Recent content by dipique

Yup, that's exactly what happens. The SSD market is just that friendly with each other. Good thing none of them want more of the market! With those margins it'd be easy to make a move.

...I'm sorry but you know that's not how this works, right? They can't just slap a couple extra chips on the PCB and rake in the extra profit.

I mean, lunar lake looks pretty damn good. If you don't mind the price.

I think they still want to wait for Nvidia's embargo dates.

Plus more and MUCH faster tensor cores. If you're on the AI train it's a hell of a card. If not, second hand 4090s will be the way to go.

In fairness, that's just because your eye can recognize 24fps and identifies media at different frame rates as feeling "wrong"/"off". Younger viewers don't have that same reaction; 60fps doesn't inherently "feel" less real, the the GG and the Boomers just weren't used to it and drew the wrong...

That's like normalizing horsepower on cars to fuel economy. No, a 400hp car @ 17mpg is not about the same as a 200hp car at 34mpg. Those cars are obviously for different people, and one of them obviously costs (and should cost) more.

It's like you're discovering for the first time that it is, and has always been, trickery all the way down. One of our old tricks isn't scaling well anymore and we are using new tricks. But if you think that traditional rasterization isn't itself a pyramid of trickery, you should educate...

You have accidentally assumed that people make rational purchase decisions. When people have a couple thousand to spend on a top-end PC, it's more fun to get the fast chip, not the one with the best CPU/GPU balance. You see that trend across all recreational & semi-recreational industries --...

Anyone know this compares to DDR5 7200mhz (PC5-57600) modules in terms of performance & latency? Ignoring server features (ECC etc.), is (the JEDEC version of) this technology a path forward for faster off-package memory (on consumer platforms)? Also, is the benefit here coming from alternating...

Agreed. Or, more specifically, profit per wafer is maximized by allocating most wafers to AI server chips. They are probably supply constrained for gaming chips and thus have no reason to reduce pricing. I don't know about that. I think it's very possible the AMD will create a 4090-class chip...

That’s nothing. According to this article, the CPU literally has no access to any RAM except for OS functions. I get the feeling that the author doesn’t really know how these things work…

It was neither stated nor implied. This assumption is all you buddy.

Though I doubt anything outside the 4090 and to a lesser extent the 4080/3090 would have a noticeable difference.

This article is either rage bait or just naive. Trade-in programs are in no way designed to be competitive. They are intended to be an additional source of margin and have very high gross-margin requirements to compensate for being risky and high-touch. Any time a trade-in program IS...