Its impact on the game's framerate will be minimal, as the API mainly accelerates game loading times, not gameplay itself. This will directly impact game loading times, as asset decompression no longer involves the CPU. These assets are then decompressed by the GPU using compute shaders, and the decompressed assets remain in the video memory.
With this feature, your GPU can not only directly fetch game assets from the storage device (an SSD that uses either NVMe or AHCI protocols), but also pull them in their natively-stored compressed state.
With the lukewarm response from game developers to DirectStorage 1.0 for PC, Microsoft has finally updated the API, introducing the feature with DirectStorage 1.1. This release, however, lacked a killer feature that's available to consoles-asset decompression. You can check out more pictures below and see the annotations for yourself.īack in March 2022, Microsoft formally debuted the DirectStorage 1.0 API that enables direct interactions between a GPU and a storage device thereby reducing the processing load of the storage stack on the CPU and main memory. This model features a pretty good selection of I/O for a server CPU, as there are five PCIe 4.0 x16 (4x4) interfaces, with three supporting CCIX 1.0. Besides the core clusters, we see that a slum of cache connects everything, with six 72-bit DDR4-3200 PHYs and memory controllers surrounding everything. It also uses a home-grown RISC-V core for management and controlling secure boot sequences.īelow, you can see the die shots taken by Fritzchens Fritz and annotated details by Twitter user Locuza that marked the entire SoC. With a TDP of 120 Watts, the design seems efficient, and the Russian company promises performance comparable to Intel Skylake Xeons or Zen1-based AMD EPYC processors. Manufactured on TSMC's 16 nm process, the Baikal-S BE-S1000 design features 48 Arm Cortex-A75 cores running at a 2.0 GHz base and a 2.5 GHz boost frequency. Today, thanks to the famous chip photographer Fritzchens Fritz, we have the first die shows that show us exactly how Baikal-S SoC is structured internally and what it is made up of. In December of 2021, we covered the appearance of Russia's home-grown Baikal-S processor, which has 48 cores based on Arm Cortex-A75 cores.
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This price point makes it a fair bit more attractive, even taking potential driver related issues and hardware limitations into account. Local shops are offering the card on sale for US$372 to as little as US$313 (NT$9990), which is only US$13 more than Intel's own Arc A750 cards retail for in Taiwan. The port configuration consists of three DP 2.0 ports and one HDMI 2.1 port. The card measures 267 x 117.75 mm and has as we've also seen, a pair of 8-pin power connectors. We're not sure how there's a version 2.0 when this is Acer's first retail graphics card. The blower fan is referred to as Aeroblade 3D and the regular 92 mm fan as Frostblade 2.0. As seen in the launch announcement pictures, the card has a rather unusual fan design and Acer has even come up with some marketing names for the setup. The latter also increases the TDP from 250 to 280 Watts. The BiFrost comes with 16 GB of GDDR6 memory and an overclocking option that boosts the GPU speed from 2,200 MHz to 2,400 MHz. The RTX 4080 16 GB, however, is on track for a November 16 availability date, with a baseline price of $1,200.Īcer has launched its Predator BiFrost Arc A770 graphics card in Taiwan and the official pricing appears to be NT$12,900 or US$404, local shops are already selling the card for far less. The company will likely re-brand it as a successor to the RTX 3070 Ti, although then it will have a hard time justifying its $900 price-tag. With criticism spanning not just social media but also bad press, NVIDIA decided to pull the plug on the RTX 4080 12 GB. This had the potential to confuse buyers, especially given the $900 price. While the 16 GB model is based on the larger "AD103" silicon, has 9,728 CUDA cores, and a 256-bit wide GDDR6X memory bus the RTX 4080 12 GB is based on the smaller "AD104" silicon, has just 7,680 CUDA cores (21% fewer CUDA cores) and a meager 192-bit wide GDDR6X memory bus. The RTX 4080 12 GB and RTX 4080 16 GB didn't even share the same silicon. Memory size notwithstanding, the RTX 4080 12 GB is a vastly different graphics card from the RTX 4080 16 GB. With the RTX 40-series "Ada," NVIDIA debuted three SKUs-the already launched RTX 4090 which is in stores right now the RTX 4080 16 GB, and the RTX 4080 12 GB. The naming of the RTX 4080 12 GB was cause for much controversy. The company will relaunch the card under a different name, though it didn't announce the replacement name just yet. NVIDIA has decided to cancel the November 2022 launch of the GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB.