Recent content by watzupken

May be I don’t really understand how VRR works, but I question if it is meaningful to have VRR on a portable console that generally targets 30 FPS? Isn’t that outside the VRR range where the lower band is typically like 48Hz? Indie games may benefit from it, but I would prefer to play indie...

We need a better and safer power delivery connection, not one that is hidden and you can't see if it is melting. Nvidia and partners are just tone deaf.

For the price of a Switch 2, I think it just makes the Steam Deck OLED more attractive. I won’t just consider the price of the console because games on Nintendo’s store generally cost substantially more than what you find on Steam. Also, you need to buy overpriced storage in the form of micro SD...

This is another game that is proof that RT is overhyped and basically introduced by Nvidia to create an advantage for themselves. Games with a good focus on artwork don't need something like RT to make it look great to be honest. Sony produced games like Ghost of Tsushima and Horizon Zero Dawn/...

It’s amazing when the CEO just joined Intel for a month or 2 and the whole world is expecting some miracle from him.

This is how you wreak the company by forcing clients to buy pricier options with no value add. For reliability, the company can simply test in-house and provide a white list of validated drives. Forcing customers to buy pricier drives when they don’t manufacture the drives themselves is clearly...

I think Intel did the right thing by not releasing any 8GB Battlemage dGPU. 10 GB is not great, but that extra 2 GB can be used by the NPU to run XESS. For AMD, I think the RX 9060 with 8 GB will face similar issues in addition to questionable performance as compared to the RX 7600. The silver...

I am sticking with the 566.36 version for now since the RTX 4070 mobile will not benefit from the new driver. It is not worth the small gains while increasing the risk of instability substantially.

I have very low expectation for the RX 9060 series because, 1. It is still on 128bit memory bus, 2. GDDR6 = No meaningful improvement to memory bandwidth to feed the memory bandwidth starved GPU, whereas the RTX 5060 Ti is using GDDR7, 3. Mostly no increase in the specs like number of CUs, ROPs...

It’s a handheld and need to sip power and not overheat. So I won’t expect a high CU count here. It will cost Sony more with little benefits to the buyers even they use a Strix Halo class iGPU.

Most of Sony’s older game titles prove that RT is simply overhyped. It’s more to give Nvidia an advantage but at the expense of significant performance loss regardless of hardware. I’ve played Horizon Zero Dawn, Forbidden West, God of War and Ghost of Tsushima, and never once did I feel that the...

While it sounds great, but it does not solve SD card’s 2 biggest problem, 1. Endurance - SD card is prone to failure. 2. Cost - It’s too costly. Like the cost of a 1TB SD card rivals even reputable 1TB SSDs. I rather they enable like a M2 slot to add a 2230 SSD instead of wasting money on high...

The numbers in this articles are likely all "guesstimate", rather than based on facts. The Chinese are hard at work trying to improve on their end all these years, while the West is spending half its time trying to downplay China's advancement but to their own detriment. Which is why from time...

There are a lot of things that Microsoft needs to fix and fix quickly. Yet they chose to find something that people are not complaining to fix, just shows how tone deaf they have become. If they want to go down the path of roadmap transparency, how about adding the option to opt out as part of...

I feel a lot of these lower end GPUs are headed for laptops, so less allocation to desktops for now.