• Possibly linux
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          15 hours ago

          Explain how AMD naming works. I’m so confused as it is pretty hard to understand plus they randomly will violate there own conventions.

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      Make sure to get your 5900x3d with your 7900XTX. Note that one is a CPU and the other is a GPU. For extra fun, their numbers should eventually overlap given their respective incrementation schemes. The 5900x3d is the successor to the 5900xd, which is a major step down in performance even though it has more cores.

      I’m gonna give this award to Intel, which has increased the numbers on their CPU line by 1000 every generation since before the 2008 housing crash.

      • @[email protected]
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        They already do overlap, 7000 series CPUs have been out for a while. As have the 5000 series GPUs.

      • @Valmond
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        It’s so annoying when you buy a GPU instead of a CPU.

      • @captn0blivious
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        31 day ago

        …don’t worry, I’m sure Intel won’t change things up on us… right? (Just pretend the last year of Intel CPUs didn’t happen)

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      Honestly my preferred manufacturer since I started putting together my own machines.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      92 days ago

      You still need to understand their naming convention if you plan on comparing hardware.

      • @[email protected]
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        The only thing you should realistic understand from the naming conventions is relative generations and which bracket of price/performance the part targets. Assuming more than that is just a mistake.

      • @Valmond
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        Is it not still “higher better” at AMD? With the obvious X or “m”, but usually price reflects the specs when the numbers are the same.

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      Just ordered another CPU from them. Downside is that there isn’t any modern AMD desktop platform that works with coreboot, which seems to be the only workable way to deactivate the Management Engine/Platform Security Processor after boot.

      Was really considering to swap to Intel for that, but got a good deal on a Ryzen 9 that fits in my socket, so…

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        32 days ago

        Is there anything from the last 10 years that runs coreboot?

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          You are mixing coreboot up with libreboot

          Also libreboot now ships some proprietary firmware so it is more compatible then it used to be.

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            31 day ago

            Oh is this a different project to libreboot?

            • @[email protected]
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              Yeah, it’s a different coreboot fork. They seem to be kinda focused on selling their implementation to corporate users, but if that finances open source development, I’m not gonna complain.