Hardware support: Bloomberg: "Developers Are Making Games for a Nintendo 4K Console That Doesn't Exist"

Bloomberg: "Developers Are Making Games for a Nintendo 4K Console That Doesn't Exist"
Chromebook demand is plummeting as the pandemic eases
A desktop gaming PC equivalent of every generation of XBOX
Memory Oligopoly Woes – Micron Says They Will Not Increase Wafer Output In DRAM Or NAND For The Foreseeable Future
AMD's new goal is to increase energy efficiency by 30x in AI and HPC by 2025 - VideoCardz.com
[VideoCardz] ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 with Noctua cooling has been pictured
Ars Technica: "A new "standalone" Valve VR headset teased by deep SteamVR file dive"
Chips and Cheese: "Do IBM's Giant L3 and V-Cache Represent the Future?"
Phoronix: "Ampere Altra Max M128-30 Linux Performance Preview"
[GN] The Worst Prebuilt PC Mistakes We've Seen (So Far)
TechTechPotato (Dr Ian Cutress): "What is the Maximum CPU Power? Over 9000?"
[der8auer] More Marketing Lies? Minisforum Retail PC opened and Polymer analyzed by Tescan (SEM)
ASML Technology Strategy
Bloomberg Law: "Qualcomm Wins Bid to Undo 250-Million-Member Antitrust Class"
SemiAnalysis: "Aehr Multi-Wafer Level Burn-in Test for Silicon Carbide and Silicon Photonics Applications"
The Korea Times: "Korea urged to confront US calls for key chip info"
(VideoCardz.com via Nvidia) NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang to unveil new AI technologies and products at GTC Keynote in November -
Reading, Writing, and Online Bots: School Reopenings Stymie Teens' Reseller Gigs

Bloomberg: "Developers Are Making Games for a Nintendo 4K Console That Doesn't Exist"

Posted: 29 Sep 2021 03:05 PM PDT

submitted by /u/Dakhil
[link] [comments]

Chromebook demand is plummeting as the pandemic eases

Posted: 29 Sep 2021 09:47 AM PDT

submitted by /u/AnimeAlt44
[link] [comments]

A desktop gaming PC equivalent of every generation of XBOX

Posted: 29 Sep 2021 06:05 PM PDT

So one of my nerdy obsessions is comparing off-the-shelf desktop PC hardware to console hardware and finding matches that are as close as possible. I got bored today and decided to find a way to pass time... so I figured, why not make a post detailing a PC build that's equivalent to each generation of XBOX console. Why the XBOX instead of the PlayStation or Nintendo? Well cuz Microsoft makes it as well as Windows and DirectX which the majority of PCs run. The XBOX uses DirectX too, so I consider it to be the most PC-like console out of the three manufacturers.

These builds aren't exact equivalents since console hardware is 90% of the time customized PC hardware, but they're about as close as you can get. I'm going to ignore little discrepancies like eDRAM present on consoles (this is normally not present on PCs) and focus on the big picture parts - CPU, GPU, memory, and storage. The parts were chosen based on architectural and paper spec similarity (i.e. things like game-level optimizations aren't accounted for because these aren't easily determinable). Gonna skip things like the motherboard and power supply because the consoles don't exactly use off-the-shelf parts (or close matches) for those. Skipping the optical drive cuz I'm lazy and I doubt anyone cares about the optical drive equivalent (I may add it later when I'm not being lazy). I am also only doing the comparison for the highest end model (excluding storage capacity) cuz I don't really care about the lower-end models (and its extra typing for me... again I'm lazy).

Feel free to suggest better matches for any of the parts I listed or make other corrections. The years for the builds might be a year or so off as the PC equivalent CPU/GPU may launch that much later than the console. Anyways, here goes!

original XBOX-equivalent PC (circa 2002):

CPU: Intel Pentium III 733MHz Coppermine
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4200 64MB
- Core underclocked to 233MHz
- VRAM underclocked to 100MHz as the Geforce4 Ti bus width is twice as wide as the XBOX GPU
- The XBOX GPU core config is closer to a GeForce4 Ti than a GeForce3 as it has a 2nd vertex shader just like the GeForce4
Memory: 64MB PC-133 SDRAM
- Unfortunately, the Pentium III never supported DDR memory so we'll go with PC-133 SDRAM as the closest match. This gives 1.06GB/s of CPU bandwidth, which is what the XBOX CPU had access to
Storage: Seagate ST310014ACE 3.5" 10GB 5400RPM hard drive

XBOX 360-equivalent PC (circa 2007):

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ Windsor
- There is no close x86 equivalent of the Xenon CPU, but the Athlon 64 X2 5400+ has comparable IPS (instructions/second) count and same cache size
GPU: 2x ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO 256MB GDDR3
- Core underclocked to 500MHz
- Memory clocked at 700MHz
- Each Radeon HD 2600 PRO core config is exactly 1/2 of the Xenos core config.
Memory: 512MB DDR-800 SDRAM
Storage: 20GB 3.5" 5400RPM hard drive

XBOX ONE-equivalent PC (circa 2014):

CPU: AMD Athlon 5150 Jaguar
- Slightly overclocked to 1.75GHz
- The XBOX ONE CPU has double the CPU cores as the 5150; we will ignore this as there were never any 8-core Jaguar desktop chips
GPU: 2x AMD Radeon R7 250 2GB DDR3 128-bit
- Core underclocked to 857MHz
- Memory underclocked to 1066MHz
- Each Radeon R7 250 core config is exactly 1/2 of the Durango GPU core config.
Memory: 4GB DDR3-1600 SDRAM
- Not sure if the 5150 supports DDR3-1066, which would be more appropriate
Storage: Samsung Spinpoint M8 ST500LM012 2.5" 500GB 5400RPM hard drive

XBOX ONE X-equivalent PC (circa 2017):

CPU: AMD Athlon 5370 Jaguar
- Slightly overclocked to 2.3GHz
- Note that AMD never released 16nm Jaguar variants for the PC, so we'll stick with the 28nm ones
GPU: AMD Radeon HD RX 580 8GB GDDR5
- Core overclocked to 1302MHz (gives equivalent floating point performance as Scorpio GPU)
- Memory underclocked to 1700MHz
- Unfortunately, there are no GCN4 card combination that have an exact config to the Scorpio GPU so the RX 580 comes the closest for its time.
Memory: 8GB DDR3-1600 SDRAM
Storage: 1TB Seagate ST1000LM035 2.5" 1TB 5400RPM hard drive

XBOX Series X-equivalent PC (circa 2021):

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Zen 2
- Create two profiles in Ryzen Master utility:
  - 3.6GHz with SMT on
  - 3.8GHz with SMT off
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6800 16GB
- Core underclocked to 1582MHz
- Memory overclocked to 2150MHz to make up for Navi 21's 256-bit memory bus (vs 320-bit for the Series X GPU). 2150MHz is the highest Radeon software lets you go.
- Unfortunately, none of the existing RDNA2 GPUs exactly match the Series X in core or memory config, but the RX 6800 comes the closest.
Memory: 16GB DDR4-3200 SDRAM
- You could substitute DDR4-3600, but I went with officially supported memory
Storage: WD SN530 1TB NVMe SSD