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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI don't think I even knew 4 nm was a thing yet.

My Zen 5 AMD CPU is built on a 4 nm process, but 3 nm is also a thing these days.

And the usual caveat applies: this number is a meaningless marketing denomination, somewhat related to transistor density (usually expressed in millions of transistors per square mm), but not only. These days, it mostly means going 3D instead of planar: FinFET, GAAFET, maybe even vertical nanowires, etc. It can also just reflect the "advancement": GAA is not necessarily denser than FinFET, but offers lower leakage & faster response times.

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Ah, some quality reporting on important topics. This is why I follow GoL 🥰

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I am very excited about it, but I don't really have time to play these days, so I'll pass for now (it would just make me sad to have it if I can't use it). Hopefully I'll have more free time in a few months. If so, I'll order one then. No rush, one more controller for you guys :)

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I'm not entirely sure which version it was released in, but I'm excited for the recent improvements they made for older GPUs. More specifically, I have a Hawaii GPU, and there have been a lot of improvements for hangs, faults (both would manifest as stutter, latency), and reintroduce SPARSE support behind a RADV_PERFTEST flag. This will allow me to play Halo Infinite with my R9 Fury again :)

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A bit off-topic, but @Liam, don't forget to add a "Steam Controller 2" entry to the PC info in the user CP ;)

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Nice, that game was an old favorite of mine. Time to revisit, I guess :)

Edit: and none of that uplay nonsense :)

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MIT license, for those who are wondering.

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Quoting: brokkrI have had some games, notably Hitman WoA and Shadows of Doubt, get killed by the memory manager after they had consumed all VRAM (8 Gb) and subsequently all RAM (16 Gb) on my old desktop. So far the only fix has been to make a large swap partition - and play less of those games and for shorter time spans (probably a good idea anyway) Curious to see if this might help.

That sounds like a memory leak in the games (or drivers), this shouldn't really help, though the gameplay may be smoother for a while. However, that issue sounds interesting for mesa devs to know about.

Besides a swap partition, you may consider swapping to compressed ram (zram).

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Quoting: wytrabbitWould this apply to AMD iGPUs too?

No, they do not have dedicated VRAM. iGPUs have lower memory bandwidth usually, but access to the whole system RAM. They don't go trough a relatively slow PCIe link to access the main memory, unlike desktop GPUs.

Here the improvement is really to help decide what app to keep in VRAM and what app to "swap out" to system memory, so it doesn't apply to systems without dedicated VRAM.

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Quoting: EhvisIt didn't help that my current monitor is g-sync and that switching colours meant I'd have to go Freesync and get a new monitor as well. Just didn't feel like researching that.

What monitor do you have? I do know of any monitor that supports G-Sync but not Freesync (or adaptative sync).

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