I love Sweeney’s holier than thou attitude. MFer, you don’t give a shit about anything other than self-enrichment and social standing among other oligarchs.

Even windows doesn’t run as well as with x86 unless all you use is a browser.

Not that great?

The ones listed on our local second hand platform have no 3D capabilities (beyond monitor output), Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge CPUs that are slowly entering the “not good enough for even basic tasks” zone and miniscule SSDs (120 GB) by modern standards.

They are cheaper of course, but these two options don’t seem comparable.

Apologies in advance for being overly pedantic, but it’s Zen 2, not Ryzen 2. Ryzen is a generic brand, when Zen is the architecture family.

The article outlines why this is likely to impact Windows as well.

Shipment/POS do not telling you anything about unfulfilled demand or “unrealized supply”.

It’s just how unit were shipped into the channel and sales at retail respectively.

These are the best data points that we have to understand demand dynamic.

Gamers are also a notoriously dramatic demography that often don’t go through on what they say.

That’s why it’s best to focus on absolute unit shipment numbers/POS.

If total units increased compared to the previous generation launch, then people are still buying GPUs.

It seems like gamers have finally realized that the newest GPUs by NVIDIA and AMD are getting out of reach, as a new survey shows that many of them are skipping upgrades this year.

Data on GPU shipments and/or POS sales showing a decline would be much more reliable than a survey.

Surveys can at times suffer from showing what the respondents want to reply as opposed to what they do.

The issue isn’t share of revenue (well not directly), the issue is lower margins for gaming GPUs and a more complex distribution network (involvement of AIBs, retailers).

They have powerful iGPUs; something similar to Strix Halo. I am not a Mac user, but in my understanding the top end SKU have iGPUs comparable to high end dGPUs (with respect to synthetic performance, actual gaming performance tends to lag heavily).

4K is a tiny part of the market. Even 1440p is a small segment (albeit rapidly growing).

This is a much more nuanced take than the headlines implies.

I am curious how exactly will Steam integration work. Knowing MS, it’s likely going to be clunky and subpar.

Recalling looking forward to this one.

Sounds like it’s going to be UE6: Fortnite.

Hopefully Godot can make more improvements by the time of UE6’s release.

Just like their original benchmarks were showing 3000+ in Geekbench ST and then not even a single device came close to this result.

I would argue if your budget allows you to, it’s better to get 8 cores.

Any benefit for paying for 12 or 16?

Only if you do demanding use cases other than gaming. One example is video editing and encoding (the type that should not be done on a GPU).

Some games do benefit from having 16 cores, things like economic strategy games with lots of background simulation (one example would be path finding).