Recent content by Lew Zealand

Not only Frame Gen but Ark SA's internal resolution runs at about 80%, similar to this game's new settings. Funny thing is it's FSR Framegen but doesn't work on my Nvidia GPUs, though it works properly on my AMD GPUs. As I'm currently using mostly Nvidia, when starting Ark I: Set upscaling to...

Cool thanks, that's useful. I'm looking to build a low-midrange gaming PC with low-as-possible idle power usage (like the posts above) and decent performance in the ~65W CPU power range while gaming. Intel's monolithic designs used to be the best though it's not clear yet whether the current...

Got any data to back that claim up? Both CPUs at the same midrange power limits would be great. Say at 65 to 125W where most processors hang out?

FYI my desktop 1050 Ti desktop is the only GPU I have that artifacts in a repeatable manner when I overclock the VRAM too far, and even in a specific game but no others (that I've tried): Horizon Zero Dawn. Crazy geometry errors in the trees, bizarre and entertaining if mega-distracting. I...

Yup I get it especially with Ark's horrid optimization, the 6800 XT was my best GPU before the 5070 and I only got the 5070 because after the DLSS Transformer model came out, I figured I could play Ark with reasonable fidelity at Balanced or even Performance, which it does. Mostly.

OK I play Ark SA on my 5070 at 1440p with High though not Max settings and even with the 23% speed increase of the 5070 Ti over the 5070 you may very well be using DLSS. I use DLSS to reach 60fps most of the time. I haven't tried FSR4 in Ark SA as I don't have an RDNA4 card but as DLSS is not...

Finally retired my iPhone 7+, replaced with an iPhone 16e. Here's to another 8 years!

What's the point of posting screencaps of random fanboy tweets where the guy can't even add 2 easy numbers together? I'll make it easy: $3T + $2T = $5T. Not $4T. I'm sure the rest of the cheerleading is equally useful.

And Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake mobile, I have 3 NUCs with 64 and 128MB L4/eDRAM cache. Made a difference in iGPU performance.

Stardew Valley for the nth time but first time game? Hogwarts Legacy earlier this year. I'm less engaged with games recently mostly thanks to getting stuck in annoying places where my meager skill set is not up to the task but H Forbidden West, Plague Tale Innocence and TLOU P1 are going OK...

I have an M1 Pro with 32GB RAM 6P+2E CPU and own CP2077 from GOG.com so I'll test it out to see what it can do. This M1 Pro has a 1792 core GPU which sounds decent but as efficiency is the M# shtick the core clocks are low, around 1300 MHz. I wasn't going to bring it on vacation this weekend...

This is a light duty office/student PC CPU, 128 GPU cores is not intended for any modern gaming. However there are a great many games to be enjoyed on a GPU like that. I've enjoyed Tomb Raider (2013) at 720p 45-55 fps on a 13 year old Optiplex with an OC'd 1GB R5 240 and this Radeon 820m will...

What is your point? That Apple has the fastest iGPU on the planet? The Radeon 8060s only gets 48fps at 1440p in CP2077: Are you implying that a laptop not intended for gaming that gets a brand new gaming port doesn't have the performance of a 4090? Are you implying that if Windows switched...

Looking at Apple and Nvidia (specifically CUDA), both companies: - Control both their software and hardware layers - Make enough money to fund big design changes in both those layers - Target multiple markets with the same resources, benefitting one side of their business more than another...

This is a placeholder as I'd really like to find where to make the best reference points for the purpose of being helpful instead of annoying. Right now the RX 5700 and GTX 1080 Ti make the best comparison: In the last review they both appear in before the 1080 Ti is culled for age, the RTX...