Nvidia retaking the top spot in sales was bound to happen sooner rather than later, but with the 5070? The worst (so far) of the 5000 cards? Really? And yes, I know it's the cheapest yet, but it's still a really bad option.

Nvidia lying sorry, misleading about its sales shows that they're in defense mode and are, in a way, desperate to show they're doing well.

And the 12GB 5060 would be a nice and very welcome surprise. It leaves the 8GB 5060Ti in a weird spot, but I don't think Nvidia will use the first 3GB memory chips on a lower class GPU, or at least not yet. We'll see.

What a rollercoaster of emotions it must have been. I hope they add controller support soon enough so you can give it another go.

https://store.steampowered.com

Are your wallets safe?

Wouldn't be the first time they gave 60 series 12GB of vram. They gave the 3060 12GB back in Ampere days when everyone was expecting 6GB. It made the entire lineup look very strange with 3060 Ti, 3070 and even the 3080 having less Vram. Hell the laptop 3060 did come with 6GB. It's a shame the 4060 came with only 8GB. While I won't get my hopes up, I do hope the 5060 does get 12GB cause man, the 60 series need some love.

Yes, it's true that Nvidia has done some weird things with memory, but the leaks we've had so far point to a 128-bit memory bus and 8GB of VRAM. So, either kopite was very wrong with his leak or Nvidia has decided to use the more expensive 3GB memory chips for this "low" range card, and both options feel, at least to me, unlikely.

By the way, talking about unlikely things, forget about graphene, the future of semiconductors is bismuth!

Return of the gigahertz wars: New Chinese transistor uses bismuth instead of silicon to potentially sock it to Intel and TSMC with 40% more speed
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/processors/return-of-the-gigahertz-wars-new-chinese-transistor-uses-bismuth-instead-of-silicon-to-potentially-sock-it-to-intel-and-tsmc-with-40-percent-more-speed/
Silicon has dominated the chip industry as its foundational material since, well, forever. But now researchers at Peking University claim to have cooked up a novel approach to integrating transistors using, yup, you didn't guess it, bismuth. The result (via Interesting Engineering) is said to be 40% more speed in return for a 10% lower power compared to the latest commercial chip tech from Intel and TSMC.

The Peking team outlines the new technology in a snappily-title research paper, in Nature, "Low-power 2D gate-all-around logics via epitaxial monolithic 3D integration."

(... talk about what is bismuth and the EUV lithography machine from Huawei ...)

(...) Notably and somewhat more comprehensibly, the team claims a 30 nm gate length. If that sounds a lot bigger than today's supposed 3 nm technology from, say, TSMC, the reality is that the likes of "3 nm" are more marketing terms than reflective of the physical realities of current technology.

By way of example, TSMC's N3E node as used in the latest Apple chips has gate pitch of at minimum 45 nm and a metal pitch of 23 nm. Intel's 18A node is said to have a 30-36 nm metal pitch. Either way, nowhere near 3 nm.

The claimed upshot includes the aforementioned 1.4x operating speeds at 90% power consumption versus cutting edge commercial silicon nodes. Given that Intel and TSMC nodes are hardly identical, it's not clear how that is calculated. However, if you take 5 GHz as a rough yardstick for top-end current chip speeds, excluding a few relative edge cases, you'd be looking at a 7 GHz processor, which is getting on some.

As a result, the Peking team claims they have, "the fastest, most efficient transistor ever.” Whether they actually do or not is another matter. But this research, along with the Huawei lithography machine, certainly feeds into a broader narrative of the Chinese building momentum in chip tech.

After checking my Steam wishlist: Unfortunately yes.

Leaving it rest once in a while will make you good.

Besides, this can be a chance to reduce your backlog of unplayed games.

It looks like GPU stock issues in the UK are slowly improving—still a long way to go before being reasonable.
At the very least, I’m consistently seeing overpriced 5070 Ti, 5070, and 5080 models available, as opposed to everything being out of stock. I even saw the 9070 XT in stock for a few hours on Wednesday at £660 before eventually selling out.

Not ideal, but at least availability is trending upward!

Good news.

The sooner supply catches up with deam, the sooner we'll see a price war* to attrack more customers.


* Yes, I know. Price wars are likely a thing of the past... but a man can dream!

Oh man, I loved Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill movies when I was kid.