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That is some acrobatic gatekeeping of a GPU that is similar to the PS5 in terms of performance.
The top model should be far more powerful than a PS5.
Yeah no, you will not be gaming any modern 3D game on that. A game console also cant be compared to a desktop machine like this properly in terms of software optimization.
lol, lmao
So its just a standard rasterization gpu with some extra AI label slapped on it then? Because then buying this is even dumber than i thought. Might aswell just buy a standard gpu for half the money with double the performance.
Mate, I can't see the goalposts anymore you've moved them so far.
I admit i didnt even look at the specs of that thing, because i have trained myself to see anything with an AI label on it as worthless scams. So yeah i guess you can game on it, but its the worst value gaming device i have ever seen. So advising people against buying it is still the right thing to do.
I wouldn't advise gamers to buy one in general, but there's absolutely a market for them. See https://rog.asus.com/desktops/mini-pc/rog-nuc/ and the broader SFFPC subculture for evidence of that.
No. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_processing_unit
Does Baldur's Gate III count as a "modern 3D game" to you? Because that runs at perfectly acceptable frame rates on my Lenovo Legion Go, whose Z1 Extreme is definitely less powerful than this.