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Bofferbrauer2 said:

As expected, the H, P and U chips are essentially Alder Lake CPUs with a speed bump, mostly on the turbo side. Considering the generally poor battery life of Alder Lake, I don't have high hopes it would be any better with these.

And those HX CPUs... get a desktop instead! Seriously, at that power draw, any laptop will be more transportable than a real portable machine.

Edit: GN roasting NVidia's CES presentation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9akXjZkITE

I have a desktop with a Ryzen 5950X... I use my laptop as a supplemental device when I am on deployment or training for a week or more at a time.

Captain_Yuri said:

RDNA3 GPUs only capable of 36tflops vs 61tflop marketing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/102veop/rdna3_gpus_only_capable_of_36tflops_vs_61tflop/

Take it with a grain of salt until we see more proof but essentially, while with Nvidia, you don't see the advertised theoretical FP32 gains in gaming, in rendering and such, you generally do see those types of gains. With Radeon, that doesn't seem to be the case, least for now.

Teraflops has always been a hypothetical denominator as it's a function of cores*instructions per clock*clockspeed... And not a measured benchmarked number.

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Captain_Yuri said:

The more reviewers shit on these GPUs, the better. 4080, 4070 Ti, 7900XTX, 7900XT are all turds for their price

I think the 7900XTX is actually okay. Not great for sure, but not a turd either. Just make sure to get a non-reference design.

The other 3 however are all polished turds with some extra raytracing on top to make them extra appealing for uninformed customers.

Even some non-reference designs have had over-heating issues.

I'm wanting to upgrade my GPU, but everything is shit at the moment... Price, reliability or otherwise.