Even windows doesn’t run as well as with x86 unless all you use is a browser.

For sure, I didn’t mean to imply otherwise.

There is definitely a lot of truth in this.

If gamers were more critical about with their purchases, we would have a very different gaming industry.

If the focus was on more competitive markets (in the real sense, not PR) and we had less corruption, Nintendo copyrights would already begin to expire.

This way Nintendo could make it’s own game and it’s own console and others could try out their own concepts.

Nintendo was never really a thing where I live (other than late NES clones and occasional Gameboys back in the day).

With Nintendo’s uncompetitive pricing policy and focus on rehashing the same properties, it’s doubtful Nintendo will ever be a thing in our region,

Not that great?

The ones listed on our local second hand platform have no 3D capabilities (beyond monitor output), Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge CPUs that are slowly entering the “not good enough for even basic tasks” zone and miniscule SSDs (120 GB) by modern standards.

They are cheaper of course, but these two options don’t seem comparable.

Apologies in advance for being overly pedantic, but it’s Zen 2, not Ryzen 2. Ryzen is a generic brand, when Zen is the architecture family.

The country where I live has this article available for free (other articles from the site do require a subscription, albeit they are labelled as such).

I normally post archive.is copies for subscription articles, I thought this was in open access.

The article outlines why this is likely to impact Windows as well.

This (official?) thread on their forums implies 7 years of support.

Shipment/POS do not telling you anything about unfulfilled demand or “unrealized supply”.

It’s just how unit were shipped into the channel and sales at retail respectively.

These are the best data points that we have to understand demand dynamic.

Gamers are also a notoriously dramatic demography that often don’t go through on what they say.

That’s why it’s best to focus on absolute unit shipment numbers/POS.

If total units increased compared to the previous generation launch, then people are still buying GPUs.

It seems like gamers have finally realized that the newest GPUs by NVIDIA and AMD are getting out of reach, as a new survey shows that many of them are skipping upgrades this year.

Data on GPU shipments and/or POS sales showing a decline would be much more reliable than a survey.

Surveys can at times suffer from showing what the respondents want to reply as opposed to what they do.

[email protected] is pretty solid.

The issue isn’t share of revenue (well not directly), the issue is lower margins for gaming GPUs and a more complex distribution network (involvement of AIBs, retailers).

They have powerful iGPUs; something similar to Strix Halo. I am not a Mac user, but in my understanding the top end SKU have iGPUs comparable to high end dGPUs (with respect to synthetic performance, actual gaming performance tends to lag heavily).

4K is a tiny part of the market. Even 1440p is a small segment (albeit rapidly growing).

This is a much more nuanced take than the headlines implies.

I am curious how exactly will Steam integration work. Knowing MS, it’s likely going to be clunky and subpar.

Recalling looking forward to this one.

I don’t live in the US. The price in local currency was close enough to $50.

Sounds like it’s going to be UE6: Fortnite.

Hopefully Godot can make more improvements by the time of UE6’s release.

There is a lot of content on semiconductor manufacturing (both in context of gaming and beyond) on [email protected], in one way or another anything related to semiconductors does impact both PC and console gaming (since CPUs and GPUs are key).

If not for consoles, AMD would have likely gone bankrupt or become a marginal player.

Considering what’s happening with Intel in the past ~7 year, it would have been game over for x86 PC gaming on the CPU front.

Exactly this.

We continue to be able to make faster chips, both via smaller nodes, but also via advanced packaging and architecture improvements.

But the costs of every new generational increase is rising faster than the % performance improvement.

I am personally hoping this will eventually lead to a culture of total optimization (similar to what we saw in the 90s on both PC and console), but there are likely significant barriers to implementing such a new development culture at scale.