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AMD admits its chips actually have gaming 'parity' with Intel's 14th Gen, suggests lacklustre Ryzen 9000 performance could be because we're not fiddling with Windows' backend (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] gravitas_deficiency 65 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I wouldn’t be even mildly shocked to eventually find out that there’s some sort of back room deal between MS and Intel

[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 months ago

Me neither. But. I think the answer is much simpler here: Microsoft doesn't make their money with schedulers, but bundling that Office and tracking to everybody, and charging rent every month. They have way less people working on making the kernel as fast as possible, compared to Linux where:

there are many companies running crazy workloads 24/7, and providing patches
very talented individual hackers who have an open source kernel and can play around with things, getting that last oomph out from their system

This is why, for a pro user, Linux is an amazing platform.

[–] BellyPurpledGerbil 42 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wait a minute. Was this sarcastic or do I get to lore dump? In case you weren't aware, Intel has been doing this shit to AMD for decades. And so has Nvidia.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna33882525

https://www.neowin.net/news/eu-fines-intel-400-million-for-blocking-amds-market-access-through-payments-to-pc-makers/

https://www-purepc-pl.translate.goog/intel-oraz-nvidia-mieli-wewnetrzna-umowe-ktora-blokowala-tworzenie-laptopow-z-amd-renoir-oraz-geforce-rtx-2070-i-wyzej?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US

Like this was a 3 minute Google search adventure.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

I'm assuming they're specifically meaning a deal regarding not fixing the scheduler issues

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

To be completely honest, I'd be more surprised if there wasn't.