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what about inside or area lit by ambient lighting ?

Is Hardware lumens that bad performance wise ?

The thing with the Vulkan/DX12 debate is always a bit flawed. DirectX do way more that graphics. It include DirectSound, DirectInput. It's a full blown gaming API where Vulkan is just graphics In reality, the subcomponents of DirectX, Direct3D is the equivalent of Vulkan.

Right now is one time were all GPU you make is getting sold out. With RDNA4 in hands, the only things AMD have to do to get back market share is to ship volume. They even use GDDR6 instead of GDDR7 to ensure maximum availability. They have no excuses. 200K GPU is nice, but they will need way...

They do not need a new chipsets, they could reuse the one already available. They just need a new socket as there is not enough pin for 256 bit bus on AM5. I am not sure if they would face difficulty routing such a large bus over a large distance. Now sure how much motherboard would cost too...

Those large iGPU are the future of laptop or anything portable versus any dedicated GPU stuff.

AMD is a business that is there to make money. If Zen 6 low core counts doesn't make sense, they will just sell Zen 4/5 APU or CCD to cover the lower end. This is the strategy they almost always used for previous generation for cheaper part that were sold in volume.

The dies that had more than 25% of cores disabled (so a 6 core CPU on a 8 core CCD) were on very volume as they were binned chips. Why selling a perfectly working 8 core or 6 core chip as a 4 core ? I bet it would be the same on Zen 6 if they can. Having a lot of less than 8 cores volumes...

The main goal of having a separate die for the I/O section is to save on cost for things that don't scale well with newer nodes. If AMD can get a new design for their I/O die and also produce it for cheaper, i see it as a win for them. As for the memory support, the performance and all that...

i always find it ridicule to buy a quite large box that contain just a tiny CPU. That is just a waste of resources but also, a waste of space when shipping stuff. This move is a good thing.

What a pity time for hardware when its news worthy to have a new gen beating in some scenario the old gen.

If AMD want to become a leader, they need to continue these software initiatives. They are so late behind both Intel and Nvidia. And for Software, there is no TSMC that can come and save their ass. The good thing is it seem they got the Memo, but it will take few years.

The main thing AMD need to do for Zen 6 is to launch the X3D parts with the initial lineup. its a better way to control the message than having Zen 6 Non-X3D getting beat by Zen5 X3D. Also they would probably upgrade the I/O die but it make me laught when people say its crappy. Maybe, but they...

It look like we are back to the Paper Launch era. I recall around the 2000s that many launch were just paper launch in both CPU and GPU. They were "released" and reviewed, but it took months to half a year before you would be able to buy any of them. Manufacturer used to be shamed for doing...

From what i see, the Nvidia/AMD sponsored title thing these days isn't much about performance but what is included in the game. Its not uncommon for a game to only have DLSS or FSR we really need a vendor agnostic solution soon