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    watzupken replied to the thread News Nvidia's data center Blackwell GPUs reportedly overheat, require rack redesigns and cause delays for customers.

    Well, even if Nvidia made a subpar product, companies and individuals will still throw money at them. So with little consequences, they...

    Yesterday at 9:40 PM
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    watzupken replied to the thread Intel takes down AMD in our integrated graphics battle royale — still nowhere near dedicated GPU levels, but uses much less power.

    This is true, and each have its trade offs. To me, I feel AMD's APUs are probably the best of both worlds, i.e. between reasonable power...

    Friday at 12:13 AM
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    watzupken replied to the thread Intel takes down AMD in our integrated graphics battle royale — still nowhere near dedicated GPU levels, but uses much less power.

    I think I have to give it to Intel for their GPU efforts. In 2 generations, they seem to have caught up with AMD's iGPU by quite a fair...

    Friday at 12:06 AM
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    watzupken replied to the thread News Intel Core Ultra 5 225H delivers 14% better single core and 16% improved iGPU performance than Meteor Lake per early benchmarks — the CPU still fal....

    "Arrow Lake ships with Intel's upgraded Xe-LPG+ architecture with the Core Ultra 5 225H sporting the Arc 130T iGPU with 7 Xe cores (112...

    Tuesday at 8:07 PM
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    watzupken replied to the thread News Intel announces Arrow Lake fix coming within a month — Robert Hallock confirms poor gaming performance is due to optimization issues.

    “According to Hallock, Arrow Lake's performance from third-party reviewers did not align with what Intel saw in its internal testing...

    Nov 9, 2024
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    watzupken replied to the thread News AMD silently bumped up memory specifications for Ryzen AI 300 CPUs — Strix Point now supports LPDDR5X-8000 as opposed to LPDDR5X-7500.

    Feels like they are trying to pull ahead of Intel by bumping up the memory speed, which helps with iGPU performance.

    Nov 6, 2024
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    watzupken replied to the thread News Intel postpones Magdeburg fab until 2029 to 2030 — German subsidies to Intel could go back to the federal budget.

    This supposed delay is more like a permanent decision. Just a nice way to excuse themselves.

    Nov 6, 2024
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    watzupken replied to the thread News Intel CEO complains 'this is taking too long' after investing $30B but receiving zero CHIPS Act funding.

    Throwing taxpayers money at the Intel is inevitable if Intel continues to deteriorate. The foundry business is too important for the...

    Nov 5, 2024
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    watzupken replied to the thread News AMD-powered OLED handheld aims to rival the Steam Deck OLED — Ryzen 9 AI HX 370 runs Black Myth: Wukong at 50-60 FPS with 1080p low settings.

    “The main selling point is the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU, which features four Zen 5 cores, eight Zen 5c cores, and AMD's latest Radeon 890M...

    Nov 4, 2024
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    watzupken replied to the thread News Each EUV chipmaking tool consumes as much power as a small city — EUV fabs to consume 54,000 Gigawatts by 2030, more than Singapore.

    At the rate we are accelerating power usage, I don't see anyway we can be sustainable or "save the planet". All these power hungry...

    Nov 1, 2024
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    watzupken replied to the thread News Intel Processor N-series CPU specifications leaked — same old architecture with paltry clock speed improvements.

    I feel this is a product that don’t sell well and so don’t get attention or resources to improve it. The key benefits are its low power...

    Oct 30, 2024
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    watzupken replied to the thread News AMD: RDNA 4 coming in early 2025, set to deliver ray tracing improvements, AI capabilities.

    I think they are delaying it to 2025 to clear as much RDNA3 during the holiday sales. But looking forward to see how much improvements...

    Oct 30, 2024
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    watzupken replied to the thread News AMD Ryzen Z2 lineup leaked — Z2 Extreme rumored to have 12 RDNA 3.5 CUs, Z2 and Z2G using older architectures also in the works.

    I sense there’s not going to be any meaningful gain in performance with the Z2 series. The number of CUs is no different from Z1...

    Oct 22, 2024
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    watzupken replied to the thread News Core Ultra 9 285 65W CPU beats Core i9-14900K in early Geekbench benchmark — Arrow Lake chip shows 15% better-multithreaded performance than predec....

    To be honest, Raptor Lakes were never known to scale well at lower power levels. I think there are already many reviews that proved this...

    Oct 20, 2024
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    watzupken replied to the thread News Intel Core 200U CPU spotted with Alder Lake silicon — Core 7 250U shows identical configuration as the Core 7 150U, Core i7-1355U and Core i7-1255U.

    Personally, I do not like the Alder/ Raptor Lake U series processors. They are very heavy on E-cores and just 2 miserable P-cores, while...

    Oct 19, 2024

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