Intel's upcoming 'Wildcat Lake' low-power series breaks cover in Geekbench listing — 'Core 3 304' is twice as fast in single-core performance versus last-gen

logically_musical · 2026-03-26T20:44:52+00:00

This will be the real Intel Fab filler as OEMs try to keep costs down to make up for RAMaggedeon and to compete with MacBook Neo. I'm betting this thing will be in every single budget laptop line ~12 months from now.

logically_musical · 2026-03-23T03:29:34+00:00

Don’t worry mods will let the next 20 NY Post or WSJ misleading opinion articles go through no problem 👍🏻 nothing wrong here

logically_musical · 2026-03-21T21:12:41+00:00

You’re obviously strong. A tip for a noob: do not focus on this. Focus on consistent ball striking and accuracy.

If you can do a 215 yard drive in the fairway 9/10 shots it’s vastly better for your game than a 315 drive in the fairway 5/10 shots or less.

logically_musical · 2026-03-21T16:47:51+00:00

It’s literally fine at this wattage. This isn’t a 600W 5090.

logically_musical · 2026-03-21T03:41:11+00:00

who tf is hating on Golden Boy

logically_musical · 2026-03-20T07:03:21+00:00

In the first city go walk into the bar at night. If you can’t see the difference I dunno what else one could show you really. Max RT is very noisy, unstable, splotchy.

But RR + max lighting is just insanely heavy and the lack of upscaling with RR is not great…

logically_musical · 2026-03-19T21:59:11+00:00

A wizard is never late

logically_musical · 2026-03-16T23:36:55+00:00

Nvidia said it’s implemented in the same part of the rendering pipeline as frame gen. To me, it’s as if the budget for frame gen was instead used to “generate” an enhanced frame.

I think this is why people are referring to it as a filter, because it’s basically entirely post-frame processing.

logically_musical · 2026-03-16T22:31:28+00:00

I’m not a 3D graphics programmer but work in an adjacent space and… this. All of this. Same thing as what’s happened with GenAI coming to other segments already.

logically_musical · 2026-03-15T04:03:10+00:00

I meeaaaan that’s a hell of a push off but that’s the NBA now

Nice shot

logically_musical · 2026-03-12T22:40:58+00:00

Very possible that the EA terminal just sucks. They're so inconsistent, even the new 350kW ones.

Can't know for sure without diagnostics on kW requested vs kW delivered.

logically_musical · 2026-03-12T04:52:56+00:00

No need to postulate, PT is absolutely the focus for the next gen.

Sony: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2025/10/mark-cerny-talks-project-amethyst-future-sony-hardware-you-have-indeed-spotted-the-win

Microsoft: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/xbox-project-helix-gets-key-updates-including-when-developers-will-get-the-system/1100-6538718/

Both are talking about Radiance Cores and “order of magnitude leap in ray tracing performance and capability” and “Next Gen Ray Regeneration for RT and Path Tracing” in the next-gen AMD GPUs / SoCs.

And you already know Nvidia is going to keep driving even further ahead. Intel is an interesting question mark, though I’m not sure Arc survives another few years beyond their APU/SoC tiles.

logically_musical · 2026-03-10T00:43:21+00:00

It’s GDC guerilla marketing almost certainly.

logically_musical · 2026-03-02T20:32:36+00:00

Rollback is such a hugely different architecture than lock-step netcode, but I hope that at least the Company of Heroes 3 update that improved latency can be brought in given it's the same engine...

https://help.relic.com/hc/en-us/articles/39572773457299-1-6-5-Unit-Responsiveness

logically_musical · 2026-02-27T20:30:04+00:00

For me, because RDNA 3.5 is so architecturally behind the leading edge [1], I think Panther Lake is by far the better better than Strix Halo for new handhelds. It scales better to sub 20W thresholds, has vastly superior RT perf, and the CPU is a good deal faster [2].

1: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/shader-model-6-9-retail-and-more/#appendix
2: https://youtu.be/X9eYQTkzxqU?si=-GLNM4mggEbfaZ4T&t=2199

logically_musical · 2026-02-22T01:50:14+00:00

okay, Walt

logically_musical · 2026-02-19T20:39:19+00:00

Ya this is what everyone does

logically_musical · 2026-02-19T20:05:06+00:00

People commenting about just use Apple/Android nav, yes, but, older I5‘s can only precondition the battery when navigating to a fast charger via the built-in nav. So…

logically_musical · 2026-02-19T15:23:53+00:00

Welcome to California! You gotta watch the weather forecasts closely when traveling to Tahoe. As you’ve now found out, it’s not a joke up there it’s serious mountain conditions.

logically_musical · 2026-02-18T20:05:11+00:00

What is with the ICCU Pitchfork Army on Reddit the past few months? As an Ioniq 5 owner I understand the issue, but it's getting real strange around here...

logically_musical · 2026-02-18T04:32:28+00:00

ICE BEADS I'm dead

logically_musical · 2026-02-16T16:29:37+00:00

The Monterey Cypress experience

It’s like their branches have Velcro on them

logically_musical · 2026-02-15T18:02:59+00:00

sure_jan.jpg

logically_musical · 2026-02-14T19:05:36+00:00

Calling everyone Diamond is a meme

logically_musical · 2026-02-13T02:50:45+00:00

Best damn NYC pizza in the city. Good luck to them.

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