Recent content by nightbird321

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    News VRAM-friendly neural texture compression inches closer to reality - enthusiast shows massive compression benefits with Nvidia and Intel demos

    What percent of current gaming GPUs have the AI cores to use NTC? https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/
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    News VRAM-friendly neural texture compression inches closer to reality - enthusiast shows massive compression benefits with Nvidia and Intel demos

    If NTC is vendor neutral and quick to implement for devs, then awesome. If it requires specific hardware to run, it may be 10 years before it can be more than another of many graphics options.
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    News RTX 50 series GPUs selling below market price at Walmart returns aisle, multiple customers score great deals

    I know of people who return intentionally at a store and wait for them to put it out to buy at a discount... disgusting.
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    News Comcast's L4S low-latency tech promises up to a 78% latency reduction, testing begins in select cities

    Was this article written by AI? That last paragraph is unhinged lol.
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    News $1,600 aluminum Icebreaker keyboard breaks the bank — sports metal chassis, keycaps with 800 micro-perforations, and VIA support

    Once it discolors from the natural oils in on your fingers, can you still pop off the keys to clean?
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    News Core Ultra 9 285K is faster in Linux than in Windows – flagship Arrow Lake chip is 6 to 8% faster on average in Linux

    Wonder if it is because of the "stability fixes" Windows did for Intel.
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    News GlobalFoundries gets $1.5 billion subsidy from U.S. gov't after it was fined for violating export laws to China

    "after the company was fined $500 million for violating U.S. export rules" typo, thousand, not million
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    News Lunar Lake's integrated memory is an expensive one-off — Intel rejects the approach for future CPUs due to margin impact

    Glad they are abandoning a successful design, more failing or doubtful designs please!!! /s
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    News Quartz mine crucial for making chips reopens ten days after Hurricane Helene's devastation

    Sorry didn't see a notification, my internet source below: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/09/13/1079377/china-clean-tech-supply-chain/ "[Ultra-pure quartz] is actually one example where there’ve been a lot of joint public-private efforts to develop more ultra-pure quartz capacity in...
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    News AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D beats the 7800X3D by 26% in leaked Blender benchmarks — outpaces even the current-generation Ryzen 7 9700X by 11%

    Or the 9950x3d for the best of both worlds if you use core parking to fix windows issues. This article casually leaves out the 550-590 score of the 7950x/x3d.
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    News Quartz mine crucial for making chips reopens ten days after Hurricane Helene's devastation

    Because the only other pure quartz source is... in China.
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    News 5D' memory crystal claims to store data for eternity — the human genome has already been crammed onto a single small crystal

    Imagine a large crystal with all of mankind's data saved on it, discovered millions of years in the future by a caveman and used as the head of a hammer. "hey guys, look at my crafted Crystal Hammer +5"