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HW News – Steam Machine Timing, Nintendo Sues US, CXMT RAM & YMTC SSDs on the Rise

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In this hardware news recap for the week, we talk about the Valve Steam Machine double-update, Nintendo’s lawsuit against… America, Microslop talking Project Helix, CXMT and YMTC getting more deployment in the hardware market, Quake III RTX, and more, including a note about a YouTuber who seems to be abusing the copyright strike system on YouTube videos critical of him.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – Recap for the Week
01:43 – More Documentaries, Mouse Mat Launch
06:59 – Schroedinger’s Steam Machine
11:14 – Nintendo Sues America
14:43 – Microslop Talks New Project Helix Xbox
16:14 – Chinese Memory and SSD Adoption Rising
17:25 – StarCraft Tabletop Game
19:22 – Quake III Remix Mod with Particle Update
22:40 – Responding to Threat Interactive

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AMD FSR Redstone: Image Quality Frame Gen Comparison, Latency Benchmarks, & Ray Regeneration

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AMD’s FSR Redstone (FidelityFX Super Resolution) is a rebranded name to describe a newly-released set of features for FSR. The main takeaways are a future plan — but no games yet — for radiance caching, alongside some features available today, like ray regeneration and a new frame generation model. The new frame generation model gets most of our focus today, as they’re moving to a machine-learned (ML) solution from what AMD calls an “analytical” solution previously. We also ran some quick latency tests with frame generation, just because we were already set up for that with our recent Lossless Scaling Frame Generation latency tests (below), and then ran a quick ray regeneration image quality comparison. We’d like to do some more comparisons with these in the future, but a combination of AMD’s late timing getting everything out to reviewers for frame generation and the lack of implementation of ray regeneration in games means we’ll just have to wait a little longer.

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Watch our Lossless Scaling Frame Generation image quality analysis and upscaling comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w_Hqngky0s
NVIDIA DLSS4 Frame Generation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh1FHR9fkJk
NVIDIA DLSS4 Image Quality and Transformer Model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nfEkuqNX4k
AMD FSR4 and AFMF Comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DbM0DUTnp4
NVIDIA Ray Reconstruction testing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZVv6WoUl4Y
Watch our Lossless Scaling latency tests: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDvfIbRIb3U

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – AMD FSR Redstone
03:38 – Defining AMD Redstone and Test Limitations
07:45 – FSR Radiance Caching
09:29 – Image Quality Blind Test: Cyberpunk 2077
10:30 – Cyberpunk 2077 Redstone ML vs. FG Analytical Image Quality
13:53 – Marvel Rivals Redstone Image Quality
18:39 – Latency: Marvel Rivals FG without FPS Cap
20:08 – Latency: Cyberpunk 2077 FG without FPS Cap
21:09 – Latency: Cyberpunk 2077 FG with FPS Cap
21:54 – Ray Regeneration Image Quality Comparison BLOPS7
25:27 – Conclusion

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Valve Steam Machine, Desktop SteamOS, Steam Frame VR, & Controller | ft. Engineering Discussion

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Valve today is announcing its Steam Machine, Steam Frame VR headset, and new Steam Controller. Alongside these announcements, the company is moving SteamOS to what is functionally a desktop platform while also adapting it to ARM for the Frame VR headset. The new Steam Controller makes some major iterations on the original, with a particular focus on TMR thumbsticks and connectivity. In this video, we run through the details of Valve’s new hardware and interview many of the company’s engineers working on the products. Engineering interviews and discussions talk about signal trace routing, power delivery, ESD protections, acoustics, thermals, and more. We have at least two other videos coming up from this visit as well, likely immediately, so subscribe to catch our Steam Frame thermal, power, and acoustics engineering interview next.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – Valve Announces Steam Machine, Frame, and Controller
04:24 – Valve’s First Attempt at Steam Machines
05:16 – Machine: Steam Machine Specs
08:54 – Machine: BIOS, Modularity, BGA Silicon, Power
13:20 – Machine: Airflow, Thermal Engineering
18:10 – Machine: Upgradeable System RAM, SSD
18:28 – Machine: Memory Trace Routing Technicals
21:14 – Frame: Valve Steam Frame Specs, Basics
23:47 – Frame: SteamOS on ARM, Native Compilations
26:46 – Frame: Foveated Streaming
32:20 – Frame: Thermal Design, Power
35:05 – Frame: Sound, Controllers
37:12 – New Steam Controller: Basics
38:10 – Controller: Puck, Antenna Design
41:08 – Controller: Repairability, Battery, Haptics
42:16 – Controller: TMR Thumbsticks, Gyro
43:21 – Conclusion

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The RTX 50 Disaster

by archytele
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NVIDIA’s RTX 50 series GPUs in the Blackwell family now represent the worst GPU launch we have covered in our history of GPU reviews at GN. It was briefly tied with past AMD and NVIDIA launches for the worst, but now, with the missing ROPs in addition to 12VHPWR issues, fake pricing, a paper launch, unannounced loss of PhysX 32-bit support, driver issues in some scenarios, and more, we crown the RTX 5090, 5080, and 5070 Ti launches as being part of the worst we’ve seen. Congratulations, NVIDIA.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – The Worst GPU Launch
04:37 – NVIDIA’s Response
07:10 – How This Might Have Happened (Speculation)
12:31 – Rant: DISASTROUS LAUNCH
18:36 – Our Theory’s Problems: RTX 5080 Isn’t Immune
19:51 – Conclusion: AMD’s Opportunity

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NVIDIA RTX 5090 at 575 Watts, RTX 5080, 5070 Ti, & 5070 Specs

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NVIDIA just announced its RTX 50-series GPU lineup of video cards in the Blackwell architecture. These include the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5070, for which we also got most of the specs unveiled via the NVIDIA website. This follows on the same day as AMD’s somewhat silent announcement of its RDNA4 RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 GPUs. As a reminder, Intel’s Battlemage B570 part is also due to launch within about 10 days.

Aside from VRAM capacity and core counts for its new RTX 50 series, NVIDIA has also published numerous materials about varying “AI” solutions for gaming, including more frame generation. We won’t go into any depth on these at this time, as we’re still familiarizing ourselves with the materials, and will instead focus on the hardware.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – DO YOU LIKE MY JACKET???
02:33 – NVIDIA RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti, 5070 Specs
08:39 – First-Party Claims & Benchmark
11:40 – PCB & FE Cooler
13:33 – GeForce Buzzword

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