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jazir5 t1_j0fm82l wrote

Reply to comment by Hakairoku in Valve answers our burning Steam Deck questions — including a possible Steam Controller 2 by retroanduwu24

And that's the best way for a company as big as valve to do it. Take all of their failures which had a solid foundation at their core, roll up all of the fixes into one ultimate product like the Deck that sells well. Too many companies have a failure and just abandon the idea entirely. Valve uses their failures as learning experiences

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StarGaurdianBard t1_j0f5x2f wrote

Reply to comment by cunningmunki in Valve answers our burning Steam Deck questions — including a possible Steam Controller 2 by retroanduwu24

They sold it for $5 years before the steam deck released. It was basically its normal price too considering they made it $5 during every sale possible.

Don't get me wrong, I loved them and own a couple even still, but it's a bit disingenuous to claim it was to get rid of stock before the Steam Deck' release when it was discontinued 3 years before the Steam Deck and started going on sale for $5 a whole ass 6 years before the steam deck lol

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swisstraeng t1_j0ei32s wrote

Reply to comment by orincoro in Japan to Manufacture 2nm Chips With a Little Help From IBM by Avieshek

Surprisingly not much. If we only look at industry grade hardware. Consumers? Yeah, a lot is wasted.

All server and industrial stuff is actually not too bad. For example, the chip used in the RTX 4090 is also used in a Quadro card.

It is the AD102 chip. Used in the RTX 6000 Ada gpu, which has only 300W TDP compared to the RTX 4090 that has 450W and is pushed to 600W sometimes. Or worse, 800W in the RTX 4090ti.

We're talking about the same chip and a 300W versus 800W difference.

Anyone using a rtx 4090ti is wasting 500W into a bit of extra computing power.

But hey, kwh costs about 0.25euros in the EU depending where you live. This means, you pay 1 euro every 8h of use for a rtx4090ti that could be saved by downclocking the card.

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