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naive robin
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Only then it drops frames like crazy

chilly moat
warm cloud
chilly moat
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Does anyone have the sauce

ivory pike
marble meteor
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Already has a big performance hit on 7000 series

ivory pike
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I just want more frame genforwardfacingpepe

weak ferry
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Does 5000 series even have the hardware for the slower int8 version? I thought it was 6000 and 7000.

chilly moat
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Correct

naive robin
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5000 doesn't have int8 hardware

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Or at least, if it does- it's not fast enough

spice cedar
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@ivory pike i’m still muted in general bruh

chilly moat
chilly moat
chilly moat
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Apparently valve is being threatened with discovery, but they are privately owned

tepid wasp
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What does being privately owned have to do with anything

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You do realize private companies still have to comply with discovery proceedings right?

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And that they are still expensive, time intensive and risk airing other things unrelated to the thing they are being sued for right?

chilly moat
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They are gonna see a paper that says do nothing, if it actually goes through

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Think about it, valve is like the assassins vs the templars

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Their headquarters is a ship and gaben has a yacht

weak ferry
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Doesn't he have several yachts?

marble meteor
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he has 6

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he uses them for scientific research though, they don't just sit around when he's not on them

tepid wasp
marble meteor
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wants cool yacht
might as well buy the company

tepid wasp
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I think it was more like he wants to help design boat

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So of course that means just buy the company kekw

naive robin
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Micron joins the fray

tepid wasp
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Will make them for a year after announcing they are trying to be gamer focused before pulling out to focus on b2b

naive robin
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lmao

chilly moat
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Update came after 6 months

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Thanks Radeon

native narwhal
naive robin
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Finally generating profit in the US plant

chilly moat
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That’s a pretty big turn

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-500 to +500

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Roughly

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They just need to do that again and then they will overcome all losses

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But at the same time, the fab was being built during those years

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So it’s not like it was making chips during that time and losing money

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Not really accurate to say we are turning a profit of 4 years when it wasn’t even making anything, because saying that implies that the plant was making product that whole time and losing money, which isn’t true

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What happened is they spent a shit ton building it and it is making money, which means it has been profiting since it opened

naive robin
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Yeah

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I was reading the finer details and came to a similar conclusion

chilly moat
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We got clickbaited

naive robin
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Sadge

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All they gotta do is to keep the fab running

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This is TSMC after all

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The costs of construction is nothing compared to the amount of revenue they bring in

native narwhal
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Why

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Hasn't he already made ground based astronomy hard enough

ionic jungle
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they couldve just not included the "not about the money" part

steel plover
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I want to keep seeing the stars bro ,why 😭

native narwhal
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Money

desert hazel
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i do like steamos

spice cedar
desert hazel
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noooo

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:3

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I just got the ROG Ally, so I'll play around w/ the base settings for right now

fresh cypress
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Xbox ally?

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or the actual one

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@desert hazel

desert hazel
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ROG Ally

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just normal one

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@fresh cypress @spice cedar

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I enjoy it, but I think it's too annoying to use

spice cedar
fresh cypress
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ah nice nice

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I tried steamos. but with certain games i play it really didnt work out for me

desert hazel
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SteamOS > Armory Crate

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but it's nice using Ally as a backup pc

fresh cypress
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yeah I like mine

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tho 5090 pc cannot compare to it

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so itss hard for me to really play newer titleess and go from 1440p 240 to that

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hence why ive been using it for stuff like racing sims and such

fresh cypress
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Damn

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44tb HDD

shadow heart
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Great news for storagemaxxers

sharp wing
naive robin
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oops

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windows doing its job of being bad

serene marsh
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Glad I kept myself to 10 for now

gaunt pagoda
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it's been nearly 30 years since HAMR was in development damn

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In the late 1990s, Seagate commenced research and development related to modern HAMR drives.[3]

chilly moat
chilly moat
marble meteor
desert hazel
marble meteor
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If one is willing to use Windows, a snapdragon laptop on sale is still a better buy. But at $600/$500 for students, I think the Neo will probably sell quite well

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Wow

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no backlight on the keyboard? That's certainly a choice

desert hazel
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i'm glad u mentioned that

marble meteor
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My laptop keyboard doesn't have backlight but i also don't use it in the dark; I know some people do

desert hazel
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interesting

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difference in single vs multi core

marble meteor
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The snapdragon chips are either 8 or 10 core with multithreading err maybe not

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ok they do

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and the Elite is 12 core

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Based on the samples I'm assuming those A18 scores are in a phone, laptop will probably have higher power limits and cooling

desert hazel
chilly moat
marble meteor
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wait the chip in the macbook Neo is binned 😂

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one less gpu core than the one in the iphone 16 Pro

sharp wing
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Damn, might as well make a shell that I can plug my phone into to power it

warm cloud
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its just a phone with a big screen

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and a keyboard ig

marble meteor
naive robin
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Keep in mind that the cpu perf is next to ipad M1

warm cloud
marble meteor
warm cloud
naive robin
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The score is from the iphone, so the laptop will definitely run faster

marble meteor
naive robin
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It's hard to find something with all metal chassis for $500-600 depending whether or not do you use student discount tho

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Something that's brand new I mean

marble meteor
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Idk if the macbooks are cncd but they're definitely on the thicker side and rigid

naive robin
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the macbooks are cnc'd

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they're unibody

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the vivobook is definitely metal, but idk if they're cnc'd

marble meteor
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Doubtful

naive robin
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wait the vivobook is not the S14

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it's a vivobook 14.. hmm

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could be plastic

warm cloud
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wait

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its a "low power chip" in a laptop but its battery life is only 11 hours on the web???

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😭

naive robin
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which one? the asus?

warm cloud
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the macbook

naive robin
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macbook neo hasn't received any reviews though

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so no one can answer for sure yet

warm cloud
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according to apple at least

marble meteor
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I wouldn't be surprised if apple gives a more realistic battery life estimate than other laptop manufacturers tbh

naive robin
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my laptop once new only got 8 hours on battery

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despite reviews reporting 10 hours

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granted it's windows

tepid wasp
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Grated its Windows

warm cloud
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grated cheese

naive robin
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idk what is up with my install lately, it has been sucking up so much power on battery too that it only lasts 3 hours on 80% charge on a battery with 83% health

marble meteor
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My laptop gets 3.5 hours if I'm lucky lol

naive robin
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this thing has a 90wh batt

marble meteor
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I don't really use it away from outlets anyways though so not a huge deal

naive robin
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i find it interesting though that apple decided to make a cheaper macbook instead of making the ipad pros work like the macs

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it always seemed like they wanted to push ipads

marble meteor
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Yeah Ipad pro with m5 starts at $1000 and has less desktop functionality than the Neo 😭

tepid wasp
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My mother insisted she get one

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Could've gotten an Air for open box excellent for like, 350 cheaper

naive robin
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real

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well it's the shiny new thing that is attractively priced

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ppl are bound to want one asap

marble meteor
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Well good news is the M5 and 12gb ram will probably last her till the end of time lol

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Absurd amount of power for a tablet

naive robin
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too much chip for a tablet

chilly moat
shadow heart
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Just give us good CPUs

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Intel used to be good wtf happened

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Stop making AMD's CPUs expensive 💀

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They both use the same machine to develop the CPUs anyways lmaoooo

ionic jungle
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12th gen -14 gen saw barely any improvement

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and a whole socket change to core ultra

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and now another whole socket change for nove lake

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r we srs

weak ferry
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And it'll be another socket change a couple years after that for whatever ddr6 cpu comes out. If they want to start long term socket support that would be the time to do it. Personally I don't really care about platform longevity. The people who went 1600 to 5700x3d maybe with a stopover for the 3600 or 3700 in there have a good case. Am4 in the early days kind of sucked for gaming though.

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And if you're not buying in early then it's not a useful promise.

warm cloud
chilly moat
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Radeon would make much more money than that if they just did the right things (not hard to do)

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When this shit becomes a meme, amd will get hit pretty hard

naive robin
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oof

chilly moat
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all they had to do was what the people wanted

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and they still dont do what the people want

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took half a year to update z1e and they did the maintenance mode cope

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and are still slouching with fsr 4

naive robin
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amd, always making disappointing (products)

chilly moat
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i was talking about this about a year ago but it seems like they are fine with having a small market share if it means they can still make high margins off of the people that are continuously in their niche

naive robin
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they have all the marketing and research budget and people

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and yet they act like they're clueless

chilly moat
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even back then i was coming to the conclusion that they were still gonna undercut nvidia but still push the price as high as they can

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while acting like they are gonna underdog them so hard

naive robin
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"oh we're not generating a lot of money from gaming. it must be because gamers don't buy anymore"

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when the truth is, people are still buying hardware

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it's just that nvidia has been the staple

chilly moat
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yea guys we are the cool underdog because we said confidently that we are gonna capture that mid range and slash prices under nvidia at a critical moment

naive robin
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amd legit has the ability to cut into the nvidia cake

chilly moat
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crazy they witheld their prices till the last second last year

naive robin
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but they just don't execute properly

chilly moat
naive robin
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it's why the graph looks the way it is

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amd is clueless and adamant at the same time

chilly moat
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radeon team lowk rarted

naive robin
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the heavy ai push is not going to last forever

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nvidia already has that market too

chilly moat
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ryzen just keeps winning look at the ryzen profits

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im not sure why radeon is the way that they are

naive robin
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i think they're just too stubborn and confident

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and yet not confident enough at the same time

chilly moat
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are they operating independently or are they more directly controlled

naive robin
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driver support hell, terrible pr

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inconsistent product release lineup

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the thought that a product could be pulled out of support within a few years is scary

chilly moat
# naive robin driver support hell, terrible pr

Do you know why radeon is much better on linux? It is not directly because of them. It is because they are more open and allow others to contribute more rather than it being radeon being the good guy making everything. They discontinued their driver and shifted all focus towards mesa

naive robin
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ryzen team wasn't innocent either

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they tried to pull the plug on 300 series chipsets on am4

naive robin
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it used to be that nvidia gpus worked better on linux

chilly moat
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radeon mesa is good because they just let foss guys do the main stuff

naive robin
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until the open-source driver approach came out

chilly moat
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flipped

naive robin
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ur average gamer will only use windows

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and well.. radeon on windows has a bad reputation

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despite how much the team have tried to improve

chilly moat
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Honestly they did improve quite a bit, but it is still not the best

naive robin
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not to mention the unobtanium radeon dgpu powered laptops

chilly moat
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I actually used to think it was good until I went to linuix

chilly moat
naive robin
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nvidia also has quite a strong hold in terms of software

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dlss, the best upscaling tech in the industry

naive robin
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but on the flip side, if they don't take the risk

chilly moat
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But I haven't even seen any

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Like at al

naive robin
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awareness won't start

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yeah, the last time i've seen one was 3 years ago

chilly moat
naive robin
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they have not even released 9000 series for laptops

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the lack of product release also saps away any confidence in partners

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if nvidia laptops sell well as is, why not keep making nvidia laptops?

chilly moat
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It was all 8

naive robin
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ya

chilly moat
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What are they doing

naive robin
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radeon 8060S is a powerhouse

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but locked away behind a huge paywall

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it's an igpu paired to a beastly cpu with a ton of cores

chilly moat
naive robin
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i wonder what is up with the memory latency and speeds

chilly moat
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the latency is because he had to have something running to get it to hit high speeds for whatever reason

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so he had a game running and ran it again, then got this

naive robin
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ah

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fair enough

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i once really wanted a radeon 7600s laptop

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4050's competitor with 8 gigs

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but looking back, i think that laptop going out of stock left me in a better position lmao

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dlss is the thing keeping this 6 gigs card going just fine

weak ferry
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Those JPR reports don't make sense to me. Nvidia only has about a 3 to 1 lead on gaming revenue over amd. How could it be anything like 90+% nvidia when nvidia cards average more expensive and amd doesn't even try to compete at the top of the market?

chilly moat
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Nvidia has always had a huge lead

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Anything clawed away from them was only momentary

haughty topaz
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lol wth are those timings?

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chilly moat
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arc alert arc alert

native narwhal
rare vault
rare vault
tepid wasp
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Mandatory Workstation Conversion beginning in 3

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2

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1

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Error Error

chilly moat
ionic notch
ionic notch
native narwhal
tepid wasp
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Nvidia reportedly stepped in to help ensure the site would continue deploying its hardware rather than systems powered by AMD. Furthermore, Nvidia provided Crusoe with a $150 million deposit and assisted efforts to attract Meta — which is not a part of the Stargate project — as a prospective tenant for the additional capacity, the report says.

vivid kelp
# naive robin probably to do with the lack of sales?

What also doesn't help their sales is not getting their mobile dGPU laptops to anywhere that isn't USA. I mean heck, even in Canada that's right beside US I barely saw any laptops with mobile AMD dGPUs available (back when AMD had actually released stuff). I even tried actively looking for those laptops and still barely found any.

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iirc they weren't even a better deal than nvidia options either.

tepid wasp
marble meteor
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Pump and dump ahh game

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record sales
time to continue live service
realize they'll make more money via releasing a different game next year instead

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BF really is just turning into cod

exotic tendon
marble meteor
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Nah crossplay isn't the issue

exotic tendon
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most console players do NOT use mics

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Do NOT use team strategy

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Do NOT CARE about Real FPS play

marble meteor
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That wouldn't be any better with crossplay off. You can turn it off and check if you want

exotic tendon
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then yeah, it comes down to having no custom servers

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So you're just thrown with all the wall lickers

marble meteor
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Now, no server browser and no persistent official servers is def an issue

exotic tendon
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either way, I played that game for a week, then just died off. I want my money back

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atleast half 😄

chilly moat
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The beta was really fun, but remember, no pre order

marble meteor
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Well see they've learned that they can have a great game at launch (just slightly lacking in content) and sell a bazillion copies, but then just utterly fail to deliver with the live service

native narwhal
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We're not blaming it, we identified the cause and you're it

chilly moat
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https://fxtwitter.com/vxunderground/status/2032562782248349793

vx-underground (@vxunderground)

Yeah, so basically it turns out Meta has been heavily lobbying online age verification laws. They've lobbied over $2,000,000,000 to politicians in form of grants and donations.
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Quoting 🐝🇬🇷 (@bee_fumo)
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someone traced the all the non profit grants for the age verification laws
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marble meteor
chilly moat
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Same

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Oh you know what

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Maybe the 2 billion is total, not from just meta

chilly moat
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They should do it now so people can make it better lol

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The determination of the people to make it better is commendable

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They made it usable on rdna 3, usable in games that don’t even have a swappable fsr dll (optiscaler), swapping a fsr 3.1 dll that isn’t officially greenlit by amd, vulkan compatibility (optiscaler)

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Amd is almost doing nothing

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Although they are really slow and honestly borderline incompetent at times, at least they let the community cook and don’t get in their way, so there’s that.. pieskull pieskull

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Which to my understanding is why they work so well with linux

marble meteor
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oh boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJACkKbN-Eo

YouTube
NVIDIA GeForce
Announcing NVIDIA DLSS 5 | AI-Powered Breakthrough in Visual Fideli...

NVIDIA DLSS 5, an AI-powered breakthrough in visual fidelity for games is coming later this year. DLSS 5 infuses pixels with photorealistic lighting and materials, bridging the gap between rendering and reality.

DLSS 5 preview game footage captured in real-time at 4K Max Settings on GeForce RTX.

Learn more: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce...

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chilly moat
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They are literally altering the dev's artstyle according to what they deem to look "better" and it in turn makes things look the same, when these environments and faces start to have this "look" like how unoptimized unreal 5 games have that "look" to them

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chilly moat
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The wrinkles are smooth sobbing

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The eyes blink weird sobbing

marble meteor
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Yeah I can see their vision with the lighting but it needs some tweaking to not look like an AI filter/ AI image

chilly moat
marble meteor
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Ehh

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I will say, it looked pretty good in the fifa game. I think maybe it's tuned for photorealism and when a game has a more stylized look it messes it up

chilly moat
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They should just focus more on the stability of dlss rather than this imo

chilly moat
marble meteor
chilly moat
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even fsr 4.1 tested by hub shows some specific scenarios where 4 can be a little more stable than both 4.1 and dlss

marble meteor
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Yeah stability vs detail is definitely something to work on

fresh cypress
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gaunt pagoda
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why did they make power folding seats

native narwhal
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If qmb tech takes off I'll make them but at 2/3rds the price at most

ivory pike
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Yeah I don’t need a larger screen for 3x the price

tepid wasp
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The only thing they were innovating on.
The innovation: MOAR SCREEN

marble meteor
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Just one fold not 2 though

chilly moat
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Is it over for the neo

native narwhal
chilly moat
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That intel laptop is probably gonna be expensive

naive robin
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it's just like them range rovers

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a hyundai palisade is much more affordable than those luxury suvs, so incidents like these are bound to happen

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but i do have to say that they should've thought deeper about this feature and made it detect pressure and stop folding

chilly moat
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I know I have been saying that zen 6 will be huge, but I feel like this is flawed

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Like the clocks are being misreported

tepid wasp
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Considering it is probably an engineering sample, there is a high chance that is true

chilly moat
chilly moat
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Has to be

weak ferry
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Pure copium and clickbait. Nova lake would be a dumb time to start that, we're too close to ddr6. Realistically that will have time for two maybe three releases. If they wanted to use one socket for all of ddr6 that would be the sensible time to promise something like that.

chilly moat
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Probably after the next iteration

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They are at least planning to do it

warm cloud
weak ferry
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Having another bridge generation like 6th or 12th would be good for people who want to reuse their ddr5 ram. It's bad for people who want to keep that motherboard to reuse for future CPU generations. It's a tradeoff and, not to sound like a ubm article but, all the people you see complain about it seem to be on one side.

chilly moat
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If only they did this 5 years ago

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But people who care about ownership already made the switch and won't be coming back

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They are only doing this to retain their iron fist on the market, not to actually be good for the user

warm cloud
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Buy your routers now

sharp wing
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now that's a weird one

native narwhal
tepid wasp
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Expanded phone subsidies to internet, increased minimum broadband speeds from 4 to 25mbit per sec, fought against robocalls and enforced net neutrality peepoSadSip

marble meteor
chilly moat
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Well a raspberry pi router guide was just made a day ago lol

shadow heart
chilly moat
shadow heart
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No Ethernet hat

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ew

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But still a cool project

chilly moat
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Yeah I think the best thing really is to get an openwrt supported router

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But the pi is pretty cheap

chilly moat
chilly moat
chilly moat
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https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/30-000-nvidia-engineers-use-generative-ai-for-3x-higher-code-output.346079/
https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/proof-amd-is-vibe-coding-their-drivers.347730/

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30,000 NVIDIA Engineers Use Generative AI for 3x Higher Code Output

The company that started the entire wave of AI infrastructure and development is now enjoying the fruits of its work. NVIDIA has deployed generative AI tools across its company to an astonishing 30,000 engineers. In a partnership with San Francisco-based Anysphere Inc., the company is getting a...

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Proof AMD is vibe coding their drivers

Harry Wentland, 15 years of developing drivers for AMD.

I used Claude Sonnet extensively for this work (it basically wrote all the code)

https://hwentland.github.io/2026/03/10/plane-color-pipeline-csc-3d-lut-kwin.html

I have fresh crow on order for several posters here.

shadow heart
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2016: software engineer shortage
2026: (good) software engineer shortage

naive robin
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good software engineers all got laid off

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the companies did it to themselves

mellow cobalt
naive robin
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oh, the 2017 mining craze coming back to haunt nvidia sounds like fun

native narwhal
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@naive robin

naive robin
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well he got yeeted by someone else

native narwhal
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Lol

chilly moat
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https://fxtwitter.com/IanCutress/status/2036496126434529394

𝐷𝑟. 𝐼𝑎𝑛 𝐶𝑢𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 (@IanCutress)

Today @Arm announces its AGI CPU at its event.
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︀︀➡️ 96 x PCIe 6.0 with CXL 3.0 Support
︀︀➡️ Up to DDR5-8800, 6 TB/sec BW/core
︀︀➡️ 8160 cores per air cooled 36 kW OCP V3 Rack
︀︀➡️ Two chiplets inside
︀︀➡️ Date code 2613 on chip (ie, this week)

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socketable

chilly moat
chilly moat
native narwhal
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@rare vault we should lowk get more memory

chilly moat
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They'll just make the models larger

rare vault
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bruh

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true

young osprey
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More AI slops

sharp wing
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Don’t tell me i gotta start buying more memory cards now

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Sony’s CFExpress type a cards were already overpriced, i can’t imagine what will happen now

chilly moat
naive robin
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Oh god no

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Hell no

chilly moat
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Maybe next gen could still be normal

naive robin
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That could be the play AMD is going with

shadow heart
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Totally credible source btw

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(Literally my website lol)

chilly moat
tepid wasp
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Ah yes, nostalgia for an OS that is almost as old as my mother derpyBlob

chilly moat
chilly moat
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6, 8, 10, 12, but imagine 5+5 or 4+4

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12+6

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the extra cores leave a lot of room for this since things have been going fine with the current core count

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maybe ryzen 3 having 6, 5 having 8, 7 having 10 and 12? but that is only half

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so then ryzen 9 has 8+8 and 12+12?

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curious to see how amd goes about this

tepid wasp
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Well, I imagine Ryzen 3 won't be part of the initial desktop lineup like usual

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So a Ryzen 5 with 6 and or 8, a Ryzen 7 with 10 and or 8, the lower tier Ryzen 9 with 12 and then a Ryzen 7 with 8+8 and a Ryzen 9 with 12+12

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Or the low tier 9 can be the 8+8 and the higher tier being 12+12

chilly moat
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im more optimistic about r3 because 6 cores off is still enough to make something with it

tepid wasp
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If the 12 core ccd is true I can imagine AMD pulling a money saving manuever and making it so only the highest tier cpus has more than 1 ccd

chilly moat
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i imagine a year after the launch they release some cursed stuff like 6+6 and 5+5 and whatnot

tepid wasp
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Cause I imagine AMD's weaker cores are half sized, so 8+8 maintains a 12 core ccd

chilly moat
tepid wasp
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They could just not release one of the Ryzen 9 cpus next gen

chilly moat
tepid wasp
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Oh, I thought they were going to be their own E cores

chilly moat
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naw

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i saw one guy theorize a zen ccd and a zen c ccd but i do not think this is likely to happen

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zen c is for more constrained environments like mobile or core spamming for specific server usecases where they would benefit from more numerous, lower clocking cores with less cache

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but zen c still has all of the instructions zen has

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zen c compresses the core by having everything designed together rather than splitting up the core design for each thing, which allows them to really optimize the space of the core

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along with using higher density logic

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and less cache

marble meteor
native narwhal
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What does that mean

marble meteor
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pwa = progressive web app

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basically means the 'app' is more or less a browser window

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Devs like them because you build it once and it runs on all platforms, but they often are less stable, hog memory, and can have lower performance

native narwhal
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Oh lovely

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So basically what they did to whatsapp and dsc, they're doing to everything now...

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For context whatsapp is unusable in the windows app version

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Oh wait misread it

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Yay less pwas

marble meteor
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marble meteor
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Thanks I might switch to it

marble meteor
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It used to be excellent but isn't quite as good anymore

marble meteor
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They've lowered access to some features (like Deep Research) and the models (for example Gemini 3.1) are using APIs and don't seem to be quite as powerful for some tasks as they would be through their native app

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However for daily search use it's still top tier afaik

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I got a free year through my internet provider and then a second free year through something else. It's expiring soon and I'll have to decide between keeping Perplexity Pro or getting Gemini Pro with a student discount

chilly moat
naive robin
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neural rendering again

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ugh

marble meteor
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It also adds totally new detail to the players coat cuff in stalker

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That being said, it does look less ai-like than Nvidia's dlss5

naive robin
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less ai-like but they do still alter faces tbh

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it's what i don't like

native narwhal
merry token
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NTC looks interesting

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predictive ai texture decompliling

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they say it works on 1000 series for nvidia

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6000 for amd

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and the a770 for intel

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but works best with a 4000, 9000 and b580

merry token
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but i want to see how it looks like in games

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and maybe not all textures can have it if it changes too much

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if it can theoretically decrease vram usage by 85%

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even a quarter of that would be huge

merry token
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or maybe as a setting for low end computers

rare vault
merry token
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its emerging technology

rare vault
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oh

merry token
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first got announced in 2024 or so but recently there were some rumblings about it

pallid spruce
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doing the Nvidia shareholder shill things but markedly worse and less competently

marble meteor
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From the examples I've seen it typically looks a lot less like an "ai filter" compared to dlss5

pallid spruce
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every other technology they've released has been a late, inferior version of Nvidia tech

pallid spruce
marble meteor
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Ok so you haven't even looked at it you're just assuming it's worse

pallid spruce
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either way they both suck

pallid spruce
minor cove
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Samsung is better when it comes to tech

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Sub par to apple

native narwhal
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Alternative opinion: both are stupid and it all comes down to pricing

marble meteor
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Alternative alternative: apples hardware pricing is silly but their privacy take is better than the other manufacturers

native narwhal
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Alternative³: they're lying

marble meteor
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As far as I'm aware there is zero evidence to suggest that

native narwhal
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They're a multi-billion dollar tech company with a device in most of the populations hands

marble meteor
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That isn't evidence

native narwhal
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Idk I dont trust any of them

marble meteor
tepid wasp
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You shouldn't. Apple just has better standards for it because they haven't fully turned to monetizing you at every step of the way. For now that is, eventually when they can't keep ahead they'll chip away at it more and more. They've already ramped up their ad usage iirc

native narwhal
marble meteor
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bro says he doesn't trust any of them and doesn't know what graphene is ..

pallid spruce
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companies and government are becoming the same thing, if one has it the other probably does to. idgaf who has my data anymore, they all have everything. hopefully this era will end

marble meteor
pallid spruce
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that was 2015

marble meteor
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oh, subscriber exclusive, lame

pallid spruce
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we're in the big 26

marble meteor
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oh yeah that was with the 5c

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not seeing anyhting about the 8 though

marble meteor
pallid spruce
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apparently icloud was a part of PRISM all the way back in 2013 and that's how they got snowden. also more recently they started scanning for CP, which while totally understandable isn't exactly conducive to data privacy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICloud?

ICloud

iCloud is the personal cloud service of Apple. Launched on October 12, 2011, iCloud enables users to store and sync data across devices, including Apple Mail, Apple Calendar, Apple Photos, Apple Notes, contacts, settings, backups, and files, to collaborate with other users, and track assets through Find My. iCloud's client app is built into iOS,...

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can't find the specific case i was remembering tho

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2018 CLOUD Act also allows fed access to icloud info

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iirc iphone 8 was out before then tho

marble meteor
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You can turn on Advaced Protection for iCloud which makes it E2E (though obviously if you lose your keys all your data is gone, which is why it isn't on by default)
https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651

Apple Support
iCloud data security overview - Apple Support

iCloud uses strong security methods, employs strict policies to protect your information, and leads the industry in using privacy-preserving security technologies like end-to-end encryption for your data.

marble meteor
pallid spruce
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i'm aware

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but that's not really privacy then, eh?

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e2e is good tho, wasn't aware they started that. i just disabled icloud tbh

marble meteor
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Look, I'm not saying that they're perfect. But one of the reasons they cost more than other companies is because of the privacy aspect. (also, they're just seen as premium in the US)

pallid spruce
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i agree with that statement

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i just don't think it's meaningful enough to be a real factor. it just sounds nice to say it

marble meteor
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They don't sell your data for targeted advertising, they try to minimize overall data collected, run AI/compute on-device if possible, block apps from tracking/gathering data by default, and use E2E where possible. Overall the little things add up.

tepid wasp
marble meteor
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Other companies subsidize product cost via data collection and sale, so by cutting that apple then increases prices

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but yeah it's also tied in with premium branding

marble meteor
tepid wasp
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Apple has been rolling out ads slowly across their services, they aren't going to cut prices because of it. Premium branding drives premium prices

marble meteor
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eh, not a super active channel anyways

tepid wasp
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Actually, this convo started due to a comment on Samsung vs Apple that some regular random decided to post here pepehmmm

sharp wing
naive robin
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I suspect it's china only

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Third vendor to offer 3 gig modules

spice cedar
ionic notch
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Supposedly AMD is restarting production of the 5800x3D

naive robin
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Yeah, as posted above

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Apologies if I sound aggressive

ionic notch
ionic notch
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Seems I was right when we were trying to guess the cost of the 9950x3D2 a while back the question was if it's going to cost 800, 900, 1000, or more US dollars and the MSRP is a unfortunate $899.

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~30% more than a 9950x3D for about a ~7% uplift in CAD Programs and AI stuff.

native narwhal
spice cedar
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Interesting

rare vault
native narwhal
marble meteor
spice cedar
marble meteor
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me too

spice cedar
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Really wish it was 80 bucks would have interested in getting 2 in order to mod one

marble meteor
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$80 and maybe like $60-70 bundled with the steam machine

spice cedar
marble meteor
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Yep my theory is that it will optionally be bundled with the machine for +$60

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Maybe +$70

ionic notch
native narwhal
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Lmao canvas hacked

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Maybe no more finals?

gaunt pagoda
merry token
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/4339880/Game_Compressor/

Steam
Game Compressor

STOP "DISK FULL" ERRORSGame Compressor is a powerful tool designed to manage your storage space. You no longer need to delete old favorites to make room for massive modern AAA titles. It safely reduces the size of your game folders using Microsoft's native CompactOS (LZX) technology.HOW DOES IT WORK? (SMART COMPRESSION)Our program uses a tra…

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$3.49

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also speeds up games on HDD

native narwhal
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Ai generated main Pic doesn't help

merry token
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no performance loss

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some games refuse to boot but you can revert changes

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and its in beta

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reminds me of lossless scaling

native narwhal
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Hmm

merry token
merry token
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instead of the 1/2 it claims

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but 10gb here and there aint nothing to scoff at

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espicially if you are on a budget build with a 512gb SSD

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due to higher prices

native narwhal
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True

merry token
native narwhal
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Or you could just be me and scavenge 3 TB worth from around the house

naive robin
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this to me sounds like a repack lol

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the ai generated pics gives me vibecoded feelings tho

native narwhal
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Same

merry token
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the dev talks to alot of people and responds to videos made on it

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u0CAiMLfRU

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@naive robin @native narwhal remember diskdoubler?

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is like that

naive robin
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hmmm

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okay

native narwhal
merry token
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instead of you running the command yourself

native narwhal
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Oh

merry token
native narwhal
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Ic

merry token
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all the program does is run like 2 lines in the cmd box

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its just automation

marble meteor
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I assume it adds load to the CPU to run the compression?

merry token
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but when i saw people test it in games there was no CPU % increase

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RAM went up by like 0.5-1.0gb usage depending on the game

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so if you got like less than 16gb probably dont use it

merry token
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but it seems to be pretty cool

native narwhal
rare vault
native narwhal
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😭

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Yes

ionic notch
ionic notch
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The direct article referenced in the video.

pallid spruce
pallid spruce
ivory pike
naive robin
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i don't like gamer meld, but that gpu news is indeed real

ionic notch
naive robin
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drivers are whql certified too, yep

rare vault
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just set the video speed to 1.5

rare vault
naive robin
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i can't stand watching him even at 1.5x lol

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the videos just feel dumbed down

rare vault
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like saying seventy one hundred but its seven-gee-one hundred

rare vault
naive robin
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i doubt it will be reaching the US market any time soon, sadly

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will mostly be sold in china only, or at least in asian countries

ivory pike
naive robin
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judging by the specs, it's gotta be at least 300 bucks

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ram ain't cheap nowadays

ivory pike
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Having 12gb vram really helps

naive robin
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but i have doubts about its raw performance in games

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4060 perf or so would be fine, but yeah

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hard to tell

ivory pike
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Hopium

weak ferry
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There is 0 chance that thing would have consistent drivers. If you want a 12gb 4060 for $300 buy a b580.

ionic notch
rare vault
ionic notch
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Please MSI sell the B850Mpower board outside the US market already... All of us SFF/MFF overclockers want your board.

vivid kelp
ionic notch
marble meteor
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Yeah I wanna see a comprehension test taken lol

vivid kelp
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Pretty much just a skim, which is generally all I need/want for most things tech/news things. Can be a lot of fluff in videos too that can start to be ignored more easily when info bombing the brain. 2.5x is pretty decent for info retention for me at least, unless video be properly fast speaker already

ionic notch
merry token
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sharp wing
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looks pretty sick but seems they are having trouble with the software development

naive robin
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12gb vram, sits between 9060xt and 9070

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odd sku

marble meteor
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12gb is still solid for 1440p these days

naive robin
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ya

mellow cobalt
naive robin
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$300 laptops?

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i hope it's not utter trash

weak ferry
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8gb and a real ssd. That's a lot better than the celeron, 4gb and emmc the really cheap windows laptops have been getting. It was like they were taking a chromebook and just installing windows on it. Might actually be decent.

marble meteor
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Yeah it'll almost certainly be better than every other $300 laptop