Add-in board market decreased in Q1’17 from last quarter, with Nvidia gaining market share
Over $8 billion dollars of AIBs shipped in the quarter
Moderate sales in the first quarter, the GPU industry starts to gear up for Q3
OEMs and distributors will clear out inventories to make room for new products
Stop that or I’ll replace you with an AI
Look at what you’re doing not what the AIs are doing Everyone who has heard of AI (which as you know was just invented a few weeks ago) is sounding the warning bells about how AI thingies will take over our jobs. To which I say, come and get it—and hurry. Look at what you do. How many repetitive tasks … Read more
New restrictions on PCs; New opportunities for smartphones
In late March, the U.S. and U.K imposed a ban on bringing electronic devices larger than a smartphone in to the cabin on flights from certain countries in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as Turkey. And in late April, the Trump administration said it is considering barring passengers flying to the U.S. from U.K. airports from taking … Read more
Testing AMD’s RX580
Better than the RX480 on all tests AMD just announced the mid-life kicker, and probably end of the line of the Polaris GPUs, the Radeon RX580. We ran a suite of tests on the new AIB, and found it to be on average 15% faster than the Radeon RX480. Because we got such good results with the AMD Ryzen PC … Read more
Nvidia GTX1080 Ti runs best on AMD
28% more performance for 35% more money The Nvidia GeForce GTX1080 Ti is the world’s most powerful AIB, when run on an AMD Ryzen-based platform it gets the highest scores, but the greatest gains from generation to generation are on Intel—see charts in conclusion. In our 7 March edition of Tech Watch , we wrote about the Nvidia GTX 1080 … Read more
Testing EVGA’sC17 1070 gaming notebook
92% more performance for 11% more money EVGA’s SC17-1070 is a powerful, 4k 17.3-inch notebook that can play any game you have or will get in the next year or so. EVGA introduced its first 17.3-inch, the SC17-980 in March 2016 just after GDC. It offered good performance. Anyone would have been delighted to have one. Then in June of … Read more
Visual Processors and CNN—the next generation supercomputer
TIBURON, CA-April 27, 2017-Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, today released its latest quarterly report on the Visual Processing Unit (VPU) market. VPUs are at the crossroads of image-processing, convolutional neural nets (CNN), machine intelligence, and the emerging augmented reality market. More than just an image processing algorithm co-processor, and more like … Read more
My first article
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Testing EVGA’s SC17 1070 gaming notebook
92% more performance for 11% more money EVGA’s SC17-1070 is a powerful, 4k 17.3-inch notebook that can play any game you have or will get in the next year or so. EVGA introduced its first 17.3-inch, the SC17-980 in March 2016 just after GDC. It offered good performance. Anyone would have been delighted to have one. Then in June of … Read more
Nvidia GTX1080Ti runs best on AMD
28% more performance for 35% more money The Nvidia GeForce GTX1080Ti is the world’s most powerful AIB, when run on an AMD Ryzen-based platform it gets the highest scores, but the greatest gains from generation to generation are on Intel—see charts in conclusion. In our 7 March edition of Tech Watch, we wrote about the Nvidia GTX 1080Ti introduction, and … Read more
Of game consoles, VR and all that jazz
The difference between selling and promising The seemingly unbridled enthusiasm for gaming in VR continues even the face of the disappointing sales results, unresolved technical and physiological problems (that may never be solved), and turmoil in the biggest, most visible company in VR. In the face of all that, new conferences pop up like cheap trendy clothing in a store … Read more