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Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

AMD Ryzen AI MAX 300 “Strix Halo” reviews are here, dawn of mid-range discrete GPUs

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-ai-max-300-strix-halo-reviews-are-here-dawn-of-mid-range-discrete-gpus

They must mean discrete "iGPUs" in the title and not just gpus. From what I have seen in notebookcheck and dave2d, it performs similarly to a power limited 4060/4070 around 65-75 TDP. If you increase the TDP of a 4060 laptop to say 110 watts, the 4060 laptop will beat the Strix Halo by 7% in gaming workloads at 1080p. Strix Halo doesn't do very well at 1440p gaming but neither does 4060 laptop so that doesn't matter much either way. Really the strength of Strix Halo is the vram so if you need a ton of vram for Ai stuff or video editing, it's really good.

The biggest drawback is certainly going to be the price. Hopefully cheaper configurations will be coming out as the laptop costs around $2000 while 5070 Ti gaming laptop from Asus will start around $1899.

https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/gaming-laptops/u-s-rtx-50-laptop-pricing-starts-from-usd1-899-for-an-rtx-5070-ti-toting-asus-rog-strix-g16

It's a hell of a chip. Not perfect, mind you, but it's impressive.

Let's hope Minisforum or some other company puts it in a mini-PC and allow it to run at full power. It will be interesting to see what it's really capable of.

And if Asus uses it for the Ally 2, we could also see how it performs at less than 40W.

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

First shipment of GeForce RTX 5070 Ti not expected to be better than RTX 5090/5080

https://videocardz.com/newz/first-shipment-of-geforce-rtx-5070-ti-not-expected-to-be-better-than-rtx-5090-5080

With the price increase from Asus and other that Darc Requiem posted yesterday, that lack of supply was more than expected.

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

Acer Becomes The First Manufacturer To Announce 10% Price Increase On Consumer Products Amid Trump Tariffs; ASUS, HP & Dell To Likely Follow

https://wccftech.com/acer-becomes-the-first-manufacturer-to-announce-10-price-increase-amid-trump-tariffs/

So it begins. Let's hope it stays only in the US and doesn't affect the rest of us.

haxxiy said:

So apparently Nvidia removed native support for PhysX from the GeForce 50 series for some reason.

Yeah, saw it at DSOG. It's weird for them to do that, unless supporting it for 32-bit games caused soe trouble with the new architecture? I don't know.

Oh, well. Welcome to the AMD side of PhysX, I guess.