Die Shrink 83 Postponed to Early Next Week
Added 2022-10-06 22:29:49 +0000 UTCThe last Die Shrink came out early because it just made sense, and this week we think it should come out later than usual because once again - it would just make sense.
So, do not expect a Die Shrink 83 to drop on the Friday of 10/7, but expect it to drop by Wednesday Afternoon (10/12) next week as a reaction to Lovelace's launch.
We could have done a Mail Bag or some other subject this week, but we feel this is a way more efficient use of our limited time...especially because without doing this Dan wouldn't have had a chance to react to the Lovelace launch until well after the upcoming guest episode (Who is Gordon from PC World!).
Oh - Broken Silicon 174 should come out early on Sunday once again to leave room for next week's news! Get those Reader Mails in NOW in the proper channels on the Discord! Cheers!
Comments
My take on the Intel Arc A770. According to PC Games Hardware it beats the rx 6750xt about 12% in raytraced games. In their overall gaming test Intel Arc A770 turned out to be 9% better than the rx 5700xt. This implies that the Intel Arc A770 is comparable with the rtx 2070 Super, although arguably less stable. Granted, Arc is at least a whole year too late, but honestly for their first try this is not too bad. A year ago you told us that Intel wants to make a difference in the market and that they will launch with a big volume, does that still hold true? Steve showed the cards were produced in February, supposedly 4millions. I note that Nvidia and AMD sell much more in a quarter, but Intel needs to sell basically 4 million cards before Lovelace and Rdna 3 obliterate it, so 4 million cards in 1-2 months is actually SUBSTANTIAL in my opinion. What is your take on this Tom and Dan?
Strongholdex
2022-10-07 23:20:16 +0000 UTCThoughts for AMD: Unfortunately, for AMD to move up in mind share, they need to keep the prices up, appropriate for how they perform compared to the competition. This is for GPUs and CPUs. Lower pricing means, mentally, that they are not as good. What they SHOULD do is incentives/rebates/bundles to improve the value so the price doesn't change for an item but they can up the value. They really need to focus on an all-AMD solution. When RDNA3 comes out, They should focus on pointing out the Temp increase as okay, the advantage of Zen with RDNA, and such. Then they should announce a sale from their website or from value partners (such as MicroCenter, New Egg, and Amazon) to buy a Zen4 with: 7950 0r 7900 or 7800, ram, for an instant $500 discount compared to buying them separately. Maybe do a Zen3D & 7800 with Ram for AM4 with a $400 discount. Run that special from the dates of US's Black Friday through Cyber Monday (or longer) and it will become the build for Christmas. They should also send out RDNA3 review kits as these types of kits so evaluations are at that sale value which should really push to be an insane value. This is reducing income for AMD but at market share and "Complete AMD" which should raise stock values and push Zen & RDNA. This would be a challenge for Intel and Nvidia to compete against and will help move a stalled market. They can also make registration to get a discount to prevent scalpers and limit how many can be purchased per person. Also, they can prevent any component returns without returning all of it to get the discount (so you can't buy a kit, then return the CPU to build with Intel for example; they would lose the discount). Lowering prices hurts the value of their name and product, improving the value helps everyone (except the competition).
TheBestRTaken
2022-10-07 15:32:36 +0000 UTCI'm concerned about àn upgrade. My thinking is waiting for the fall launches and buying a GPU for certain. One of my rigs has microstutter which could benefit from a ram upgrade and some tuning, however investing in DDR4 seems like a waste. It's a daily driver that has Zen+ mostly used for browsing, spreadsheets watching video and some light gaming it drives two monitors and I'll probably upgrade to a single 4k ultra wide in 10 months. Would you do a full platform upgrade to Zen4 or Raptor Lake? 5800X3D is intriguing but this isn't a serious gaming machine. So I'm thinking platform upgrade. Thoughts?
Dr Forbin
2022-10-07 14:33:07 +0000 UTC
