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]

I mean I get it. I'm also an overpaid manchild with a remote tech job who spends way too much money on computer shit.

 

[Bogan]

I can't justify spending the nearly $10k on a 9800X3D/5090 system even though I can afford it.

 

[Intel Core Ultra 7 265k]

Qualcomm is definitely being overconfident with their chip prices because why the fuck is a Snapdragon X vivobook more expensive than one with a Ryzen Ai 340

 

[Fcret]

Qualcomm is definitely being overconfident with their chip prices because why the fuck is a Snapdragon X vivobook more expensive than one with a Ryzen Ai 340

Because the people who really need a Windows on ARM device don't have any other options and they know they can charge a premium.

Granted that's not a lot of people but they might as well milk them for everything they can get since this will probably be the end of their desktop computing ambitions for a while.

 

[Intel Core Ultra 7 265k]

Because the people who really need a Windows on ARM device don't have any other options and they know they can charge a premium.

Granted that's not a lot of people but they might as well milk them for everything they can get since this will probably be the end of their desktop computing ambitions for a while.

Quite sad if they didn't straight up commit highway robbery with those prices it would be useful with it's battery life

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Qualcomm is definitely being overconfident with their chip prices because why the fuck is a Snapdragon X vivobook more expensive than one with a Ryzen Ai 340

Krackan prices are high, it's a smaller Strix Point. So I'm wondering how the quad-core Ryzen AI 5 330 is going to be priced, as it's possibly (unconfirmed) using an even smaller Krackan 2 die.

With Qualcomm we're just waiting for that billion dollar writeoff and Nvidia to come in and clean up the ARM laptop segment.

 

[Betonhaus]

Because the people who really need a Windows on ARM device don't have any other options and they know they can charge a premium.

Granted that's not a lot of people but they might as well milk them for everything they can get since this will probably be the end of their desktop computing ambitions for a while.

Of course. Jack the prices up to the point Windows on Arm fails again

 

[Susanna]

Quite sad if they didn't straight up commit highway robbery with those prices it would be useful with it's battery life

It's a Qualcomm, the battery life genuinely isn't that much better than what you get with a modern x86 (Intel, AMD still has pretty high idle power draw for whatever reason).

 

[The Ugly One]

Turns out decoding instructions hasn't been a large percentage of a chip's power consumption in nearly 20 years.

 

[Sneed Lurker]

I can't justify spending the nearly $10k on a 9800X3D/5090 system even though I can afford it.

I sold my 5090 7800x3d rig because I didn't play any games on it in months. I find building computers more fun then gaming on them now

 

[Dawdler]

Qualcomm is definitely being overconfident with their chip prices because why the fuck is a Snapdragon X vivobook more expensive than one with a Ryzen Ai 340

It probably has some form of mobile connectivity that amd chip does not. Also native android app support.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

It probably has some form of mobile connectivity that amd chip does not. Also native android app support.

They run Windows on ARM. I don't think anybody is running Android on them, or even Linux if support is still janky.

5G is possible. Not a "feature" I want in a laptop: https://www.anandtech.com/show/2143...agon-x-elite-laptops-will-come-with-5g-modems

 

[mongrelmuch]

9800x3d/5090. Yes I'm insane, no I don't care.

I sold my 5090 7800x3d rig because I didn't play any games on it in months. I find building computers more fun then gaming on them now

DCS VR rigs?

 

[Mister Fister]

DCS VR rigs?

@Sneed Lurker

Midlife crisis pc for me. I wish I could build these full time, (I'm a tech manager/lubricant formulator).

 

[The Ugly One]

If we get this big deal, I'm getting a 5090 rig. I mean new drywall and a new deck.

EDIT: New bathroom, too, apparently.

 

[Bogan]

I wish I could build these full time, (I'm a tech manager/lubricant formulator).

I was surprised to find I live near the guy who founded Singularity Computers. Purely by chance too since it was just because I saw a job posting.

 

[Dawdler]

They run Windows on ARM.

That's really a shitty port overall. It supports only most basic office apps with the additional arm useless clutter.

 

[mongrelmuch]

@Sneed Lurker

Midlife crisis pc for me. I wish I could build these full time, (I'm a tech manager/lubricant formulator).

I ask because it's VR sims that kept me upgrading. Still on AM4 on 5800x3d and 7900XTX (and 9070XT, 200km apart), but for now I'm satisfied with how Elite Dangerous and Assetto Corsa run.

 

[Bogan]

Still on AM4 on 5800x3d and 7900XTX

You may as well skip AM5 altogether. 7900XTX is still the 5th or 6th fastest GPU out right now.

 

[mongrelmuch]

You may as well skip AM5 altogether. 7900XTX is still the 5th or 6th fastest GPU out right now.

That's what I was thinking, yeah. Even switching the 6900XT for the 9070XT was kind of frivolous, but I was curious about FSR4 and the better than 7 series AV1 encoding.