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Summary
AMD added a feature to the Windows driver that automatically over clocks Ryzen CPUs. It was supposed to be optional, but a bug is causing it to be active even when it is not supposed to be.
 
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Given that the official line is that overclocking voids the warranty, this means that AMD’s software is effectively voiding warranties despite the user doing nothing wrong. Those of us using Linux do not have to worry about this.
 
Sources
 https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-confirms-its-gpu-drivers-are-overclocking-cpus-without-asking

Probably never since the steamdeck does not have thunderbolt. He had to open it up to access the M.2 slot to do this. It is likely a possibility for a Steam Deck 2. I do not expect to see a Steam Deck 3 unless people at Valve call it Steam Deck Alyx.

The 12900KS is a factory overclocked 12900K.

Probably never since the steamdeck does not have thunderbolt. He had to open it up to access the M.2 slot to do this. It is likely a possibility for a Steam Deck 2. I do not expect to see a Steam Deck 3 unless people at Valve call it Steam Deck Alyx.

Summary
ETA Prime has installed a discrete GPU (RX 6900 XT) in his steam deck via the M.2 slot. He booted Windows 11 off a SD card since the M.2 slot was no longer available for storage. The steam deck CPU had good performance, but the steam deck was CPU bound in a few poorly optimized titles like God of War. ETA Prime said that he saw higher performance in systems with stronger CPUs.
 
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He should have booted SteamOS 3.0 or at least some sort of Linux distribution. It is not very hard to boot any Linux distribution off a SD card on a system that supports booting off SD cards. He just did not ask anyone. Linux uses less CPU resources than Windows according to Valve, so he might have seen higher FPS in those CPU bound games had he done that.
 
Also, Xbox <whatever it is called> and PS5, eat your hearts out. The steam deck can be given a discrete GPU, while they cannot get GPU upgrades without replacing the entire console. 🙂
 
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There is something wrong with the game if it is sending data over the PCI-E bus after level loads. 😕

Probably never since the steamdeck does not have thunderbolt. He had to open it up to access the M.2 slot to do this. It is likely a possibility for a Steam Deck 2. I do not expect to see a Steam Deck 3 unless people at Valve call it Steam Deck Alyx.

Summary
ETA Prime has installed a discrete GPU (RX 6900 XT) in his steam deck via the M.2 slot. He booted Windows 11 off a SD card since the M.2 slot was no longer available for storage. The steam deck CPU had good performance, but the steam deck was CPU bound in a few poorly optimized titles like God of War. ETA Prime said that he saw higher performance in systems with stronger CPUs.
 
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My thoughts
He should have booted SteamOS 3.0 or at least some sort of Linux distribution. It is not very hard to boot any Linux distribution off a SD card on a system that supports booting off SD cards. He just did not ask anyone. Linux uses less CPU resources than Windows according to Valve, so he might have seen higher FPS in those CPU bound games had he done that.
 
Also, Xbox <whatever it is called> and PS5, eat your hearts out. The steam deck can be given a discrete GPU, while they cannot get GPU upgrades without replacing the entire console. 🙂
 
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Summary
ETA Prime has installed a discrete GPU (RX 6900 XT) in his steam deck via the M.2 slot. He booted Windows 11 off a SD card since the M.2 slot was no longer available for storage. The steam deck CPU had good performance, but the steam deck was CPU bound in a few poorly optimized titles like God of War. ETA Prime said that he saw higher performance in systems with stronger CPUs.
 
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My thoughts
He should have booted SteamOS 3.0 or at least some sort of Linux distribution. It is not very hard to boot any Linux distribution off a SD card on a system that supports booting off SD cards. He just did not ask anyone. Linux uses less CPU resources than Windows according to Valve, so he might have seen higher FPS in those CPU bound games had he done that.
 
Also, Xbox <whatever it is called> and PS5, eat your hearts out. The steam deck can be given a discrete GPU, while they cannot get GPU upgrades without replacing the entire console. 🙂
 
Sources
 

Probably never since the steamdeck does not have thunderbolt. He had to open it up to access the M.2 slot to do this. It is likely a possibility for a Steam Deck 2. I do not expect to see a Steam Deck 3 unless people at Valve call it Steam Deck Alyx.

Probably never since the steamdeck does not have thunderbolt. He had to open it up to access the M.2 slot to do this. It is likely a possibility for a Steam Deck 2. I do not expect to see a Steam Deck 3 unless people at Valve call it Steam Deck Alyx.

Probably never since the steamdeck does not have thunderbolt. He had to open it up to access the M.2 slot to do this. It is likely a possibility for a Steam Deck 2. I do not expect to see a Steam Deck 3 unless people at Valve call it Steam Deck Alyx.

Summary
ETA Prime has installed a discrete GPU (RX 6900 XT) in his steam deck via the M.2 slot. He booted Windows 11 off a SD card since the M.2 slot was no longer available for storage. The steam deck CPU had good performance, but the steam deck was CPU bound in a few poorly optimized titles like God of War. ETA Prime said that he saw higher performance in systems with stronger CPUs.
 
Quotes
My thoughts
He should have booted SteamOS 3.0 or at least some sort of Linux distribution. It is not very hard to boot any Linux distribution off a SD card on a system that supports booting off SD cards. He just did not ask anyone. Linux uses less CPU resources than Windows according to Valve, so he might have seen higher FPS in those CPU bound games had he done that.
 
Also, Xbox <whatever it is called> and PS5, eat your hearts out. The steam deck can be given a discrete GPU, while they cannot get GPU upgrades without replacing the entire console. 🙂
 
Sources
 

Summary
ETA Prime has installed a discrete GPU (RX 6900 XT) in his steam deck via the M.2 slot. He booted Windows 11 off a SD card since the M.2 slot was no longer available for storage. The steam deck CPU had good performance, but the steam deck was CPU bound in a few poorly optimized titles like God of War. ETA Prime said that he saw higher performance in systems with stronger CPUs.
 
Quotes
My thoughts
He should have booted SteamOS 3.0 or at least some sort of Linux distribution. It is not very hard to boot any Linux distribution off a SD card on a system that supports booting off SD cards. He just did not ask anyone. Linux uses less CPU resources than Windows according to Valve, so he might have seen higher FPS in those CPU bound games had he done that.
 
Also, Xbox <whatever it is called> and PS5, eat your hearts out. The steam deck can be given a discrete GPU, while they cannot get GPU upgrades without replacing the entire console. 🙂
 
Sources
 

Probably never since the steamdeck does not have thunderbolt. He had to open it up to access the M.2 slot to do this. It is likely a possibility for a Steam Deck 2. I do not expect to see a Steam Deck 3 unless people at Valve call it Steam Deck Alyx.

Summary
ETA Prime has installed a discrete GPU (RX 6900 XT) in his steam deck via the M.2 slot. He booted Windows 11 off a SD card since the M.2 slot was no longer available for storage. The steam deck CPU had good performance, but the steam deck was CPU bound in a few poorly optimized titles like God of War. ETA Prime said that he saw higher performance in systems with stronger CPUs.
 
Quotes
My thoughts
He should have booted SteamOS 3.0 or at least some sort of Linux distribution. It is not very hard to boot any Linux distribution off a SD card on a system that supports booting off SD cards. He just did not ask anyone. Linux uses less CPU resources than Windows according to Valve, so he might have seen higher FPS in those CPU bound games had he done that.
 
Also, Xbox <whatever it is called> and PS5, eat your hearts out. The steam deck can be given a discrete GPU, while they cannot get GPU upgrades without replacing the entire console. 🙂
 
Sources
 

Summary
AMD added a feature to the Windows driver that automatically over clocks Ryzen CPUs. It was supposed to be optional, but a bug is causing it to be active even when it is not supposed to be.
 
Quotes
 
My thoughts
Given that the official line is that overclocking voids the warranty, this means that AMD’s software is effectively voiding warranties despite the user doing nothing wrong. Those of us using Linux do not have to worry about this.
 
Sources
 https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-confirms-its-gpu-drivers-are-overclocking-cpus-without-asking

thats just not true. some games literally will not run on more than x cores at once. untill recently, that number was 4, because unless you when hedt thats all you could get. its something that only really started changing in like 2018 when ryzen made more cores cheeper

Do a new Linux video. It could tell us how to flash our VBIOS from Linux to support resizable BAR on Asus hardware, among other things. Revisit Windows Ameroliated now that they have rebased on 20H2. DirectX 12 support is said to work fine now. Try to get Anthony to make a GPU and do a video on it. I know this is asking too much of him, but it would be funny if he succeeds by using a FPGA and open source designs. If he did, it could be the start of a movement to stop depending on AMD and Nvidia. 😉 Do a bloopers reel where every time Linus has ever dropped something is shown. Tell sponsors getting Linus to drop their things will cost them extra going forward. 😛 Force a video editor to switch to Linux and do a video on it. 🙂 Interview AMD to ask if the B450 will support the 3D V-Cache Ryzen CPUs. Also, ask if they will ever sell a console class APU to people. i.e. the xbox series x chip with GDDR6 on a motherboard, with both the CPU and GPU fully functional. Benchmark ECC RAM against non-ECC RAM at 3200MT/s and tightened timings to see if the ECC harms performance. It won't. 🙂

The Windows EULA used to have a refund clause, but Microsoft removed it with Windows 10 if I recall.

Intel has its own fabrication plants while AMD is able to build more CPUs at the expense of their GPUs.
 
Intel was reportedly having production shortages last year, but given how much marketshare AMD has taken from them, that is probably not an issue anymore.
 
You might ask why AMD would want to cannibalize GPU production in favor of CPU production. It is simple. The CPUs are more profitable. If I recall, the die area used by a RDNA2 GPU is >6x the die area of a Zen 3 chiplet. AMD also doesn't get anywhere near the full price of a graphics card for each one that sells (as the PCB and all of the other stuff on the PCB cost plenty of money), while they get near the full price of a CPU for each one that sells. Lets say that they keep 70% for each CPU sold and 30% for each GPU sold. Then they can either sell 6 Ryzen 5 5600X processors (for example) for a grand total of $299.00 * 0.7 * 6 = $1255.8 in income, or 1 RX 6800 XT for $649.00 * 0.3 = $194.7 in income. You could adjust the numbers to take into account different factors, but the end result will be that CPUs are far more profitable than GPUs thanks to AMD's chiplet design. Taking into account things like defect rates are just going to skew things in the favor of making CPUs look even more profitable than my napkin math shows.
 
Anyway, these numbers put the CPUs over 6 times more profitable than the GPUs. Which do you think AMD would rather produce when they have a limited amount of wafer capacity at TSMC?
 
Interestingly, the Steam Hardware Survey seems to confirm that there are few if any RDNA2 GPUs making it to market since not a single one is listed:
 
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
 
My math indicates that this means that less than 720,000 RDNA2 GPUs are in machines that run Steam. Meanwhile, approximately 4.2 million 30 series GPUs are in machines that run Steam. It is fairly obvious from this that AMD's GPU production is low compared to Nvidia's when you consider how long RDNA2 has been on the market versus Ampere. This supports the notion that AMD is cannibalizing the supply of their GPUs to increase CPU production.
 
As for why Nvidia's graphics cards are out of stock, plenty of people were holding out for the 30 series after the disappointing 20 series. If you have been watching steam's hardware survey, you should have noticed that other GPUs are losing userbase while the 30 series is gaining. In short, everyone wants it now and production cannot keep up, so it is sold out. The cryptocurrency miners loving Nvidia GPUs for their high memory bandwidth this generation are not helping either, but the market has been starved so long for updated GPUs that demand is high even without them. You also have increased demand from the pandemic for new equipment and the stimulus check funds that a number of people decided to spend on new PC hardware (that they can't get), which further increased demand.
 
My suspicion is that Nvidia is producing GPUs faster than they ever have, but it is not enough. Unfortunately, I do not have access to historical steam hardware data to be able to make an educated assertion confirming that and I doubt Nvidia would be willing to tell us. I also recall reading some remarks where a Nvidia employee claimed that increasing GPU production would not increase graphics card production since the production of board components is not able to keep up, so there is also that acting as a limiting factor. 😕
 
That being said, there are shortages of microcontrollers and many other chips across the industry, although they are not consumer facing. This is in part thanks to the automobile industry scaling back orders last year only to expect the capacity to be waiting for them. Other companies had reserved it and the automobile manufacturers are now fighting to regain as much capacity at the expense of others as they can, which is why microcontrollers and other miscellaneous components are in short supply. That and everyone is ordering more parts than they need, excerbating things, thanks to the description of a shortage and uncertainty in the US-China trade war. Chinese firms are stockpiling on chips to ensure that they will have a supply of them if they are cut off while everyone else is stockpiling on things because of the shortages. A company I know placed orders for the next 2 or 3 years worth of chips that they use because of the shortage.

I heard some incorrect info about the new Tesla Model S yesterday on the WAN Show that I wanted to point out. I know it’s not a car channel and it probably won’t matter. But I’m sure the writers don’t want to go on incorrect info.
 
The new Tesla Model S is a refreshed version of the old one and there are two versions: Long Range starting at $73,990 and the Plaid starting at $123,990. Both versions come with the infotainment system that’s based on the new AMD chips which runs video games. It’s not just the Plaid (more expensive model) that comes with this feature.
 
Another thing to point out is that the AMD based infotainment system is a completely separate system from the self driving system. In all of their cars Tesla uses their in-house designed chips for the driving functions. They call it FSD Hardware and it’s based on ARM [I think], currently at version 3. The FSD chip is a specialized chip that’s built to only do neural network computations.

Also Tesla doesn’t make a gaming controller, at least not yet. The images circulating are of a prototype and you have to buy your own Xbox or PS controllers. At the event they were using Xbox controllers.
 
On a side note I want to say that comparing to the Porsche Tycan that’s was showed in a ShortCircuit video, the refreshed Model S is the absolute winner. The Tycan starts at $79,000 with a range of up to 227 miles, the more expensive ones can cost over $185,000 without any of the options!!!! The Model S long range costs $73,990 and gets 405 miles. And according to some rumors they are waiting for the EPA to update this range higher.
 
Linus is right that it’s an expensive car. Even the one that costs $73,990 is lol-years out of my budget.

It is single channel. Any 3200MT memory in dual channel would likely outperform it.

The game will also be removed from the Steam store.

Supply and demand most likely. There is not enough supply and too much demand.