I'm speculating, but I doubt US government issued 50B in subsidies to bring them over for anything short of their state of the art processes. We already have several sources outside Taiwan in general and TSMC in particular for "lesser" process...
It's only really needed for the dual CCD processors like the 7900x3d and 7950x3d. Some say it also helps with the non x3d versions of those same CPU's. Not necessary on a single CCD cpu like the 7800x3d
3080 for $699 was unobtainium for 2 years. If you wanted one you either got lucky and sniped one before it went OOS or, more commonly, you paid a scalper more than 699. This wasn’t lost on nvidia. Why leave profit on the table when you can cut...
The 3080 had an MSRP of $699. The 4080 launched two years later with an MSRP of $1199. That’s a sharp increase in 80-series cards in a single generation. Why do you think that is? Because the market told Nvidia they were fine paying more, or...
I don't feel a bit responsible for your spending. Plenty of deals for cards that don't cost as much as a halo card. AMD is glad to sell you a lessor card for less money. Buy AMD and it's not a problem.
No we don't. But we do live in a world where technology improves and what wasn't feasible or economical one year may not be the case in the future, which is why i'm waiting to see what Zen 5 brings.
Hardware acceleration is whatever the default setting is which I’m almost certain is enabled. Still uses cpu cycles, not really a problem on modern CPUs but older 8 cores with no SMT that are already pegged, you notice it.
As far as CCDs, I...
The main benefit from having >8 cores for gaming is if you do some form of multi-tasking while gaming. I play Warzone often, both my i7 9700k (8 cores) and R9 5900x (12 cores) can run it fine playing solo. However, when I squad up and playing...
People need to stop saying "best of both worlds" it isn't. It's a compromise. a 7950x3d is still slower than a 7950x in most non-gaming scenarios. Best of both worlds means just that. BEST. It would have to be faster than a 7950x in non gaming...
This was touched on earlier in the thread. Basically vcache can’t run at very high clock speeds so vcache on both CCDs limits clocks on both CCDs which would result in a significant performance loss in applications that don’t benefit from...
My wife tried to pull that stunt early in our marriage when I came home with a new firearm that I didn’t “run by her first”
I knew then it was now or never to set some ground rules. Made it very clear I’m not going to ask permission to spend my...