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SvennoJ said:

Any reason why there seems to be a shortage on memory modules?

I caved in and plan to upgrade my laptop to 32GB (max it can hold) since FS2020 is just constantly hammering the pagefile causing stutters and occasional long freezes that turn into a CTD once or twice a week. 16GB just doesn't cut it. (It already uses 9GB in the menu, I've seen it go up to 39GB flying low over NY)

Can't find memory in stock anywhere (16GB modules) so now waiting for it to arrive from China through newegg. Consoles should never have gone with 16GB imo, FS2020 already benefits from 64GB ram vs 32GB.

My guess is that, after everybody had to work from home and do lots of video calls during the lockdowns, a lot of people decided to gift themselves a new PC or laptiop this Christmas and the ratail channels are still tying to recorver from that huge demand.

Hopefully it won't take too much, at least for some components like RAM.

Captain_Yuri said:

JEMC said:

In other news, we may have found AMD response to Nvidia's DLSS or, at least, the hardware for it:

AMD files a new patent for a chiplet-based Machine Learning Accelerator design
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/amd-files-a-new-patent-for-a-chiplet-based-machine-learning-accelerator-design/
It appears that AMD has recently filed and published a new patent titled “Chiplet-integrated Machine Learning Accelerators”, in which techniques for performing machine learning operations are outlined. AMD describes what the company calls a new MLA (Machine Learning Accelerator) chiplet design.

The patent application is for a machine-learning chiplet, which is going to be integrated into a package coupled with GPU cores as well as the cache, in order to create an “APD” or Accelerated Processing Device in AMD’s terminology. GPU cores here might refer to the upcoming RDNA 3 architecture, and the cache unit most likely being a version of AMD’s Infinity Cache design, if taken as an example.

It's either for that, or for AI for the compute variants of their cards.

Yea, RDNA3 is more realistically when I'd expect AMD to actually start competing against Nvidia with the more next gen features like Ray Tracing and DLSS. Hopefully this accelerator does come to their consumer chips and they make software for it as well.

If this is indeed for RDNA 3, then it means that this will, indeed, be AMD's first chiplet based GPU. It will be interesting to see how it turns out.

As for the software for that new hardware, it wouldn't surprise me if they use MSoft's DirectML. After all, it should be ready by the time AMD launches those new GPUs.