Yep, lack of real competition allowed Nvidia to get greedy.

Cool. Is that the last game to arrive or there's another one to complete the MC collection?

There's still Halo 3 ODST and Halo 4

My guess is that Vega is the basis of the upcoming CDNA and is getting fine-tuned through the APU releases.

The other possibility is that work on Renoir and Cezanne got started before Navi was finalized and thus an improved Vega got chosen instead to not slow down the projects.

Thanks. I didn't know Halo 4 was also part of the collection.

That means that only Halo 5 wom't be on PC, yet. And we'll see what happens with Infinity.

Hm. The second part convinces me more. Still, given the increaes efficiency and architectural gains, it's hard to understand why they haven't tried to replace it with Navi.

H.266/VVC Codec Is Official, Will Succeed H.265/HEVC and Consume Half the Data for the Same Video Quality

https://wccftech.com/h-266-vvc-codec-official-succeed-h-265-hevc-consume-less-data-same-video-quality/

"Through a reduction of data requirements, H.266/VVC makes video transmission in mobile networks (where data capacity is limited) more efficient. For instance, the previous standard H.265/HEVC requires ca. 10 gigabytes of data to transmit a 90-min UHD video. With this new technology, only 5 gigabytes of data are required to achieve the same quality. Because H.266/VVC was developed with ultra-high-resolution video content in mind, the new standard is particularly beneficial when streaming 4K or 8K videos on a flat screen TV. Furthermore, H.266/VVC is ideal for all types of moving images: from high-resolution 360° video panoramas to screen sharing contents."

Don't we already have a released Ampere card that consumes 400 Watts even at 1400 MHz? And then I'd imagine increasing that to 2000 MHz or so will probably double power consumption or come close to it. I don't think clocks will be too high, even accounting for the removal of some of the extra tensor core machinery and whatnot in the gaming cards.

What I got from my favorite PC Hardware site (PCGH) is, that stock, the performance only mildly improves.

However, these new chips are much better overclockable. They show this by taking their early 3800X, which reached 4.35 Ghz allcore at 1.35V, and compared it to the new 3800XT, which reached 4.625 allcore at the same voltage. And at that clock speed, it generally beats a 5 Ghz Intel 8-core 9900K or 10800K

I wouldn't compare Enterprise GPUs numbers to consumer GPU numbers as enterprise GPUs generally have a ton of added things that won't make it into consumer GPUs for various reasons as they aren't meant for gaming.

But while the A100 does consume 400 Watts at 1.4ghz. It also has 6912 cores, 40GB of 5120-bit HBM2 Vram at 1.6 TB/sec and a crap ton of other things.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-ampere-A100-gpu-7nm

I'd say that it's a good option for those that jumped to Ryzen during the first gen and now are "stuck" with X370 and such boards that won't get support for the 4000 series. They won't get anyhting better than this.