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DF Direct Weekly #108: Unrecord's 'Realism' Explained, Horizon Burning Shores Hands-On

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The Future of PC Gaming

I can see the attraction of having an ultra compact computer that's got the kind of graphics power of a PlayStation 5 or a Series X. The issue is the cost, I think Oliver alluded to, the size of the chip is not insignificant. And also the memory bandwidth side to go back to that. What you'll see in terms of these APUs is that when AMD cuts them down, they can hive off compute units and deactivate them. It doesn't really have a huge impact on performance but your bandwidth starved elsewhere in the system. But there are those kits that AMD are producing based on the PS5 and only I've got the 4800 series XAPUs so far because the

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