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Wow, that's actually a pretty substantial improvement. Basically went from "barely better than Vega 56" to "roughly as good as Vega 64"...

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Except it is. Just because you're used to something else, doesn't mean MS Office isn't intuitive. I grew up using an interface like this:

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Uh.... then it's not objective... that's subjective.......

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Intuitiveness typically comes from whatever you learned first. MS Office is objectively intuitive, but, you're not going to think that way if you're...

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Ah yes, in that case, the 8-pin is necessary....

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Seems to me it could've gone with a 6-pin power connector, but knowing Sapphire, they probably added the extra 2 pins for the sake of overclocking.

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You aren't required to agree with what is considered a standard. This is exactly the reason why so many people try making "the new standard"....

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Part of me wonders if AMD made a [big] mistake with the name of this GPU. Their new naming scheme seems to be focused on stars. There...

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I always felt Intel's iGPU performance was decent considering the wattage. Now..... not so much. At this point, it's basically good enough for compositor...

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Ah, thanks for the clarification....

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If it's the firmware that was released, shouldn't that mean working reclocking support, and therefore decent performance?

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In addition to what sandy8925 said, convertible laptops also have accelerometers when you fold them into tablet mode, so you can hold them vertically...

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I came here to say something very similar.
Although better performance is always welcome, for day to day usage, such things are imperceptible to...

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None of that changes my point - your entire body is still being exposed to just a few watts in small bursts. It's completely insignificant.
I am...

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Fair point, though obviously Nvidia isn't expecting there to be firmware bugs. On the other hand, to assume software can be perfect and therefore doesn't...

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Huh... I had no idea that was the reason. Makes me wonder why Nvidia didn't just laser-cut the GPUs, but, I guess locking the firmware is an easier long-term...

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That's what is called a "nocebo". Even at night, you are constantly being pummeled with hundreds of watts of electromagnetic radiation in frequencies...

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I could see this being very useful for stuff like VR headsets, but, not much else.



Light is electromagnetic radiation... So...

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Now that we basically have OpenGL 4.6 compliance, most of Vulkan supported, a large chunk of Intel's new Gallium code implemented, and some pretty critical...

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I'm not trying to be an ass, but, how exactly does EXT4 have anything to do with you running out of RAM?...