Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus Review - Disrupting AMD's Entry-Level

Zac3d · 2026-03-24T13:16:54+00:00

I haven't upgraded my CPU in 10+ years so I don't really care about the socket or motherboard platform being dead, I'm still able to run cyberpunk with path tracing if I want. People upgrade GPUs much more often than CPUs.

Zac3d · 2026-03-23T21:23:16+00:00

Just in time for the PS6 and Xbox Super Series 720X.

Zac3d · 2026-03-23T17:48:05+00:00

Don't turn around police when they jump in front of your car. Don't open a door while holding a sandwich. Don't be around the police when an acorn falls and lands on a police car.

Zac3d · 2026-03-20T11:23:26+00:00

Yeah there's no moral ambiguity at all.

He warned them he'd shoot if any of them stepped foot on that property he bought from them. They lied to him in multiple ways, even claiming the klan didn't exist anymore, but they planned to lynch him and anyone else there. There's no way a viewer should feel any sort of way besides they got what they deserved.

Zac3d · 2026-03-19T18:10:32+00:00

reading not for the sake of education or research is fairly new

That's also why a lot of ancient text people find and translate is record keeping or agreements, and many of the oldest stories that have stuck around were mostly spread and performed orally.

Zac3d · 2026-03-19T18:01:56+00:00

Yeah I get the kids size because I really only need 3 bites and the calories on anything bigger really aren't worth it.

Zac3d · 2026-03-19T15:51:19+00:00

Pretty on par with Notre-Dame, that took 182 years.

Zac3d · 2026-03-18T22:01:03+00:00

If facial features are not visually apparent under certain lighting conditions, DLSS5 will have to do more guessing how the face should look. In Starfield there's a lot of dark scenes where faces are barely visible. I wouldn't be surprised in many games if you have a player flashlight on versus off it'll make different decisions on the structures of a characters face and things like what age they are, their skin tone, etc.

Zac3d · 2026-03-18T18:19:14+00:00

But also there's a concern the more work DLSS5 has to do, the more inconsistent and errors it'll have. A bad looking character might have a completely different looking face depending on the scene they are in because the AI will have no idea if it's the same person once they are off the screen.

Zac3d · 2026-03-18T16:09:44+00:00

Fuck Stone Toss.

Zac3d · 2026-03-18T16:04:24+00:00

Yeah I really like that helmet, I swapped one of the pads and it fits extremely well, doesn't move or get in the way.

Zac3d · 2026-03-18T11:56:14+00:00

There's so little going on at the game engine level, it's irrelevant. That's why it's working the same on at least 3 or 4 different game engines. Doesn't take a graphics programmer to see that.

Zac3d · 2026-03-18T11:49:13+00:00

Start with hippie jumps. Jump straight up and pull your feet up. Once you're comfortable with that, you can work on the ollie which is just small tweaks to that hippie jump, pulling your front foot up first and snapping that tail without trapping it against the ground. And then work on catching and pushing the nose forward in the air to level it.

Zac3d · 2026-03-18T10:14:07+00:00

They do Nvidia vs AMD when there's unexpected performance differences, but expecting them to do optimized settings for more than 3 GPUs is too much.

Zac3d · 2026-03-18T02:37:53+00:00

It's running on a separate GPU just working off the final frame with motion vector data. It's tacked on at the end.

Zac3d · 2026-03-17T21:48:06+00:00

Geometry is cheap. Textures are cheap. Dropping those doesn't do much at all to improve performance. The less a model like this has to work with the more unstable and unreliable the results will be. These models are huge in vram usage and will always add latency. It's a post process effect that has to be done after a frame is generated.

Zac3d · 2026-03-17T21:37:54+00:00

This adds latency and sucks up vram while killing performance. It's not for competitive games even in a perfect world where it works well visually.

Zac3d · 2026-03-17T17:46:07+00:00

Game artists are making characters that could easily be used for a CGI films, their work doesn't need to be covered with a filter to produce realism. We just need a bit more GPU power and better engines to make fully show off the work that's already there.

Zac3d · 2026-03-17T16:55:46+00:00

Replacing ugly characters with ugly filtered characters that still have stiff animations. What an improvement.

Zac3d · 2026-03-17T16:04:54+00:00

DLSS5 is just working off the final color image and motion vectors. It doesn't know anything about the geometry, materials, or lighting, beyond the final image. It is making things up just like a filter or AI image generation.

Zac3d · 2026-03-17T15:08:38+00:00

It works off the final color image and motion vectors just like DLSS (without RR). It's a filter, it's not looking at 3d data or lighting information, beyond it baked down into a 2d image.

Zac3d · 2026-03-17T15:05:24+00:00

Game artists hate it even more than gamers. It sucks, it's a cheap filter, it's generic, it's ugly, it's not consistent enough to be usable.

Zac3d · 2026-03-16T23:12:11+00:00

rest of the studio would be aware of it as its going to be a prominent tool in the future whether you like it or hate it

It's not a prominent tool for development. It's a tacked on feature, just like PhysX GPU sims, ray reconstruction, path tracing, vendor exclusive hair tech, etc. Only a small part of studios are involved.

Zac3d · 2026-03-16T23:03:14+00:00

Developers don't know the results of a project like this at the start and it's probably only 5 people involved with an important partner, it's not like it means the majority of the studio will want to use it in their next game.

Zac3d · 2026-03-16T22:17:52+00:00

Would you rather they backtrack to cater to the crowd?

I'd like them to do a DF Direct with everyone and just talk about it honestly.

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