It's the APUs, specifically. The 'normal' parts are down to the board, but only the 'Pro' APUs support ECC... and those are only sold to OEMs.When did they lock out ECC? Last I heard it's spotty support but not locked out, just MB manufacturers haven't been adding much support wise. Possibly this changed and I missed things a so haven't really looked into it for a while. I agreed I'm wonder how Xe transcoding will be, and wish AMD would upgrade their encoding implementation.
I honestly don't know if they need to; or if anyone knows, since no one can really take advantage of it. That's a big part of the rub, and it's a common criticism that AMD earns: they build the hardware, but the software doesn't come.and wish AMD would upgrade their encoding implementation.
Huh? It has plenty of support, the quality is just sub-par. It's supported under both linux and windows as well as multiple applications, including their own recording software in their drivers. My complaint has nothing to do with software support, it has to do with lacking a good hardware implementation. I do agree that sometimes it's the software stack (or lack thereof) that lets AMD users down, but this isn't the case for the AMF/VCE, but a crappy implementation probably contributes to people not caring to implement support.I honestly don't know if they need to; or if anyone knows, since no one can really take advantage of it. That's a big part of the rub, and it's a common criticism that AMD earns: they build the hardware, but the software doesn't come.