I'm wondering if that's a limitation from Valve and the SteamOS? Because the Steam Deck is powered by a Zen2/RDNA2 SoC, and so Valve may have been able to include support for the new Zen3 architecture but not RDNA3 yet.

Otherwise, it's indeed a bit weird as AMD's Z1 has Zen4/RDNA3 parts in it.

The way Nvidia gimps its GPUs by not including enough VRAM is going to bite them in the a$$ one day or another, and I wouldn¡t mind if it's sooner rather than later.

Now, I can understand that they don't want to give the 5070 the same amount of memory than the 5070Ti and 5080, but 12GB is no longer enough in this proce segment after Intel's B580, and they could have also given the 5080 more than just 16GB.

In an ideal world, the 5080 would have had 24GB of VRAM, the two 5070 would have had 16GB and the two 5060 would be equipped with 12GB.

That thing is massive.

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The RTX 5000 series isn't looking at all appealing to me, as someone that got an RTX 4060 a little more than a year ago. Nvidia is doing all it can to not make me want to upgrade, and that's from a GPU I didn't particularly like in the first place and only wanted to last until something clearly better is available. Well, the RTX 5000 series clearly isn't that much better.

Thanks and you mate. Busy year lol.

Lots of tech news happening soon which is quite exciting. Looking forward to new GPU's in the upcoming months.

Looks like the only GPU worth the time for Blackwell is 5090 and 5070Ti. Unless the 5080 is priced really well. 5090 will be beasting.

And there is absolutely no need for being castrated with VRAM either.

Samsung has 3GB GDDR7 memory modules... Literally a drop in replacement.
So the 5070 could have had 18GB on a 192bit memory bus and the 5070Ti could have had 24GB on a 256bit bus.
The 5060Ti could have kept it's 16GB and the 5060 could have 12GB.

Are those memory chips already in mass production? I remember reading that Samsung was working on them, but I didn't know they were already available.

Is RDNA3 efficiency even better than RDNA2 in these low power cases?

AMD fell fall short of their 2x efficiency claims, but it was still a bit more efficient, yes.

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A lot of former PlayStation exclusives were ported to PC this year. And in most (all?) of the last years, the PlayStation platform lost more exclusives than gained new exclusive titles. I tried a porting list sorted by PC release date (Stellar Blade release date is still a rumour), also to see the time difference between the PS-release and the PC-release.

On the left side is the time difference since the PS4 or PS5 release of a comparable version (f.e. feature complete with all DLCs of the PC version or PS5 enhancements). On the right side is the time difference since the original release on PS4 (or PS3 or PS5) without DLCs / expansions:

So if Sony (and their exclusivity partners) want to keep up the current "porting pace", older PS4 (and perhaps even PS3) exclusives are good candidates for 2025 and 2026.

Which of them do you expect in 2025?