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In 2011 AMD released the Bulldozer architecture, with a somewhat untraditional implementation of the "multicore" technology. Now, 4 years later, they are sued for false advertising, fraud and other "criminal activities". From TFA:
In claiming that its new Bulldozer CPU had "8-cores," which means it can perform eight calculations simultaneously, AMD allegedly tricked consumers into buying its Bulldozer processors by overstating the number of cores contained in the chips. Dickey alleges the Bulldozer chips functionally have only four cores—not eight, as advertised.
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AMD Sued by Customer Over Misrepresentation of "Multicore"
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(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Saturday November 07 2015, @03:04PM
I keep a foot in every camp-- in the PC world. (Don't use Macs, but do have a few ARM computers, a Beaglebone and a smartphone, and keep thinking about getting a Raspberry Pi.) When one of these hardware vendors finally releases an open source graphics driver for Linux (or FreeBSD, I'm not picky) with decent 3D acceleration, I'll make that my next computer. After all these years, we're still not quite there. Nouveau still does not have as good 3D acceleration as the proprietary Nvidia driver. On the AMD side, I hear Catalyst is a mess of a proprietary driver, and the Radeon/Mesa driver is only half the speed, and there are quite a few games that don't work on it at all. So I was interested when Intel stepped up their game with their integrated graphics. They used to be so bad that a PC with the previous generation of CPU and 1/3 the clock speed, but with NVidia graphics, would outperform the Intel integrated garbage. Intel's HD series is not glacially slow even at 2D, and can actually compete with old, low end Radeons and Nvidias. I have another PC with an i5-3317u and Intel HD4000 graphics, and it's not bad, a bit better than my aging, main PC with a Phenom II X4 945 and Radeon HD 5450.
One of the things I like a lot is low power consumption. That Intel PC uses 30W max, when something with intense 3D accelerated graphics usage is running, 20W when watching a video, and only 10W when text editing. What does AMD have these days that matches that? (My old AMD takes 116W max, 70W for text editing.) The APU stuff? That Athlon 5350 you mentioned? 25W, you say? Presumably easy to repurpose from home theater to desktop usage. And the Linux Radeon driver, when will it be able to do decently speedy 3D acceleration?
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Sunday November 08 2015, @12:51AM
Here is a Phoronix review using Ubuntu [phoronix.com] and they liked it, and that is a year old, the drivers are even better now. AMD has been paying for extra FOSS devs to support their APUs and most of them run quite nice now, and you can score one of these chips just crazy cheap, we're talking $30 for the dual core Sempron and $54 for the top of the line Athlon 5350. If you want to build a really cheap HTPC that's Linux friendly? Well here ya go. I've been using them at the shop with both windows 8 (frankly the only place windows 8 works is as a 10 foot UI) and OpenELEC (Linux based XBMC/Kodi OS) and they seem to play quite nicely with both. I've also had customers use them as ULP office boxes and they are VERY happy with the performance, for all your basic tasks like web surfing, office work, watching vids? Its smooth and easy and is so low power its practically silent.
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