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AMD Talks Ryzen 7000, X670, "Mendocino" & More | The Full Nerd Special Edition

Amiga

Member
Learned interesting technical stuff..
- AMD is bringing a new "AMD Advantage" category to PC in Smart Access Storage. Streaming assets from SSD is going to evolve in the PC environment and be a standard like it is in consoles now.
- Decompression is going to shift to the GPU. So freeing up the CPU and skipping a few steps at the same time
- Requires devs to reduce patch sizes to fit stream pipelines. this may result in reduced need for large RAM size. data would flow from SSD to CPU/GPU/RAM in a timely manner instead on needing to load a a big chunk into RAM and then wait for another big chunk to load in the old HDD based pipeline.
- Will require devs to re-engineer their engines to take advantage of it, and makes backwards compatibility difficult. This means leaving behind PS4/XB1/older PC rigs behind for good or using a different dev team to port.

 

kingfey

Banned
When will the price go down to affordable prices?
Mine is almost becoming a dinasour.
 
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Amiga

Member
When will the price go down to affordable prices?
Mine is almost becoming a dinasour.
From they keynote announcements most Zen4 will be APUs. the GPU part is expected to do more co-processing and SSDs to be standard. so almost everything PC will be game ready. There even announced budget gaming laptops with Steam Deck specks going from $400-$600.
 
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