.

I pretty much knew the first one was not true though admittedly these were minimal in numbers. I ALSO know that the SECOND ONE was not true and the number of times I wanted to join up to a website just to go onto a clicky forum of armchair experts to explain to them in the most POLITE way that they were talking nonsense, oddly enough most of them stupid enough to own a Core i3, but thought better of it as the word TROLL will just be banded about like women at a wedding with far too  much confetti!

No the reason I now realise that there are is not much parallelism in games is because of one thing and one thing only...THE EXISTENCE OF CONSOLES?!

Or in other words so PC Gamers can get an excuse when really there are being ripped off for ported games?!

FOUL! That is what I hear them crying out at the top of their lungs at my use of the words rip and off but it is and no matter which way you slice it that IS what it is. Another bunch of cash for a game yu have already created and you do not want to be bothered doing it all over again for the PC! But you want the same amount of cash coming in though?!

EDIT: John Taylor of AMD announces a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT FOR GAMERS REGADRING AMD HARDWARE?!?! (Oh this just gets better and better!!)

Courtesy of Tom's Hardware:  CLICK HERE!

END EDIT

Then while I was reading and trying to figure out exactly what this confusing AMD Jaguar is, my money on TWO PROCESSORS SIDE BY SIDE AND CROSSFIRE like they did with the twin socket FX boards a few years back, I realised that this is all about to be proved of course!!

Whether it is ONE Jaguar processor or TWO side by side make no nevermind. It has eight cores and THAY WILL USE THEM, or its a complete waste of money building the things based on a processor with that much silicon.

Now according to the armchair afficiandos a Core i3 would have been perfectly adequate?!

According to Custom PC your only processor is an Intel one?!

I have long since complained about this and even emailed these experts who sale a magazine based o building PCs prmarily for GAMING.

Well now I find it really bloody hilarious as I have been proved that had a bought into a subscription to Custom PC I would have wasted my money and been ripped off as...

1) Games will be PROGRAMMED from now on on BOTH CONSOLES, if not ALL THREE, for not only AMD Processor cares but for PARALLELISM and ...

2) AMD's GPUs too?!?! IN CROSSFIRE POSSIBLY?!

3) GPU Cores also used for parallelism?

Oddly enough I used to find this a bit annoying when Intel fans went on about this with their nVidia cards. Run down parallel processing when talking about AMD's FX chips but talk it up when talking about your nVidia cards?

Really funny. I think some people and even forums should be banned for being stupid or just contradciting, whichever is a better fit for the annoying ones, lol.

Now to all the AMD people, plus the ones that took the piss, cried like babies and yelled like demented Banshees and went over to Intel and paid three times as much for their processor with a board they will then have to replace a year later and nVidia Graphics when they are too focused on tablets...

...whose laughing now DUMB-ARSES?!?!

I think its bloody hilarious, really I do! So much over the top shit about AMD on websites, forums and even YouTube!! Loads of these moronic idiots how now managed to be shown up as the IDIOTS THEY ARE by none other than the very corporation they lambasted for the longest time, AMD!!

That is soo funny and i cannot help but wonder how long it will be, if indeed it has not even started, when the AMD fans will be going on-line with the Panzer-Fausts (flame throwers) and scorching the chat rooms and forums and toasting the Intel camps to the walls?!?!

I might give it a week or two for this knowledge to suddenly occur to them get posted and then goes around like wildfire?!

Well that is unless of course though are just so much the experts they are now lambasting both Sony and Microsoft for using two year old technology and know better ate doing these things than the big guns do themselves?!

Could they be that bloody stupid?

I have to admit that even I did not see this one coming, a GRAND SLAM across the board on the console games with both CPUs and GPUs for AMD?!

You think now that this might have been their plan all along?! Now a few interesting points to watch out for over the next 12 months, or 6 months into the release of the consoles...

1) You think now this MIGHT have been WHY they bought ATI in the first place?! 

2) Do you think it entriely possible that while Intel were overcharging you for crippled processors AMD WAS INDEED concentrating on gamers but NOT bringing out the all killer AMD FX everyone wanted and producing better APUs to get into the console machines?!

3) Do you think it possible that before very long PC gaming will improve dramatically, including even with the porting, and that this was down to AMD's APUs being in the consoles and therefore you will have AMD to thank for this?

Yes I now realise that the next 12 months are going to be extremely interesting, extremely exciting and EXTREMELY FUNNY!!

LMAO!!

BIASED MAGAZINES CUSTOM PC & MAXIMUM PC

Well I was just reading the comments on an articcle about the GeForce Titan after seeing The Tech Source TV channel.

Only I was not checkng all the numbers when I noticed that the magazine that did the article I was reading got lambasted for being biased towards NVIDIA?!

Then I remebered looking in the last Custom PC Magazine that did an article on building a Gaming RIG for £389, as stated on the cover...

...only when you go to the article when they SUM UP there are in fact TWO machines. The AMD one was built using a APU, CPU and GPU on the same chip but there was another column about building another one using an Intel and NVIDIA which came to £520?!

Now why the hell would you do that and of course in recent Custom PC fashion the £520 Rig gets higher benchmarks.

BUT...

This Intel RIG is £130 MORE EXPENSIVE that the AMD one and that begs the question...

Why did they not then include another dedicated graphics card to the AMD RIG in Crossfire?!

Surely it would have made a better appeal to buying customers, err like ME, that for £500 or a bit over you can have a CROSSFIRE AMD Rig?!

Well I suppose it would put the Intel RIG in the shade?!

I did not read it all and as I always do I put the magazine back on the shelf in disgust...AGAIN. A magazine I normally walked out of the store with in my hands I hardly ever buy and have not done so in a very long time.

I also find it bloody hilarious as well as condemning towards their questionable judgement that they are a magazine that talks about gaming, with PC Gaming always in fear of evaporating away, lambasted AMD for their chips while praising Intel when you cannot see ANY discernable difference much in gaming between the two camps and on top of that, what happens now?

Both Sony and Microsoft now announce that their NEXT GENERATION GAMING CONSOLES will be ALL AMD?!

Uh-HUH?!

LMAO!

Now all thw moaning and whinging that has gone on amomngst gamers and all the wild claims that have been made...well what can I say?!

I laughed until I nearly soiled myself and wondered of all the fanboys, naysayers, biased gaming journalists and OBR Hardware are all now pooling their cash to buy an island in the pacific where they can go and hide from the limelight and the Internet?!

All i can say is if you now spend the rest of 2013 and 2014 being absolutely boiled and roasted by AMD fans...well I am afraid you stuck your heads in the proverbial nooses and how could you expect any different?!

Oh and the hype over Ultrabooks too?! They are crap in all honesty but no they are all 'ooh Ultrabook is the new BUZZWORD!' Yup buzzwaord for CRAP. ANy news of reviews about SLEEKBOOKS?!

Curiously NO!

HAHAHAHAHA!

So an 8 core APU in the AMD CPU code named Jaguar? Oh my god I hope so?!?!

That other PC Magazine and the article os Maximum PC but as I stated it is only what people were commenting on...

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/nvidia_geforce_titan_%E2%80%93_benchmarks2013?page=0,1

PS4 & XBOX 720 REVELATIONS

Not my rumours you understand but those of others and along with comments I have seen made by some that were wrong and a bit silly but I will just run through what I understand at present, before diving in a bit deeper.

As far as I am aware both consoles, Sony PS4 and XBOX 720, are going to be remarkably similar in their chips and power.

As far as I know there is talk of 8 cores in the CPU side and AMD Radeon at least for the PS4 but what I cannot fathom for sure is exactly what the GPU specifics are because everyone is speaking about the CPU like it is a single 8 core unit and they call it Jaguar. As far as I know the only 8 core CPUs that AMD produce are BULLDOZER, PILEDRIVER and the next iteration is STEAMROLLER between late 2013 and early 2014!

SO what is this other EIGHT CORE CPU?

Well I would wager that if it IS eight cores then they are using TWO CPUs?!

If so then the graphics chip version everyone is talking about may actually have TWO?!

I say this because I have seen many people disappointed while others reply to that disappointment by pointing out quite correctly that the PC is built VERY differently and that it has to cater for a hungry horse of a Windows OS and many other programs, stand alone or background, simultaneously.

The odd thing is I had long thought that the sensible route for both the PS4 and the XBOX would be the dual APU route. Lower power, twice the graphics and proper x86 cores all developers are familiar with. You know it makes sense?! Now I wonder if that is indeed they route they have taken.

Now this leads me onto the other thing that has disappointed people in that they have stated that they can get more graphical power from a PC?! Umm well that has always been the case when these things are released mate! But it never seemed that way because PC games players are short changed by the game developers and I really DO mean that. PORTING is a lazy and greedy way out. It is almost like selling only square pegs to everyone despite whether or not they have square or round holes...ALMOST.

No what happens is that when the new consoles and games come out, and largely what i have been waiting for for over a year now, is that then these games show us PC users, or at  least those of us with the knowledge, exactly what the SLI system we have now owned for a year is capable of?! Well maybe owned a few months unless you are water cooling, lol.

No so I think when launched and tested along with a handful of games I think it will be no different to all other launches and wow factors, I really do and then I and other PC gamers will be salivating and eyeing up that dinghy to wade through our gooey living rooms wondering when these titles, and other developers, get their releases out to us?! Funny they always talk about how can they are and want to push the envelope of the technology but they do not really. Or at least a VERY tiny fraction of games developers do with Bethesda being, or at least so it appears, being the only one I can think of.

Then I go and get bloody annoyed with them and email them tearing crap from them because I put up videos up of me playing parts of Skyrim, which is currently frustrating to achieve, more so to upload and then I am told off for monetizing the video, so people clicking on adverts I get tiny payments for and they do not like it?! Jesus Christ man sort out your god damn copyright and stop appearing to be run by a bunch of blood sucking vampires bleeding people for money for the same old thing over and over again....or lawyers, lol.

If I do a video of me gardening I do not have to pay Draper, or me using Office i do not have to pay Microsoft, or me using laptop I do not have to pay HP. You get free advertising of your product, especially as I show laptop users what they can and cannot get away with and I get refused permission?!

Well let us see how that pans out for you?! lol.

I digress...I do that a lot!

Anyway I now am very keen to see these things launched and even pictures of thie things would be nice despite me not going to buy one and never owning one, except a PSP when it launched. It is interesting to see the designs and you never know they just might bring out something and with such a fabulous design, well yes they have been crap up until now and really should take a gander at the dozens concept designs from fans out there as their are some damn good one, that will make me want to buy one?!

Possibly?

So the rest of 2013 is going to be very interesting in this field indeed...

I WILL build a new RIG

PS4 and XBOX 720 launches with all next gen gaming titles...

AMD Steamroller I would wager appears September or October

Radeon HD 8970 and nVidia Geforce 780 graphics cards should be out too

Leap Motion (Motion Control 1000s time better than KINECT?!)

Vuse Eye Glass Mobile Headset


You know along with other things I have going on from this coming week up until May this year ad with everything else on the other blogs I have having their own developments I may just ... EXPLODE with EXCITEMENT during 2013.

Ooh that 13 ... will that number actually go and do it again?!?!

LMAO...