 If you're listening to this on YouTube, this episode is one week delayed. Up to date, Tech Show But Friendly episodes are on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Google Podcasts. Welcome to Tech Show But Friendly, hardware sugars podcast, and this is your host Anton. And just like last week, there isn't a lot of news this week, although the lack of the volume of news is made up for by the severity or the impact of the news as we'll be talking about NVIDIA's latest 4060 card. Now, everybody whines and complains and bitches about NVIDIA, but a lot of our customers, a lot of you guys out there still end up buying NVIDIA. AMD's market share for GPUs is very, very low. So when a new card comes out, especially a new card that's supposed to be the latest mid-range version of NVIDIA, everybody takes notice. But before that, we do have to talk about NVIDIA's competition AMD. We talked about last week how people online have noticed that AMD exclusive titles such as Jedi Knight Survivor usually don't have NVIDIA's DLSS enabled. So for games that AMD has paid for or has put down sponsorship the upscaling technology of NVIDIA, DLSS, is noticeably absent. This is in contrast to NVIDIA's marketing efforts where yes it will tout a game or two, but usually those games or always those games will have AMD's FSR technology as well. As we noted last week, AMD is playing a bit dirty where if it says that a game is AMD exclusive, it literally is. Like they paid for the game or they paid to slap their name on the game and that automatically excludes NVIDIA's technologies and NVIDIA doesn't do that vice versa. It apparently does not require that AMD's upscaling technology be removed. It is not a question of difficulty of enabling this technology. Apparently it's quite straightforward to enable both DLSS and FSR. So when developers say that well you know we just didn't have time and we wanted to focus on FSR because it provides better value for the consumer blah blah blah etc etc that's usually only a smokescreen because those developers are the ones that are paid literally endorsed or sponsored by AMD. And we talked about this last week it came back again in the news this week because it came out that Starfield Bethesda's very much anticipated RPG space RPG is an AMD exclusive in the sense that and that means NVIDIA's DLSS technology will not be natively enabled. You can expect modders to do that for you but all of those are unofficial patches unofficial workarounds. The developers themselves will not be enabling DLSS. So NVIDIA doesn't make it hard to enable their competitors technology in fact they have made it super easy to enable all sorts of upscaling technology theirs and competitors but AMD is taking a different track a more hardheaded track a less consumer friendly track because I mean admittedly the market share belongs to NVIDIA very few people relatively use AMD cards and that might be an argument for saying that well AMD needs to have all of the advantages it can get but it still feels and it is very anti consumer AMD wants to sell its GPUs consumer be damned. Still with GPUs talking about NVIDIA's recently released 4060 just this week coming out at an srp of $300 but that's in the states don't get excited as we talked about in this month's price watch episode our monthly youtube episode where we analyze local Philippine prices and let you know kung mahal pa ba siya may mga price drops pa ba we are starting to see 3060s below 20,000 and that's like a big deal man that is like wow that is cheap but below 20,000 is definitely less than 300 dollars so we're paying a big premium purchasing pc parts here in the Philippines particularly graphics cards but everybody is excited for the 4060 because it is a reasonably priced for once GPU from NVIDIA squarely targeted at the mid-market mid-range consumer 300 dollars is the 4060 any good well i think everybody agrees that it is better markedly like their significant performance gain over the card it's replacing the 3060 so no question better than the 3060 just slightly below the 3060 ti in most benchmarks and you have to put this into perspective it's a cheaper card it's a more advanced card but just because it came out later doesn't mean it's necessarily better than a lot of the other 30 series cards out there yun na usually the 3060 ti beats it depending on the pricing involved and we have seen some good prices for the 3060 ti as well you most probably want to go in a lot of circumstances with the 3060 ti just in terms of performance compared to the card is replacing the 3060 it is a lot more efficient it does score significantly faster but even on the amd end the 6700 xt which was a generation ago is roughly the same price as a 4060 it is a bunch more memory and it will probably outperform some games compared to the 4060 so there are a lot of options at least performance wise that are better than the 4060 and neck and neck with it in terms of price the newly released amd 7600 has apparently dropped down from srp of 300 down to 250 and this was just you know it just just released very recently and already the price drops are starting to hit it the 3060 ti is a very popular card hitting that sweet spot for it's still expensive but the performance is good and i can afford it actually what a lot of reviewers don't mention in which we sort of are more sensitive to because we are a shop we do sell pc components is that a lot of people don't really look at the reviews what they look at is the price and when they look at the gpu and they see that okay afford koto kayo koto kuhunin ko siya even if the value proposition even if the performance for the price isn't necessarily that great the 4060 ti which was universally panned gamers nexus called it one of the worst gpu launches in recent memory sobrang pangit ng price to performance niya and yet based on sales what we've seen the 4060 ti is actually quite popular because it is an affordable card tapos let alone patong 4060 a lot of people don't want to have to think anymore and to compare okay may 4060 pero kukumbara ko pa sa previous generation amd na okay rin naman daw yung 6700 x t mas lalo pa kaya okay yung 6750 x t tapos dun sa previous generation ang invidia ko compare ko ba ba yan dun sa 3060 ti so there's a lot of like i don't want to think anymore even if i look at the reviews they're very hard to follow for somebody who's just jumping into the pc space for the first time all they want is the newest generation at a good price and definitely the 4060 looks good on paper you'll see the headlines namas mabili siya at kaisa sa 3060 na penilitan niya okay naman yung presyo maraming kakagat dun and as enthusiast it's very easy to get caught up in the oh i watch linos oh i watch gamers nexus and oh i read tom's hardware and all of those things yes it's very good to be informed but the market at large will just see that the 4060 is much more efficient and much more powerful than the carditor places the 3060 at a very decent price period full stop if i'm in the market i'm gonna get it so still a slow news week so we're gonna end with just one last story from gaming this time party dota is moving away from the battle past model the developers admitted that you know not a lot of people really buy them and we want to devote more of our time to improvements that everybody can enjoy they specifically pointed to the new frontier spatch which was free for everybody but introduced a ton of changes a ton of improvements and the feedback from that was very positive i'm sure helped by the fact that you didn't need to pay for it and so the developers want to focus on more content like that free content that they had more time to develop that makes more of an impact with the average gamer now the cosmetics the pay to look pretty mechanic of dota 2 and many other games won't be going away but the insistence the hype the focusing on the battle pass at least for this season will not be there because the developers are making a conscious effort a conscious decision to develop content that is not immediately monetizable but is fun is useful it's practical it makes it better for old players and new players alike so there i say it valve is actually not looking to skim more money off you but it's actually looking to extend the value of a free game i mean you know dota 2 is one of the oldest names in the moba scene and you don't need all of those cosmetics to enjoy it and you won't need to pay extra to enjoy the added mods added features added ui that the developers are pouring into it all right super short guys it's summer in the western countries so i think not much news good for me i don't necessarily want these podcasts to go longer and i do cherry pick the news that i find to be the most interesting have a good day whenever you're watching this and please tune in again next week for the next episode of tech show but friendly example rigs we clean computers kasama na rin yung excellent table management namin and cpu cooler repasting sa cleaning we also clean and 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