Recent content by Jeff Kampman

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    $200 GPU face-off: Nvidia RTX 3050, AMD RX 6600, and Intel Arc A750 duke it out at the bottom of the barrel

    We're currently on a temporary Core i9-13900K/Z790 testbed, which won't be the permanent foundation of our GPU testing going forward. To your point, though, it is not indicative of the potential performance loss one might see with an Arc GPU and an older system.
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    News VRAM-friendly neural texture compression inches closer to reality - enthusiast shows massive compression benefits with Nvidia and Intel demos

    I would caution against extrapolating too much from this video. For perspective, I downloaded and compiled both of these tools/demos for my own interest and even on an RTX 5070 (going from 680 Tensor Cores to 192) the pass time I got in Nvidia's NTC renderer is essentially identical (0.18 ms on...