Allen
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Joined: Oct 1999
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Ohio USA
Things don't always go perfectly:
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Intel stuff-up forces redesign of Windows and Linux [and Apple's 64-bit macOS]
The bad news is that Intel processors will take a performance hit of between five to 30 percent [after the fix is implemented]..
Word on the Street is that the flaw is in the Intel x86 hardware, and it appears a microcode update can't address it..
AMD processor[s do] not have the [problem]..
It will be interesting to see what the new [Intel] benchmarks will be..
We'll see if the above is overstated when the benchmarks arrive -- after the Windows patch. On paper, AMD Ryzen could wind up faster than some (not all) of Intel's latest -- clock-for-clock. Hard for me to believe -- use a lot of salt on this one.
But, AMD is not flawless. In today's news:
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AMD Acknowledges DirectX 9 Game Breaking Bug in Adrenaline Release – Assures Fix in Next Driver Update
According to users on various sites, the games cannot even be started with the latest driver installed...
