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I know a lot of gamers still using various flavours of the 10 series. Gradually helping them source new machines or cards as budget allows.

Not entirely. It depends on the performance of the APU but most people will just buy older graphic cards. Either used or older generation products. Right now the 6600 XT is new $350 and used $250 at lowest prices I could find. Which for most...

I meant as new product launches but yeah, the used market is going to be strong for the next few generations.

Not a fan of these Apple only reviewers but at least this guy gets it. He was at least self aware enough to look at the price of a 256GB SSD that's faster than what the M2 variants are getting. Also a faster 256GB SSD is only $20 off Amazon...

This is basically what happened towards the end of the Pascal cards.

I haven’t tried that, only 4, 1080p screens.

Not terribly high, but yea. They are going to maintain their margins for sure. But when crypto started crashing I think we all saw this coming a mile away.

With the DisplayLink drivers and a cheap external you can do up to 4 external displays in addition to the laptops screen for 5 total. But yeah using the built in Apple stuff you are limited to 2.

It’s a memory issue, caused by something going wrong with a memory module or the power feed to said memory module. I’m not skilled enough to know how to fix it and too drunk to remember what to look for on the PCB to identify which module is...

Sadly there is, you want to print something at 16nm or larger there are dozens of fabs willing to fight for your business. You need to go smaller and your options are Samsung or TSMC, they charge for that privilege. It’s 3x more just for that...

This is why AVX512 for AMD's 7000 series chips is the most exciting feature. https://whatcookie.github.io/posts/why-is-avx-512-useful-for-rpcs3/ From left to right: SSE2, SSE4.1, AVX2/FMA, and Icelake tier AVX-512.

TSMC’s price hikes make releasing a card at that price basically impossible. 2021 saw a 70% increase alone but it’s been a solid inflation + 5-10% (depends on node) before that. Between 2016 and now you are looking at 22% inflation so cost wise...

Or three and the funds to train two guys to fly them and run them a few months

In 2017 there was room to spare at the fabs. They were able to split it between Samsung and TSMC. And neither were pushed to capacity at that stage. So when AMD and Nvidia needed extra capacity it was available. But now not so much, both Samsung...

A ok that include server/datacenter ? Still 40% of "gaming" GPU that went toward, it would be incredibly massive. The fact that 2021 was just 30% over 2020 is a big part of the problem of course, in a normal world without an explosion of demand...

The M1 was basically a scaled up A14, the M2 looks to be a scaled up A15. The idea that AMD could come out with a 7700G with AVX512 makes me joyous. That will be the base for “my daughters” mini gaming PC, that will also have all the emulators...

The M2 is just M1++ because Apple couldn't get 3nm manufacturing. The current M2 is probably based on ARMv8 since I hear nothing about it having SVE2 instructions like the ARMv9 would have. Apple is either saving ARMv9 for later M2 variants or...

Or 6 and the funds to run them for a few months.

M3 is probably what the M2 was going to be before TSMC was forced to push back 3nm. Which is what the M2 was originally supposed to be built with.

GPU sales total in 2021 was over $52B, which is up 30% over 2020, 15/52 = 28%. So really I should have said 28%, not 23% my bad. But miners didn't just buy gaming GPUs, they also bought workstation GPUs and ASICS. So in reality their $15B in...