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I can't seen anyone using an advanced Intel node until Intel shows that it can use it for its own chips. Why would anyone plan on using 18A when Intel doesn't trust its own fabs to make product If Intel shows high yields and performance on its own chips with 18A and pricing for 14A is better...

No informed person would buy a 5050 for $250 when the 5060 is 50 percent faster and widely available for $300. Its not even much faster than previous low end discrete GPUs. I'm guessing the actual market for this is prebuilts that like to say they have NVidia graphics The OEMs are almost...

How does Tom's create a headline like "Windows Update might get better" from an article stating the MS is giving up on supporting older hardware.

Seems like cope. If you are playing e-sports at 1080p on a normal monitor, modern integrated graphics or an ancient 580 or 2060 are good enough. If you want to drive a fancy 480hz monitor, you'll be getting at least a 9070 Still not sure why AMD didn't just make a single 192 bit 12GB card and...

This is NOT a bid deal in the grand scheme of things. CUDA is not used in games. Current versions of CUDA apps will continue to function on the older cards. Most CUDA apps will eventually transition to the new toolkit When that happens, they will drop support for older cards on new releases...

This card shows the real reason that NVidia doesn't care about gamers at all and does everything it can to keep gaming cards from being used for AI professional tasks. If a RTX Pro 6000 sells for 8600 dollars and a 5090 sells for 3000, NVidia is probably making 5-10 times more money on...

Civ 7 might be ok AMD had a similar good/bad bundle "Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2" and "Unknown 9: Awakening" Both marketing teams seem a bit inept

Pretty much what you would expect. 90 percent of Intel's sales are through prebuilds - Dell/HP/Lenovo etc Most Intel sales won't show up on Amazon charts. AMD sells a large proportion of its consumer CPUs do the DIY crowd and it has increased it share of the DIY market, Great sales for the two...

I’m surprised it took this long for someone in the GPU business to move out of China or at least have production facilities outside of China There have been stories on Apple’s decision to make more of its phones in India for two years now. The stories have noted the challenges involved If they...

The anti AMD spin is crazy, but the fundamental argument is sound. Most people gaming at 1440p will never notice the difference between a 13600k and a 9800x3d. A 14900k or 285k makes even less sense for most gamers when there are cheap, new 12th and 13th gen and zen 4 available. If you have a...

There are ray traced games that show differences between 11th and 13th gen at 4k on a 4080. You can check Spider-Man in Tom’s CPU vs GPU article. It’s probably even more CPU dependent on a 4090 Those examples are fairly rare, but they do exist Most games show little to no difference between...

I'm not seeing anything showing a change in market share that would be in line with the severity of Intel's issues. That huge last quarter gain brings AMD market share back to the point where it was back in 2022 when Zen3 and the 5800X3D were competing with Intel 11th gen. It looks like the...

I'm starting to see some some "ideal" recommendations recommending more than 8 cores. MSFS 2024 is one of them - the ideal config is supposedly a 7900X instead of a 7800X3D It will be interesting to see if a 9900X does better than a 9800X3d when MSFS 2024 comes out.

The revenue info is shown twice in the first chart Is the second copy supposed to show expenses?

A lot of what has been shown from the LLM AI projects is pretty bad. Training on random stuff on the internet is providing a lot of clearly incorrect results that make you wonder how accurate the stuff that seems plausible is. The old style google search would usually brings up better info than...