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Hello, friends. This is already the 1067th episode of interesting news from the world of computers, where we will learn about new NVIDIA achievements in upscaling and frame generation and look at what is happening with memory. I want to start with the fact that NVIDIA has sped up DLSS 5 by two times and reduced memory requirements. As the "greens" report, neural rendering speed has doubled, and VRAM consumption in 4K has decreased by 20%. For example, in NBA 2K27, the FPS counter on an RTX 5080 increased by approximately 1.4 times. The updated DLSS 5 will be released tomorrow, October 16th, for RTX 5000 series cards, RTX laptops, and GeForce Now. Among other things, DLSS 5 will reach Hogwarts Legacy on November 5th. The Hogwarts developers have refined the effects to preserve the game's original visual style. And, judging by the demonstration, the changes to character appearances have become less radical. NVIDIA also managed to accelerate frame generation by up to 35% in a new mode called Preset C. In this mode, Frame Generation uses a lightweight AI model and accelerates frame processing by up to 35% relative to presets A and B. You can already try this novelty in the latest NVIDIA App beta, and this could potentially allow you to get more FPS without buying a new graphics card. Enthusiasts, in turn, have already ported the new generator to RTX 3000 and 4000 series cards. The Universal MFG Unlocker utility version 1.5.0 allows you to activate MFG Preset C with up to six-frame generation on RTX 30 and 40 series cards. The legendary gaming RTX 3060 received up to a 30% boost in AI tasks. An update to the free Strata engine accelerated the launch of the large language model Qwen 3.8 Flash Next on standard home PCs. The RTX 3060 with 12 GB of memory benefited the most. It saw an increase of 15 to 30%. As for graphics card prices, a new round of NVIDIA price hikes has officially begun globally. And in Japan, graphics cards are already 41% more expensive than in the USA. Comparing every model would, of course, take a long time, but for example, the 5060 Ti 8GB is priced at $775 in Japan, while in the US, this model can be bought for $589. The saddest thing is that every price hike in the graphics card market usually starts in Asian markets, so these prices will now spread across the globe. Meanwhile, Tom's Hardware notes the fact that in the US market, 32GB of DDR5 6000 costs more than an entire RTX 5060 graphics card. We are informed that you can currently buy 32 gigs in the US for $450, while an RTX 5060 can be found for $430. The RTX 5080 Super with 24GB of memory will be released in early 2027. As reported by BenchLife, the launch of the new graphics card is scheduled for the first quarter of 2027, and the new model will completely replace the current 5080 with 16GB. However, it is worth noting that NVIDIA's partners have only received verbal notifications about the preparation of the card without any precise specifications. DLSS 5 can now even be run on videos and photos. An enthusiast has created Visual Enhancer, a utility that allows applying DLSS 5 upscaling and frame generation to photos, videos, and streams. It requires Windows 11 and an RTX 4000 or 5000 series graphics card to work. DLSS has been launched on old Radeons without tensor cores. The experimental Helix SR 19.0 version allows using the original DLSS 3.7 neural network on Vega 56/64, Radeon 7, and integrated Vega graphics. The developer claims a 15% acceleration in computation thanks to running via DirectX 12. However, many users have started reporting flickering after this update. So, it turns out we now have integrated graphics with DLSS 3.7. New RDNA 5 graphics cards won't arrive before the summer of 2027. As insider Kepler reports, AMD might introduce gaming GPUs in the second half of 2027, with the earliest possible date being the Computex trade show in June. The insider also claims that next-generation gaming GPUs will not receive 4 GB GDDR7 memory chips. This means we will still have configurations using 2 GB and 3 GB modules. Samsung will allocate up to 80% of its memory to AI companies next year. As the Korea Economic Daily reports, Samsung's long-term contracts involve supplying nearly 80% of memory chips produced in 2027 to NVIDIA, Google, and Microsoft. This concerns both HBM and standard DRAM. Whether this forecast applies to NAND is not yet clear. Analysts state that DDR4 is currently getting more expensive than DDR5. For example, over 3 months, DDR4 contract prices rose by 24%, while DDR5 rose by only 20%. Apparently, this is happening due to a reduction in DDR4 production, making upgrades for older PCs increasingly expensive. The head of Intel announced that the component shortage will last another 2 or 3 years. Pat Gelsinger predicts that the shortage of chips and hardware for AI will last at least another 2 or 3 years, as AI continues to divert resources from the consumer market. And one shouldn't expect a quick drop in component prices. Standard Nova Lake processors will not bring any performance boost. According to Jaykihn, gaming performance of the new Intel generation without additional BLLC cache will be close to current Arrow Lake processors. A significant increase is expected only from versions with additional cache, and the first such models are preliminarily estimated to arrive in the first quarter of 2027. PlayStation 5 has officially moved on to tinkering with artificial intelligence instead of games. An enthusiast has refined the PS5 LLM project, allowing neural networks to run directly on the PlayStation 5 chip. The application has access to 11.4 GB of the console's total memory. The Qwen 2.5 model with 27 billion parameters yields about 20 tokens per second, while Llama 3.2 with 3 billion parameters reaches up to 124 tokens. In reality, one might assume that everyone will now rush to buy up hacked PlayStation 5 consoles and turn them toward artificial intelligence. But objectively, this is a very expensive endeavor, and it's easier to buy an RTX 3060 on the secondary market. Xbox Cloud Gaming and Windows games have been launched on PlayStation 5. The PS5 Box Cloud Gaming app allows running the Xbox cloud service with DualSense controller support. Meanwhile, the PS5 ProON project has already learned how to run Half-Life 2, GTA 4, and Counter-Strike 1.6. Also, on a hacked console, it is now possible to run an entire operating system, namely Windows 7. The operating system works as a separate application, but the project is still in its early stages and combines native implementation with a virtual machine. The long-awaited Metro Awakening will be released without Russian localization or Russian voice acting. The developers also released the official system requirements, but the recommended 64 GB of DDR5 RAM has already been called an error and they promised to fix it soon. China has moved closer to creating its own EUV lithography machines. The Chinese startup LHo Flint has presented a prototype of an EUV radiation source with up to 90% local components. This setup generates over 15 watts of radiation and is intended for producing chips with a 7nm process or finer. Admittedly, mass production is still 4 or even 5 years away, as the power needs to be increased tenfold. GTA 6 may be released on PC just a few months after consoles. As reported by GamesBeat, citing four anonymous sources, the PC version of GTA 6 could arrive as early as the first quarter of 2027. If the information is confirmed, we will only have to wait a few months for the port, which is much less than it was for GTA 5. Also, let me remind you that the enthusiasts who are developing PlayStation 5 emulators for PC promised to run GTA 6 shortly after its release. Perhaps they will succeed as well. And on that note, the video comes to an end, so don't forget to support it with a like and be sure to subscribe to my channel. See you soon, friends.
