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Pemalite on 26 January 2026
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Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

Intel Arc B390 beats AMD’s mainstream iGPUs and nears RTX 4050-level performance in some tests

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-arc-b390-beats-amds-mainstream-igpus-and-nears-rtx-4050-level-performance-in-some-tests

Wow these numbers are actually nuts. 63% faster than 890M at 25 watts is insane! Along with Intels XeSS feature set and such, Radeon really needs to respond to this or risk losing the PC handheld space.

Considering how price-competitive Intel is... It makes me happy we finally have a 3rd viable contender in the GPU space.
If AMD can't or won't compete with nVidia, then maybe Intel will.

AMD needs to bring updated GPU architectures to the integrated graphics space sooner and more aggressively... Waiting a year or two isn't great, especially with the rapid improvements in upscaling.

JEMC said:

Fable is getting rid of the old games' horrible dog, who I hate
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/fable-is-getting-rid-of-the-old-games-horrible-dog-who-i-hate/
Great news everyone: they're deep-sixing the dog. In a chat with IGN, Playground general manager Ralph Fulton said that, in contrast to the preceding two Fable games, this autumn's Fable reboot won't give you a furry canine companion to venture alongside.

Did people really hate the dog? I thought it was actually executed well.

JEMC said:
Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

AMD to use RDNA5 for premium iGPU solutions, but RDNA3.5 to remain the core of AMD portfolio until 2029

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-to-use-rdna5-for-premium-igpu-solutions-but-rdna3-5-to-remain-the-core-of-amd-portfolio-until-2029

For iGPUs for office pcs, this is fine. But I really hope they don't plan on using RDNA 3.5 for handhelds as well for this long.

That's what they should do, which means that they'll likely do the wrong thing.

Chip size. RDNA4 is big.

JEMC said:

Intel has a monster iGPU in its hands... and then goes and does the most stupid thing they could:

Panther Lake's limited number of PCIe lanes means you probably won't see any gaming laptops arriving with the 12-core Xe3 iGPU and a discrete GPU
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/gaming-laptops/panther-lakes-limited-number-of-pcie-lanes-means-you-probably-wont-see-any-gaming-laptops-arriving-with-the-12-core-xe3-igpu-and-a-discrete-gpu/
You've read my breakdown on the architecture behind Intel's new Panther Lake processors. You've gone through every graphics benchmark that Andy has done with the range-topping Core Ultra X9 388H. Between the two of them, you've now decided that your next gaming laptop is going to be Panther Lake-powered and sport a big GPU from Nvidia, to go with Intel's big Xe3 tile. You're possibly going to be disappointed, then, to know that you're almost certainly not going to see any such lappies coming to market.

The reason why is quite simple: it all comes down to the number of available PCIe lanes in the platform controller tile. Intel has two variants of this chiplet: one with 12 lanes (four are Gen 5, eight are Gen 4) and the other with 20 lanes (eight Gen 4, twelve Gen 5). The important thing, though, is that every Core Ultra 300-series processor that has the big 12-core Xe3 iGPU uses the 12-lane platform controller tile.

Why?!

In a laptop it's probably not the end of the world.
8-Gen 4 PCI-E lanes should be sufficient just for the GPU, the rest can be for the SSD/Wifi etc'.
These aren't high-end desktop parts and Intel has shown they aren't stingy with VRAM.

More PCI-E lanes is more power consumption as well.

I would wait on benchmarks to see where the cards fall. Pun intended.




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