Yes you do, unfortunately. After that you don’t have to have an internet connection however. Since I am only streaming games from pc this arrangement works for me.

On my Oculus quest 2 I blocked all Facebook domains, it’s the best thing I’ve found so far. And I regret not doing it earlier, the most recent update that got pushed to it has a hideous UI on to if so the old bugs that remain unsolved…

From what I’ve seen they are leading in power consumption as well. Yes, 5090 is more power hungry than any AMD consumer GPU right now but it also comes with adequately higher performance.

By now there are several generations of 502’s, from what I’ve seen online the earlier ones used more durable switches. I’ve used Proteus spectrum myself for close to 8 years and all buttons still work fine. And if say it was used quite heavily, both for gaming and WHF. I’ve only replaced it now because it was ugly and the rubber on the sides is gone completely in some spots.

Afaik they use the same type of memory as phones do, variants of LPDDRx. “Unified” does not denote a different type, it means that both the GPU and the CPU can use the same memory (similarly to integrated GPUs using the main system ram).

Without the system you’d have zero chance to buy one, all would be gone the millisecond it’s up. All bought by bots watching the page constantly.

Nah, it’s some kind of a mobile GPU.

How is that card even used if it doesn’t have a number? Can you use it only physically with payment terminals? I have a debit card and it can be used just like credit card but without the loans part obviously.

Afaik never (or at least not with the current versions) because HBM has to be directly connected to the GPU or CPU die via an interposer, it’s not something you can slot into a mainboard.

Tbh the issue is price, newer cards are both quite a bit more powerful and power efficient. Went from 1080 to 3070 ti and now 5070 ti and each upgrade was a significant step up. Going straight from 1080 to my current card would be an insane jump. BTW this is based on performance I’ve seen in games, not benchmarks.