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  1. Dresdenboy

    PC Watch: Changes in the 14/16nm FinFET process technologies for GPUs (Japanese)

    Hiroshige Goto wrote about FinFET process technologies being used for AMD's GPUs. As the XBox One S SoC is AMD's only 16nm (i)GPU yet, this is mostly about Polaris. Japanese (OV): http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/column/kaigai/1013752.html Translated (Google sounds better than Bing...
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    New Zen microarchitecture details

    In a series of recent Linux kernel driver patches AMD provided further details of the family 17h processors. All these findings let the 40% claim look more likely. What they don't tell you are achievable clock frequencies and power demands. So discussing absolute performance is moot at this time...
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    Skylake AVX bug

    See https://communities.intel.com/thread/96157?start=0&tstart=0 It appears when running Prime95 on specific FFT sizes, while it's forced to use AVX instead of AVX2/FMA3. As it's written in the thread above, FMA3 has to be disabled. As there will be a BIOS fix, it could be power management...