#High_Performance_GPUs

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RX 7800 XT is still more profitable The other day we reported that the Radeon RX 7900 GRE video card appeared in European retail, but the price of 720 euros seemed far from the most adequate. Now there are more affordable options.  [caption id="attachment_77898" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Radeon RX 7900 GRE[/caption] Radeon RX 7900 GRE has finally moved to Europe. At the moment, the most affordable option is the XFX adapter with a price of 672 euros. The Radeon RX 7800 XT is still more than 100 euros cheaper, although the performance of the cards is very similar. However, not everyone reads tests and looks at reviews, and the RX 7900 GRE is at least older in name than the RX 7800 XT.  Additionally, if more affordable options have appeared in a few days, even cheaper RX 7900 GRE models will likely appear shortly. It is also worth noting that the new product appeared in several European countries at once, including Italy, Poland, Latvia, and Turkey.   You may recall that AMD also recently introduced the Radeon RX 6750 GRE 10GB and Radeon RX 6750 GRE 12GB video cards, which, as we now understand, may also appear in retail sales outside China in the coming months. And these are adapters with a price of 270-290 dollars, that is, they play in a much more popular segment. 

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The normal model is one and a half times faster We have already seen how Chinese craftsmen converted mobile GeForce RTX 3060 Laptops into desktop adapters. It turned out that there was the same miracle but in the form of the RTX 3080 Ti.  [caption id="attachment_77776" align="alignnone" width="780"] GeForce RTX 3080 Ti[/caption] Such adapters are produced by the Chinese company XR, which we have not heard of before. Technically, this is a mobile RTX 3080 Ti Laptop, that is, with a GA103 GPU at the core, which has 7424 active CUDA cores. For comparison, the desktop RTX 3080 Ti is based on the GA102 with 10,240 CUDA cores.   [caption id="attachment_77778" align="aligncenter" width="780"] GeForce RTX 3080 Ti[/caption] Be careful when purchasing the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti. In addition, this “Frankenstein's monster” has a 256-bit bus and lower frequencies, but it has 16 GB of memory versus 12 GB for the original desktop model. What’s interesting is that in this particular case, the TDP is also reduced to 115 W, although the mobile RTX 3080 Ti Laptop can operate at 150 W.  However, tests show that the flip card produces results almost identical to the mobile model. But the normal RTX 3080 Ti is one and a half times faster than both versions, that is, these are solutions of completely different classes.  [caption id="attachment_77779" align="aligncenter" width="780"] GeForce RTX 3080 Ti[/caption] Thus, when purchasing an RTX 3080 Ti from China, it is worth taking a closer look at the product’s characteristics. 

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It's hardly possible to play like this As you know, Frame Generation technology from DLSS 3 is available only on GeForce RTX 40 video cards. Now technically it can be launched on older adapters, which is what the author of the ALG46 channel did. [caption id="attachment_68085" align="aligncenter" width="780"] GeForce RTX 30[/caption] He used a GeForce RTX 3060 and the DLSS FG DLL 1.0.1 file, which allowed him to bypass the ban. True, this only works in the game Portal Prelude RTX.  GeForce RTX 30 can be taught to complete frames like the RTX 40. This does not matter for the experiment, and the experiment was carried out. Performance, as expected, has increased, but it has become virtually impossible to play the game.  As you can see, the picture jerks as if the frames are rendered unevenly. Theoretically, you can play like this, but it is unlikely to be enjoyable.   https://youtu.be/k9zczxncsos It is not yet clear whether this problem can be circumvented. Let us remember that Nvidia itself initially said that technically FG can work on all RTX video cards, but certain changes were made to the Ada Lovelace architecture, which allows the technology to work normally.  

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In addition to energy consumption So, today Intel finally released its Arc A580 graphics card, pricing it at only $180. Intel itself is positioning the new product as a competitor to the Radeon RX 6600 and GeForce RTX 3050. The second is noticeably weaker than the first and more expensive. An Nvidia card in the US starts at around $210, while an AMD adapter can be purchased for $190. In Europe the situation is similar. That is, the Arc A580 is initially cheaper than its competitors. Now we will look at the tests to evaluate whether it is faster. [caption id="attachment_64947" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Intel Arc A580 graphics card[/caption] As you can see, in Full HD, and this is the target resolution for video cards in this segment, the new product is noticeably ahead of the RTX 3050 and falls short of the RX 6600. That is, with the RX 6600, the Arc A580 has approximate parity in terms of price and performance, but the card Nvidia is far behind both competitors. What an Intel Arc A580 graphics card with a 256-bit bus can do for $180. At 1440p resolution, Intel's new product is already ahead of the RX 6600, and at 4K it is even ahead of the RX 6600 XT. The wider memory bus has an effect here. Of course, higher resolutions for this adapter will be a difficult test, but the card will still cope with many, not the most demanding games. You can also compare the new product with the older Arc A750. The latter is only 11% faster (in Full HD), so for the money, the new model may be more interesting, except for some promotions. [caption id="attachment_64950" align="aligncenter" width="245"] Intel Arc A580 graphics card[/caption] Traditionally, Intel cards are not bad at ray tracing. Here the Arc A580 in Full HD is ahead of the RX 6600 XT. But where Arc adapters are traditionally bad is in energy efficiency. The Arc A580 consumes 210 W in games, which is even more than the RTX 3060 Ti or RTX 4070. From the rest, we can note only good overclocking potential, which allows you to increase about 10% of performance. By the way, today, based on one OpenCL test, we assumed that the Arc A580 will be ahead of the RTX 3050 and may not be able to cope with the RX 6600. In the end, as we see, this is what happened.

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B100 and then X100 are waiting for us Nvidia shared a roadmap for its data center and AI acceleration products in an investor presentation. [caption id="attachment_64929" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Nvidia H100[/caption] Let us remind you that at the moment the senior solution within the Hooper line is the H100 accelerator. On the roadmap, you can also see the H200 model with the GH200 GPU, but this is not a successor to the H100 or some kind of improved version. This is the already-announced Grace Hopper SuperChip. The current monster Nvidia H100 will turn into the next generation before last in two years. The next generation, as we know, will be Blackwell. Accordingly, these are the GB200 GPU and the B100 accelerator. This decision is expected next year. What’s interesting is the release of the next new generation in 2025. Its codename is unknown, but on the roadmap, we see the GX200 GPU and the X100 accelerator. [caption id="attachment_64930" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Nvidia H100[/caption] Thus, in two years or even less, the current monster Nvidia H100 will become not the last generation, but the generation before last.

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The driver also supports Arc A580 Intel has released another driver for its video cards. Besides the fact that it now supports the not-yet-released Arc A580, the driver greatly increases the performance of Intel adapters in the new Starfield game. [caption id="attachment_64904" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Arc graphics cards[/caption] Intel just released a new driver and the performance of Arc graphics cards Starfield increased by 149% When using DirectX 12 in Full HD, performance increases up to 117%, and at 1440p up to 149%. That is, we are talking about a more than double increase! It remains to wait for tests to check whether the increase is so huge and which video cards Intel models are ready to compete with after such an improvement.

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Parameters are not yet known Samsung is going to return the Exynos SoC to its flagship smartphones. According to new data, at the same time, the Korean giant wants to provide graphics cores based on the AMD mRDNA architecture and the Exynos platform in the mid-range segment. [caption id="attachment_50814" align="aligncenter" width="780"] AMD GPUs[/caption] Insider Revegnus says that such GPUs can receive SoC Exynos 1430 and Exynos 1480, which will be released next year. If the current generation is anything to go by, the latter will be the basis for the Galaxy A55, while the Exynos 1430 will power the more affordable Galaxy A/M models. AMD GPUs are even found in low-cost Samsung smartphones. At the same time, the source stipulates that you should not expect any high gaming performance from these platforms. All platforms in this category cannot boast of particularly high gaming performance, but in any case, there are not many games on smartphones that even such SoCs can load. Insider Revegnus was the first to publish a photo of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5 before its release and also described the characteristics of the Exynos 2400, which were then confirmed in Geekbench software.

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The company may release a special version of the RTX 4090 for China with performance limitations Nvidia is ramping up shipments of GeForce RTX 4090 GPUs to China ahead of the ban, which comes into force on November 17th. [caption id="attachment_78169" align="aligncenter" width="780"] RTX 4090 GPU[/caption] Nvidia ramps up RTX 4090 GPU shipments to China ahead of supply ban According to MyDrivers, several video card manufacturers have confirmed that the RTX 4090 series will be completely banned from sales in China after November 17. It is advisable for every supplier to purchase and preserve them while they are still available. It is reported that in order to sell more adapters before the ban, various graphics card brands are increasing the supply of RTX 4090. Benchlife resource claims the same. Interestingly, since the new US sanctions rely on performance metrics (4800 TOPS for AI), Nvidia believes it can circumvent the ban by limiting the corresponding performance of the RTX 4090 at the BIOS level. Much the same as it was done during the mining boom.

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The new product shoots even better video DxOMark authors got to the base iPhone 15 and 15 Plus to evaluate their cameras. Of course, they rated them absolutely equally, so we’ll talk about the result of the iPhone 15, including the Plus version. [caption id="attachment_68037" align="aligncenter" width="780"] iPhone 14 Pro Max's[/caption] So, the new Apple product received 145 points, which puts it in 12th place in the overall ranking. In fact, if we do not count separately the devices with the same number of points, then we are talking about ninth place, which is very good for the basic iPhone. The base iPhone 15's camera competes well with the iPhone 14 Pro Max's camera. For comparison, the iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max, despite the presence of a “telephoto”, have only 1 point more! And the best result now, let us remind you, is the Huawei P60 Pro with its 156 points. It can also be noted that the iPhone 14 received 133 points a year ago, so the improvement is noticeable. If we look at the result in more detail, it is worth noting the record 80 points for background blur. And the worst indicator of the new product is expected for its zoom capabilities.

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The version with Radeon RX 6750 GRE 12GB is slightly more expensive than the version with RTX 4060 Just a few hours ago we talked about the Radeon RX 6750 GRE 12GB video card, and now MSI has presented ready-made PCs with this adapter. [caption id="attachment_68032" align="aligncenter" width="780"] GeForce RTX 4060[/caption] They are presented so far only in China, where they cost 700 or 890 dollars, depending on the CPU. More precisely, these are the prices with the Radeon RX 6750 GRE, although you can also choose a configuration with a different 3D card. Another competitor for the GeForce RTX 4060, but not the most modern. In terms of price, the version with Radeon RX 6750 GRE is almost identical to the version with RTX 4060 and cheaper than the version with Radeon RX 6750 XT. That is the performance of the Radeon RX 6750 GRE is at least slightly lower than that of the Radeon RX 6750 XT. That is, approximately the same as the Radeon RX 6700 XT. If you look at the latest tests, you can see that the Radeon RX 6700 XT is about 10% faster than the RTX 4060 in Full HD and up to 15% in 4K. So, if all the assumptions above are correct, a PC with MSI's Radeon RX 6750 GRE will be slightly better off than one with an RTX 4060, but that's without taking into account support for the latest DLSS and ray-traced performance. Unfortunately, we still don't know the specifications of the Radeon RX 6750 GRE, although available MSI data suggests that there will be minimal differences between the Radeon RX 6700 XT and RX 6750 XT.

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The cooling system is similar to that of the GeForce Founders Edition Galax company presented the same video card with a hole that it showed yesterday. This is indeed an RTX 4090, and the hole is indeed for cooling. [caption id="attachment_68019" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Galax RTX 4090[/caption] The card is called the RTX 4090 20th Anniversary Edition and was released in honor of the 20th anniversary of Galax itself. True, the company was founded in 1994, that is, it will turn 20 years old only next year. [caption id="attachment_68020" align="aligncenter" width="606"] Galax RTX 4090[/caption] The card is called the RTX 4090 20th Anniversary Edition and was released in honor of the 20th anniversary of Galax itself. True, the company was founded in 1994, that is, it will turn 20 years old only next year. Galax RTX 4090 20th Anniversary Edition Unveiled [caption id="attachment_68022" align="alignnone" width="594"] Galax RTX 4090[/caption] The adapter looks quite unusual due to the two fans shifting to the right. This same hole allows air to pass through the radiator of the cooling system, and on the reverse side, there is another fan. As a result, the CO configuration is similar to what Nvidia uses in its GeForce Founders Edition models. [caption id="attachment_68024" align="aligncenter" width="594"] Galax RTX 4090[/caption] Another feature of the card is a hidden power connector. It can also be noted that the adapter is quite large: 344 mm in length and 60 mm in thickness. However, the GPU frequency is not a record and is 2595 MHz. The new product will go on sale on November 11. This will probably be a limited edition. [caption id="attachment_68025" align="aligncenter" width="715"] Galax RTX 4090[/caption]

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And almost 15 times faster than AI At the System LSI Tech Day 2023 event, Samsung talked about the upcoming Exynos 2400 single-chip system. [caption id="attachment_64092" align="aligncenter" width="600"] GPU[/caption] For example, it is now known for sure that the graphics core of the new SoC is called Xclipse 940, and it is based on the AMD RDNA 3 architecture. Let us recall that new data suggests that Samsung will continue to develop its GPUs based on AMD technologies. CPU 1.7 times faster than Exynos 2200, and GPU based on RDNA 3 architecture The performance of the Exynos 2400 processor has increased by an impressive 70% compared to the Exynos 2200, but it is worth remembering that the Exynos 2200 was released not last year, but almost two years ago. AI performance increased 14.7 times. For now, that's all we've been told, but from other leaks we know that the new SoC will have a 10-core CPU, and the performance will be significantly lower than that of the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.

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And in Europe from 575 euros Recently, the Radeon RX 7800 XT video card entered the market, which, with approximately equal performance to the RTX 4070, costs $100 less. It seems that Nvidia has given the command to reduce prices for the RTX 4070 against this background. [caption id="attachment_56049" align="aligncenter" width="780"] RTX 4070[/caption] RTX 4070 in the US now starts at $550 Several large US networks immediately offered offers for different RTX 4070s at a price of $550. Let us remind you that the recommended price for this adapter is $600, and the RX 7800 XT came out with a price of $500. In Europe, prices have also gone down: the cheapest RTX 4070 can be bought for 575 euros. The most affordable RX 7800 XT starts at 560 euros, that is, in this region the cards are almost equal in price and the new AMD product has almost no advantage.