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Chazore said:

JEMC said:

Ah, sh*t. I spoke a bit too early..

Regarding the 5090 article, we now have two sources saying that it will be a dual slot card. We'll see what magic can Nvidia do.

And who is missing from the handheld PC craze at this point? Are all the AIB parters going to make them now? First Asus, then MSI and now Zotac. How long until Gigabyte comes with one of their own? Or maybe Asrock?
Yeah, the market will soon get a bit too crowded.

My main gripe with this saturation of the market, is that all the others are just focusing on slightly higher res, lower battery life, not so great grip/button layout, and focusing on Windows.

I still feel like Valve nailed it, and that they just need a more refined model, while the rest are still left trying to figure out on what a handheld is meant to be (as in not a device that lasts 2-4hrs only, because they focus too much on screen size and OC'ing to hell and back). 

Also, seeing as how most of the models aren't exactly selling more than the Switch or even the Deck, I doubt they'll outlive the Deck anyway (also warranties seem to be an issue with the other handhelds and that's not exactly enticing for the customer). 

The problem is that better efficiency comes from more efficient hardware, and that relies on AMD or Intel. They can't really use lower power settings because they'd love with the others in terms of performance, and most people judge a product by how it performs, simple as that. The other option is a bigger battery, like Asus plans to do with the Ally X, but that comes at a price: it makes the device both more expensive and also heavier, which is something people don't like.

So yeah, it's not like there's much they can do, can they?

Valve "nailed" it because they use their own OS, taylored to that AMD hardware. That's why they still haven't released their SteamOS to the public.

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

If true, 5090 feels more nerfed than I thought it would be. We will see when it comes to the actual performance tho.

Radeon team has pretty much been getting cucked post RDNA 2 in a lot of ways. Least AMD still has their CPU division but their GPU division needs a revamp or a secret sauce of some kind.

Honestly what we need from Valve is more horse power. If we can have Steam Deck 2 with Zen 5/4/3 with RDNA 4 which looks to be very power efficient with more battery, it would be perfect. As of right now, the deck is really good for older titles but really has a tough time with newer ones.

The GB202 will likely be a bigger chip than the AD102, which will likely make getting perfect chips difficult. It makes sense that Nvidia will go for a slightly cut down version to have enough working chips.

Plus they can use the perfect ones with their more profitable enterprise products.

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

Well well, what do we have here?

Congratulations, lucky you! I'm sure you'll enjoy it and its great blacks.

If you haven't read it, you may want to check a TFTCentral article where they find that some OLED monitors have brighter images when choosing the “True Black 400” option instead of "Peak 1000": https://tftcentral.co.uk/articles/testing-hdr400-true-black-and-peak-1000-mode-brightness-on-new-oled-monitors

It may come in handy.

haxxiy said:

JEMC said:

Sucks to be AMD right now.

I do wonder if the lower demand for its MI300X is because the market has bought the Nvidia hype and refuses to buy AI products from other brands.

Everyone and their mother wants to move away ASAP from Huang's insanely priced hardware. The thing is, they will want to replace Tesla GPUs with their own in-house product, not AMD's alternative.

And that's assuming generative AI proves to be a viable product, an AI winter soon due to diminishing returns in LLMs would screw AMD all the same. Nvidia too, but at least they'd have gaming to fall back into.

So, it doesn't matter what they do, they can't win. Yeah, it sucks to be AMD right now.