You're talking about the set of benchmarks where the only time it lost to a much more expensive system was in x264 encoding and won in all others. I don't think you could be any more obvious and should consider suicide, since you suck at even this job.
Talos II lite comming
Jason Wright
Michael Gonzalez
I'm still waiting for the power10 boards, im hoping this turns into at least a sub-community in computers ala raspberry pis and sbc's. Hopefully they can order larger batches and lower the price next time. It's just too much right now.
This is still great, though. The devs of the board are listening. This board, however, is a half-measure to satisfy us/sell something while they work on the dedicated single-cpu board. It's just the talos II with half the components missing ffs.
I've been waiting this long, i can wait a year longer.
Juan Barnes
I wouldn't hold your breath for a cheaper POWER board unless you're looking to buy one of these used on ebay.
Nathan Perez
I'm excited as well and willing to wait a little while longer for the prices to come down. POWER10 should be here in a few years and hopefully they'll have more stuff aimed at the consumer level. I'm not going Intel or AMD for my next build so the cost isn't that bad when you consider what you're getting for the money.
The price will come down with time as it does for everything else. These provide enough benefit that people will buy them for servers. In a few years time you'll be able to grab POWER9 hardware off ebay for a good price but even the new stuff shouldn't be as high as it is at the moment.
It's still plenty fast and will only get faster once we can start optimizing software for the chip. I find it odd that benchmarks suddenly matter when we're discussing POWER9 but when we're talking about botnet-CPUs armies of shills show up to say the benchmarks aren't relevant. It's fun to see them flip-flop on basic issues like that depending on the day of the week.
Anything is better than x86/64 even if it's slower initially.
Christopher Sanchez
So I've been following the Talos II & POWER9 for some time, but I've only just realized today that POWER is RISC. I was under the impression it was CISC. Will this prohibit widespread desktop/workstation adoption, considering CISC (x86) is the current desktop/workstation standard? And what advantages does POWER have over RISC-V, the latter being the ISA that big names (incl Google) are putting their weight behind?
Leo Jones
Modern x86 is RISC anyway, the CISC instructions are microcoded.
Oliver Jenkins
when your processors have a minix subsystem built into them, they are anything but reduced
Kevin Diaz
After they put it on the die, sure.
Zachary Smith
POWER skillfully convinced all the libre fans that's it's libre hardware while it clearly is not.
Robert Powell
power also has it's own version of ME, the firmware is just open source, but without the documents on it, which are behind a 100k/year paywall, there's no telling if it's really doing what it says it's doing.
there's literally no difference between this and nuking an intel processor with me cleaner, you get the same level of assurance.