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Pemalite said:

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

Intel pivots away from its X86S initiative

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-pivots-away-from-its-x86s-initiative

Good. x86 baggage is such an insignificant die-cost, the loss of decades worth of backwards compatibility would suck.

Don't be so happy yet. They way have stopped that now because it was coming only from them, but now that the x86 group is a thing and AMD and others are on board, Intel may try to bring that again as a global initiative.

Pemalite said:

JEMC said:

Given that Nvidia's mobile chips are usually based on the same desktop parts but from one tier lower, that 5070 laptop would be based on the 5060 desktop. If that holds true once again, I hope the 5060 is cheap, like $200 or less cheap, otherwise Intel will eat them alive.

Intel may end up with the better product... Just like AMD currently has the better price performance parts with the 7700XT and 7800XT, nVidia will still demolish them in sales.

It's the Apple effect... Android generally has the better product technically, but Apple still outsells any singular Android device, Samsung Galaxy included.

Brand can be everything.

While you're right that Nvidia's brand is powerful enough to still win some people, people in the mid and low end market tend to be more conscious about the money they're spending.

So yeah, Nvidia is the GPU brand, but if the B580/570 is close or on par in performance and much cheaper, the chance of them going the cheaper route is higher now that their drivers don't suck. And that possibility goes up even more with the B770/750, because those cards will likely be faster than the 5060, but will also have twice the VRAM and maybe even be the same price.

Low-end doesn't follow the same rules than high-end does.