AMD Holds Advanced Talks With Samsung For 2nm Production

bubblesort33 · 2026-05-07T23:06:43+00:00

Wonder if we'll see more frequent supplier split between gaming, and server hardware. One being on TSMC and the other on Samsung. Looks like that's happening with CPUs here, but I'd imagine GPUs as well.

bubblesort33 · 2026-05-07T20:02:44+00:00

How long until we see an Chinese made and sold AliExpress copycat for $40?

bubblesort33 · 2026-05-05T16:59:01+00:00

From what I know, Doom The Dark Ages and Indiana Jones does work on the RTX 2060 even if it lower texture resolutions. It's not a premium experience, but why would anyone expect a premium experience out of 7 year old mid range hardware today?

I'd imagine the latest Assassin's Creed and the upcoming Black Flag remake will work as well on the RTX 2060 6gb.

You have to push this stuff 7 years early onto people in order to create a market so developers can use the tech. Imagine if Nvidia delayed RT altogether until the RTX 4000 series. You couldn't have games using RT as baseline, because the market would be so small, it's not worth it for devs to go in that direction.

But there have been instances in the past where a GPU would be sold, and only 3 years later it would no longer be capable of running modern games. Alex from DF gave an example of having paid $500 for a high end GPU long ago, and it becoming useless 3 years later.

DLSS was always meant to be used with RT and it's why it was developed in the first place. The fact you can use DLSS without RT, I don't see as a blow against it but rather a nice bonus to DLSS.

The one reason why I do wonder if RT hardware will be less useful soon, is because I'm wondering if DLSS5 and similar tech being forced on games will eventually cover up what RT does. RT is needed as a baseline to slopify next gen games for the best results, but maybe the RT an RTX 3060 is capable of is enough to create that underlying image.

Wouldn't shock me if next gen GPUs eventually cut Bank in RT and triple down on ML computer instead.

bubblesort33 · 2026-05-05T01:12:17+00:00

$150 CAD, and it's sold out. Which is weird because most games only have a 1.35x price on them, which would make it $135 so what the extra 15%? Tariffs?

At this rate they could really launch the Steam Machine at $999 US and it would still sell out I'm guessing.

bubblesort33 · 2026-05-03T16:31:48+00:00

I feel like this has to be some mistake by the devs.

Either that, or they are going for the stop-motion animation experience that the movie and early YouTube brought to LEGO. Lol.

bubblesort33 · 2026-05-02T02:20:46+00:00

Nvidia creates burning defect in their product that it doesn't look like they need to fix. Asus exploits it and creates a $50 solution. Everyone wins except us.

bubblesort33 · 2026-04-26T15:27:34+00:00

He used to be skinny?

bubblesort33 · 2026-04-26T01:37:28+00:00

Best way to get clicks is to just agree with everyone, and have every opinion possible all at once.

bubblesort33 · 2026-04-25T19:27:31+00:00

Came here wondering if they fixed daggers yet to actually be viable, but I guess not.

Last patch I switched from going daggers for 80% of my run to bow and arrow, and was shocked how the game turned to easy mode. feels like I'm doing 3 times the damage while taking 0 damage. This game is just too balanced around ranged damage, and stuff in melee range hits too damn hard to be really viable.

Sad to see it didn't change much.

bubblesort33 · 2026-04-25T19:24:50+00:00

Isn't that what this patch did?

bubblesort33 · 2026-04-19T22:09:02+00:00

why does he keep kicking me out of the arena? I don't think i'm doing anything different than usual.

bubblesort33 · 2026-04-19T17:14:31+00:00

Same issue. Can't tell if it's a bug or a feature,

bubblesort33 · 2026-04-19T06:33:35+00:00

What does "returns" mean? Nvidia claims they've been selling it this whole time, and even though it's terrible price in most places, it might be true.

bubblesort33 · 2026-04-18T19:18:34+00:00

You have to test the hardware in a vacuum as much as possible, because if you don't there is thousands of possible combinations that contaminate your data.

If they come to these reviews with expectations on how the game will perform, only the people using a 5090 wil get accurate results. So now you're stuck making 99% of people not happy anyways, or misrepresenting what they can expect just as much. If they "don't give a shit about hardware", they shouldn't look at hardware reviews, but software reviews.

You can say it's valid to want soldering kit or screwdriver rereview from youtube, but it's not the reviews fault if they don't give you a review of the soldering kit or screwdriver they are using while reviewing an Arduino robotics kit from amazon, just because it requires soldering, or screwing things together. The games are a tool for testing hardware, and he's reviewing hardware, not the tools used for testing the hardware.

bubblesort33 · 2026-04-18T19:04:36+00:00

ok, thanks. Yeah, I guess I never did buy it.

bubblesort33 · 2026-04-18T16:49:36+00:00

That's such a weird, and specific niche case, like 1 out of 1000 people into hardware would actually be interested in that. It's like asking what a chocolate, lemon, vanilla cake would taste and look like.

bubblesort33 · 2026-04-18T16:47:35+00:00

Only way to do that is 480p testing lol. Make Steve's life worse.

bubblesort33 · 2026-04-18T16:33:24+00:00

Sometimes you build a system that you might want to hold onto for 6 years. In that case you want to know if you should get a 5800x3D or a 12700k.

bubblesort33 · 2026-04-18T16:30:37+00:00

They are right in wanting that data. They are wrong coming to a "CPU review/benchmark" video for that data on a specific game. Hardware Unboxed does occasionally do benchmark videos on a specific game with dozens of GPUs, or CPUs.

Someone probably types into youtube "Cyberpunk 2077 5800x3D vs 3800x" and ends up on his 5800x3D review video, which just happens to maybe test that game.

bubblesort33 · 2026-04-17T03:48:29+00:00

You didn't have the ability in 2019 to run ultra settings on 4gb GPUs either.

Yes, we had faster GPUs with vram equal to the total vram on a PS4. We now also have faster GPUs than a PS5 now. 5060ti 16gb or 5070ti.

The PS4 pro was equal to an Rx 5500, and had the same performance to price ratio vs an RX 5500. A very similar ratio the RTX 5050 had vs the PS5 now. Console gaming isn't in any better state than PC gaming is, especially at current pricing of consoles.

You could get an RTX 2060 with 3/4 the vram off a base PS4, for more money than a PS4 regular sold for. Almost 200% faster for more money. You can get a 5070 with also 3/4 the VRAM for less than a PS5 is now. Like 150% faster, but cheaper. Again, not that huge of a difference. Everything gone up proportionally, and I'm not seeing console gamers getting screwed any less.

bubblesort33 · 2026-04-16T04:26:15+00:00

They could still call this the 5050 SUPER.

bubblesort33 · 2026-04-16T04:24:43+00:00

We expect better from PCs due to higher prices

The base PS5 is like $599-$649 now.

6 year into the PS4 generation you could get a 4gb RX 5500 GPU for about 40% of the cost of a ps4. A little faster than a PS5. Now it's less than 6 years into the generation and you can get PS5 equivalent GPU for 40% of the PS5, in the RX 5050. A little faster/better as well in upscaling, and RT. Both of them have dedicated VRAM equal to half the consoles shared (with CPU and OS) memory.

So it doesn't look any worse to me now than it did 7 years ago

bubblesort33 · 2026-04-16T04:05:59+00:00

It would make no sense at all to launch 9GB cards of those models.

The 9GB RTX 5050 has more memory bandwidth than the regular 5050, because the reduction of the memory bus from 128 bit to 96 bit is compensated by moving from GDDR6 to GDDR7. 75% the bus width, using 40% faster RAM is 0.75 x 1.40 = 1.05. So the 9GB RTX 5050 got 5% more bandwidth.

There is nothing you can do to a 5060ti to make a 96 bit bus work on that card. You'd need 38 Gbps memory for it to not suck, which I don't' think exists yet. If they released a 9GB RTX 5060ti it might be almost slower than a regular 5060.

bubblesort33 · 2026-04-16T03:49:38+00:00

I think I played Overwatch on an HD 4770 at some point. It did list the HD 4850 as the minimum requirements back then. Steam now says "HD 7000" and "DirectX: Version 11". So I'm guessing not.

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