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When they literally wont sell you the game, piracy is your only option.

4070 level apu is wild. it would make some insane sff builds

he said may 13 2023...

My 970 died about a month ago. that card was a real trooper despite the vram debacle. by the end of it's life it was no longer in my main gaming system, but was being used to introduce my children to pc gaming.

The problem with Helldivers 2 now though is that although they walked back the requirement to link your PSN account to your Steam account, they're still restricting the purchase of the game to PSN only countries

Hi Howareya? Linux nerd here. The importance of Nvidia's shift is rather significant. Nvidia notoriously has been a thorn in the side of the Linux community for consistently using a closed-source driver that is developed internally at the company. This is in stark contrast to AMD's drivers, which has a fully community-developed driver. While their proprietary drivers were fine and usable, they often lagged behind in relative performance and featurewise compared to AMD's completely community driven, open-source driver. Nvidia shifting to an open-source kernel driver going forward means they will see support much faster for new features and modules. All the different features we could see gets a bit in the weeds, but marked to say we'll definitely see better game performance and a more stable experience on Linux. An important note - They're only open-sourcing the kernel-level driver, while the userspace level driver will still be closed. Still, it's good to see progress all the same. That's the best I'm able to explain it. If I missed something I'm sure a fellow Linux nerd will be loudly correcting me in the replies lol

Things google used to be great at, like "what engine is in a 2007 whatever specific model." Google is now TERRIBLE at that, but chatGPT is by far the fastest way to answer a simple question.

this is the beauty of linux- the driver never truly stop being optimized (still getting optimizations for R300) and every release of a compiler brings substantial speedups in the whole system

Google searches have become increasingly useless, so ANY competition in that space is welcome. I am probably going to sound old as heck here, but what ever happened to searching the content of websites for what was entered into the search bar? It would seem that Google has gone from "helping people find what they are looking for" to "obscuring anything that they aren't paid to show you" awfully quick.

A GTX 970 is still as capable as a PS4 Pro. I was playing Cyberpunk 2077 at launch just fine (well, just fine for the condition the game was in at launch). It's a perfectly capable little beast for most 1080p games, and I used it a lot with my 3D HDTV or Nvidia's 3D glasses and a high refresh monitor.

A 4070 level APU sounds like it would be great for a small form factor HTPC!

if iGPU's could approach 4070 performance, then I'd finally - finally - get my wish to have a PS5 like performer without the extra hardware.

I'm excited about how this APU will take over and replace low-end to mid-range graphics cards, at least in the laptop segment, grabbing a market share from Nvidia.

I also think thouse new APU's and especially the top end one should have atleast 1GB of L3 cache on it if not 2-4GB. Or better yet have actual vram on it and like 12-16GB of it, GDDR7.

It would be cool if Nvidia customers have a seamless OOTB experience when using Linux. If the kernel's opensource driver is upstreamed, that means no shenanigans for many users and less of a barrier of entry for those that want to test Linux.

A 120w APU? This is surprising. If they're targeting this at professionals, they better put some good video decoders on the media engine, at the very least some x264/265 decoders, as it can dramatically improve timeline performance for video editors with cameras that use those codecs. If they do that... it's possible, I might stick with AMD rather than switching to Intel with my next build. I'm really excited for this next CPU war. And I'd rather see their entire presentation be them counting how many pads are on the bottom of the CPU at the speed of a sloth than hear them talk about AI for even a split second.

11:03 MicroSd card could already be boot device by pressing power button and plus button at the same time. I used it to boot windows off a microsd when I needed a portable windows device

In regards to Sonys sign in requirements, Microsoft are doing the same thing with Forza motorsport 2023 as it basically becomes a demo if you lose internet connection even offline gameplay

NVIDIA finally being usable with Linux and Wayland is an amazing thing

Do you even Linux bro?

I'm excited for the upcoming Strix Halo APU, but the problem with these powerful APUs they always come paired with a GPU "regarding laptops" in my country. I've always wanted a laptop that comes with only a powerful APU alone without a discrete gpu, such as the 8845hs that has a good internal gpu "780m" but I haven't found any laptop that meets my needs.

Ive been watching ur videos since this channel was 60k sub, So good to see u going 1m soon, Congrats man

Saw this vintage video in 2402 .Had to travel back in time to really appreciate it

I wonder how a Steam Deck 2 may perform if they manage to integrate some of this high performance chips on it. I would love to have a high TDP mode for when I got it connected to a power outlet and a low TDP mode for when I'm on the go. Something to the level of a 3050 would be amazing performance for a handheld IMHO.

the question with mesa is if they employ the gimped version as some distros do.

If I were to get that new APU I'd go with just the 8 CPU cores version. I think that would give you the best balance out of the cpu/gpu power management.

10:12 I am hoping that this and the news that Valve is actively contributing to graphics drivers that this means we may see a desktop version of SteamOS on the horizon. Nvidia has probably held Valve back since Linux is not the best experience it can be with an Nvidia card due to it being proprietary in an open source OS, with it also not being Nvidia's focus to maintain and update.

Sony need to get sued

This has become my new favorite Tech News channel that I look forward to every weekday 😄

I wish the APU came out sooner. I don't have a desktop and because money tightness is an issue for me I want to get something that is most cost effective and I feel like this would have been great with me upgrading to a descrete gpu later on.... Dang it

I'm excited for the strix halo line. Im worried for the cost though. If it's comparable to the 4070, they will charge an arm and leg for it.

You literally make me wake up in the morning, I used to sleep until 2pm, thank you.

I just now noticed the guitar on Reece's wall now that Brett mentioned it.

They only did the uturn on hell divers as people were getting refunds

Man I get really happy to see exciting news on APUs! They are just really neat!

Fist computer I built was in 1999 which a dual socket Celeron using the Abit BP6 motherboard. I told some people that in the future that there would be multiple CPU's on one die. They did not believe me. Intel was already working on it. The only reason they don't have super fast GPU on the CPU die, is they do not want to loose sales for their GPU cards. It would make sense to have it all on one package as it is pack together and communications lanes would be much closer. They could design the APU to have upgradeable ram, or on the die for GPU that is not shared to the CPU. Look at how large the Cerebras WSE-3 (44 Gigabytes on board, 21 Petabytes/sec) is, and one can see how it is doable it really is.

Why is there a cheese grater in the background??? What are you making??

Are they gonna release these APU beasts for desktop?

One of nouveau (OSS NVIDIA GPU driver) now works at Nvidia and sends patches to Nouveau.

What's that keyboard on your desk?

I would love my next laptop to use one of those Strix APUs. wonder if Framework can implement them?

Really not a fan of the "soldered memory to the board so we could get thinner" AMD stuff. It doesn't need to be that thin. We can handle a little thickness if it means parts are replaceable.

8c/16t 40cu Strix Point w/ its 256-bit LPDDR5(x) RAM bus, is looking very attractive. I might replace my whole desktop for something so-equipped, with LPCAMM upgradeable RAM. PS: If one's office/bedroom has any heating w/ a thermostat on the wall, you likely have access to a 20A 240VAC circuit. Some homes are easy to run a dedicated branch too, but 240VAC is common in the US/CAN, just not usually to receptacles (typ. for heaters and appliances)

Honestly even a APU with 4060 performance would be incredible. Would be an easy recommendation to new gamers

12:00 you should have specified that we're talking about the mobile 4070, most likely at 90W. This is what I heard the comparison is being made to.

13:08 so they combined the two dies? 🤔 wonder how the heat distribution will work on that.

I've always found it odd that they release these apus for Xbox and playstation but at seemingly no point do we get a modified one for consumers . Like sure we don't have the same gains but I imagine it's still fairly good

These APUs would be awesome for HTPCs. ALSO with all of these powerful APUs coming out, I would imagine Valve has all the right tools to release new Steam machines that would be ACTUALLY be quite good. Will they do it? That is a big maybe. I could definitely see it compete in the console market if its price right.

If it was needed for multiplayer well then how do we play HD2 without logging in

This is all guess work but The TDP is the key on those strix point apu's, if you take the 260w a 7800xt usually draws with its 60 CU's knock 33% off it(for 60 down to 40 CU's) for the tdp you get 174w, expect some improvement between rdna 3.5 and 3, so being generous lets guestimate 140w at full performance for 40 RNDA3.5 CU's at full tilt, the TDP of the combined chip is 120W then take around 70w for the actual CPU part(Zen 4's power draw minus 10w for assumed improvement) off it, that leaves 50w for the 40 CU's to actually play with. with that level of power limit compared to what it could actually do, that puts it somewhere around a 3050 in performance, will be interesting to see if I'm correct on this one I'm sure 40 CU's of RDNA3.5 are 4070 class, if they weren't power limited to all hell, I very much doubt they are when limited that much. EDIT: if they dynamically allocate power based on what the cpu is using, it might hit 3060 or 3060 ti performance(say if the cpu was using 40w and the rest was allowed to the gpu)

Is that a Cricut machine in the background of Tech Deals?

18:21 my gpu is that 7950 thermal pad, neat 😁

AMD: I created the best IGPUs for now Intel: so it's the same type of IGPU as Iris Xe Graphics

My Gtx 980 just failed a week ago. I got it near Luanch, and it had a good run.

My pc just broke, do you have any suggestions for new gaming pcs

I would like to know how much AMD's positions in the handheld, mini, and console markets are responsible for their market share increase. These markets barely existed until fairly recently. Also, with Google implementing their experimental AI overviews, I'm accidentally using LLMs more than I am on purpose. Also, nice Cricut Machine, Reese.

Worth noting that the M4 chip seems to have a specific advantage over the M3 in the image processing benchmarks, with less of an advantage in other tests when you look at the breakdowns. I would hazard a guess that the NPU is doing a lot of the heavy lifting in beating the M3 by the margins it does, and that's why I'd want to see a broader benchmarking suite to see where exactly it's getting its advantages. If the NPU is the biggest selling point, this more speaks to Apple rushing it out to beat Arrow Lake and Zen 5 than anything else.

please go back to the old layout for UFD deals cause it makes it harder to see which store its available on before i open the video discription. PS im not in america

remember new ipad is more expensive than the apple vission pro

Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping, into the future

violence is not the answer. It is the question. The answer is YES, all of it

Those APUs are looking good. Maybe one day a discrete GPU will be optional for gaming.

Ryzen 1700x was my second ever build. My Dad is currently using it, and it's still running great. :D

On the AMD Super APU front. If they manage to push in there (16GB of) HBM memory, im going to lie, im not going to even upgrade to RTX.

1800-2400 Watts on a circuit just won't be enough pretty soon.

Yes the open source driver is a big deal for me on Linux. Setting up secure boot or anything with those drivers is just a pain in the ass. When I am up for a new GPU and it's still a problem I just switch to an arc

So American gamers are gonna have to wait for lightning to strike the clock tower so we can power our computers in the future?

so the Halo strix card will replace midrange card you say ??? on desktop

Great APU's and Smaller pc's will be the new thing. Saw this coming a long time ago. Kinda like when we all saw how nobody was gonna use drives (Blueray/DVD) anymore which started the whole trend of digital only, which is the now, also of which finally caught up to consoles.

The nvidia driver isn't a very big deal YET because it still isn't integrated in the linux kernel (which is the nice thing with amd and intel)

Still find it ironic that the “high power”connectors have smaller pins.

Sony still kept everything how it is with Helldivers 2 btw. They will not enforce the PSN, but also don´t allow purchase out of PSN supported area...

Strix Halo on a valve set top box would be nice

May I say that good or bad, Apple lives in your head.

5:05 I hope they don't require a login for GOW R but I wouldn't be surprised considering the first thing I was asked for when I bought Uncharted for PC was my Sony log in even though they killed multiplayer for Legacy of Thieves

Excellent news roundup!

I'm SUPER excited about Strix Point and Strix Halo. If these pan out it'll be the first time (besides Console APUs) that an iGPU/APU will hit actual current (at least 60-70 series) gen graphics cards. They BETTER figure out how to cool that Strix Halo LP 20CU unit for a badass handheld lol The 780m has 12CU of RDNA3 and is the current best iGPU of all time. Think of 20 to 40 CUs. Friggin sweet. Although my desktop graphics card would still smoke it by several miles, this MAY offer good price to performance in the mid range PC builds. If the Strix Halo was $699 for the even the 24 or 32 CU model it may actually be the same or less as paying for a CPU/GPU separately. (To be fair the 760m and 780m are already a massive advance compared to prior iGPU offerings.)

Yo thanks for the delicious coffee Brett! Legit it’s sooo good. I used to drink a brand called Bee Line Coffee and this tastes very similar to their classic roast. So delicious. Haha🙃

But what are the nutritional values of my brettfast?

I would sell all my personal gaming rigs (kids rigs too) if an apu hit 4070 or 7800xt level. I could offload so much dead weight, size and dust collecting bulk to build 3 tiny badass gaming rigs. I would finally be able to gut an old NES 8 bit and use the housing to make a gaming pc I could stomach. 4070 is really a downgrade but would be well worth it clear all this rgb and fishtank looking crap out of the house.

Getting 4060 performance in an apu would be perfect. I doubt they will get 4070 though.

Sold my 4070Super cause there is no new games tempting me at all. Built myself a XP gaming pc instead, huge backcatalog of good games😊👌🏻 Modern computers isn’t exiting anymore in the area of gaming..

The future is def in Arm APUs My Apple silicon MacBook draws so little power doing the same things I do with my PC & I would just love to play Helldivers when drawing only 50W

I want better search results. It doesn't matter who supplies it.

Yea having Nvidia open source is big. The guy who made linux linus torvalds flipped Nvidia the bird live and it was pretty epic.

"oh no, light bulbs are gonna take our candle maker jobs"

that grapgh was interesting. when one goes up the other goes the same amount

Seeing these apus seems like the part of the console apus that might be available for desktop use for once, unlikely

Sorry but this is not my breakfest its my dinner.

What Sony didn’t tell you is when they sent out that “ we’re still learning” tweet. They band the Helldivers purchase in the countries that don’t have access to PSN.

I just hate that Apple crushed all that cool stuff

May 13th - 2023???? lol

since their comparing the strix halo to the 4050 which doesnt exist on desktop unless you count the 4060 as really being the 4050 than their most likely comparing to mobile varient of the 40 series chips and not desktop varients so it wont actually be like an actual 4070. soo no apus are not replacing gpus any time soon.

as a linux nerd, any time any company contributes hardware support its good. nvidia issues are a big sticking point for a lot of people adopting linux so this is definitely a W. im not a huge "MUST be open source" type person but i do prefer it when possible

I really hope Strix Halo comes to the diy desktop marked much much sooner than the 8700G line. AMD would light the SFF community on fire with that, but i have the feeling we'd atleast have to wait a year after laptops got it and maybe some mini PC.

When strix halo portables are made that's gonna be some POWA (expect max 45w)

Hey Reese, Uhhhh, so, what's up with the cricket machine out back?

Make it optional, and make Cross-Platform SAVES be a thing between PC and PS5.

That 40CU Strix Halo has been in the talks for over a year. I honestly thought that it would come out by now. When it eventually does, it won't be so special anymore.