Valve Halves Steam Deck SSD Bandwidth on Some Models
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ssd-bandwidth-cut-in-half-on-some-steam-decks
"According to a report by HardwareLuxx, Valve has made a spec change to the Steam Deck's SSD specs on May 28 that has largely flown under the radar. The change allows the use of two drive configurations instead of just one, cutting the potential SSD bandwidth in half for some models. As a result, the PCIe Gen 3 NVMe drive built into the higher-end models will now come with access to either four PCIe lanes (x4) or two lanes (x2). However, customers won't know which drives they'll receive, with the company noting that, "Some 256GB and 512GB models will ship with a PCIe Gen 3 x2 SSD."
Valve says that it tested the change and it will not affect gaming performance. Here's Valve's description of the change:
"256 GB NVMe SSD (PCIe Gen 3 x4 or PCIe Gen 3 x2*)
512 GB high-speed NVMe SSD (PCIe Gen 3 x4 or PCIe Gen 3 x2*)
*Some 256GB and 512GB models ship with a PCIe Gen 3 x2 SSD. In our testing, we did not see any impact to gaming performance between x2 and x4.""
Hinch posted this on the Steam Deck thread but I figure I'll post it here as well. Personally I hope that Valve gets sued for this because it is very miss leading to their customers. No one expects to get an SSD with half the bandwidth while paying the same price as others that get full bandwidth. Shameful move Valve.
AMD RDNA 3 ‘GFX11’ GPUs May Feature Hardware-Accelerated FSR 3.0 Tech Thanks To WMMA ‘Wave Matrix-Multiply-Accumulate’ Instructions
https://wccftech.com/amd-fsr-3-0-gfx11-rdna-3-gpus-hardware-acceleration-wmma-instructions/
Good for RDNA 3 users. I'll be interested to see if they have any fallback mode like Intel does with XeSS. Least 3 generations later, RDNA will finally have the feature set of RTX Turing.
Intel Core i9-13900K Raptor Lake 5.5 GHz ES CPU Benchmarks Leak Out: 7% Faster In Single & 28% Faster In Multi-Threaded Tests Versus Core i9-12900K
I'd wait for the full reviews as Intel heavily nerfs their ES samples
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850







