Broken Silicon 76: RX 6800 Ray Tracing, RTX 3060 Ti, PS5 Silent Hills & MGS Exclusives, Apple M1 (Patreon)

In this episode Tom finally divulges what unannounced PS5 exclusives he knows are coming soon. Additionally, there’s plenty of AMD Big Navi, Nvidia Ampere, Apple M1, and Intel Alder Lake talk.

0:00 Intro Banter – Scalpers, drama, and Thanksgiving

5:03 Corrections & Omissions

12:28 RX 6800XT & 6800 Review Discussion, RDNA 2 Ray Tracing Performance

27:00 Is the 6800 good value versus the RTX 3070 & RX 6800XT?

34:55 Availability Discussion

40:17 Nvidia Selling cards directly to miners, AIB Price Fixing

58:13 RTX 3060 Ti & 3070 Ti

1:12:53 Can Nvidia bring a version of Smart Access Memory (SAM) to Intel soon?

1:22:05 Alder Lake “P” & Intel Hybrid Threading

1:26:22 PlayStation 5 & XBOX Series X Launch Discussion

1:38:55 Scalpers are entirely out of control

1:46:09 MLID Confirms new PlayStation 5 Exclusives – Silent Hills & MGS Remake

2:03:00 Apple M1 Chip is Impressive

2:18:25 Is how we benchmark outdated?

https://www.techspot.com/review/2146-amd-radeon-6800/

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-radeon-rx-6800/38.html

https://www.techspot.com/review/2144-amd-radeon-6800-xt/

https://www.techspot.com/review/2146-amd-radeon-6800/

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-radeon-rx-6800/

https://youtu.be/IJHnaxZdeEk

https://news.bitcoin.com/nvidia-posts-record-q3-earnings-sales-of-gpus-to-crypto-miners-reach-175-million/

https://youtu.be/_SAQmYS5qyk

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-3070.c3674

https://www.pcgamer.com/amd-smart-access-memory-nvidia-version/

https://twitter.com/mooreslawisdead/status/1330670624600154113

https://www.coelacanth-dream.com/posts/2020/08/04/intel-adl-core-config/

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-confirms-alder-lake-s-to-require-lga1700-socket

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-tested

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/apple/mx/m1

NXG Broken Silicon Episode on PS5 & XSX Launch: https://youtu.be/LYzD-1EbI-I

Crysis PS5 vs PC CPU Benchmark: https://youtu.be/xQKLWWpy0Tc?t=725

https://twitter.com/mooreslawisdead/status/1328554422205558784

https://twitter.com/mooreslawisdead/status/1329633063891038208

https://twitter.com/mooreslawisdead/status/1329634942914080768

https://www.pcmag.com/news/should-you-skip-the-apple-m1-chip

https://screenrant-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/screenrant.com/ps5-online-sales-bots-scalpers-resellers/amp/?amp_js_v=0.1

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-tested