Recent content by AngelusF

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    News Another RTX 5090 connector melts down, reportedly taking a Redditor's PSU with it

    Why not? Mandatory usage instructions would not be at all out of place in a specification for any piece of electrical equipment.
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    News RTX 4060 is now the top GPU on Newegg despite ludicrous $500 price tag

    If anyone thinks that 4060 price is ridiculous, Amazon UK has a 3070 for £800 ($1,030) and a watercooled 3080 for £1,414 ($1,823)
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    Review Micron 4600 2TB SSD Review: The New Baseline in SSDs

    The 4TB endurance doesn't scale up proportionally from the 1TB and 2TB, is it using higher-capacity Flash chips with a smaller cell size in order to fit everything on a single side?
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    News AMD's 16-core 9950X3D chip allegedly lands 14% faster than last-gen in PassMark

    That 32MB L3 cache figure for the 9950X3D is wrong. If those figures are pulled from the chip itself then something needs updating somewhere as it's only showing the cache for the non-3D chiplet.
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    News Lenovo showcases a USB-C connected AI Stick with a 32 TOPS NPU on board

    Which is why I said "up to 100W" But the Lenovo blurb implies that you'll need to provide it with more power to get full performance without any mention of whether or not it's already getting 100W from the host. Could be just poor copywriting, though.
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    News Lenovo showcases a USB-C connected AI Stick with a 32 TOPS NPU on board

    So Thunderbolt over USB-C can provide up to 100W, and that's not enough??? I'm assuming that grille on the end of the thing is an exhaust port for a tiny fan, but that's still a heck of a lot of power to be putting into a small enclosure.
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    News Some RTX 5090s are shipping with missing ROP units, leading to less gaming performance: Report

    Next time Jensen appears in public, his leather jacket will have been cut down and only have one arm.
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    News RTX 5090 exhibits 27% higher CUDA performance than RTX 4090 — exceeds 500K points in Geekbench

    And when you factor in the higher power consumption, the increase measured in FpS per Watt will be even less. Or maybe even a decrease? The only thing that attracts me about the 5090 is the memory. Or at least it would attract me if it had 48GB instead of 32GB.
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    News Microsoft prepares DirectX to support neural rendering for AI-powered graphics — a key feature of the update will be Cooperative Vector support

    Why is it taking so long to write? Can't they just get AI to code it in a few minutes? Yeah right.
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    News Nvidia's $3,000 mini AI supercomputer draws scorn from Raja Koduri and Tiny Corp — AI server startup suggests users "Just buy a gaming PC

    Forget the Flops, it's the unified memory that's attracting my attention. The PC architecture is hamstrung by having its memory divided in two parts. OK, so you do get special memory optimized for certain operations on the graphics card, but you have to pay through the nose just to get 32MB of...
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    News Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 versus RTX 4090 — How does the new halo GPU compare with its predecessor?

    "A massive 2X jump in performance using Flux.dev"? Read the small print - the 4090 was using FP8 but the 5090 was using FP4. No wonder it was twice as fast.
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    News Ryzen 9 9950X3D purportedly surfaces with 5.65 GHz boost clocks — leaked specs inlcude 96MB 3D V-Cache on a single CCD and 170W TDP

    And surely that's the only config that makes any real sense because it avoids all the Windoze oh-dear-which-CCD-should-I-run-this-thread-on nonsense.
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    News Intel Game On Graphics Driver addresses Battlemage bloopers – Arc B580 fixes and known issues are the highlights of the latest update

    I only have nvidia graphics because the CUDA :) But want that for the price of intel graphics!
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    News Nvidia reveals detailed ray tracing differences, promotes DLSS 3 for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

    The lighting may be cinematic quality, but the characters still move like robots.