Shipment/POS do not telling you anything about unfulfilled demand or “unrealized supply”.

It’s just how unit were shipped into the channel and sales at retail respectively.

These are the best data points that we have to understand demand dynamic.

Gamers are also a notoriously dramatic demography that often don’t go through on what they say.

That’s why it’s best to focus on absolute unit shipment numbers/POS.

If total units increased compared to the previous generation launch, then people are still buying GPUs.

When I read “open shell account server” I thought this meant anyone can get access programmatically. This sounded like a disaster.

But turns out, at least with the respect to this NetBSD specific offer, you have to send out an application.

It seems like gamers have finally realized that the newest GPUs by NVIDIA and AMD are getting out of reach, as a new survey shows that many of them are skipping upgrades this year.

Data on GPU shipments and/or POS sales showing a decline would be much more reliable than a survey.

Surveys can at times suffer from showing what the respondents want to reply as opposed to what they do.

The issue isn’t share of revenue (well not directly), the issue is lower margins for gaming GPUs and a more complex distribution network (involvement of AIBs, retailers).

They have powerful iGPUs; something similar to Strix Halo. I am not a Mac user, but in my understanding the top end SKU have iGPUs comparable to high end dGPUs (with respect to synthetic performance, actual gaming performance tends to lag heavily).

4K is a tiny part of the market. Even 1440p is a small segment (albeit rapidly growing).

This is a much more nuanced take than the headlines implies.

I am curious how exactly will Steam integration work. Knowing MS, it’s likely going to be clunky and subpar.

Recalling looking forward to this one.

Was this posted in self-hosted because the term is vaguely associated with the concept of getting pregnant?

Sounds like it’s going to be UE6: Fortnite.

Hopefully Godot can make more improvements by the time of UE6’s release.

Just like their original benchmarks were showing 3000+ in Geekbench ST and then not even a single device came close to this result.

I would argue if your budget allows you to, it’s better to get 8 cores.

Any benefit for paying for 12 or 16?

Only if you do demanding use cases other than gaming. One example is video editing and encoding (the type that should not be done on a GPU).

Some games do benefit from having 16 cores, things like economic strategy games with lots of background simulation (one example would be path finding).

There are rumor about new intel SKUs coming out; they may be slightly more powerful than the two Battlemage GPUs that we know of.

I had a pretty decent self-hosted setup that was working locally. The whole project failed because I couldn’t set up a reverse proxy with nginx.

I am no pro, very far from it, but I am also somewhat Ok with linux and technical research. I just couldn’t get nginx and reverse proxies working and it wasn’t clear where to ask for help.