Comments by "Winnetou17" (@Winnetou17) on "Gamers Nexus" channel.

  1. "If you hate our signing you can tell us to replace it, or just use alcohol to remove it" - Now THAT'S dedication for customer satisfaction! Thank you GN!
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  2. I have this vaaaague feeling that the person responsable for that gets much more than the minimum wag e
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  3. They did already. It's hard to see, because it's been many iterations. A 6700K is much much worse than a flagship 10th or 11th gen CPU, especially with the Spectre+Meltdown mitigations in place. And I'm pretty sure that a 11900K with only 4 cores enabled + hyperthread will be significantly faster than a 6700K, while consuming less power. Or the same power consumed, but much higher clock speeds. I said a 11900K instead of a 11100 because the 6700K was the flagship, so it had the best binning, so it would be fair to compare it to the best binned of this generation.
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  4. I have some questions for AMD, though surely we'll never have an answer as their recent silence is already one answer for many of them. Anyway, here it goes: - Why was B550 so late ? - Why was this support/compatibility annouced so late ? Wasn't it known when Zen 2 launched ? If not, when was it known ? Even so, wasn't a lack of guarantee known in advance ? Couldn't AMD give some warnings going forward ? - When making the decision to absolutely not support any 3xx or 4xx chipsets for Zen 3 CPUs, were any board partners consulted ? - Wasn't AMD aware that many customers are buying B450 specifically to upgrade to a Zen 3 CPU ? Why wasn't there any communication ? - Why is AMD still so silent about the matter ? How could a customer not think that AMD simply pulled an Intel out of greed and/or lack of care ? That is, simply abandon a part of customers and move forward, because it's easier. How can an AMD fan have the benefit of the doubt now ? - Seeing customers and media perception (especially seeing MSI promises) and not having any comment on them, any try to address the issue as soon as possible (so there's as little damage as possible), isn't AMD concerned that the whole community will be less trustful of ANY marketing and promise going further ? Isn't that a bigger price to pay than being honest and trying to work with the partners and the community ? Does anyone at AMD think it's ok to say now that "well, we only said Socket AM4 support, nothing about chipsets" ? How could the community at large realize the difficulty of providing this kind of support when no attempts at it were made and when AMD is being so shady ? Sigh
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  5.  @mukkeshmckenzie7386  Guilty! I'm just a bit salty that people still seem to think that Intel CPUs are the same as Sandy Bridge (last great IPC improvement) or Sky Lake (first 14nm ... ish... 5th gen was mostly missing). It's not like Intel wanted the 10nm fab to go so wrong and be 2-5 years late. They didn't plan for 100-200 MHz improvements for 5 consecutive years. It's surprizing how far they managed to get with 14nm and how they can still somewhat compete with AMD, which are on a much better manufacturing node.
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  6. Jorge is an IDIOT! LOL
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  7. Yet AMD had to pause for a while to make a new CPU from scratch and now, many years later after 2600K, their 2600 is about the same or slightly better in gaming. I wouldn't say it's Intel's fault here. Do you know that an 4.7Ghz overclocked 2600K still has better Cinebench single core score than an overclocked R7 1700 (and R7 1700X and R7 1800X) ? Granted, that in stock the i7 is lower vs R7 stock. Also, on CPU benchmark the i7 2600K has a single core score of 1941 vs 2006 and 2009 of R5 2600 and R7 2700. So after all these years, the single core performance is marginally better for stock speeds and slightly worse (though for Ryzen 2 it should be the same) for single core. The problem with Intel isn't lack of technological advancement (at least until now). It's their bullshit marketing, their thermal interface solutions and especially their greed in constantly jacking up the prices.
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  8. did you meant to say "immaturity" ?
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  9. Either that or his thermal paste is getting replaced. Or both. :P
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  10.  @ErraticPT  It's low from our perspective. Making a competitive GPU is still REALLY difficult. Remember that it has the same 30W TDP, but more features. Okay, it has a manufacturing node advantage. Still, not that low of a bar as it might seem.
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  11. Gamers Nexus: I have a plea for you guys: Could you also benchmark the gaming cards in productivity, so it can be clearly seen why would someone spend twice as much on a card like this ? Or even better, make a dedicated video with these kind of benchmarks for all cards, so you and us can refer to it as what does it actually mean it's not just a gaming card. Because just saying that it's not a gaming card is not enough. This would help with the education of the audience, and hopefully trim a lot from the comments like "1000$ 1070Ti". I know this wasn't the best place to say this (wrong topic), but I wanted a shot :)
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  12. "get investors [...] transfer all the risk to developers". Uhm... no. At least not in this case. CDPR lied and hid the fact that the game is totally unplayable on PS4 (non pro) and Xbox...whatever (I can never remember Xbox idiotic names). Why should investors pay for that (unless they specifically asked for that, but I don't think they did, as it's illegal) ? The risks is about the game idea and implementation not being what the customers or the market wants/like and the product not being able to be sold for a good profit.
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  13.  @mruczyslaw50  Pretty sure he was sarcastic :)
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  14. I'll sound very disrespectful, but this kind of a review (I know this is a refresh, it doesn't matter this time) is ... not good for this type of a CPU. First thing: too much gaming benchmarks. It's a waste of time for everybody. Not even streamers should look for this CPU. So, gaming benchmarks for this kind of a CPU should be between none or at most 2 games, with several seconds of airtime. The other thing: the productivity benchmarks... are too few. This kind of CPU is rarely for one person and rendering jobs are not everything. This kind of CPU is mostly used in servers. Besides rendering, there's also databases, of many kinds, applications, web servers and above all... virtual machines. That photoshop score was kind of meh. But how does it do with 6 photoshop at once, each in a different virtual machine ? How about 7 ? Or 8 ? How does the threadripper or R9 3950 fare in this ? How many queries per second can it do ? Requests per second ? How much RAM can it have ? How well does it run a special algorithm ? Or another algorithm, but in 50 instances ? Or Docker container farms ? In this video, W-3175X won confortably the 7-Zip compression benchmark. How many other applications/workloads does it win in ? Probably not many, if any. But we don't know. And this video sheds way too little light. If you start to factor all the things said above, you start to realize that this kind of a review misses the point for this kind of a CPU. It spends too much time on benchmarks that are not relevant, misses a lot of benchmarks or workloads that are relevant, and I guess it also kind of speaks to the wrong audience. All in all I think this is just mostly a time waster. The folks at the big corporations that buy these CPUs don't decide based on this review. And those of us who look at this never buy something like this.
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  15.  @GamersNexus  This video was a very good dose of severe optimism. I loved it!
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  16. Totally! I would be interested to see a 9900K with 4 cores shut down and be compared vs 6700K to see the real difference between Skylake and Skylake+++. Btw, apparently, to Intel, the sky IS the limit LOL
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  17.  @alittlelooney5361  How can't you understand the hate ? It's been 11 months of having only X570 chipset capable of supporting Zen2 and Zen3, with everybody (very reasonably) believing that B450 chipset boards will support Zen 3 too, especially since B550 is never to be seen. If someone bought a Ryzen5 3600 two months ago, planning to upgrade to a Ryzen7 4700, with no need of PCI-E 4.0, tell me how could you know that you DO need X570 ? Or why would you spend the extra money on a X570, for 0 benefits ? AMD delayed B550 by one entire year, and they didn't told anything about Zen3 only working on 500 series chipsets. If they either a) announced last year that Zen 3 needs 5xx chipset or b) released B550 when Zen2 launched, then this wouldn't be such an issue now. But, as it stands, AMD just s****ed in the plans and decisions of a lot of their customers, including people who actually paid attention at what they are buying. AMD deserves most of the hate they're getting now.
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  18. Confirmed! Intel is a GN shill. They got money from Steve!
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  19. Can't wait for ASUS to release their new motherboard feature: Mandatory Overclocking Normalizing Kit for Enthusiastic Yanks.
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  20. I thought about it for a good time ago. But you have to realize that having a different OS will increase the testing time for GN by A LOT. I guess literally double the time for some scenarios. It's not just the testing alone, but the installation and maintaining the OS. And drivers on Linux can be quite a PITA. And I doubt they have the time. So, as nice as it would be, since Linux can perform SO WELL (especially when dealing with loading a lot of files and God-knows how many other scenarios), the reality is that it too expensive, effort-wise, to have them. Also, sadly, it's still not so broadly used, though I guess it's also because things like benchmarks aren't that easy to find.
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  21. LoL @ Java because they assume the end user and the developer are both idiots - you, sir, made my day :))
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  22.  @Twitch_Moderator  17-20% IPC gain seems too much. I wouldn't bet on it. What I heard was 10-15%. Which is still very good. If that's true, then that's enough to actually match Intel in gaming, while obliterating them in every other aspect. R7 4700 or R7 4800 would literally be equal or better than i9 10900K in all scenarios.
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  23.  @mukkeshmckenzie7386  It's hard to say now, but I don't think they got to more than 4 cores (finally) just to combat AMD. I think they genuinely just managed to make work ok then. 8600K was launched only 6 months after Ryzen 1000, which clearly means it wasn't something that they recently started. And I do think they would've released it without Ryzen too. Between 6th and 7th gen - literally 200 MHz more, a joke of an upgrade Between 7th and 8th gen - 2 more cores. Also a bit better clocks IIRC Between 8th and 9th gen - another 2 more cores. Also a bit better clocks IIRC and turbo boost improvements. IIRC it was here that Specter and Metldown had hardware mitigations, so it should be some IPC improvements over 6-7-8th gen when running in safe mode, to say so. Between 9th and 10th gen another 2 more cores, better thermal interface (made the die thinner or something like that). Really pushed the clocks to the maximum. More core and cache tuning options. They DO have A LOT of anti-consumer practices, to this day. Those should be the focus of criticism on them, not the 14nm part.
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  24. Seeing how much of a power hog they are in desktops, I'm a bit afraid. Coupled with their recent off-the-chart idiot mafia bullying and coupled some more with their bullshit drivers for Linux, I have all the reasons to go for an AMD graphic card on my next laptop. Hopefully it won't be garbage, but given how good RDNA 2 is, I think it will be fine.
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  25. The jokes about simply waiting for the next generation are starting to get true. I mean, by the looks of it, you can have a GPU at MSRP or something close to that (inflation & extra tarrifs might limit how much the price can be dropped for a current-gen GPU) probably at the end of the year, if not even later, that is one full year or more after they launched. It actually is worth to wait another year or less to get the next gen, or the now-current gen at reduced prices. Fortunately, there's no console launch anytime soon. that surely impacted the production capabilities for AMD.
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  26. Depends on the game. My GTX 1060 (laptop version) surely won't have any problems in Half-Life 2 :D
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  27. Even more insane was that he actually passed the scores without the thermal paste! He could've won even without that!
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  28.  @SimonVaIe  True. That's why I said it's difficult to say. Thing is, for HEDT, they had "Broadwell-E" with 6950X as their top-of-the line CPU, in 2016 (when Kaby Lake was on desktop), with 10 cores. They were just then developing these things, on the new 14nm node, which also had a bumpy start. From this, I'd say that they brought the mainstream 6 core about as early I'd you expect. Most likely they might've delayed them a bit if Ryzen wouldn've appeared.
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  29. On the Zen5 rumor, another serial leaker (which, while I don't always agree with what he says, his leaks are pretty solid) - the YT channel "Moore's Law is Dead" specifically said that it's NOT 40% and that everybody is wrong on that. To his sources, it's 16-24% IPC increase, and the clock speeds seem to be mostly similar. And I firmly believe him on this one. 40% increase is either a) very cherry picked, b) totally wrong or c) gigantic, almost unseen, gen-to-gen improvement. The last time that has happened is from Buldozer to Zen 1, which was also 4 years, not just 2. And it was from a rather bad architecture to begin with, while here the "previous gen" is already very good and advanced on all fronts. To put it shortly 40% my @$$
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  30. Well, unfortunately, some games are console exclusives :( So, you might have a console for them, not because you don't want to spend on a good PC. Hopefuly, indirectly, this will mean better PC ports :D
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  31.  @dio4296  If the joke uses a reference that some simply don't know about, it's not that bad to explain it. So... is this the case ? I didn't understand the joke either. Should a read/watch something so I can click ?
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  32. I know it's not hardware, but no mention of Blizzard the anonymous entity that forced GoG to delist Warcraft I and II ? And GoG pledging to still support unlisted games ? While offering a discount for a Warcraft 1 + 2 bundle and a mention to their offline installers. I'm very into game preservation (and right to ownership in general), so I'd wish this story was more widespread, to shame Blizzard and Microsoft for their anti-consumer practices.
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  33. @briliantlysplendid that's the that Khromno told - NVidia overproduced the 10 series in order to cope with miners. Now that they aren't actually buying them anymore, we're left with old & expensive cards. Well, at least in theory, I don't really have a clue of how much the miners actually impacted GPU stock and prices.
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  34. @MinecrafterPiano - Imbellis- Dude, that's 22% less, or 78% of the cost, not 78% less Edit: I posted a notification about an error and it was fixed :)
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  35. @FluXΦ TAA@1440p has better framerates, but it also looks worse. 4K DLSS (aka 1440p upsampled to 4K) is between 1440p TAA and 4K TAA in both image quality and performance. If it's closer to the 4K in image quality and closer to 1440p in performance then you can call this a win. I'm curious if 4K DLSS looks better than native 4K (no AA).
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  36. If the motherboard allows you, in two years time, you'll be able to upgrade to a R9 4900X or whatever it will be called, on the cheap. So even if 3700X might not be the top performer in everything, you should still have solid upgrade paths.
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  37. To be fair, products like this need to exist. The end goal, the "too much" version has to actually exist for people to know when to stop.
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  38. Can't wait for the next console from Microsoft: Twitter box series twitter.
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  39. If one of your fans spells your name wrong, you can say that it's not a quality fan :P
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  40. What's wrong with 32:9 ? Just curious.
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  41.  @FullNietzsche  Interesting. Theoretically speaking you should have two sources of some IPC improvements: from Broadwell to Skylake and from getting the Spectre and Meltdown mitigations in hardware. Not something huge, indeed. I'd estimate to be something like 20%. But, it's also comparing a flagship to an i5. It's still better in absolutely everything, at half the price and half the power consumption, right ?
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  42.  @davidereverberi5279  You didn't understood what I wrote. It's because Skylake (and before) doesn't have the hardware mitigations that Comet Lake has which makes it kind of an IPC increase. It's basically just much less of a penalty to the IPC on Comet Lake than it is on Sky Lake. Next, you have to add that on top of Sky Lake IPC improvement over Haswell. Here's a review from when 6700K was fresh: https://www.anandtech.com/show/9483/intel-skylake-review-6700k-6600k-ddr4-ddr3-ipc-6th-generation You can see there, near the bottom, that it says 5.7% IPC over Haswell on Sky Lake with DDR 3, and 6% IPC increase when Sky Lake was on DDR 4. That was quite low, buuut, that was with DDR 4 on 2133 MT/s, the lowest most basic DDR 4. Which was normal back then, as it was new. Now, with 3200-4400 MT/s being the norm, with nice timings, that should be easily at least another 5%. All three combined should add up to about 20%. That is, from Haswell to Comet Lake.
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  43. @ @RandoTark  That 53% more IPC is from FX to Ryzen ? Or from Ryzen 1 to Ryzen 2 ? If it's from FX to Ryzen, then that doesn't really count, since it's 4.5 years difference, and FX lineup was lagging behind. And unfortunately in GN's graphs, there are no 9th gen (if you can call it like that) 4c/8t intel CPUs, to see the difference from 2600K. In Passmark's CPU benchmark, the 9900K does have a 2900 single thread rating, which is quite amazing. What I am trying to say is that the technology is pretty much out of low hanging fruits. So, both intel and AMD will only offer small improvements from now on, at least on silicon based chips. I'm not denying that Intel's launches have produced smaller and smaller performance gains. The new uarch from intel might be the ever-delayed 10nm cannon?ice?whateverlake. Which is also taking them 4?5? years already.
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  44. DDR5 might actually bring some new performance, not just slightly more bandwidth. But I wouldn't rush to buy it the moment it arrives. As with all tech, it might take another full year until the great products are to be seen.
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  45. But, you know, maybe you do have a 2nd or 3rd gen intel CPU and you want to upgrade to a better processor which can keep up as much as possible, like 5-7 years. In this case, even though it's very expensive, a 9900K might be good, as it will the games/applications where it's 60% better than a 6700K will increase, and having only one upgrade in 6 years might actually be cheaper than 2 smaller upgrades at 3 years.
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  46. I have a question, if somebody knows, as I don't have the game. I know that there's a setting to control the crowd density (or something like that), effectively meaning how much people are around, and that it's on the gameplay settings. Theoretically this impacts CPU load, because of each person's AI. My question is: what was this setting at on these benchmarks ? Also, with the massive amount of people that suggest the SMT-bugfix, if that is confirmed to be true, I expect a followup video for this, but it would be good to wait for more fixes (possible even improvements or optimisations) to arrive before dedicating time for another full video. Cheers!
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  47. Could R7 3800XT be configured to run at the frequencies of 3700X, but have a lower voltage & power consumption, so you can keep it at 50 degrees Celsius, with the CPU fan running at a really quiet 30 dBa ?
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  48. Captain Pedantic here: in the Civ 6 benchmark the R9 5900X is 15% (not 13%) faster than i9 10900K, meaning that it completes turns in 13% less time. * flies out *
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  49. Completely agree. Given how many bad examples exist, I think this intel generation going with 10000 is, by far, the least offender. It is annoying, but it has certain key features: it's consistent and predictable with the established pattern. Also, it's (again) just an iteration. Absolutely no need to get a new name for this. They could work on the K, X, XE, F, S OMFG letters in the back though. Oh, and in their mobile lineup, those names are pretty bad. 10710G7 ? What ? (don't know if I remembered a correct name, but you get the idea). 10700K ? The i7 model following the 9700K ? Yeah, perfectly fine.
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  50. Pfff, that millenial... of all the platforms it can play games on, he had to choose a Macbook.
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