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Pemalite said:

JEMC said:

According to this report from Fudzilla, Navi will not be a large high-end GPU. (...) The report further states that this Navi part will be a high performance, low power chip with the performance of today’s high-end GPUs and the positioning and power consumption of mainstream parts. An RX 580 successor in that ~$250 sweet spot in the market.

Good. AMD needs to return to it's small-die strategy.
Big and hot clearly hasn't worked for them since they deviated from Terascale.

JEMC said:

Over the past year we’ve been hearing whispers about a project at the company to bring horizontal die stacking technology and expertise over from the CPU department to the GPU department.

In some of the Enthusiast circles there is whispers AMD is taking a thread-ripper approach by using "fabric" to stitch smaller, high-yielding, cheaper-to-manufacture chips together.
But Navi/Next Gen are also behind schedule apparently, so who knows what will happen at this point.

Agreed.

If they manage to do that, they could design their products around, say, a 18-20 CU unit, and then scale it up to separate the different lines.

Pemalite said:

JEMC said:

My only criticism towards GOG is that they don't sell wallet cards like other stores do. Leaving consoles aside, Valve, MSoft or even EA have them, yet GOG doesn't. And that's a problem because I don't care how safe their system is, I don't like my credit details online.

I can assure you that, if they launched those cards, I'd buy a lot from them.

Keep all your funds/income stream in a secondary account and transfer the cash on a needs-by-needs basis.
Thus if someone steals your card details, they won't be able to spend any of your money anyway.

It's not overtly difficult to contact payment portals these days either and get transactions reversed if your details have been leaked, in-fact my bank will do it on my behalf for free.

I do understand your trepidation though.

JEMC said:

Because... I bet you've guessed it... I don't make tranfers online. When I have to do one, I go to my bank office and order them to make it. Alternatively, sometimes I also use cash, going to an office of one of the store's banks and depositing the sum in their account.

That's why I want wallet cards from GOG.

That sounds time consuming. Haha

I oce had a wallet card from my bank that I used to buy online. I filled it with 20 or 50 € and even got a message everytime I used it to kept track of my purchases, until there was not enough money and had to be refilled it again. I used it for a couple of years and I was very happy with it. Sadly, they changed the ToS and the new refill and maintenance costs were simply too much to make it worth it, so I cancelled it.

I've an eye on another of those cards from the postal service, that has no maintenance costs.

And going to a bank office is not that much time consuming for me. I live near several of them and it doesn't even take me 5 min to get to any of them and, as long as you don't go on a Monday, there isn't many people waiting on the line either.