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Captain_Yuri said:

Another interesting note if it's legit is:

"Chiplet - 1x GCD + 6x MCD (0-hi or 1-hi)."
"There is a 3D stacked MCD also being productized (1-hi) using TSMC’s SoIC."
"There were early plans for a version with 288MB of Infinity Cache (2-hi), but this was shelved as the cost-benefit was not worth it."

So if Navi 31 launches with 96MB of L3 cache and we may see Radeon take a page from Zen's book and launch Navi 31 Refresh with 192MB of Vcache.

They may be saving that for the 7950XT or for an 7900XTX, the halo product that only a few will be able to buy.

gtotheunit91 said:

Idk how much PC exclusive genres of games are discussed on this thread as I know it's predominantly regarding hardware, but I just saw the trailer for Tempest Rising from THQ Nordic's summer showcase, and it looks like DOOM and C&C had a baby and I LOVE IT!!!! I didn't realize how PC-centric THQ is becoming. There were a few other PC only strategy games that were announced during the showcase as well but this game stood out the most to me! Especially claiming to have that 90s to early 2000s style gameplay that I miss so much. Age of Empires is having its own golden age, but it's exciting to see RTS making a comeback!

There's a lot of hardware talk because new stuff is always exciting and also because it's easier than talking about games. A CPU is a CPU and the same goes for the GPUs, and it doesn't matter if you prefer one brand over another, you'll still need one of each.

With games it's more difficult because there' a lot more variety (thankfully!) and some people prefer some genres while others despise those games and focus on others. That's why it's easier to make threads to talk about certain games, tho I guess it would be possible to make threads based on genres, to try to engage more people (nowadays it's hard to get people involved in talking about a game unless it's a console exclusive, and a big one).

About Tempest Rising, it's quite clear they took a lot of inspiration from C&C (it even has harvesters!) but, from the few glimpses of gameplay, it looks good enough. Thanks for sharing it.