Recent content by Avro Arrow

What about it? Do you honestly believe that a company the size of AMD is going to needlessly invest millions of dollars to rush out an unfinished product because of one game that may or may not be played on IGPs? Over 90% of desktops that use IGPs sold today are not used for gaming and the...

I completely agree and you know it's not like their products are bad, far from it. My craptop is actually an ASUS and I bought it because it was actually the best deal at the time. I got a backlit keyboard and a GTX 1050M for the same price as other craptops that didn't have those features...

Heaven forbid they would just use a nomenclature that's actually easy to understand, eh? I'd say you hit the nail square on the head with that post!

The RX 7900 GRE is a great product but I don't really think that the price premium that ASUS cards command is warranted. My RX 7900 XTX is an ASRock Phantom Gaming model, one of the least expensive variants, but it sure doesn't leave any performance on the table. Paying more just to have a...

This makes sense as the vast majority of PCs that use IGPs aren't used for gaming and even the old Vega IGPs are just fine for 2D use. There's little point in making an investment into an improvement on a part that few will take advantage of. AFAIC, an IGP is just a video adapter. Sure, you...

Yup and that's what causes the conundrum. You can't tell exactly how much VRAM a game uses because it will use different amounts in different situations and with different hardware.

You had me going for a moment.... Well played! :roll:

A lot of people are talking about the fact that there's no 8000-series but that shouldn't be a surprise because new Zen architectures have always been odd-numbered: Zen1: 1000 (example: Ryzen 7 1700) Zen1+: 2000 (example: Ryzen 7 2700X) Zen2: 3000 (example: Ryzen 5 3600X) Zen3: 5000 (example...

I agree completely. It gets better though because the only thing I can think of that would be large enough to be 8K would be a TV. I learned something about gaming on TVs years ago (because that's what I use for my PC display, a 55" 4K TV), something I never expected (but should have). My TV...

Do you think that Yeston might sue them for this? :laugh: Yeston Radeon RX 7800 XT Sakura: Looks like Powercolor is trying to bite Yeston's (already well-established) style.

I had no hope that they'd support AM4 but I do think that they should've come out with something so good that gamers wouldn't have been able to say no, like an R5-7600X3D for the same price as an R7-7700X. AMD puts their memory controllers on the CPU die which makes it less modular of a design...

Yeah, the old "Allocation vs. Usage" conundrum.... :laugh:

Oh, I totally understand what you're saying and most of the time, keeping their CPUs as expensive as possible is the right way to go, but not with the first-gen of a specific platform because locking customers down to the new AM5 platform should've been their top-priority, even if they had to...