Tbh they should give Halo to id Software after they're done with Infinite. The franchise has been hanging on and got stale even before Bungie left and 343 took over. Adding to that the recent games are clearly mismanaged and mishandled. Not even sure why or how 343 are still in charge of their flagship franchise.


As for Cyberpunk I actually enjoyed it lol. Could it have been better? Yeah, was it a bad game.. I don't think so. Unless you're playing on console.

Tbh I haven't really been following the campaign and have no interest in the franchise anymore. I played an hour of Halo 4's campaign and that was that. Reach was last Halo game I played and completed and MP too. But yeah, Co-op and Forge isn't needed launch, they just need to release a decent game and deserving of the Halo name.

I'd probably get into it if Halo again if it was rebooted by id. Otherwise pass. Though hoping Infinite is good and works out.. and from the MP previews; it looks decent for fans of the series.

Imo 343 has been given enough chances already to prove them selves and they stumbled wayy too much. The problem isn't just that it doesn't have co-op or forge, the problem is that it doesn't have those things even after being delayed for a year. What did they do this entire time? Spending their money on hookers? This game was supposed to be ready last year. They didn't even show any single player gameplay this time around which shows just how confident they are in their execution. These are the devs that thought it was acceptable to showcase a Halo game that looked early xbox one in terms of graphics as a launch title for next gen console. Sony is doing cross gen too and Horizon looks incredible. Hell even Spiderman looks better. Why doesn't this flagship game look just as good?

If this was 343's first time, I can be like sure, lets give them a chance. But this is like their 4th time. They goofed MCC hard during the initial xbox one launch. They goofed Halo 5. They goofed Halo Infinite during it's initial showing and now, even after being delayed a whole year, they have barely anything to show for it. The multiplayer looks good sure, but you would think that if the Single Player was up to snuff, they would showcase it.

We will see what happens but 343 has been given too many chances with Halo imo. This was once Microsoft's Mario. Imagine if Nintendo fucked up Mario for over a decade while Sega made Sonic games that were better. That would be insane! But that's what 343 has done with Halo.

Intel Core i9-12900K 16 Core Alder Lake CPU Benchmarked on ASUS ROG STRIX Z690-E Gaming WIFI Motherboard, Faster Than Core i9-11900K

https://wccftech.com/intel-core-i9-12900k-16-core-desktop-cpu-benchmarked-asus-rog-strix-z690-e-gaming-wifi-motherboard-faster-than-amd-ryzen-9-5950x/

Now these are early samples but man, if this is true, Alder Lake S is gonna be a flop. The benchmark is clearly not taking advantage of the 5950x's 16 cores 32 threads because of how close it is to an 11900k. So the fact that the i9-12900k is this close means that it's in big trouble! We will see what happens when the CPU actually comes out but if this is what Intel's answer to AMD is... This ain't it chief!

Intel DG2-512 specs compared to nVidia GA104 and AMD Navi 22 (as well DG2-128 & DG2-256)

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/p95nyq/intel_dg2512_specs_compared_to_nvidia_ga104_and/

Now I wouldn't compare TF between the GPUs as they are meaningless. But it does give us an interesting idea as to the spec differences. I do think that RDNA 2 is lacking in ML performance but we already knew that with DF. The Ray Tracing performance is something I will be interested in seeing.

AVX-512 is certainly irrelevant today, but who knows in a couple years?

For Instance, Phenom-based processors couldn't start some games after 2015 anymore since those needed SSE 4.1 and/or 4.2, but those only had the AMD-exclusive 4.a. But in 2009, SSE4 was still even just barely used in HPC.

Either way, it would be funny if in a couple years some game would make use of AVX-512 and then run on Rocket lake, but not it's immediate successors...

We clearly need some more test samples to see the full picture, but since Alder Lake is supposed to be released in October, I doubt it will change much over what we have right now in the leaks.

So for the high end, I expect Intel to revive it's HEDT platform with Sapphire Rapids and fight both the 5950X and the Threadrippers 5960X and 5970X with that one while Alder Lake will compete with the 5900X at best.

And that's all without the boost AMD is about to give their CPUs with the infinity cache they'll be getting for their refresh...

Interesting would have been to know the TGP or TBP of Arc to see if it can keep up in that regard or run very hot.

I'm expecting that 170W chip to be something more special.

Either AMD starts rating TDP like on the servers (where the chips with a TDP of 280W also don't consume more than that; a 5950X at full core utilization is more like 145W, add in the extra memory on top that will come with the refresh and you're close to 170W in real terms already), or AMD comes with an chip that's actually a full 7950X (6950X for the upcoming refresh) plus a relatively powerful mobile GPU chip(-let, as in, 16-32CU), as the big cache they are putting on top of the chips with the upcoming refresh would also do really great for an integrated GPU.

Another funny thing is that if Zen 4 does have AVX512, all those benches that Intel was ahead in due to AVX512 support will then be reversed.

I am personally not feeling Alder Lake S anymore as there were early leaks of Rocket Lake before it launched and the performance wasn't much different post launch. Alder Lake could be a really hot mess when it comes out, maybe even worse than Zen 1. New Memory, New PCI-E, big.LITTLE scheduling and etc. I am sure there's going to be tons of Windows and BIOS updates gonna be needed to make it all viable. Meanwhile Zen 3 gets heavily discounted and Zen 3 Vcache comes out with tried and true formula with DDR4 and gen 4 while giving people more performance. And by the time AMD comes out with their own big.LITTLE, all these issues will be fixed. If Alder Lake isn't 15-20% faster than Zen 3 with their big cores, Intel is gonna be in big big trouble.

Also they do have TDP estimates in the bottom table but I'd take it with some salt.

A reason why Alder Lake doesn't have AVX-512 but Sapphire Rapids, which comes with the same CPU chiplets does, could be because the Atom cores don't support the instruction, and this could probably be problematic if a workload gets bounced from an AVX-512 core to one that doesn't support the said instruction. So this will probably get resolved on future chips by either including the instruction into their Atom chips or through an updated scheduler in Windows and Linux that can handle this problem and ensures workloads with specific instructions don't bounce to cores who can't handle those.

Alder Lake's big cores are basically Tiger Lake, and as such only on par with Zen 3. The only way it could get significantly faster is through clock speeds in excess of 5.3 Ghz on more than one core. Which is probably gonna happen more or less considering it's power draws...

Mining back in Bogota (or Spain during Winter) would've been viable... here in Medellin... not so much... unless I leave my rig outdoors. Either that or using the AC and that kind of kills the point. 

Weren't there some rumors earlier this year that Zen4 processors would feature an IGP? That could explain the extra power of the new chips that would go, mostly, for that. The thing is that I don't remember if those were the rumors that were proven false or not.

As for the leaked performance of Alder Lake... well, it's not great, but I think that this kind of hybrid processors will need help from MSoft, with an update to Windows that helps with the threading and such. We'll have to wait until it launches to see if MSoft launches an update to Win10 that increases the performance of those chips.