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.

Just like their original benchmarks were showing 3000+ in Geekbench ST and then not even a single device came close to this result.

I would argue if your budget allows you to, it’s better to get 8 cores.

Any benefit for paying for 12 or 16?

Only if you do demanding use cases other than gaming. One example is video editing and encoding (the type that should not be done on a GPU).

Some games do benefit from having 16 cores, things like economic strategy games with lots of background simulation (one example would be path finding).

There are rumor about new intel SKUs coming out; they may be slightly more powerful than the two Battlemage GPUs that we know of.