GPUs & CPUs & Enthusiast hardware: Questions, Discussion and fanboy slap-fights - Nvidia & AMD & Intel - Separe but Equal. Intel rides in the back of the bus.

Fcret said:
I think, no matter what panel you pick, going from 1080p60 garbo office monitor to a 1440p high-refresh rate monitor is a good move.

Just get whatever's reasonably priced from a large-ish brand. I like LG Ultragear for cheap good-ish monitors.
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Just make sure the monitor is large enough to make 1440p look right at 100% scaling. On my 14" laptop it just makes things way too small, and 200% scaling loses too much useful space and 150% is glitchy in many cases. I ended up dropping down to 1080p for the new laptop I ordered, I could've gone 4k but I found a nice 6th gen X1 Yoga with a 10th gen i5
 
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Fcret said:
This would be insanely difficult to navigate because the Intel-AMD cross-licensing agreement terminates if either company is taken over. The only possible way they're publicly considering this is if they've already been in talks with AMD about extending the agreement to Qualcomm.
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if the licensing agreement terminates, who gets the rights to x86-64? With Windows now running on ARM there may be a planned switch in architectures.
 
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if the licensing agreement terminates, who gets the rights to x86-64? With Windows now running on ARM there may be a planned switch in architectures.
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Baseline x86-64 by itself is owned by AMD but a lot of the common extensions that everyone uses like SSE and AVX are owned by Intel. It's honestly a clusterfuck. Intel also owns the 32-bit and 16-bit ISAs although I'm not sure what level of IP encumbrance are still on those.
 
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Fcret said:
Baseline x86-64 by itself is owned by AMD but a lot of the common extensions that everyone uses like SSE and AVX are owned by Intel. It's honestly a clusterfuck. Intel also owns the 32-bit and 16-bit ISAs although I'm not sure what level of IP encumbrance are still on those.
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So AMD would need to replace those extensions or re-license them from Intel?
 
Hope being #1 in DEI in Silicon Valley was worth it, Intel.

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WelperHelper99 said:
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After much back and forth, canceling it a few times, I'm finally buying my Dell 1440p 165hz 27 inch curved monitor, a complete and total upgrade from my current best monitor, a 60hz 1080p 23 inch Dell monitor from 2010 with zero modern features. Had cash back points on my card, so instead of 235 (,with tax), I got it down to $179. Very excited, arrives tomorrow.

Edit: I canceled. I gotta think about it some more lol.
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That's a lot bro. I got a new 27in 1440p IPS monitor from Amazon for $120. Only 100hz refresh rate, don't really need more for casual gaming and workstation stuff. The brand is KTC and it's actually good.
 
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AMD Radeon 890M shown to deliver nearly 2x higher FPS with AFMF 2


I think the real improvement with AFMF 2 is supposed to be quality, and VGM prevents some games from shitting the bed when they detect "512 MB VRAM" on AMD iGPUs. Why this feature didn't exist years ago and is apparently exclusive to the "Ryzen AI 300 series" is anyone's guess.


The Z2 Extreme has already been pre-announced and should have Radeon 890M.
 
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The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
AMD Radeon 890M shown to deliver nearly 2x higher FPS with AFMF 2


I think the real improvement with AFMF 2 is supposed to be quality, and VGM prevents some games from shitting the bed when they detect "512 MB VRAM" on AMD iGPUs. Why this feature didn't exist years ago and is apparently exclusive to the "Ryzen AI 300 series" is anyone's guess.


The Z2 Extreme has already been pre-announced and should have Radeon 890M.
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Their iGPUs are quite good, and with decent software, they should really put a dent in NVIDIA's laptop GPU business.
 
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Intel Core Ultra 9 285K CPU Up To 26% Faster Than Core i9-14900K In V-Ray Benchmark
Intel Arrow Lake-S Desktop CPU Refresh Reportedly Canceled, Nova Lake To Replace Core Ultra 200
Intel’s Nova Lake-S Desktop CPU Successor Might Be Called Razer Lake-S

Arrow Lake should be pretty good. Single/multi-core increases, up to a 4 Xe (Meteor Lake-U) tier iGPU with lower models having half that, still an improvement, and a weak NPU. Maybe not enough to beat Zen 5 X3D in gaming but it should excel in most areas and bring power down a little. We already heard that Arrow Lake Refresh was going to be cancelled, specifically a 40-core (8+32) die. So Arrow Lake could be all that Intel has for desktops throughout 2025 and part of 2026.

Expanded Steam gaming compatibility likely coming to Arm chips with hundreds of Windows games — Valve testing ARM64 Proton compatibility layer

It's unclear if Valve wants to do something with ARM hardware, but they definitely want Steam running all over the place.
 
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The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
It's unclear if Valve wants to do something with ARM hardware, but they definitely want Steam running all over the place
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Steam recognizes that to maintain market dominance they need to keep advancing and bring their product to new technologies. History is littered with companies that were confident with their market control only to fall behind as technology shifted.
 
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GPU drivers are full of workarounds, tweaks, quirks specific to games or game engines. That's why Intel was struggling in the beginning. Having driver passing conformancy testing doesn't mean that it will perform well. So good luck to Valve. I would stick with AMD and Nvidia since they had years optimizing performance for thousands of titles.
 
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The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K CPU Up To 26% Faster Than Core i9-14900K In V-Ray Benchmark
Intel Arrow Lake-S Desktop CPU Refresh Reportedly Canceled, Nova Lake To Replace Core Ultra 200
Intel’s Nova Lake-S Desktop CPU Successor Might Be Called Razer Lake-S

Arrow Lake should be pretty good. Single/multi-core increases, up to a 4 Xe (Meteor Lake-U) tier iGPU with lower models having half that, still an improvement, and a weak NPU. Maybe not enough to beat Zen 5 X3D in gaming but it should excel in most areas and bring power down a little. We already heard that Arrow Lake Refresh was going to be cancelled, specifically a 40-core (8+32) die. So Arrow Lake could be all that Intel has for desktops throughout 2025 and part of 2026
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Glad to hear Intel doing something good and being competitive even right now. They need a winner after the 13th and 14th gen blow up.
 
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Too Many Catgirls said:
The title says "enthusiast hardware" and I couldn't find a HOTAS thread. Either way this thread is the right crowd and you'll enjoy!

Looks like GVL is actually starting to make stuff again instead of just selling parts and board components. This looks pretty neat and I can't wait to see how he develops it further. I was fortunate enough to get a couple custom kits of his before the war started and the prospect of him getting back to production is awesome. If you send him drawings and design documents (and cash, he loves cash), he'll make just about whatever you want. But I don't think he's quite back to custom production yet, at least according to a comment he made in his previous video.
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More enthusiast fun for you all. This guy has gone and built his force feedback stick to accompany his force feedback pedals. And you can buy them if you've got a bit of extra money laying around and some patience.

He never ceases to amaze me. Wants a new force feedback setup but can't find anything good on the market? He goes and makes it himself.
 
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB & RTX 5080 16 GB Specs Uncovered: 5090 Over 20K Cores & 600W, 5080 Over 10K Cores & 400W

This leaker is saying 512-bit, 32 GB for the RTX 5090 instead of the weird 448-bit, 28 GB configuration rumored earlier. Also confirming a huge gap between the 5090 and 5080, which could point to the 5080 (with 16 GB) being made just weak enough to avoid China sanctions.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 & RTX 5080 Graphics Cards To Debut At CES 2025: 14-Layer PCB, Single 12V-2×6 Power, PCIe 5.0 & DP 2.1a Support

On the other hand, this article mentions a China-specific 5090D.

NVIDIA Rumored To Launch A 24 GB GeForce RTX 5080 GPU After 16 GB Variant, First Gaming Blackwell Shipments Spotted

Now we have talk of a 24 GB variant. If you didn't know, 3 GB GDDR7 modules are on roadmaps, but not available yet. So it will become straightforward to give any particular card 50% more memory without changing the memory bus or adding more memory modules.
 
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