Recent content by Kalessian

There have been RX 6600 non-XTs in stock regularly now for a couple of weeks at newegg for ~$450. Once that comes down to $300 I think I will buy one for my HTPC, which is still stuck with a 1060 3GB. I had a chance to grab a 1660 super for ~$200 before all this started but decided to hold out...

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16895/a-sneak-peek-at-intels-xe-hpg-gpu-architecture I unfortunately saw no mention of concrete plans to move the design to Intel fabs for Xe-HPG, but surely it's in the works if we know Xe-HPC is already taped out or in early production on Intel 7nm. Like many...

Does that take into account yields? Are intel's yields comparable?

Thank you ChadD and Lakados. What is the total fab capacity of Intel 7nm vs TSMC 5nm? How do they compare today? Is intel at, say, 5% of TSMC? I'm a bit out of the loop.

I'm a bit confused, is this consumer Arc GPU (Xe-HPG DG2 codenamed Alchemist) being made on TSMC 7nm, 5nm, or 3nm? Or do we not know? I found conflicting reports but some were a year old.

Any way to confirm the specific bent pins are for addressing memory?

Anyone ever heard of corruption from TFTCentral or RTings? I like those sites a lot and hope they are still impartial.

Hey SvenBent I assume the values you list are all without ray tracing? I'm not interested in ray tracing until another generation or 2 but worth noting for people that are.

I am not satisfied by the info in the OP. Has someone more reputable commented on this malware? As someone else wrote: My read of the netlab site seems to point to this malware can not escalate privileges. It is limited by whatever the user that installed it can do. The real question is how...

The last time I bought a high end new CPU was Core2Duo launch. Since then, I refused to pay more than $150 for any single part so I buy CPU and GPU after a year delay on a deal or used. This strategy has always worked great saving me money until this past year. I can't even upgrade my HTPC from...

Debated by researchers because sunlight is still broadband and it's tough to get a reflection scheme that can target more than a narrow wavelength band and maintain at or above Lambertian effectiveness. See here for more on the topic: https://doi.org/10.1021/nn300287j If you want my opinion I...

The solar cell is much much wider than is it thick (15 cm vs 0.015 cm), so if you can scatter the light sideways as much as possible it will get 'trapped'. Models (some of them are ray tracing models :) guess I need work to pay for my next RTX) show that a perfectly diffuse reflector...

This topic used to be my job so I'll try not to go overboard here but they do. In the research world they're a bit ahead of industry in terms of design but I believe most crystalline solar cell panels you buy will use a textured mirror made from a two-layer stack of first conductive oxide like...

One interesting use of white paint is as a diffuse reflector for the backside of a solar cell. It's a cheap way to reflect light that made it through the cell back up into the cell for another chance to be used.

I read Amazon is buying up all the closing down shopping malls for warehouses. They are getting big buildings in the city with huge parking lots and loading docks.