Quote from: Aluskinner on Today at 10:07:10If Medusa Point is based on RDNA4
Not RDNA4, RDNA4m. There's a difference. RDNA4m seems to be more like a hybrid architecture of RDNA3.5 + with RDNA4's matrix ML units for hardware based AI upscaling.
Confusing, I know but it's AMD we're dealing with here. RDNA4m is a marketing term it really should be called RDNA3.6 or RDNA3.7 architecture.
Quote from: Aluskinner on Today at 10:07:10NVIDIA's N1(X) APU is a thing this year already
I'm not sure what to believe anymore. It's been leaked several times over the years and then complete dead silence for many months repeatedly now. I'm beginning to get slightly worried and think the rumours are correct. That this is a troubled launch and the product has serious issues.
Maybe that's why they decided to partner with intel? Unfortunately, isn't looking like the year of arm laptops, just yet..
Quote from: Aluskinner on Today at 10:07:10AMD needs to catch-up to NVIDIA' ray-tracing and path-tracing power efficiency
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RDNA4 improved nicely over RDNA3 in path-tracing power efficiency
Apparently, RDNA5 will address this and be an even bigger leap for RT than 3 -> 4 was. But we'll see, need to keep the hype expectations in check. Seems somewhat believable as Sony is pushing hard for RT performance in their upcoming playstation console.
I don't think having good PT performance or efficiency matters too much *right now*, it's still incredibly heavy, unless you've a xx90 class dgpu which most people don't, so they just avoid it completely. Intel has good RT perf. and struggles to get playable fps in PT modes as well.