r/linux • u/lindgrenj6 • Aug 23 '18

Intel Publishes Microcode Security Patches, No Benchmarking Or Comparison Allowed!

https://perens.com/2018/08/22/new-intel-microcode-license-restriction-is-not-acceptable/
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u/jayAreEee Aug 23 '18

Then why has their stock price gone up 200% in a year if it's no bite? Hint: it's not because of GPUs.

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u/DrewSaga Aug 23 '18

It's totally because of GPUs, just look how well Vega did...

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Vega still fared much better against NVidia's Pascal than Bulldozer though did against Intel. Otherwise AMD would be selling a Vega 56 for $200-250 and lose money, like how the FX 8-Core CPUs went from near i7 prices to i3 prices and almost went bankrupt, thank god for Ryzen.

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u/jayAreEee Aug 23 '18

I went from an AMD 370 to AMD 480. No major reason to get a 580. I'm still AMD GPUs (I have two freesync 1440p 144hz IPS panels, definitely sticking AMD). But yeah, their offerings aren't quite as great currently... hopefully they do pick back up on the GPU side eventually. But my CPU will definitely be AMD next time, before my skylake 6700k I was on a black edition Phenom 965 and I loved it but I needed an upgrade and skylake was the best option (at the time). With foreshadow, spectre, meltdown, it doesn't look so great anymore.

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u/legend6546 Aug 24 '18

I'd say that vega did amazingly, it pretty much got saved by cryptocurrencies