AMD Ryzen kills competition in new Puget Benchmarks...

... for photographers and videographers.  It's sad to see what has become of the company I worked for from 1983 to 2010:
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/artic ... ndup-1962/

Nothing lasts forever.  We should be glad that competition produces improvements in performance and reductions in relative cost.  The AMD processors look to be great.  

E.J. Peiker wrote:... for photographers and videographers.  It's sad to see what has become of the company I worked for from 1983 to 2010:
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/artic ... ndup-1962/

Don't feel too bad............. I worked for IBM from 1967 to 1997. 

In this context (?) what do you make of Apple's silicon M1 announcement ? I find the integration of memory on the SoC particularly interesting. Potential for higher performance, as all the components have access to all the memory ? May make CPU/GPU interactions much faster. Currently, one of the main limitations of GPUs, is that sending data from main memory to the GPU takes time.
Another potential: eye-watering system price, as you can't add memory by yourself.
I'm not interested in the first gen laptops (or Mac mini), but very curious to see what happens when they tackle the high performance machines...

And to kinda stay on topic: yes, Ryzen looks to be pretty awesome. The AMD GPUs are not too shabby either.

Of course this happens with myself just having a i9-10850K system built. It will have to do for now. Too much invested.

adamsti wrote:Of course this happens with myself just having a i9-10850K system built. It will have to do for now. Too much invested.

Me too!

adamsti wrote:Of course this happens with myself just having a i9-10850K system built. It will have to do for now. Too much invested.

There's always something better on the horizon.  In the big scheme of things, despite the significant differences in the benchmarks, in the real world, so much more depends on other factors including your own efficiency.  We are probably talking less than 10 minutes of time difference in real world editing over a period of a year

E.J. Peiker wrote:

adamsti wrote:Of course this happens with myself just having a i9-10850K system built. It will have to do for now. Too much invested.

There's always something better on the horizon.  In the big scheme of things, despite the significant differences in the benchmarks, in the real world, so much more depends on other factors including your own efficiency.  We are probably talking less than 10 minutes of time difference in real world editing over a period of a year

E.J. That analogy brings all of the speed gain back to something that I can understand!  Thanks.

Looks like the new Macbook Air beats every Intel Macbook Pro offered by Apple, in raw CPU power.
That's pretty impressive.

Would Apple deciding to build/design their own chips be seen as a failure by the major chipmakers to innovate? If the new Apple architecture is better, why haven't the chip makers adopted something similar or is it because the software has to be rewritten to use it?