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But the games don't just need graphics ram. The data the cpu needs would be just fine with ddr ram. Also ddr 5 provides what over 50gb/s of bandwidth which is many times faster than the fastest nvmes. So it can still be used as fast cache. meanwhile the xbox and playstation has 16 gigs of...

I think its a bit short sighted to only look at VRAM. today you can get 32gigs of ddr 5 ram for $80 bucks and a 8-20gig vram video card for the pc. But the same was kinda true with the ps4/xbox one. They had 8 gigs total ram but most gamers ran 16-32 gigs of ddr 4 and video cards of...

You realize that a steam deck is a singular device that only valve makes. There are no third party steam decks. valve also works with devs to make steam deck profiles available. I also hate to break it to you but as a big steam deck fan that uses mine every day there are plenty of games out...

The dual spec seems to be doing well for them. Seems like all the games except one have had feature parity between the consoles and well everyone knows my feelings about that developer. Sony isn't moving the ram amount of the ps5 pro. So if MS released two xbox nexts one based around...

it could always get an update later down the road if the game sells well enough. Sadly that is what happens with gaming. By the time 5.4 games are ready they will be at 5.8 or 6.0

Yea I agree. my mother plays candy crush on her phone. She was never in the market for a video game system and never will be. Before candy crush on her phone she had a small handheld that had poker on it and that was all it could play and before that she just read and watched tv. I think here...

They want to meet customers everywhere including on xbox and they want to make xbox the best console experience for users . They are already making new hardware to help meet that I disagree with you. I think MS is doing the smartest thing by merging their fixed platform goals with their huge...

I think its more that wafers will be devoted to the AI chips while the gaming chips get less wafer starts and a more constrained inventory thus leading to higher prices. We might see the 5070 at the 4080 prices (1200) and the 5060 at the 4070 price (800) and so on and so forth. Who really...

Well screen size , physical buttons , and active cooling. All of those are pretty important. Also if you are out traveling you don't always have access to a wall socket. So an iphone playing a game or an hour or two and then not having a phone is a lot less attractive than having a second...

eh, might be too slow then compared to the competition. Certainly to slow for me. 4080 is the minimum i'd consider to replace my 3080 with. maybe it will last me another gen until rdna 5

What was it 128megs for the 4k infinity cache ? I'm not sure that will be enough but we will have to see For me to consider them i'd need 4080 performance at $600.

I'd hope they have large infinity caches to make up for it. don't see much to be excited for with rdna 4 if this stuff is true.

I think we can argue about how big the base is for people who want the best graphics but they also buy a lot of games which makes them an important group to get. Not sure what apple is going to crush people seem to say this every couple of years with apple and iphones and then nothing ever...

Therei s a sizable update out for the test tommorow. I'd download it early as they recoomend

Better graphics can still be a huge selling point. The issue is the zen2/rdna2 consoles weren't enough to make people get wowed. The unreal 5 engine demo and matrix demos wowed people but we are 4 years in and haven't really gotten a game that looks like that. Perhaps hellblade 2 will start to...