Sir Beregond

Hello! Welcome to EHW!

Nice to see a 2-dimmer come back. Need more of those.

Congrats @pio and @LabRat! Really happy to see the community continue, and looking forward to where this can go!

Speaking of a wall....I suspect any traditional raster improvement over 40-series is going to look minimal outside of the 5090. Ada gen got a lot of its improvements simply from the move from Samsung 8nm (a 10nm process) to TSMC N4 (a 5nm process). Given Blackwell sticks to TSMC 5nm (but I think the rumor is moving to N4P), most of it's improvements are going to have to come from architecture, clocks, power draw, and larger dies...and that only gets you so far. We at least also have the move from G6X to G7 memory which should help a lot as well. But otherwise? AI AI AI AI AI. Presumably the RT performance in the very specific scenarios Nvidia used is where you'll see the biggest improvements, otherwise... But I also fully expected nGreedia mode because AMD simply is not going to compete at many levels here with RDNA4...they have stated as much.

I'm actually pleasantly surprised by this. I fully expected them to go full nGreedia mode activated with a $2499 5090 and $1199 5080.

Damn. My cables are just a mess. This is sexy.

Yep I went to HardOCP as well for folding. No thought yet as to HWBot, but honestly haven't been doing anything with HWBot all year so not a big priority.

Right I was more saying the team split. It wasn't really accurate to say the team moved to TPU. Between HWBot and Folding, team split to a few places.

Right I just meant, you and Luke went to TPU to start up HWBot again. That's not "the team moved to TPU".

Kinda lame...gotta say. 9950X3D and 9900X3D appear to retain the split CCD design of their Zen 4 predecessors. Coming March 2025. RDNA4 and FSR4 to be unveiled later in the quarter...presumably after Nvidia announces their stuff and sets prices. Some really high level stuff shown confirming rebrand to 9070/9070 XT, but not much else like performance, price, or release date. Mobile and Enterprise stuff. If you were playing the "take a shot every time they say AI" drinking game, you need a new liver most likely.

No, the entire HWBot team did not go to TPU, that's not really fair to say. Same with F@H. Lot of the big hitters did not go to TPU.

Many went to [H]ardOCP too. I was planning to fold for them in the upcoming contest this month. Probably something you talk to folks on if you do end up going through with it.

If you bought and continued the site, happy to still be here and contribute to forum activity as well as to continue reviews if that program stays.

Man I totally forgot about Vice City. Fun times as a 12 year old...

Never heard of it to be honest. I'll have to find that and pick it up. Hard to pick just one game for PS2. I have a whole box of em. For me here are some top mentions:

Gotta do one last hurrah.

It's good to see more entries in the sub $300 market. Perhaps it's not groundbreaking, but the sub $300 market is the mainstream market, just look at any Steam hardware survey top 10 GPU's. It's good to have more cards in this space. Problem Intel is going to have is competition from mostly AMD come next year. AMD's stated goal with RDNA4 is to capture market share and that is going to definitely have to include the mainstream $300 and below market imo in addition to the mid-range $500-$600 market. This is going to put Intel's offering in an odd spot performance wise depending on what kind of uplift we see in this segment with next gen. I also have to wonder if Intel is making any money off of the B580. The BMG-G21 die for the B580 is 272mm2. The RTX 4060 on the other hand is using the AD107 die which is 159mm2. Both are using versions of TSMC 5nm. This means that Intel is using approximately 71% more silicon to beat the 4060 by about 10%. That can't be good for their bottom line on these cards. I really hope Intel keeps at it, but now with Pat Gelsinger gone, I'm not so sure about the longterm future of Arc.

If they only just now started full production, then yeah 1-2 years seems unlikely to me given games these days taking multiple years to dev.

What's funny is we'll probably be on 60 or 70 series GeForce by the time this game comes out.

I can, my wife can't Now if I had an office instead of this sitting in the bedroom, that would be different.

I may try to join in if it doesn't make the room too stuffy. In sirb

Are any games using DirectStorage yet? Feel like there must be some, but wasn't sure.

Definitely add me to the list of folks interested in picking up a B580 to play with. Never did pick up an A770, but maybe some day.

I think you kinda just buy an Nvidia card if folding is a concern these days.