Discussing Intel Instability, PS5 Pro, Switch 2, Zen 5 w/ Matt of Alderon Games
Added 2024-08-03 00:50:33 +0000 UTCBroken Silicon's next guest will be Matt from Alderon Games! He has been a vital critic of Intel's instability issues - paving the way towards the true by being fearless and openly stating his problems publically. Additionally, he's a veteran Game Developer with A LOT to say about upcoming consoles and hardware releases! At a minimum, we plan to discuss the following:
Intel Instability Issues
AMD Strix Point
AMD Ryzen 9000
The Zen 5 Architecture
Intel Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite
PlayStation 5 Pro
Nintendo Switch 2
The future of XBOX
Ray Tracing, DLSS, and FSR
Game Development & Unreal Engine 5
Scaling a Company Beyond Indie
But of course we can talk about just about anything you want us too! Just be respectful, use good grammar, and be as concise as possible with your submissions below. You have ~24 hours to submit!
Matt's Twitter: https://x.com/deathlyrage
Matt's Company: https://alderongames.com/
Comments
Take a look at what he says. Are these true? Is Intel going China? And how is that fair competition towards AMD? https://youtu.be/6d2CJrodL98?si=f9VxbBwTWroxAEoJ
thanos AIAS
2024-08-06 07:28:28 +0000 UTCHi Tom and Matt. In previous BS like 2 yrs ago, a guest said that a lot of AMD optimisations has to be ditched when making PC port as NV doesn't support the features AMD offer, is it still the case now?
MinG3825
2024-08-04 14:02:04 +0000 UTCWhy don’t you know how to properly use RTX Raytracing which just works and requires no work besides turning it on?
Jen-Hsun Huang
2024-08-04 10:52:17 +0000 UTCHow easy is it to optimise for different CPU architectures compared to different GPU architectures from a developer perspective?
qhfreddy
2024-08-04 08:41:26 +0000 UTCWhat kind of changes to the crash reporting systems and particularly the data gathering and cataloguing do you think are important to make based on the experiences with the unstable raptor lake parts?
qhfreddy
2024-08-04 08:40:35 +0000 UTCHow much are you looking forward to mega-APUs with unconstrained VRAM?
Nicholas Buckner
2024-08-04 05:24:02 +0000 UTCHi Tom and Matt... Since the Intel problem has became boring to me, I shall ask about Qualcomm and WoA in general. Talking about your woes with the X Elite, I was wondering if your game as you previously have said to be able to ran on the MS devkit (Snap 8CX) (but not X Elite laptop), was it able to run on previous platform like the Snap 850 or Snap 835 devices? It does sounds like to me that there was little shared between each generation of WoA devices, and I don't see it as a good thing.
Dark Side of the Force
2024-08-04 05:22:52 +0000 UTCHi Matt! in one of our previous conversations, you had implied that some team members are "forced to use" Radeon products as part of the testing phase for game builds. I am kinda curious as to why you put it that way. My personal understanding is that most products from RDNA 2 and newer, they far less of a headache to deal with compared to previous generations of Radeon. How true is that and what implications does it have for AMD and the hardware/software tools they are trying to make available for devs? [e. g. GPU Detective, Ray Tracing Analyzer and Frame Latency Meter.]
MelodicWarrior
2024-08-04 05:22:47 +0000 UTCHello Matt and Tom. It's often mentioned in the tech space that Intel's P-cores (Golden Cove/Raptor Cove) take up a large amount of die space for a core. What about them makes them a decent amount larger? Is there a few areas that just have more logic setup? Is a certain part "beefier" than the equivalent in a Zen 4 core? Thanks.
TheforbiddenJuice
2024-08-04 05:09:56 +0000 UTCAs a developer, what do you think of godot as an engine vs UE5? Likes vs dislikes? I have been toying with the idea of trying to build a game and I'm still working on the story so picking an engine to build it with is not my absolute first priority.
Thalo215
2024-08-04 01:09:26 +0000 UTCHey Tom and Matt. Was the adoption of people using Ray Tracing quicker or slower than you had anticipated?
TechnoLadz
2024-08-03 22:40:12 +0000 UTCWhat are the chances the current intel issued is what delayed sapphire rapids?
Sad XTX 999
2024-08-03 21:23:24 +0000 UTCHi Matt, based on what you currently know about it, do you think Sony made the right hardware tradeoffs for the PS5 Pro?
Chris Rijk
2024-08-03 19:12:11 +0000 UTCFirst of all, thanks for all you've added bringing the Intel issues to light. It still pains me there are people online with their head in the sand still buying Intel laptops but their loss. As a game developer, what hardware excites you to develop for? Do you prefer the Nvidia approach of "no more vram for the masses" or the strix Halo approach of "all the vram you could ever need but weaker in raster & ray tracing"?
B. Fish
2024-08-03 19:11:35 +0000 UTCHi Matt, based on your experience so far with the Snapdragon X Elite, what do Qualcomm need to do to make it a viable option for game developers and gamers? If Nvidia entered the Windows market with an ARM and GeForce based APU, do you think that would solve all the gaming issues and do you think Qualcomm could compete with them?
Chris Rijk
2024-08-03 19:10:32 +0000 UTCHi Matt, I was searching for Raptor Lake based servers earlier today and it took me a long time to find any, yet Ryzen based servers were easy to find as were servers based on the EPYC 4004 series even though they were announced just 2 months ago. Let’s say Intel’s microcode fix stops all degradation - would you expect that to win server customers back quickly or do you think Intel has lost this entire market for now?
Chris Rijk
2024-08-03 19:10:22 +0000 UTCHi Matt, in the crash reporting tools for your games, have you seen unusually high error rates from players with 13900HX or 14900HX laptops? For your Raptor Lake servers, have you used any workloads other than game servers and if so did you see a similar pattern of degradation and errors? Do you know of anyone who has used Raptor Lake in servers and NOT had similar issues?
Chris Rijk
2024-08-03 19:10:14 +0000 UTCHi Matt, how important do you consider developer productivity to be and how does it affect the software features you use and what hardware you buy for developers? It probably won’t happen any time soon due to the AI craze, but let’s say that AMD made a variant of their MI300A “datacenter APU” that was instead targeted at workstations for game developers - would you be prepared to pay $20,000 for a super high-end workstation? Would a Strix Halo laptop with 128GB of unified memory be useful for games developers?
Chris Rijk
2024-08-03 19:10:06 +0000 UTCI never understood why Intel had so many issues with drivers for legacy games. They have a long history of integrated graphics on their CPUs, and I would have thought that those drivers, and the experience behind their maintenance would have carried over in some way. Was there a reason they didn't carry that legacy support of those drivers over to their dedicated cards?
Ronigan
2024-08-03 18:38:59 +0000 UTCGiven that zen 5 ipc improvement was “only” 16 percent. It’s clear that amd went for an efficiency win as well as optimization of the die size (zen 5 being a smaller core). Do you think zen 6 will be reduced smaller to get rid of compact cores? Or potentially up the core count finally across the board ? How big of a potential ipc increase do they expect with zen 6 offering up a potential io die and layout? Don’t see intel keeping pace with only potentially offering up ipc improvements of single digits being enough while Amd is winning on ipc and further reducing tdp this generation.
Justin John
2024-08-03 17:48:46 +0000 UTCWhat do you think of Intel extending warranty on BOXED Raptor Lake chips? Specifically only on retail, box units. Sucks to buy in trays or off OEMs, huh?
KarbinCry
2024-08-03 10:57:19 +0000 UTCGiven how long Nintendo has stretched out the life of the Switch, what would make your Must Haves, Should Haves, and Could Haves list of features (hardware/software/development) for the Switch 2 if Nintendo planned to have it match or exceed the Switch 1's lifespan?
Cleansweep
2024-08-03 02:22:15 +0000 UTCWhat do you think about ReadyCode (https://www.readycode.io/) and their efforts to make a modding API/SDK with broad engine support?
Cleansweep
2024-08-03 02:19:34 +0000 UTCWhen we told people it was Intel’s fault why didn’t the bandwagon start there?
Jen-Hsun Huang
2024-08-03 01:41:50 +0000 UTCHi Tom and ʇʇɐW :) Matt, obviously you've been very outspoken about the whole Intel situation at the moment, assuming that AMD doesn't do anything Intel stupid, what would be the path in the future for you to return to using Intel processors or has the bridge been burned.
Alex Smith
2024-08-03 01:10:00 +0000 UTCIt's been mentioned and a point to be made (as opposed to other CPU releases) that the manifestation of Zen 5's true performance will only come about over time as programs are updated to take advantage of it. However, will these architectural improvements ever become relevant in the context of a game? If you optimize for Zen 5, you put games at risk of performing worse on other core designs. Outside of HPC, are these theoretical improvements going to go anywhere?
prick
2024-08-03 00:57:19 +0000 UTC
