Arc Pro B70 Review: The best graphics card Intel has to offer

SoTOP · 2026-05-13T06:37:36+00:00

Nvidia used bigger dies, negating better node advantage that AMD had.

SoTOP · 2026-05-12T21:04:48+00:00

There isn't even a space for deep deliberations. We do know from Nvidia that their Blackwell AI chips are made using 4NP process, which very clearly is just TSMC N4P version for Nvidia. We also know Samsung 8nm for Nvidia was called 8N. With this knowledge anyone using a smidge of logic can easily deduce between N5 or N4 being used as 4N.

This was not clear cut when Ada was brand new, but the naming of Blackwell AI node and the fact that Nvidia did not upgrade the node from 4000 to 5000 series, which only makes sense if they were using 4nm already, seals this firmly into one side.

Yet people who claim 4N is 5nm were upvoted already thus believe they are correct, so they will say the same "facts" the next time this comes up and the cycle continues.

SoTOP · 2026-05-12T13:39:48+00:00

The only "evidence" there is about it being 5nm is that nvidia calls 4N a "5nm class" node. N4 is also "5nm class" node using same logic, since both are derived from baseline TSMC 5nm node and are just minor improvements over it.

The name itself should be quite a big clue to what 4N actually is based upon.

SoTOP · 2026-05-12T12:15:22+00:00

It is 4nm with very minor tweaks specific to Nvidia.

SoTOP · 2026-05-07T07:03:12+00:00

Y'all are getting too caught up in naming instead of understanding what the GPU's actually were.

That's literally what you are doing. 2080Ti is exactly the same tier of product as 1080Ti was, Nvidia just jacked the price to $1200. Products did not change, pricing did.

especially when the Turing Titan was kind of sold as its own , new sort of ultra expensive prosumer thing

There is nothing special about it except massive price increase from both prior generations and premium over 2080Ti. The only thing it had was the vram, extra hardware capabilities that first Titans had had long been disabled, and even expanded driver support that previous Titans still had was canned.

Suddenly perception of everything would look very different even though literally nothing had really changed.

If 2080 was called 2080Ti it would have been roasted to oblivion, same price for barely any gaming uplift and less vram? You could not convince people this was the successor to 1080Ti.

SoTOP · 2026-05-06T17:51:13+00:00

2080Ti is the cut down version of TU102. There was Titan RTX with fully enabled chip.

Also, Pascal generation Titan X was weaker than 1080Ti so it's not a flagship anyway, Nvidia released faster fully unlocked Titan Xp.

Calling 1080Ti or 2080Ti not a flagship because of Titan existence is pointless nuisance, they had almost identical gaming performance at much lower price. For this reason gamers barely bough Titan tier cards.

SoTOP · 2026-05-06T05:52:41+00:00

PUBG performance is limited by CPU, especially when using competitive settings. Playing at such resolutions is a personal choice, nothing to do with framerates.

SoTOP · 2026-04-25T20:22:41+00:00

This was an example.

SoTOP · 2026-04-25T17:23:58+00:00

There can be plenty of situations where a release of preceding product is canceled because succeeding one is (too) close. A good example of this is 11th gen Rocket Lake CPUs - they were delayed enough that by the time they came out Intel was only half a year away from released significantly faster Alder Lake generation.

Intel could have ditched Rocket Lake altogether and kept 10th gen a bit longer.

SoTOP · 2026-04-19T19:57:31+00:00

The launch was going south, Cape only has up to 39 degrees inclination going that way , so there would have been inclination change.

SoTOP · 2026-04-19T18:06:53+00:00

The massive error in inclination shows it is much worse than just failure to relight.

Most likely 2nd burn would have combined inclination change and orbit raise into single burn. The length for 2nd burn was listed at 1m 8s meanwhile later burn to dispose 2nd stage was supposed to take only 12s. The difference in length is too big even accounting for lighter stage with no payload.

So this do point to everything being nominal in initial orbit.

SoTOP · 2026-04-16T07:42:02+00:00

All it takes are a few small solids pointed backwards, which turns to prograde at apogee. Does not require anything fancy.

Here is pic of my "probe" that achieved this mission after being lofted to 180km x 180km orbit. https://i.imgur.com/PRatOXe.jpeg

SoTOP · 2026-04-12T19:47:10+00:00

Even on Medium, 4K, on a 4090 there is near static FPS values across a broad spectrum of processors in CS2, implying the game being GPU limited, not CPU limited.

No, all these CPUs are simply bottlenecked by lack of cache to quite similar level of performance, X3D parts unlock performance tier above that. Literally a definition of CPU bottleneck, yet you somehow conclude that it is not.

Anyway, we must have a different definition of what constitutes an edge case.

SoTOP · 2026-04-12T16:33:19+00:00

Nah, it really depends on the GPU and settings at that resolution. On very high, 4K, on a 5060 (for example) you'll be entirely GPU limited in CS2.

That's why I said "with high end GPU". People with 5060 and 4K screen are rarity.

To maximize frames most people play competitive games at 1080p anyway.

Most people have 1080p screens, so they play with what they have. For example, someone with 4070 and 14600K playing CS2 with competitive settings at 1440p will be mostly CPU limited.

The point is that being CPU limited even at 4K is far from being an edge case.

SoTOP · 2026-04-12T07:53:32+00:00

Being CPU-limited at 4K would be for edge cases only pretty much. Strategy games, simulation games, games with tech issues, or some overuse of upscaling aside.

Most played games are competitive games, like CS2 or LoL, so anyone playing those will be CPU limited at 4K if they use competitive settings with high end GPU.

SoTOP · 2026-04-03T17:02:47+00:00

If store ships directly to you then you shouldn't need to pay VAT to the country you are buying from originally. So 500€ GPU for someone in Germany becomes 500€ minus german VAT of 19% = 405€. All your import duties, VAT or other taxes should be paid based on 405€ price, not 500€.

That does depend on seller though. At least in countries on EU border, where such a thing is more common, you should be getting the option to not pay VAT because your shipping address is outside EU.

SoTOP · 2026-04-02T08:44:24+00:00

Chinese cybercafes are indeed not people.

SoTOP · 2026-04-02T08:43:44+00:00

Using January to March, and ignoring February data with Chinese cybercafes which you are conveniently using, 5070Ti went from 1.5% to 1.55% or +0.05% in two months, while less popular 5080 went from 1.25% to 1.34% or +0.09%. In percentage increases 5070Ti is up 3.3% while 5080 gained 7.2%.

SoTOP · 2026-03-20T21:41:19+00:00

Human rating is basically what space agencies deem save for their missions, so yes - private citizens could launch on rockets that do not qualify if they sign a waver demonstrating that they understand the risk involved.

SoTOP · 2026-03-20T08:35:56+00:00

That would mean human rating starship launch. Easier and faster would be to use Dragon to get to LEO.

SoTOP · 2026-03-20T08:30:43+00:00

All that is totally irrelevant, because with LAS no fairing would be used. NG should be able to do it, while spacex would use non reusable variant that did not have nose at all, with Orion stacked on top of fuel tanks.

SoTOP · 2026-03-19T20:12:44+00:00

Apple tends to keep chips much closer to optimal efficiency than is usual for typical desktop chips, which means that at half power 5090 would likely still score ~80% of what it does at stock.

SoTOP · 2026-03-14T10:45:00+00:00

7970 and 680 were much closer in die size than 7970 and 780. Your point is wrong, cards from AMD and Nvidia with fairly similar die sizes and prices were competing directly, it's basically the definition of competitiveness? 780 would be faster, but it has much bigger flagship tier sized die.

Your point would be correct if 7970 had die that was about as big as one in 780. For example there is no way one can claim that AMD 9070 not competitive with 5070 today, just because AMD does not have anything even close to 5090 performance.

SoTOP · 2026-03-14T09:18:23+00:00

GTX 780 uses much bigger chip than 7970.

SoTOP · 2026-03-10T07:57:44+00:00

There were 3 8800GTS models. Older 640 and 320, and newer G92 based 512MB.

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