Ah yes, our lord and master has returned, reclaiming the sacred throne of PC gaming discussion! Truly, history shall remember this day.

As for what I’ve been playing—been diving deep into the chaotic abyss of Deep Rock Galactic. Nothing screams supreme manliness more than space dwarves mining in the dark, shooting alien bugs, and screaming "ROCK AND STONE!" at the top of their lungs. The cooperative play is solid, the environments are randomly generated yet always engaging, and the sheer satisfaction of drilling through a cave system never gets old try traffic rider apk here is (Link removed by Pemalite)/ download it and enjoye the game.

But Fortune Summoners, huh? A 2D action RPG starring little girls fighting monsters on their way to school? Now that is peak masculinity right there. The real question is—how many times did Archie get absolutely wrecked before you got used to the controls?

Also, I gotta ask, does the game feature the ultimate RPG test—a fishing minigame?

Alright, since I was dumb enough to mention it, I went ahead and did it.

Raster (11 games)_

• 9070 vs 7900GRE_ 1440p = 16.8% ahead # 4K = 18.5% ahead
• 9070XT ve 7900GRE_ 1440p = 32.7% ahead # 4K = 37.4% ahead

RT (9 games)_

• 9070 vs 7900GRE_ 1440p = 25.7% ahead # 4K = 26.2% ahead
• 9070XT ve 7900GRE_ 1440p = 49.7% ahead # 4K = 53% ahead

Something worth of note: the 7900GRE has 5120 shaders while the 9070XT has 4096. It achieves those leaked numbers with 20% less shaders.
I couldn't find how many shaders  the 9070 is supposed to have.

*Edit* Fixed the wrongly named 6900GRE to its actual name. Thanks Pem!

Who wants to try some demos?

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest

(this kind of explains why the Deckbuilding Carnival doesn't have its own festival)

The number of shaders is only part of the story. It's the clockspeeds that are pushing the 9070 higher.
AMD is going for a smaller and faster and more balanced core so they can invest more transistors into things like RT and A.I, which is what they needed to do.

The 9070XT has 4096 pipelines @2400Mhz base, 2970Mhz boost.
The 7900GRE (I assume you meant the 7900GRE as the 6900GRE doesn't exist AFAIK) has 5190 pipelines @ 1270Mhz, 2245Mhz boost.

Almost a double in base clock and over a 30% increase in boost clock... But having all the ROPS, Texture Mapping Units, Geometry Units and more run at a higher rate is also helping.
Add in the new RT functionality and the 9070XT should be a much more efficient platform.

It's like when we went from VLIW5 to VLIW4, less shaders, but higher clocks, resulted in a more balanced chip.

I used to be so excited to be able to try out new games via demos. Now I have had two demos sitting on my desktop for months, and I've had to remove multiple demos becase they've expired, for whatever reason. It's funny how there's never a healthy (long-term) balance between available time and money.

Oh, I feel you. That has happened to me several times.

In any case, I've downloaded three demos, but I won't try any today. Not in the mood. Hopefully I'll try at least one tomorrow.

This site is more unstable than Blackwell launch

Hardware canucks made a great video about upcoming RX 5000 laptops and why you shouldn't preorder any of them

Basically, he's saying that the performance increase from RX 4000 to RX 5000 seems minimal and yet the prices are out for lunch so much are they through the roof.

Also, the vast majority of them come with Intel CPUs, and as they showed both on desktop and laptops without discrete GPU, they come with their own share of problems: The desktop chips are sometimes weaker than their predecessors, especially in gaming, while their newest laptop chips are running at 100 degrees with high-end cooling, more than just potentially thermal throttling the GPU if this doesn't change.

Nothing beats Crapwell in that regard. Nothing.

AMD teases Radeon RX 9070 focusing on sub-$700 price point

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-teases-radeon-rx-9070-focusing-on-sub-700-price-point

Least the official msrp won't be above $700 but without the reference model from AMD, there's a chance AIBs takes pricing into their own hands like with 5070 Ti.

But ultimately Radeon needs to make sure they price it correctly. Personally $700 would be DoA for 9070 XT. $650 is decent but really, if they want to truly gain market share, $600 or less would be ideal imo and some reviewers like HUB are even suggesting $550 which would be nuts. But we will find out in a couple days.

ASRock addresses Ryzen 9000 boot issues with new BIOS for A620, B650, B850 and X870 motherboards

https://videocardz.com/newz/asrock-addresses-ryzen-9000-boot-issues-with-new-bios-for-a620-b650-b850-and-x870-motherboards

Hopefully this will fix the burning/melting issues for the 9800X3D on Asrock boards since it was starting to become worry some.

Final specifications of AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 GPUs leaked

https://videocardz.com/newz/final-specifications-of-amd-radeon-rx-9070-xt-and-rx-9070-gpus-leaked

There are those Ai cores

NVIDIA confirms fix for GeForce RTX black screen issues: VBIOS and new driver coming this week

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-confirms-fix-for-geforce-rtx-black-screen-issues-vbios-and-new-driver-coming-this-week

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Comes In 180W TBP With 16 GB Launching First In Late March Followed By 8 GB In April

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5060-180w-tbp-16-gb-launching-late-march-8-gb-in-april/

Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming

https://www.theverge.com/pc-gaming/618709/steam-deck-3-year-anniversary-handheld-gaming-shipments-idc

Out of 6 million, steam deck sold around 3.7 million. Quite impressive.

https://videocardz.com/newz/microcenter-lists-radeon-rx-9070-series-rx-9070-xt-starting-at-699-rx-9070-at-649

DOA. Expect AMD's exit from the DGPU market next gen; unless people actually buy these. Their market share is dangerously low; they need a massive success.