Recent content by MartianM

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    News Cities: Skylines 2 Performance Autopsy Highlights Massive Optimization Failures

    The acronym is TMPE, for Transport Manager: President’s Edition. Sometimes also TM: PE (no space). Some YouTubers like Biffa (Biffa Plays Indi Games) have mod packs that include these key ones mentioned above and others. There is a maze of options! I actually started playing vanilla and only...
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    News Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite for PCs Has 12 Oryon Cores, Tops Out at 4.3 GHz

    AMD have a strong roadmap for improving efficiency with Zen 4, 5 and beyond. Intel Meteor Lake (15th gen?) should bump both efficiency and iGPU performance & performance/watt. What I find interesting is that Nuvia claimed they could design a better core than Apple, and with all the resources of...
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    News TSMC Continues Working Through US Staff Culture Clash

    I thought he was quite clear: by swallowing his pride and realising that the benefits outweighed the drawbacks
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    News Apple's A17 Pro is a 3nm Chip Powering iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max

    I’m not sure they ‘limited’ anything. Note the the iPhone 15 uses last year’s A16 (like the std iPhone 14 ‘only’ had an A15 in it). The USB controller is unchanged, only having USB2 speeds necessary for Lighting cables of yore. So they actively *upgraded* the USB controller in the A17 to USB 3...
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    News MediaTek Beats Apple to 3nm Process

    Such a ridiculous title and premise. We all know Apple taped out multiple N3 designs months ago and will release the first one, the A17, to customers next week. The M3 will follow in multiple products in Q4, well before MediTek ship anything. You should have fixed the article before publishing...
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    Review MSI RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X Review: Super Soaker

    For the 170W R7900X & 7950X, they have 2x 71mm^2 compute chiplets. Given a non-trivial amount of power is used by the IO chiplet, this puts the Ryzen 7000 series at about 1 W/mm^2 also, just like the Intel chips…
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    News Get a Gigabyte RTX 3090 Ti Flagship GPU For $1,999: Real Deals

    “Real deal”? At $2000 for a GPU there is no deal here
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    News GeForce MX550 GPU Rises Above Ryzen 6000 RDNA 2 APUs

    The maths on the averages is wrong. For the games shown on the chart, the 6800 is 192% faster and the MX550 is only 185% faster. Excluding the two titles with no MX result, the 6800 average increases to 196%. So the premise and title of the article is wrong
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    News Dell Delivers Over $900 off Alienware Laptops and XPS Gaming PCs in Huge Sale

    Me too, given the review of the G5 that Gamers Nexus posted: View: https://youtu.be/4DMg6hUudHE