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In many ways I see DLSS as the more impressive and interesting feature than ray tracing.
 
FidelityFX SR almost certainly will not be as good as DLSS at launch. DLSS itself was pretty shite in its first implementations back in 2019.
 
However, unless it starts to become commonplace for games to actually support these features, they both fall squarely into the category of "perks". Wikipedia lists a grand total of 43 games that support DLSS, over two years on... but that list includes 10 titles that claim they'll support DLSS at some future time but have a date for actually implementing it of "TBA", and several games which haven't been released yet. Some are also games I have literally never heard of. 
 
I'd like to think that FidelityFX SR will see more widespread support since historically AMD has been more into open standards whereas Nvidia tried to sell based on exclusive features, but AMD themselves seem to be moving more in the latter direction lately. 

The really funny thing is....Intel is really just acting like the spoiled, salty kid by pushing obviously skewed "benchmarks" like these. 
 
The Tiger Lake CPUs are an objectively good product for ultraportables and it plus the 10nm SuperFIN process they're on is definitely what they needed after the disappointment that was Ice Lake. However, there's no denying that Apple's new M1 chip was quite the disruptor. 
 
Mentioned it before and I think @Taf the Ghosthad a similar opinion but it's really a shame that many of Tiger Lake's strengths are basically hidden away under what's basically the marketing equivalent of a child throwing a tantrum. TGL-U is a better all-around processor than many realize, but shit like this doesn't help. 

Bob Swan, June 2020, Intel CEO at the time.
 
Funny how benchmarks only don't matter when Intel cannot win them.
Like the Apple M1 chip you mean? That's certainly more "purpose built" than Intels current 14nm++++++++++ offerings.

Me checking Intel's latest "benchmarks" out:

If this turns out to be true, it's a pretty terrible idea, IMO. Wireless charging is still significantly slower, and being completely unable to use your phone while it's charging seems more regressive than innovative. If anything, the fact that this design would be completely obtuse makes the rumour significantly more credible, given Apple's track record in the last few years. 

They already have that and it's the 1600 AF which gives them 2 more cores and 4 more threads.

Mate, the 9900k does use solder between the IHS and the chip so it's going to be apples for apples.

I was allowed to create an account.
add payment info.
set up a subscription.
and when i tried to watch anything "this is not available in your region"
 
if you can't show anything, don't allow people to set up a subscription....

This is why I like to actually OWN things...

This is to be expected honestly. I remember how annoying it was to deal with the old problems twitch used to have, imagine people with the mindset of having to wait for years for the site to be any good?

Actually, that's like.. Extremely cool.
Kind reminds me of the old GPU shrouds too:

 
Would be cool to see the return of that sort of stuff.

I like how slowly over the last decade cpus are adding more and more cores to solve the speed problem..... yet somehow theres this small very vocal few who think a quad core is the cpu of the future.

I think userbench is catering to the mostly gamer user base as opposed to really measuring hardware speed.

I think that Huawei is being treated a bit unfairly. Not allowing US Gov. workers to use huawei phones as their work phone is fine by me. Blocking US companies from working with them of their own free will is not okay.
Not using huawei technology for infrastructure, fine by me, influencing other countries decisons, not okay.

I'm gonna be honest, I feel the US should investigate more before Huawei get cut off completely, But I haven't followed this deal completely so take my opinion like a grain of salt.

Everyone pretending this is only done by Chinese. Where in reality, EVERYONE does it. Only difference is that Chinese don't give two fucks about the final outcome where the rest plays it safe and just learns from it and then does things from scratch based on that info. The Chinese just copy it and slam it in a product. It's why whole product/brand copycat thing is a thing in China. And laws about that were very lax in China. Things are changing, very slowly, but it was going on for so long it's hard to change the mind set of Chinese businesses.
 
Japan for example was no different and they were notorious to photograph everything from the west and then copy it. But Japan totally flipped over on that and have been doing their own thing for ages now without blatantly copying things anymore.

After he lied straight to our faces about exclusives, there is no reason to believe him anything. Also epic will sell games via sites like GMG who take 30% as Steam so yeah, don't believe him anything. He just wants to look like the good guy he never was. 

agreed, it reeks of "no, we're doing this for you guys, we're trying to help developers, we're not being anti-competitive, trust us"

EGS doesn't do regional pricing, and as a result games are typically more expensive on EGS than on Steam for customers outside of North America. GoG did regional pricing until EGS started undercutting them. At that point, GoG released an announcement saying that they can't operate at a profit while continuing to do regional pricing at rates competitive with EGS, and so they're cancelling their regional pricing program.
 
EGS' 12% fee isn't enough to cover transaction fees for all countries without having to add additional costs in some countries. So, that tells me that EGS couldn't possibly do regional pricing and keep their current fee system.
 
 
From Valve's 30/25/20/0% fee system, they:
 
Supply games for download
Have developed and supports a comprehensive feature set that Tim Sweeney has said he doesn't plan to match
Do lots of physical product R&D (Steam boxes, Steam link, Steam controllers, HTC Vive, etc)
Do lots of software R&D (linux gaming, Steam features)
Offers regional pricing
Allows publishers / developers to print as many free Steam keys for their games as they want and sell them elsewhere, with Valve taking 0% on all of those sales - some estimates suggest that 30% of all Steam games are bought on a site other than Steam, in which case Valve would be getting 0% revenue from 30% of the games they supply hosting, download, community features, support, etc, for.
 
 
With EGS's 12%/18% fee system, they:
 
Supply games for download
 
Here are some other interesting posts from the Twitter discussion where Tim said EGS would retreat from exclusives if Steam matches their 12%/18% fee:
 
(for a large version of the image, click it, then click it again, then click it one more time)
 

 
 
And this is another look at the claim that EGS is 12% compared to a supposed 30% on Steam. The entire thread has to be read:
 

Zen 3 has never had a better opportunity to sweep the market, not to mention how much EPYC is taking off in the business sector. Here's to praying AMD gets it right.
 
There's a lot of hype here and it's really really gonna be make or break. If it fails, it's over.
 
Intel's on thin ice. The market security is gone, time to see how they hold up.

That summarizes the world these days.

Well, you don't just accidentally write all the code for scouring through an email-account's contacts and adding them to a database. I mean, it's not like all the code for that just appears out of thin air, so.....

What can facebook do right anymore... *facepalm*

official stuff like that should have comments disabled to begin with if I'm honest. People will say stupid things at every opportunity.

and as far as free speech goes.. yes. but there are definitely far more effective ways to carry our your freedom of speech than blasting comments on a youtube livestream.

"Well we have the ability to make a better product, but we don't because people are still overpaying for the current one" - what I got from his statement. 

I was like, "cool, I'm interested", until I read the part about the fucking Epic store again. Go eat shit Epic with your fucking exclusives. Do we really need this shit to go from a console exclusive to a some shitty PC platform exclusive? I mean go fuck yourselves, for reals.