Let's Talk about System Requirements...

Everyone and their mother, cousin, friend, associate, partner, and long-lost relation has had strong opinions on System Requirements.. Hell, I'm right there with them! We all want detailed listings of settings combined with PC hardware... However, as a group, I think we are a bit too happy when developers give us more than nothing to work with.

So, I want to set the record straight on what are good system requirements for games... and I hope that some developers see this and take the advice on board.

The Performance uplift of Ada Lovelace over Ampere...

 

One thing i feel like I may have been known for is being one of the first people to comment on the fact that there was no "IPC" uplift for AMD's RDNA 2 over RDNA architecture. Well, I never had an RX 5000 series card to check with but Hardware Unboxed confirmed this in practice. So, it was nice to feel validated. 

Now, I am aware that RDNA 3 is nothng more than a frequency adjusted RDNA2 (because their extra FP32 configurations do not appear to be easily used in existing programmes), but the question still burns within me: have Nvidia been able to increase the performance of their architecture from Ampere to Lovelace?

Let's find out...

June Roundup... Software highs and hardware lows...

I don't have much time for technical analysis over this coming period though I have a few ideas to explore in the coming months. So, I thought I'd have a bit of a round-up of my thoughts that, more often than not, end up in YouTube video comments and Twitter discussions - especially when I don't see these points replicated anywhere else...

So, let's summarize!