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In this market environment, who would buy it? Except maybe to re-enter if/when the AI demand drops off.

Intel is currently constrained by process wrt clockspeeds. 18a is not suitable for high clockspeed designs, and anything else they have is old and as such is not even remotely competitive from TSMC's latest. 18ap may fix that in 2027, we will have to wait and see. Using TSMC silicon is...

$55 billion is a lot of money. Gotta cut corners to recoup that investment and get into positive RoI territory! Of course the product will probably suffer, but oh well, too bad.

Absolutely. Keep in mind this also pertains to 9070XTs that have 12v2x6 connectors. But it mostly relates to the cards at most risk for failure, which are 5090s and 4090TI/4090s. It would be nice to go back to RT being optional.

Been doing that for years. It's getting hard to get a decent video card that isn't from NV. And despite the focus on the AI market, NV is still up to its old tricks when it comes to making life difficult for non-NV card owners. Don't get me wrong, a 9070XT is a fine card, and AMD apparently...

http://dansdata.com/prophet4500.htm https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/attack-blind-spot,482.html They both existed, and while the Parhelia was not really good for anything, the Kyro II had a few wins (like Serious Sam, if I recall correctly). Anandtech had a nice Kyro II review back in...

I thought Intel already had patents related to so-called "reverse hyperthreading" going back over the years? Plus there were rumours about "rentable units" awhile back: https://hardwaretimes.com/intel-15th-gen-cpus-to-get-rentable-units-why-hyper-threading-is-going-away/

There are. Quite a few publishers and devs are upset that gamers get so much value for $20. And there are indie devs angry about Team Cherry taking all the oxygen out of the room (figuratively speaking). Multiple launches have been postponed to avoid the surprise launch window of Silksong...

True. Framegen is the main culprit. Or you can get 144 fps native if you don't use RT, assuming your card can push that natively. Which in some cases it can, especially if you're running 1440p. Yeah, 8k and up really doesn't have a market yet, and maybe never will. Dunno if I agree with...

Could be Vietnam or India. In any case they're probably getting hardware from some of the same industrial districts as GMK.

The main problem I have with frame generation + upscaling is that you don't get input response that matches the indicated framerate. When your display is showing 144 fps (or higher) but you are actually getting 60 fps (or less), you're going to feel it in a twitchy shooter or what have you...

It's a shame because, of all the Z890 CPUs, the 265k is probably the one that makes the most sense at its pricepoint. It kind of is a bad CPU for desktop since it has roots in Meteor Lake that really hold it back.

Am I the only one who still wants better raster performance, no RT, and no frame generation?

Where does Framework source their boards etc?

Isn't it mostly just ASRock?

If Optane's now-dead future was any indicator, it seems like what they're going to wind up with is persistent RAM that's not as fast as actual DRAM. Which would probably be the worst point about it. And yes, cost is usually an issue for anything that's new and novel due to economies of scale.

Honestly it sounds like Intel Optane.

Not sure why people are fixated on the Framework Strix Halo when the GMK unit seems much more common.

How many units like this do you think MS can sell within its relevant lifespan?