I would really like some image quality comparisons, between these cards, when you have to turn down textures.

GPU reviews of course test on the highest settings, so you can see how much performance the cards have, but when the 8GB model craps out in Cyberpunk with Psycho settings or whatever, what are you missing out on with Medium or Low textures. Or are the textures just terrible (not Cyberpunk specifically), and it doesn’t even really matter.

Ok? Doesn’t change that the game is titled a remaster (if the leaks are true).

Read it again. Under the hood, it’s the same old game. Just rendering will be handled by UE5 (if this leak is accurate of course).

According to a leak from 2 years ago.

It is done currently using a pairing system, so it means that the remaster is running using both an Unreal Engine 5 project, and the old Oblivion one. For instance, new graphics are rendered in the UE5 project, but most of the gameplay/physics/etc is still done in Oblivion.

People are saying it’s UE5.

Years ago, when it was leaked, a poster said this:

It is done currently using a pairing system, so it means that the remaster is running using both an Unreal Engine 5 project, and the old Oblivion one. For instance, new graphics are rendered in the UE5 project, but most of the gameplay/physics/etc is still done in Oblivion.

Apparently it’s called a remaster, not a remake.

Another slow news day, huh?

Looked at the article, it’s even worse. Another great job, making a dumb article from a reddit post.

The site is garbage blog spam, but I agree that Valve lacks consistency with some of their decision, related to the Deck or Steam at large.

The Steam Deck compatibility ratings (Verified, Playable, Unsupported) on Steam are directly from Valve. They test each game and give it a rating. Some employee probably had to play a lot of Hentai Puzzle games. Sometimes I get asked on the Deck, if the rating is correct, but I don’t know if any rating ever changed, because tons of users complained (I didn’t even hear of this Spider-Man thing).

ProtonDB ratings (Gold, Silver, Platinum), that you might get through a browser extension, are made through user feedback.

That the Valve ratings can’t always be trusted has been known since basically the Steam Deck launch. Some games are Verified, but can barely run, with the lowest settings. This way, Valve can pad some numbers and point to the AAA games that run on the Deck. The opposite doesn’t usually happen, maybe games like Ghost of Tsushima, which is mentioned in the article, is rated Unsupported, because of the multiplayer, that doesn’t work, but single player is fine.

30-series was only the 3050 on x8, but 40-series it was 4060 and 4060 Ti (all three 4.0). I’d be surprised if it was x16, since Nvidia likes to cheap out on these things more and more over the years