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Owners of this handheld who don't like the idea of detaching its battery can simply never do it, though. It's how we used to do it for decades until the iphone normalized that form of planned obsolescence.

Strix Halo's iGPU has a little over half the RAM bandwidth of the 5060 which it then needs to share with a whopping 16 cores Zen5. I don't know how much L2 the iGPU in N1X but it should be a similar 32MB.

N1X being interesting or not will almost entirely depend on how well it can run win32 apps. That's what pretty much what's been killing all Windows+ARM initiatives for over a dozen years (starting with Surface RT).

If I understood correctly, CDNA is no more and the next compute platform will be RDNAx.

Again: that's not the handheld's motherboard. It's from a miniPC they made. There's little reason to believe they'd use the exact same motherboard for the handheld.

I think that's the motherboard they designed for their miniPC. I doubt they're releasing a handheld with RJ45 connectors, or 4x M.2. It's still a pretty awesome board, though.

And another one: Strix Halo is coming to handhelds, people. Battery is detachable . People have been asking for over a decade to get detachable batteries again in their consumer electronics for better upgradeability and serviceability, and avoid planned obsolescence.

The enormous difference in transistor count between Power10 and Power11 is really odd. I wonder if it's mostly due to IBM deciding to count their transistors in a different way. I didn't know IBM was doing 7nm. Is it EUV? These aren't coming from Globalfoundries, right?

If Nvidia has a significant architectural advantage over Intel in GPUs, it's not unthinkable that Intel would need to pay more to get their chips made on TSMC for some added competitiveness from the process, while Nvidia pays less for Intel's process.

Did you tell nvidia they did a mistake in engaging with Samsung to make the tiny ass Pascal GPUs while the bigger ones were on TSMC?

AT0 XL is a gaming card. If we're to believe the list that first named the AT0 codename, then we should believe what the list says.

It's pretty obvious that me and everyone else are talking about laptop dGPUs when making comparisons with Strix Halo, because the latter is a laptop chip. Laptop GPUs are real GPUs. I didn't miss, but I don't get how a niche (oculink users) within a niche (eGPU users) should matter when...

Well I OTOH have to make that investment before that, so unless Threadripper non-Pro brings some unforeseen surprises on gaming performance I'll probably just go with a 9950X3D and a X870E right now.

The AT0 XL entry in the table with 36GB GDDR7 clearly says "Desktop Gaming". And I'm guessing the AT0 XT-R 72GB part with 450W TBP might be a prosumer part as well. With 72GB they can easily sell it for >$3k as a gaming+AI solution unless there are unforeseen surprises along the next 2 years...

The roadmaps changed last week? I'm not interested in "gotchas". I'm more interested in knowing what led to this change (assuming there was a change from late '24 roadmaps).