Already in more notebooks than strix halo has been in the past 9 months.
AMD, please, if you're listening just exit the notebook market. You guys are more incompetent than Qualcomm and Intel combined.
to be fair, the only cpu that is going to matter is an x3d when it comes to gaming. Budgets might play a role if the nvidia and amd's are just "cheap" and can play games. but the x3d would wipe the floor in current gen games. theyre all single threaded "developer code", with multi threaded rendering and systems. except the games with their own engines, those are multi threaded for the big games. However Unreal and Unity are working on multi threaded developer-code. So in about 2-3 years you might be able to run every high end games on toasters with 4-8 cores. thats when the gpu is going to matter more again. since everything just uses upscaling at the beginning of 2026. Upscaling and Frame Gen.
Quote from: Embarrassment on January 23, 2026, 23:48:16Already in more notebooks than strix halo has been in the past 9 months.
You may notice that a Strix Halo Legion 7 is also listed. You have a very good point, but still. Strix Halo from a big company like Lenovo and Asus (and I mean the TUF 14") should have arrived a year earlier.
Can't wait for a NVIDIA based iGPU APUs / N1(X) APUs (INTEL B390 is nice, too), am annoyed of AMD blocking FSR4 INT8 on RDNA3 and RDNA3.5 laptops, despite it working and providing a good improvement:
- Feb 8th 2026: "AMD Radeon still refuses to officially release FSR 4 INT8 for RDNA 2 - 3 GPUs despite the backlash they got" --videocardz
- reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/1qzw07o/amd_radeon_still_refuses_to_officially_release/
- Feb 7, 2026: youtube.com/watch?v=5JtF7f5Vtp4 "I'm Annoyed At AMD's Latest Radeon Blunder" --Hardware Unboxed
- Sep 22, 2025: youtube.com/watch?v=VPMOjdvmHMk "FSR4 on RDNA3 on Windows!!! How To Guide and Side by Sides Tested on RX 7800 XT" --Daniel Owen
Meanwhile NVIDIA is offering DLSS 4.5 on GeForce RTX 2000 series of cards.
I switched from RX5500 XT, to RX6600 XT, to RTX 4080 because of (open issue since Dec 28, 2020): gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1417 and zero issues since then.
QuoteWhat bugs me the most is not them low-key forcing you to upgrade your "desktop" GPU to a newer one, BUT still advertising their RDNA 3/3.5 mobile APUs like Strix Point/Halo as the "uLtImAtE pErFoRmAnCe ApUs oN MoBiLe" and, HECK, even rebranding them in 2026 as Gorgon Point/Halo (as if they are not EXACTLY THE SAME), and shipping laptops/handhelds with them AT TOP MONEY, while not giving you the 2025 features!
Quotethat's why i'm really not a fan of the steam machine that use a RNDA3 rx7600 gpu. had they use a rx 9600xt or waited for a 9500xt maybe, it would have future proof the console with fs4 and redstone. at this point paying premium money ( thanksram ) for a steam machine that is already outdated as its similar to entry spec from 6 years ago ( aka ps5 and rx 6700 ) is not a great option. a rx 9600xt should have been the bare minimun.
QuoteThem dropping the support for olden gen can set the precedent for them to also not supporting 9000 series whenever FSR 5+ or w/e released
Let's see if AMD will release FSR4 INT8 support when the Steam Machine comes out, because it uses RDNA3 GPU (notebookcheck.net/VKD3D-Proton-3-0-release-paves-way-for-AMD-FSR-4-on-Steam-Machine.1164973.0.html). But then FSR4 INT8 support must come out on Windows too, because Windows is still the majority of users and the Proton Linux code could still be used on Windows. If you need a GPU now, don't buy an AMD GPU in hoping that they will release FSR4 INT8 at all.
QuoteIf I buy a 9000 series GPU today, will they also cuck me out of FSR 5?
Quote from: No FSR4 on RDNA3?NV it is on February 11, 2026, 10:10:26But then FSR4 INT8 support must come out on Windows too
Strong doubt. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯