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Re:Tegra K1 “Denver” Will Be First 64-bit ARM Processor for ... by fulafel on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @03:23AM (#8166846)
Less crappy than many people think. Intel and AMD are about head to head in game benchmarks. See eg. http://www.anandtech.com/show/7677/amd-kaveri-review-a8-7600...
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Re:Tegra K1 “Denver” Will Be First 64-bit ARM Processor for ... by pjmlp on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @03:33AM (#8166862)
The ones that have to program for them beg to differ:

http://richg42.blogspot.de/2014/05/the-truth-on-opengl-drive...

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Re:Tegra K1 “Denver” Will Be First 64-bit ARM Processor for ... by brigade on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @04:20AM (#8166965)
He's programming for 200W+ dedicated AMD cards. It may surprise you that AMD can't match that level of performance in their 65W SoCs either.
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Re:Tegra K1 “Denver” Will Be First 64-bit ARM Processor for ... by pjmlp on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @04:30AM (#8166992)
Last time I checked, even AMD's Brazos were better than Intel's offering.
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Re:Tegra K1 “Denver” Will Be First 64-bit ARM Processor for ... by fulafel on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @03:34AM (#8166868)
Yeah, software can be a different story. But, Intel drivers are by far the best ones on Linux, so I'm happy on that front as well.
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Re:Tegra K1 “Denver” Will Be First 64-bit ARM Processor for ... by gnarbarian on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @06:42AM (#8167245)
analogies are failing me here. But the best one I have is this:

A bicycle requires less maintenance and is easier to build repair and operate than an F1 car. Taken a step further. The complex nature of the F1 car and competitive nature of F1 races gives far greater advantages to secrets which may give the team/car the competitive edge.

I don't like the fact that this is where the graphics industry is and I wish that they would simply compete on hardware and the tech was all open. but I do prefer nvidia on linux to any other GPU because they have the performance I'm looking for. Also their linux drivers are far better than AMD's.

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