UltraMega

Well, I was demoted. Figured it would happen. Grudges exist. I would have kept helping with news, but I'm just going to leave. Good bye.

A subsequent guide. I hoped this would serve as a more simplified and up to date/to the point guide.

If you want the source in the title, by all means. We stopped doing that here a long time ago because the room for titles on the main page is pretty short, and because we use the tags for the source.

No need to put the source in the title FYI.

30% more die for 30% more performance.

I agree with everyone on their comments about the news section. But with that said, just a splash of cold water; even if everyone here was posting news actively, it wouldn't bring in new members. If you guys want this site to turn a profit, you're going to have to figure out a way to have a consistent flow of new members finding the site to begin with. As it is now, unless someone specifically recommends this site to a friend, I think EHW is basically invisible to any potential newcomers. Maybe find a small-ish and cost effective youtuber that you could pay for a few sponsored videos or something, and then focus on making sure there is enough content to retain some new users. As long as the userbase is this small and virtually no new users are coming in, profit is impossible.

Love it or hate it, this is the cutting edge.

Update to this story: https://www.ign.com/articles/tiktok-is-back-online-in-the-us-after-being-officially-banned-on-january-18 Because the ongoing nature of this is now even more political, I am going to lock this thread.

News, will continue to posts news. https://extremehw.net/staff/

The DLSS factor will be huge. If it's broadly equivalent to a PS4 but with DLSS, that alone would be a huge difference that would make it way better than a PS4, but with 50% more memory and an NVME, it should be able to push way further. I don't think the footage of Mario Kart was intended to show off anything other than a new Switch playing a familiar game. I'm not even sure if it's a real game or just something they put there for the reveal. Surely there will be a new Mario Kart game, but that might not be it. I don't think they are ready to show off graphics capability yet since that could slow down sales for current gen Switch games. It's going to be interesting to see what devs can do on a constrained device that supports Nvidia's brand of RT and upscaling for sure. I hope it has a 1080p screen. I think anything less would be a big disappointment. My cheap phone that is probably almost 4 years old is about 1440p res. If we can't even get 1080p on a Switch 2 in 2025 that would be pretty lame.

OCN did have paid staff back in the day. Not full time, but there were a few paid members. They even paid me a little at one point. Not suggesting anyone here should be paid, just pointing out the differences. OCN is on life support at this point just coasting on the audience it built up before it went downhill, and the other sites are not dedicated forums only, and have full time paid staff, so there definitely are some major differences that set EHW apart from other sites that seems to be doing well.

Those sites have full time paid staff. EHW does not so that's one big reason why. It also used to be true that tech news was more obscure and spread out but now there are at least a dozen sites that are alway up to date on tech news. OCN filled a gap with the news that no longer exists. With that said, I agree the news section is crucial here, which is why I've focused on posting news the whole time I've been here. Would be great to have more people consistently posting news.

Was it not enthusiast owned before? I think E is an enthusiast... I won't try to speak for E but just from my own observations, while E has mentioned he didn't have the time to really focus on the site as much as he wanted, the issue with sites like these is that Discord and apps like it are taking over. Even here, most of the member activity happens on Discord. Forums like this are simply fading away across the board. While I'd love to see this site succeed, I'm not sure what E could have done differently that would have really made a difference.

It's pure speculation about what will disrupt this, but as we get closer and closer to the wall I'd imagine a lot of research will shift towards looking for new ways to get around current limits, and eventually we will get a breakthrough in something like maybe graphene or 3D transistors or something not yet imagined.

More fps for more power and die. User meets wall. I've been talking about the wall for a while now. Here is the latest example. we are 10-30 years out from getting around this.

I only use Facebook for the marketplace and everytime I login, the stuff it shows me is all either super weird or AI generated thirst posts. I don't know how anyone takes Facebook seriously anymore. It's such a broken platform.

Yea I agree that it will take a few years at least, but this is one of the first steps towards opening up NPU capabilities to allow for more general usage beyond just upscaling. I fully expect the next console gen to have NPUs that devs can use in a general way as they see fit.

DLSS already runs on the NPUs in an Nvidia card. Using other NPUs like the ones integrated into a modern CPU probably wouldn't work for DLSS since the NPU on a CPU would have a latency penalty and DLSS relies on very fast/near-instant processing. I think this is more aimed at opening up NPUs to being used for more than just upscaling. It sounds like they want to establish an API that will give devs some openness and flexibility in how they use an NPU for games. Perhaps we could eventually see games that opt not to offer DLSS so that the NPU is available to do other things for the game.

https://www.techspot.com/news/106318-microsoft-support-next-gen-neural-rendering-technology-directx.html Seems like the potential to use NPUs to speed up RT workloads is huge. Will be really interesting to see how this evolves. There's also a lot of "neural" tech demo stuff in this DF video from CES 2025:

AMD snuck this under the radar.

Congrats @pio and @LabRat! And congrats @ENTERPRISE on passing on the site! Looking forward to seeing what comes next.

Looks like you were right. Native CP2077 performance went from 24 to 27.

Another one:

just to get real bassy:

MSN WWW.MSN.COM Forgive me for the article above, but I cannot find a good article with proper sources at the moment. TLDR, red/blue shifting is not being accurately represented because we are not accounting for relativity according to mass... properly. It's a bit of a mess but the new math is lining up better that dark matter theory so far. This could be the end of dark matter theory all together, and I think that is a serious claim.