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Re:The Loyalty to AMD’s GPU Product Among AMD CPU Buyers Is ... by mattst88 on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @06:50PM (#13233661)
> whereas Intel only allows virtualization on Xeon and K-series processors.

I'm not an expert on Intel CPU market segmentation, but I do work for Intel on the i965 Mesa driver. I don't think your statement is true.

See http://ark.intel.com/search/advanced?s=t&VTX=true

That's a list of all Intel CPUs with VT-x. It's really easy to narrow down the selection from there. FWIW, I see lots of Skylake i3, i5, and i7s with VT-x.

Re:The Loyalty to AMD’s GPU Product Among AMD CPU Buyers Is ... by justabystander on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @07:21PM (#13233805)
He probably means VT-d since he mentioned passthrough. VT-x is just the virtualization extensions needed for many hypervisors, while VT-d lets your VMs directly access the actual physical hardware. Like dedicating a physical GPU or NIC to a VM.

I'm not sure which modern CPUs and motherboards support that. I know back in the Core2 days when VT-d was first introduced, it was a nightmare to find the right combination. Looking from the outside, Intel also seems to play a lot of marketing games with their CPU features. Sometimes top-of-the-line CPUs will be missing features that others have. Like selling a $6K Xeon CPU manufactured this quarter without virtualization support. (http://ark.intel.com/products/95831/Intel-Xeon-Phi-Processor...) Supposedly they want to get that feature in there at a later date, but that's not something we like to trust in with computer components.

Your VT-x search returns 1459 products, while the VT-d search returned only 788. Here's a list of things that say they support VT-x but not VT-d (http://ark.intel.com/search/advanced?s=t&VTX=true&VTD=false). Pretty sure some entries on it are wrong, but Intel is also terrible about keeping old technology names on newer spec sheets. Maybe they folded VT-d into VT-x without telling the world?

Re:The Loyalty to AMD’s GPU Product Among AMD CPU Buyers Is ... by mattst88 on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @08:14PM (#13234028)
FWIW, it appears that all of the i3, i5, and i7 Skylakes support both VT-x and VT-d.

I agree that this has been confusing in the past (as evidenced by the mix of Atom, Celeron, Pentium, i3, i5, i7, Xeon in your link), but I think at least in VT-* it's been greatly simplified.

Re:The Loyalty to AMD’s GPU Product Among AMD CPU Buyers Is ... by Declanomous on Thursday December 22, 2016 @03:23PM (#13240068)
I thought I was going crazy, because I thought only the newest Haswell K-series processors supported VT-d, but I found this link which indicates it is available on basically everything now:

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2031324/4770k-virtual...

From April 2014: Craziest thing. The i7-4770K NOW does support vt-d. It didn't used to, but went on their site today....

I checked the edit history for the Haswell architecture on Wikipedia, and it appears that VT-d was supported by all i5s and i7s, except the K series, save for the 4790k and it's i5 counterpart since at least August of 2014. I'm not sure where I got the idea is was more limited. I had been speccing a computer for a couple of years at that point, so I wouldn't be surprised if I'm digging up irrelevant information.