The consumer market for PCs is in a weird spot and has been there for a while now, but it gets increasingly tough.
General purpose computing isn’t quite a thing anymore. There is no “home computer”, people use personal mobile devices for media consumption, communications etc. That corner is...
I had a plain 8320 early on and it was a gloriously leaky cheap. You could switch off turbo, undervolt and take the multiplier high enough to run 4100MHz all core, 24/7, steady as a rock. Getting to 4500MHz was easy with added voltage but for 4700 I needed 1.525V my Nepton 280L AIO to run full...
Yeah, it didn't take long for FX users to realize that you needed beefy VRMs to run/oc the 8 cores. I made two FX systems back then and for the first one I used what I considered the overall most reliable 970 board (at least of the early offerings,I do not know if in the later years better ones...
Decent launch but I’ll just wait for the X3D units, I know I’ll regret it if I don’t. I am really not sold on what Intel is doing with E-cores at all. I feel it is a huge waste of die era that could have been dedicated for extra cores and maybe cache. Makes me wonder what foveros will bring to...
I tried to run the Mankind Divided benchmark at 1080p on my 5900X/6800XT system since I have the game installed already at all ultra (including 8xMSAA) but it returned a variance of 48-87 fps (dirty, all sorts of background processes running) so I won’t even try to guestimate the settings they...
I jumped on Zen 1 (1800X), Zen 2(3900X) and Zen 3(5900X) day 1. But this time I am waiting for X3D units. I still do a fair bit of PC gaming and it seems to me that ever since modern boost algorithms improved so much that core OC brings diminishing returns, the performance seeking interest has...
Obviously consumption still matters a great deal,how much heat are you dumping in your room while running this is what I want to hear, not tmax. If boost algo allows this it might not be that bad, but If the AIO gets saturated and the cpu is throttling then yeah we have a problem.
While I fully agree than AMD needs a better value proposal in the very low end I have to point out that comparing prices to make global conclusions is tricky. Take Finland for example. A 12600K can be had for about 310, a 12700F at 410 a 5600X at about 230 and 5800X3D at 500. So it seems to me...
Zen 1/X370 was a unique situation. AMD debuted a brand new architecture using a brand new chipset, in what was essentially its first real, large volume attempt with AM4, for the first time using DDR4. It was a perfect storm for bugs and yet I was very lucky back then. With Crosshair VI hero...
No they are in line with historic TPU trends which typically overestimate Intel/nvidia over whatever amd has out. I recall when Vermeer was out, 5900X was typically trailing 10700k at 1080/1440p when the rest of reviewers had them reversed.
It was fairly common for CH6 board/Samsung b-die combo. In fact with these two I had 3200CL14 timings at launch day even, clearly outperforming all launch review gaming results.
I do not have any insider info whatsoever. It is plausible that a combination of intel offering copious amounts of cash and TSMC looking for big profits short term direcly from a competing foundry, could outmaneuver AMD in the 3nm timeline. What I find ludicrous is TSMC prioritizing intel over...
Indeed Johan Andersson,then head honcho of frostbite was the driving force behind Mantle. He was extremely jaded with DX9/11 so he pitched the idea of a lower level,more efficient API to Intel,Nvidia and AMD. Only AMD reciprocated and the rest is history. In a sense Mantle didn't vanish, Vulkan...
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