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Captain_Yuri said:

Apple Cuts SSD Performance for Entry-level 2023 MacBook Pro, M2 Mac Mini

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/macbook-pro-m2-pro-mac-mini-ssd-downgrade

Apple gonna Apple...

I honestly fail to see the need to criple the performance of your newest product over the old one, even more so on a $2000 product. But yeah, as you said, Apple gonna Apple.

By the way, a warning to any of you who may be considering getting a new, fast NVMe Drive: Don't go with Samsung for now

Samsung 990 PRO Flagship SSD Has an Endurance Problem, Users Notice Rapid Drive-Health Drops
https://www.techpowerup.com/303984/samsung-990-pro-flagship-ssd-has-an-endurance-problem-users-notice-rapid-drive-health-drops
Samsung 990 PRO is the company's flagship client SSD, which is among the fastest Gen 4 NVMe SSDs you can buy. It also commands a very high price premium, with the 1 TB variant priced at $170, and the 2 TB variant at $290. When you're buying in this segment, you expect the highest endurance figures for your SSD. Client SSD endurance figures are already on the rise, as NAND flash technology evolves. Neowin noticed that their 990 PRO isn't meeting this vital expectation, and with a little digging, found that there are others with this problem, and they didn't just get a bad drive.

Conina said:

I got a voucher for one month "GeForce NOW Priority Membership" from Ubisoft "because of the Stadia Shutdown".... no idea why.

Since the GFN servers in Frankfurt are already upgraded to RTX 4080 I activated the voucher, then upgraded to GFN-Ultimate for 20 € and then cancelled the subscription immediately. The GFN priority month was credited with 15 additional days, so the next 45 days I can try out "Geforce Now RTX 4080".

My first games will be Portal with RTX, The Witcher 3 with RT and Cyberpunk 2077 with RT Psycho... maybe also an Ubisoft game

Wait, you've cheated the system? Congratulations!

I hope you'll tell us your experience with it.

Bofferbrauer2 said:

JEMC said:

AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 23.1.2 (RX 7900)
https://videocardz.com/driver/amd-radeon-software-adrenalin-23-1-2-rx-7900
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>> This is, once again, a driver update only for the new 7900 cards and, as TechPowerUp notes, there has been no driver updates for older cards for the last 48 days. Way to go, AMD!

Captain_Yuri said:

AMD Software Adrenalin 23.1.2 for RX 7900 Series Third Straight Exclusive Driver, No New Driver for RX 6000 Series Since 48 Days

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Seems to confirm my theory that NVidia's Ada cards forced AMD's Hand and they had to release a yet unfinished card to not let NVidia take the entire market for themselves. As such, they are now rushing to get the 7000 cards working properly, at the cost of not upgrading the drivers for the 6000 and older cards until it's at an acceptable level.

Edit: This is probably also why we didn't hear anything from lower-end RDNA3 GPUs outside of Laptop GPUs yet, as they already have desktop GPUs in that performance level out there with the RDNA2 cards. I don't expect any RX 7800 or below to be released before spring, with late April being the earliest I can think of.

Even if AMD has work to do with RDNA3, that's no excuse to leave the older cards in the dust. C'mon, it can't be too difficult to at least add support for the newer games that have launched these last weeks.

It's unacceptable, simple as that.

As for the lack of news regarding the rest of the lineup, well, there's something of that, of course, but Nvidia doesn't seem to have problems and the latest rumors also point to a Spring or Computex launch for the rest of their cards. The amount of Ampere and RDNA2 cards on the market, especially in the used market, probably pays another important role in this delay.