Questions for June Loose Ends

Would a 3060ti be better than a 3060 for video editing? Will the ram increase matter more than the performance difference?

Alexandru Tudorica

What would be a good starter video card for somebody dabbling in video production?

Alexandru Tudorica

Hey Tom, about Playstation 5's node switch to 6nm: will they manufacture both 6nm and 7nm versions of their console simultaneously? Completely switching to the cheaper SKU and leaving the current PS5's quirks like ext. SSD & RAM cooling "issues" behind sounds plausible, but you'd think they want to ramp production as much as possible... Please give us your thoughts.

UwUThatOneGuy

Do you know anything about improved transcoding quality in DG2? Current encoding quality in QuickSync is inferior to Nvidia and not really usable in a professional scenario

Alexandru Tudorica

How much do you think PCIe 4.0 will be important to the performance of RDNA 3? Or in other words, how much do you think PCIe 3.0 will hold back its performance?

UFUFUFU

Tom as we all know RDNA2 is on par or better in rasteurized performance. Will the rumored ampere refresh negate using GDDR6X and go with just GDDR6 and add more ram? Will NVidia call it RTX 4000 or just make it super RTX 3000?

Dr Forbin

Hi Tom, in the past you've expressed some concern around the long term reliability of Ampere - this was around the time that it came to light that the GDDR6X on the top end cards run was borderline on the max operating temperatures Micron suggested, especially for the Founders Edition cards. As there hasn't been an official line from Nvidia on this, I wonder if you'd heard anything from your sources on this and whether you expect this to potentially manifest in issues during the cards lifetime?

Do you expect laptops with Intel Alder Lake CPUs to be the very first ones to come pre-installed with Windows 11 from the factory?

Rogue Scholar

Summary: When AMD releases a CPU/chip set compatible with DDR5 will the Infinity Fabric be updated/replaced. Detail: Currently, you can improve latency with the infinity fabric by picking a specific speed for the DDR4 RAM modules. DDR4 modules running between 3200 MHz to 3733 MHz seem to be the sweet spot. When AMD supports DDR5 RAM will they increase the infinity fabric speeds for the 1:1 compatibility or will they replace infinity fabric as we know it? Finally, how high would you expect the speeds to be? Link containing image of AMD announcement PowerPoint slides: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1080866-understanding-amd-infinite-fabric-modes-memory-speeds/ Poll of user reported RAM-to-Infinity-Fabric stable speeds: https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/what-is-your-max-stable-ram-infinity-fabric-speed-on-ryzen-3000-series.265861/

Endless Logins

Hey Tom, no question just wanted to validate what you have been saying about the 6800XT. I have a i9 9900k with a 6800XT Red Devil and I am able to play pretty much all my games at 4k Ultra 120fps and I play newer games likes Outriders and Residents Evil 8. With such performance makes me wonder if it's even worth Upgrading to RDNA3 or even RDNA4

Kinihun25

The 00's had a lot of good examples of interface technologies being superceded by cheaper ones. In 2002 you wouldn't find a video editor who'd use anything but firewire, but soon enough it was superceded by USB, not because of technical superiority, but because it was CHEAP. For photographers, CompactFlash and other memory cards superceded by SD, and so on. In this decade though in general I'm seeing interfaces especially on-board getting more expensive, driving parts costs up. PCIe4 with needing repeaters and more board layers; usb 3.2 needing more lanes/traces and more expensive plugs on your case front IO; etc... all the parts cost more outside of just the CPU's. I imagine PCIe5 won't help. Do you see this trend reversing, or is our demand for higher bandwidth links simply just pushing too fast for anything but our current trajectory?

Crast

Hey Tom: As a guy going through UX/UI bootcamp, I was just as baffled as you were by many of the changes Microsoft made for Windows 11. As someone who actually uses the fullscreen Start menu option on my PCs, both for aesthetic reasons and the fact that my primary rig is hooked up to a TV in my bedroom, I find the Windows 11 UI to be suboptimal for anyone who isn't sitting at a desk or using it on a tablet. I suspect that Microsoft's research (which is a key component in UX/UI design) was heavily focused on tablet and/or laptop users over traditional desktop users and gamers. That might explain some of the functionally useless changes (the rounded corners - they might be trying to steal away iOS users) and moving the taskbar to the center (where you'd be less likely to accidentally activate the start menu while shifting your grip on a tablet).

Cleansweep

Considering the prices of RDNA2 and Ampere, aren't we better off waiting for RDNA3 instead? The 6600 XT doesn't sound like it will be a good deal for the mainstream, and Navi 21 already came out 8 months ago. I'm not including Hopper because you haven't told us when it's coming out yet. :)

Eleriam

Assuming chiplet design in RDNA 3 and AMD hinting on all future CPUs having GPU capability to some extend, is it more likely that there will be GPU chiplet on the CPU, that there will be very basic GPU as a part of IO die, or there will be both? Maybe X processors having minimum GPU capability, while G processors would have full GPU chiplet and could work as 1080p 60FPS level gaming APUs.

Intel just announced that they are closing the production of Lakefield like CPUs. What is your opinion about that?

Silvannos

I would guess it's pretty safe to assume the A6000 is the "nicest" card you've had recently, which other ones that you've had have impressed you most and disappointed you most? Anything that surprised you in particular?

qhfreddy

Anything new you can say regarding what is after MeteorLake? I remember you saying it is absolutely revolutionary and Jim Keller helped with it.

Benjamin Cannon