Their software department needs to improve too, It improved but the competition has a well established software stack, so AMD need to keep improving it.
The hearing aid for partial deafness is a huge w for apple. Really cool to see accessibility features like this. Can help older people, people in construction and so many more with damage to their ears
This is the mindset that I've been talking about. People just think Nvidia is the best because they have the most powerful card. In reality, aside from the absolute top end, you can get better cards with more memory for less money across the board from AMD and now Intel is really getting into the game.
A big advantage for Nvidia is how well optimized their cards are for streaming, making it the default choice for influencers, which obviously gives them a massive marketing advantage.
I'm still on my TR 2950X, still works great for my needs. I was thinking of moving to 'regular' Ryzen to 'upgrade' my setup (tho I'd miss the PCIe abundance), but with the latest very lackluster release of 9950X I've decided to wait to see what Zen 6 might bring... Or, who knows, maybe Intel improves their HEDT offerings. One thing is sure, I'm not paying $3000 just for the CPU, motherboard and memory, which is now a standard for TR setups. No sir! $2k I could live with, but anything above that is a daylight robbery...
I’m still using my 1950x as my main machine. Still a solid system along with my Titan card. I’m undecided on what I’m going to do next year when Win10 stops being supported. May look at trying to move to Win11 on the same system or to get a new system. Would love to go fully Linux but I use too much software that isn’t compatible.
@@GsrItalia I think one of the benefits of these platforms is the ability to take obscene amounts of power without sweating. I have Xeon w7-2475X workstation and at 580W on the CPU itself is a beast performance wise. My wife has a TR 7965WX, and it rips almost 800W with PBO at full tilt, with also great results. Full array of PCIe is also a huge win. When we don't need the power... Threadripper behaves pretty well, with idle around 100W (which is very respectable with this configuration) from the wall, but my Xeon never goes below 160 W on CPU only (that's a quirk of Intel's OC on this platform). We both have laptops that for everyday tasks deliver roughly same performance for 60 Watts or less, but when we need the power - it's there.
@@stuart_gillPersonally, I am running dual boot. For most of my needs, Linux works better, but until I have a good alternative for Lightroom I am stuck.
I had a 2950X, and it was reasonably priced for HEDT. They said they were going to support the newer processors with older boards, like they were with Ryzen. They then proceeded to require a new board for the next generation, and the cost went WAY up on the platform. Then they just didn't release them at all to anyone but OEM's with the generation after that and this latest gen was absurdly expensive. I think there's a place for a reasonably priced 24 core plus HEDT platform, but I feel like AMD is pricing themselves out of the market and don't have the best consumer trust there since I really feel like they haven't done the best job of supporting the Threadripper. I think it's viable, but AMD has kind of shot themselves in the foot a little.
They kind of shot themselves in the foot a little? Mate, they blew their whole leg off with the TR fiasco... The sad thing is - they can totally afford it, it's far from their main money maker and the competition doesn't even try, so why would they improve? It works great for them with minimum effort and that's how it's gonna be until Intel wakes up, finds a financial construction to invest in affordable HEDTs and kick AMD's arse... If ever, that is.
@@bradhaines3142 Threadrippers are not ideal for most server usage, that's why the EPYC line exists (more cores, better power profile, multi-CPU support instead of per-core performance and high boost clocks). That being said, at least the high-end TRs are as intricate and have as high manufacture failure rate as EPYCs so, naturally, AMD prefers to make the latter which, paradoxically, also keeps the TR costs up... AMD has pretty much given up on the entry-level HEDT segment because of those reasons.
I am very confident that the removal of denuvo is what helped with the framerate hitching. Happens all the time with bad Denuvo implementations. Probably not a coincidence.
iFixit didn't notice there was a lack of good mobile soldering stations... They noticed that the Pinecil was selling too well to pass on copying it (at twice the price) 😅
Standard desktop is a helluva lot better than it used to be as well. HEDT back when was for when you needed more than 4 cores 8 threads and/or more memory/memory bandwidth,,, or more pci lanes. Unless you need the pci lanes or 4-8 channel memory that badly, HEDT is very expensive compared to consumer grade 16-24 core chips nowadays.
FSR3 was a promised update for PC. AMD already announced in December CP2077 would get FSR3 support. People have already modded FSR 3.1 into the game. It's actually laughable that CDPR is being praised for implementing something that has been modded in for months, with the updated version also being available for some time.
Though CDPR did not bring FSR 3.1 which is better even though it took them a hell of a lot time already to bring FSR 3. Note that FSR 3.1 allows the Nvidia 3xxx and 2xxx series GPUs to use Frame generation with other upscaling.
@@KrYPTzx You can mod in FSR 3.1 already, and other versions of DLSS for what it's worth. I'm still on a 3070, but got ahold of the improved DLSS version for the 4000 series about a year ago (maybe 7-8 months back).
@@C-M-E That is good but I wonder why CDPR is not officially launching it tbh since their implementation would most likely be more stable and convenient.
10:14 - And that right there is why I am switching to Linux. Honestly, if I want to make my hardware actually last more than four years, Linux is just the better option.
I wish the current threadripper was more competitive. I'm far priced out from the platform. 3960x on the used market has come to a really good price but the trx40 motherboards are looking a bit harder to come by without paying a lot
Threadripper CPU is mostly used for server pc builds... Maybe ok to stop production but whenever an individual is creating a business, since Ryzen 9 CPUs aren't as great as Threadripper then that's the only way they could build a server pc
@@SC-kun Workstation vs server is a volume game. Workstations are for high intensity, single user computations, whereas servers deal with multi user, high throughput data distribution.
I feel like I saw some "cheap" small Epyc board and a 32 core presented somewhere. could that not be a new pro platform instead of threadripper? edit: found it I think AMD EPYC 7551P CPU 32 Cores + Supermicro H11SSL-i Motherboard
CDPR didn't say they are done, they said they had one last FSR related patch before they're done with large patches. Anything else would be most likely some easy and small thing, maybe a bug fix once a year or maybe some small work for a special reason (I guess a promo tie in)
Multiple copies are still legit. My partner and I live in two countries. So if we want to coop games together online, we need two copies. But we share the other single player games
4:38 just did testing. VRAM release issue IS actually finally fixed. Ray tracing is broken (black area loading issue), but who uses that.... Bunch of silly bugs were added too. Not annoying and game breaking, just fun and silly stuff so far.
It wouldn't take much for Threadripper to make a comeback. Find a way to get a board out at $450 and make the Threadripper lineup 12 to 32 core instead of 24 to 64. Non registered memory would be a nice touch too, but I don't see that actually happening.
The thing about amd price to performance ratio is that only usa has those prices. In my country the price to performance ratio is the exact same for amd and nvidia, and the 4060 is the Best price to performance, which is crazy to say.
CDPR sandbagged their FSR 3 implementation. It's not only bizarrely late, it's also just 3.0 and not 3.1. That crap should come up in the next antitrust investigation Nvidia will inevitably face.
I recall a story sometime back about game collections via cloud storage not being transferable upon the primary account holder's passing. Does Steam Family alter that I wonder? Not a value I worry about from a practical point, but it's an interesting metric.
I have a 2023 Toyota LC Prado. It cost me 40k, and the entire undercarrage has skid playes from the front to the back..from the factory. A 100k "Truck" has no underside protection? lmao.
After the ARC discontinuation scare I feel like only after Celestial I will be confidant that Intel is committed to the GPU market. And this is someone who actually owns an ARC GPU.
Are we coming to an age where companies have less interest in producing enthusiast/gamer products because it just isn't worth it to them anymore? It's either ultra AI server farm stuff or low end market stuff. But it just feels upper mid to higher seems to be less, never mind the flagship products at daft prices.
... they are also more expensive, with less per-watt performance, at least the W7-2595X, so there's that... Let's not normalize $2k+ CPUs for HEDT, they definitely are not!
I've been looking through threadripper 2950x videos because I'm editing and wanting to see what it's like to get on the platform. Be fun to plug in a 10g NIC and sound card and have access to nvme card and not be choked off on pcie speeds. I don't use Ryzen Master. Is that even popular?
Still works great as on the first day (and I have exact same setup - 10G NIC, no sound card, but an additional USB 3.2 10G hub which does support my external interface + a NVMe host), but nowadays its per-core performance is... well, 7 years old... Wish they wouldn't charge an arm and a leg for the new TRs, but they do... Oh, they do...
The FDA is setting standards for hardware devices. It's not food. So hardware is a drug then. I knew it, explains why we're all addicted AF to tvs, phones, and pcs.
Hoping you aren't required to use an iphone or other idevice to use the hearing aid function of air pods pro 2 might actually buy my first apple device since the first ipod.
I'm running an AMD gpu, the RX 6900 XT, and soon, I'll be loading up Cyberpunk to see how the FSR 3 and Frame Gen works, not sure I'll leave frame gen on, but I do want to see what difference it makes.
It's a decent bump with FSR. Anywhere from 20-50 fps, but there's some visual issues that come with it. Relatively minor most of the time, like shadow artifacts that you almost have to be looking for it, though ghosting is fairly prevalent. Cp'77 already had a ghosting issue, though you can tune around it with Reshade. The real wonder is why CDPR didn't bless us with FSR 3.1.
There's videos on RU-vid of games running with the nouveau and games running without it like the same game and you gain like 15 to 25 frames when you don't have the nouveau running
So apple released the earpods and airpods that sucked and had no passive sound isolation which made users to blast music at max volume in order to hear music properly which causes long term damage and now they sell the remedy for what some of their earphones caused 🤔
absolutely pathetic that AMD is dropping 1xxx and 2xxx TR support. 1st gen TR is still extremely relevant in every way, especially with good ram tuning. Far more competitive performance-wise than all my X99 based rigs. What is the deal with these companies making these decisions? Do they not like marketing ability that is realistic? Heck, my hobby AM3+ rigs are still ripping along for every day use. I rarely notice a difference in comparison to my daily 5800x rig, except in heavy cpu scenarios. OS and ram tuning/setup make a lot of difference on every platform these days
