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  1. Emily Young
    I'll preface this by saying that testing for this video concluded at the beginning of February, before this list was available. Sponsored videos take a while in the pipeline. The games chosen for testing were informed by which games had the best performance improvement with SAM enabled in the RX 6800/6900 reviews. Yes, Nvidia is individually validating specific games, but if the theory is that resizable BAR alone is the reason for performance uplift, games that improve on AMD should also see similar improvement on Nvidia unless the driver is explicitly preventing them from using resizable BAR or otherwise interfering. The fact that AMD had no such compatibility list points to the conclusion that either Nvidia rushed this like we said, or AMD's memory management was just that bad to begin with (unlikely given Nvidia's claims of "similar" / 10% performance improvements).
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    After big promises to gamers about the RTX 3060’s performance for gaming and LACK of performance for mining, Nvidia’s new GPU has finally released. Will you be able to get one? Buy a GeForce RTX 3060 On Amazon (PAID LINK): TBD On Newegg (PAID LINK): TBD On B&H (PAID LINK): TBD
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    Nvidia thinks they can pull a fast one on gamers looking to grab an RTX 3060, but we know you're smarter than that - Let's dig deeper and see if we can figure out why they're launching cryptocurrency mining cards...
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    Big shout out to MSI for sponsoring this video! Check out all of their products we used down below. PCI Express gen 4 has been around for over a year and a half now – But it hasn’t really made much of a difference… Does that change with Ryzen 5000, RTX 3000, and Radeon 6000? Buy MSI RTX 3090 SUPRIMX X GPU (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/6dT9AXK Buy MSI Radeon RX 6900 XT (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/uVzF Buy AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/3eJzht
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    It might be (I saw that mentioned in the BIOS somewhere), but this board was flaky and frankly we had trouble getting it to run with two sticks, let alone four.
  8. Emily Young
    Yeah, we only received ours I believe in mid December despite ordering it basically ASAP, and we were buried under the eternal TechTober releases at the time so it took until now to get to. This title is basically the same as Anandtech's, just without the review bit tacked on at the end. I guess it could have been "Test driving an A9-9820", but nobody would know or care what that is.
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    I don't think it's that simple. Until recently, VRAM never really exceeded 8GB for most gaming cards, and games didn't use that much of it. Resizable BAR / SAM only really makes sense when moving a lot of data around from what I can tell (fewer "bank switches"), so its effects would have been limited and not really worth the effort in previous generations. This is exemplified in the fact that not every title sees a big benefit from it. My take on it is that AMD took the initiative here after seeing what devs were doing with the Xbox Series and PS5 consoles, and now everyone else has to catch up. In the end, it'll have been a short-lived gimmick that gave them an advantage over Nvidia, similar to how "RTX" gave Nvidia an early advantage in ray tracing despite it also being a standard thing in both DirectX and Vulkan.
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  16. Emily Young
    ... Does context mean nothing to you? It was in reference to Shadow of the Tomb Raider's 1440p raster performance, not an overall statement. I don't think amount of main system memory is a bottleneck here - SAM made plenty of difference in multiple benchmarks, just not in MSFS. AFAIK, addressing 16GB of VRAM doesn't mean assigning 16GB of system RAM to mirror it. Thinking AGP aperture size - You could run with less main memory than the card has and still be fine. They're not directly related (as I understand it, some system RAM is used to cache the address registers, but not the data itself). Re ReLive... You're entitled to your opinion I guess? It looks like a blocky mess with especially bad fringing on the neon signs to me. Re DLSS... The point is that with AMD's ray tracing performance being what it is, not having it kills any hope of running eg. Minecraft RTX on AMD with reasonable frame rates.
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    The problem with sorting by FPS is that the positions in the stack can change constantly, and when we used to do that, people complained quite loudly about it. If I'd had my time back for this video, I would have done this order: 6800 XT SAM 6800 XT 3080 6800 SAM 6800 3070 Including SAM results was probably the thing that caused the most clutter, but I didn't want to go through a second round of graphs with SAM on vs off.
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    Apple claims their new M1 processor is powerful enough for their new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac Mini – But if you’re an Apple fan, should you be excited - Or very, very worried?
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    Uhhh 3600X MSRP is $249....

    Emily Young replied to AlTech's status update

    It was. My apologies - The 3700X bit was meant to be 3800X, second 5950X on the Zen 2 row was supposed to be 3950X. You can see where the error came from...
  22. Emily Young
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    During our briefing, AMD specifically called out Super Resolution as an upscaler for enabling high-resolution ray tracing, so it definitely is a new thing unless they themselves are very confused.
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    They do, they're calling it Super Resolution.
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    AMD’s Radeon 6000 series has finally been revealed – And it looks pretty sweet. Can AMD avoid Nvidia’s mistakes and retake the crown?
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