Against better judgement to just wait, back in December 2020, I ordered a AMD Ryzen 9 5950X - and received possible one of the worst chips to be on the market. In Cinebench R23, it achieved a Single Core score of ca. 1550, with a Multi Core score of ca. 24040. This by itself doesn't look too bad, until you open Cinebench R20 and get ca. 580 in Single Core, with Multi Core just barely hitting the 9800 barrier. So I did what any person with this hardware would do, and searched for overclocking options.
When I started with VoiceFX, my original goal was to only support VST 3.x, as it was the most modern version of the SDK, and surely by now every important software had moved to it. Unfortunately I didn't account for the occasional big shot releasing a modern product with a relatively ancient version of the SDK - an SDK that no longer officially exists. So what do you do in this situation? You do what every other totally sane developer does and start a clean-room reverse engineering project for the now abandoned VST 2.x SDK, staying faithful to the law....
As a Programmer I have to deal with a number of programming languages to write code, and one language that repeatedly appears is JavaScript. JavaScript is one of the weirder languages - similar to PHP in weirdness - which makes it an interesting experience to say the least. Most of the time you're at the whim of a grey box compiler, due to the massive variance of Browsers and Devices that the users use. So in order to best approach reality, I have to figure out which APIs are available at any point in time, and also run performance benchmarks...
Melted PCB Around the end of last week, my Alphacool waterblock decided that it was time to kill the NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition it was placed on. That was the day I learned that burning PCB and plastic smells the same as coal - and that I should probably replace my smoke detectors since they didn't go off at all. That meant I needed a new GPU, and after a bit of search for actually available GPUs, I ended up going for the 3090 cards - nobody apparently has 3080s, only 3070s and 3090s. The card I ended...
NVIDIA certainly wasn't idle in the last two years, that much is clear. Their jump from 12nm to 8nm should set the average standard for what we should expect from moving nodes while also improving on the generation. This generational leap is what we should have seen from the 20xx series, which now seems like overpriced junk - so sorry for anyone who bought them in the last 6 months and can't return them. Let's go into a bit of history and detail. The AMD side: Shrinking 14nm to 7nm Three years ago in 2017, AMD RTG tried to even...