Velocity Micro debuts dual-socket AMD EPYC 64-core workstation
Looking for maximum performance for multi-threaded workloads in a desk-side machine?
Velocity Micro debuts a monster dual-socket AMD EPYC 64-core workstation
For the first time in a decade, AMD’s CPU portfolio is positioned to not only serve one or two segments of the workstation market, but its entire breadth. Based on its Zen CPU architecture the company has rolled out four brands to power virtually any type of workstation model a professional customer may be interested in — from the single … Read more
Jon Peddie Research releases the Q1’2018 Market Watch report on PC GPU shipments
JPR reports that the GPU market increased year-to-year by 3.4%; sequentially GPU shipments decreased -10%
HP’s Spring line up
HP isn’t a flashy company, but boy do they have style. Known and respected for their engineering, their products have been attractive, but not usually head-turning. That was then, this is now. You might have gotten a hint that the company was up to a major refresh when they recently introduced their stylized logo for their premium products. The logo … Read more
Enmotus FuzeDrive performance tests
Fastest boot-to-shoot Enmotus, as you will recall, has designed some clever storage-blending coupled with machine learning to make frequently used applications and files first to load, and run. Is that important? And if it is, can you measure it, can you prove it? Yes, yes, and yes. We took an AMD Threadripper with an EVGA 1080Ti, and ran some tests … Read more
Atari’s new VCS console to be powered by AMD —come on, you know you want one
And next year you might be able to get one First announced, sort of, at E3 2017 (as the Ataribox), the Atari big brass came to San Francisco during GDC 2018 and showed a few reporters a mockup in the Marriott Marquis. We’re not exactly sure why they did that because they really didn’t have anything to show or say. … Read more
Enmotus FuzeDrive performance tests
Fastest boot-to-shoot Enmotus, as you will recall, has designed some clever storage-blending coupled with machine learning to make frequently used applications and files first to load, and run. Is that important? And if it is, can you measure it, can you prove it? Yes, yes, and yes. We took an AMD Threadripper with an EVGA 1080Ti, and ran some tests … Read more
CorelDraw from an ex Visio user’s perspective
CorelDraw is a BIG program, over 170 MB—over two times bigger than Word, and it takes a minute and half to load. Popular with graphics artist for almost 30 years, it was one of the fist vector graphics programs to run on a PC. The multi-layer program comes with more tricks and tools than I have time or stamina to … Read more
Have a MacBook and want more (GPU) power?
Hang an external AIB box on it. But not just any box, and not just any AIB. Apple recently announced that it is offering support for certain external chassis equipped with certain AMD AIBs. Such chassis are referred to as an eGPU, an external GPU and frequently called a box or even a bread box, so they become a EGPUBB … Read more
Jon Peddie Research Adds Cryptomining to its Data
New data including in Market Watch and Add-in-Board Reports
Big screen TVs used for gaming to be stutter proofed
FreeSynch on HDMI tears our tarring. Why should PC gamers have all the fun? Indeed. Just because you can get a beautiful, large screen 4K UHD monitor and drive it with a powerful GPU that is used in supercomputer, doesn’t mean folks who can’t afford that kind of rig, or people who want to sit back and game on a … Read more
The add-in board market decreased in Q4’17 from last quarter; AMD gained market share.
Over $4.4 billion dollars of AIBs shipped in the quarter. “The add-in graphics board market behaved seasonally in Q4'17, decreasing 4.6% sequentially, explained Jon Peddie, president of the industry’s research consulting firm Jon Peddie Research. The seasonal ten-year average for Q4 is -4.4%%, and this year it was just below that, which we think is due to the sharp rise … Read more