AMD 7600X3D Price, PS5 Pro TDP Leak, Zen 5 Windows 11 24H2, RDNA 4 Release Date | Broken Silicon 272

7600x3d is likely just down binned 7800x3d with one/two bad cores turned off. That's why it's low volume only sold to SI/microcenter. No strategy other than moving otherwise dead inventory.

I recently switched from windows to Linux. I actually liked windows 11, since the first thing I did was use some (sketchy?) powershell scripts to debloat and remove onedrive. I switched away because it felt like microsoft wasn't trying to make windows better, they were just trying to make more money off of it. I swapped one of my game NVMes to Linux and swapped the boot order in BIOS and figured I'd try to migrate things one at a time and be able to switch back if I had any roadblocks. Only things I miss are Lossless Scaling Frame Gen and my weird custom mouse acceleration program, but the latter has a version in development. There are weird things, like the KDE wallpaper engine plugin seems to only want to work when I compile from source or the fact that the fans in my system weren't detected for monitoring at first, and when they were it was using the wrong driver so I couldn't set fan speed, but taken one at a time, its manageable. I don't doubt that one day soon everything will "just work".

From now on I think we can retire the sandbagging concept. Its just the big companies not bothering with making something worth upgrading to anymore, which is sad. I had hopes for the upcoming platform, but when I heard they are using the same ring bus core to core tech I lost interest. Latency will once again make the ecores useless in games. (Assuming those rumours are true which they probably are). Why can I have fast ram with low latency on a 12 core monolithic? If Pat makes another Raptor lake again on 3nm only with new branding and expensive socket he deserves to get fired. Intel is sinking and still they cant make anything interesting to sell means the management have lost touch with their consumer base. With all that manpower they should offer a gaming cpu and a productivity cpu. They even have automated programs for designing cpus much faster now so why aren't they making multiple versions?

8$ for small pack of ramen is a "bit" much

please stop the F bombs. consider your audience and may be listening in work environment..

Pwrhaps rdna4 is a preparation step for tiled compute die GPUs, socthey had to focus on perf/area and perf/w so that rdna5 or 6 could go balistic as you add the node shrink benefits down the line.

🤞 for the zen moment of Gpus.

If i can get a gpu for under £400 that delivers the ray tracing perf of a 4070 super, but the raster of a 4080… sign me up. I'l be looking to upgrade at that time slot too (end of year)

8800XT going to cost $8800?

No matter how good the next GPU is 98% are using that only to buy an NVIDIA card a bit cheaper

15:00 you say the it scales up but for limited applications and no games? Why do we care? I don't think you can state it's a windows issue either, I have not seen any comprehensive gaming benchmarks for linux but the ones I have seen like Wendell's on the 9950x show very similar performance between zen 4 and 5 on linux too.

Moore lies bro u was wrong about ps5 and that rdna 3 bullshit

I mean to remember that AMD communicated that the 9000 series represents a change in architecture to facilitate the next generations. If they are the case and they have managed to maintain the compatibility of the 7 and 8 thousand series without HAVING to buy new motherboards, as has been the case with Intel for the past decade, it is probably an achievement in itself. Then maybe increased speed and reduced power consumption are not the most important thing with the 9000 series?

AMD Marketing – it's obviously a problem and the company has to know. But of course they are making so much money in other product segments that it doesn't seem to be a concern to them or they are too busy to care. Which is exactly what happened to Intel. Get rich, get bloated and no reason to prioritize internal efficiency, and then once the gravy train stops your company is in no shape to fix things. It'd be such a shame if the now successful AMD was going to simply follow in Intel's footsteps…

I think there is going to be another 9000x die spin for the X 3D that fixes a few rough edges.

I try linux every 6 months or so and it’s still much more annoying than windows, and I fucking HATE windows.

Linux: will not remember which screen I closed a window on the next time I go to open it
Resets my monitors to 60hz whenever it feels like it
Audio clicks and pops
Aggressively turns off my surround sound receiver no matter what power settings I try
Games crash

Windows is super annoying but it hasn’t crossed the threshold of being more annoying than Linux. Yet. Can’t wait for it to happen though

Motion control existed before the Wii, but it was Nintendo that made motion control cool. Hybrid-consoles existed before the Switch, but it was Nintendo that made hybrid-consoles cool. VR obviously exists……………..will the Switch 2 make VR "cool" again?

There are WAAAAY too many patents filed for something called a "Virtual Camera" to dismiss this. There are WAAAAY too many patents filed talking about other things they are potentially developing that mention this "Virtual Camera" as a matter-of-fact thing.

Normally, you don't pay that much attention to patent-filings because essentially it is just a place to hide embryonic-ideas behind a legal wall until or unless they are ready to move forward with them, but in this case there is too much smoke not to be fire in my opinion, and think about this…..

If you were Nintendo, and you were looking to add VR functionality to your new hardware, what franchise do you have already that would make the most sense to show off VR functionality? 🤔….

Metroid Prime. Oh, wouldn't you know it, Nintendo just happens to have a game scheduled for 2025 called Metroid Prime 4 Beyond.

I'm just sayin'.