DukenukemX
Supreme [H]ardness
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Which high end RTX 30 GPU's? The best I saw it do was RTX 3060 and that ain't high end. High price but not high end.Yes, I do. It's very competitive with higher-end RTX 30 GPUs in ideal conditions.
I agree except that when the M1 was released the Apple fans say that Rosetta 2 has no performance penalty. Now that Borderlands 3 runs like crap you're telling me that Rosetta 2 has a big performance impact? Even still, enough to be 24fps? It's a known fact that Apple's GPU's are missing features that is needed for Vulkan and etc. So I imagine that if the feature isn't supported then that has a bigger performance impact than Rosetta 2, because that feature would have to be done through software. Yea it would perform much better if running native code.The problem with AT's gaming tests, which you overlooked, is that they're using Rosetta 2 code translation — that delivers a huge performance penalty. Now, you can rightly point out that there still aren't many Apple Silicon-native games and that real-world speed won't be so hot in those cases, but we're talking about the GPU's capabilities in this case.
The Apple M1 has an effective bandwidth of 400GB/s, which is rather impressive when you consider that the RTX 3060 is 360GB/s, but that 3060 doesn't have to share bandwidth with a CPU. Again the RTX 3060 is an entry level GPU but the current market makes it seem like it's a high end GPU due to pricing. A RTX 3080 has 760 GB/s just for reference.Let's see how it works in practice. From what I've seen, an actual SoC with gobs of DRAM on top (let alone an advanced GPU) is more of a long-term prospect; the short term is considerably more modest.
It isn't because AMD isn't able to. I'd have more faith in Intel doing this than AMD, just because AMD seems to be playing the market. AMD wasn't making an APU with RDNA2 graphics until we've see Valve's Deck. The V-Cache still allows for modular ram while still offering good performance and AMD has talked about putting ram right on top of the CPU as well. We've seen this with eDRAM from Intel and as well as AMD using it on Xbox 360 and One. Lets not forget this unholy union with Intel CPU plus AMD graphics with HBM2 memory. The sad thing is that none of this is even remotely new. V-Cache is just eDRAM on steroids.You're not going to see a Ryzen 9 with 64GB of on-chip memory and Radeon RX 6800M-class graphics any time soon.
I know that but we've been down this path before. Microsoft started porting their leftovers to PC and here we are with the newest titles released for both PC and Xbox at the same time. It also helps that the sales of PC titles are bigger than Xbox. Eventually the profits from the sales of PC releases will be too big to delay from Sony. Sony isn't dedicated to the Playstation hardware you buy but the platform. If they sell games on their Playstation PC store and still make more money then that's what they'll do. It's capitalism after all. The people don't matter just the profits. Nobody cares that you bought a PS5 on Ebay for $1k hoping to get exclusives that PC users won't. Sony knows eventually PC users will get emulators so it makes sense to port them now before an emulator is ever released.You're really overstating the case here. Sony is releasing those games on PC well after their initial PlayStation run, and even then only a handful of titles. It's not a mea culpa where it admits it must cater to PC gamers in a big way; it's selling you the leftovers to boost profits.
I'm sure PC users want to be associated with Apple's slave labor sweat shop practices, safety problems, harsh working conditions, Foxconn suicides, and tax avoidance. Seriously, who's the Nazi here? Hitler would be proud of Apple.And I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure Apple is happy to distance itself from pro-Nazi computing analogies.