AMD Just Dropped The WORST News EVER!

NVIDIA's new fix made your GPU slower. AMD just dropped the worst news ever.

Sony is done with PC, and NVIDIA is releasing what? Welcome everyone

to Gamer Melt. Nvidia has even more problems with their new driver, made to fix the recall driver. In a recent video, I discussed a major issue with Nvidia's newest driver at the time. Specifically, users were reporting that some of their GPU's fans would stop working, even while gaming. Obviously, that's really

bad for the GPU. So much so that Nvidia took it down and suggested everyone roll back to their previous driver, that they were working on a fix. Well, that

fix is officially here. with their new 595.71 driver release.

And it has other problems. Don't get me wrong. The main issue has been fixed, so you don't have yet another reason to worry about melting your GPU. There was

also a major performance issue with Resident Evil Requiem, but a new over-the-air update went out that fixed that as well. Unfortunately, there's still another issue with reports of a voltage drop from previous drivers. Of course, just about every driver comes with a small number of users having issues, and that's completely normal. With how many system variations there

are, you're always going to have small problems from a minority of users. But this

voltage issue has now been reported in multiple places, with a new video out that shows it happening. As you can see, when he does a decent overclock, his GPU is clearly locked to below 1 volt, and this keeps the frequency under 3 gigahertz, while before he could get over 1 volt and over 3 gigahertz. WCCF techs saw

something similar when they tested this. What's wild is that they actually got lower voltages when overclocking than at default settings, though the voltage at stock was still lower than it was in the previous driver. Meaning this doesn't just affect manually overclocked cards, though they They will of course be the ones primarily affected by this change because without higher voltage, you can't push the clocks nearly as far. And I will say that

even at stock, WCCF Tech was still using a factory overclocked cord. To interject here really quickly, while I was editing this video, NVIDIA released a hot fix for the voltage issue caused by... the fix. So I'll have that linked below. Hopefully it doesn't break anything else, but we shall see. Regardless, it's clear that NVIDIA has got to

put more resources into their drivers. Maybe stop focusing 24-7 on AI?

AMD just gave us some of the worst news ever, and it comes directly from AMD's CEO, Lisa Su. While talking at this year's Morgan Stanley conference, she said, quote, I mean, the CPU portion of the business has actually far exceeded my expectations in terms of demand. And I was pretty bullish to begin with. She's then asked

about shortages where she specifically mentions supply tightness. And this is shortly after a story I covered claiming that both Intel and AMD had warned customers in China about delays. As for why, it obviously has to do with AI, but specifically a huge reason for this is the switch from training to inference, which is essentially

where AI uses the data it was trained on to do things. And this isn't nearly as reliant on GPUs. So as more and more companies start moving over to inference-based compute, you're gonna see this demand grow. And that, of course, means one thing.

Higher, prices. Now, don't get me wrong, data centers are buying up server CPUs, not consumer parts, but guess what supply line AMD will likely pull from to get more supply, especially with server CPUs selling for so much more. Basically, we started with memory prices going way up, then GPU prices began to follow with storage prices

moving up, and now we could soon see CPU prices start rising as well. And

if you want to stay up to date on other component price increases, make sure you subscribe It's a gamer meld. For a little while now, Sony has been following Microsoft's lead by releasing PlayStation-exclusive titles on PC. I'm talking The Last of Us, God of War, Spider-Man. It's definitely been great for PC gamers, but it looks

like the company is now done with that strategy, as Bloomberg just reported that Sony has scrapped plans to bring the Ghost of Yotai and the company's upcoming Saros game to PC, along with other games that they've been internally developing, meaning Sony is making a clear move away from releasing their titles on PC. And here's the thing, this

isn't the first time anyone's said that Sony is doing this. As for why, I'd argue that there are a few possible reasons. First, according to Bloomberg, they point to poor sales of recent titles, it being damaging to the brand, and the rumors that claim the next-gen Xbox could be compatible with PC games. According to one post from

the former president of Blizzard Entertainment, a big reason is actually Valve, that their new Steam machine will be a serious competitor to PlayStation because it's obviously made to be more of a living room console, and that likely is a big reason. But also

a potential big one, I think, and it was mentioned here, is that they're looking to Microsoft. If you saw my recent video on it, you know that Xbox is

to Microsoft. If you saw my recent video on it, you know that Xbox is not doing so good. Besides declining sales, the company just replaced Phil Spencer. So, given

Microsoft is likely a big reason Sony did this to begin with, it's clear that it didn't help them. So, why would Sony do it? At the end of the day, this does suck for PC gamers, but it's not at all surprising.

Apparently, NVIDIA is actually releasing faster GPUs, but they aren't at all what you were expecting. This new leak comes from the well-known leaker MegaSizeGPU, who first claimed that

expecting. This new leak comes from the well-known leaker MegaSizeGPU, who first claimed that NVIDIA is releasing an RTX 5050 with 9GB of GDDR7 across a 96-bit bus. This is a really weird one. Because it would mean that NVIDIA is taking their cheapest GPU and using the new 3GB modules for it, going from

GDDR6 to GDDR7, but then dropping the bus size. Now, I'm only guessing here, but I bet NVIDIA found that it was cheaper to shrink the bus width and just use the faster GDDR7 with three 3GB modules instead of four 2GB GDDR6. And even with the smaller width, if they use the same speed GDDR7, it

GDDR6. And even with the smaller width, if they use the same speed GDDR7, it does still get a slight boost in bandwidth, not to mention having one more gigabyte of memory. So ultimately, this is an upgrade over the regular 5050, but it's just

of memory. So ultimately, this is an upgrade over the regular 5050, but it's just a really weird one. I have no clue what they're going to call it, but the weird news doesn't stop there. Because also according to Megasize GPU, NVIDIA is apparently releasing an RTX 5060 built from their GB205. Remember that the GB205

is the GPU that's inside NVIDIA's 5070. According to this, NVIDIA has been pushing the 8GB 5060 Ti so hard that they don't have any for the regular 5060. And

like he mentioned, that means board partners need to make a 5070 PCB with an 8-pin connector, because that's what all the 5060s come with. This one, I will say, doesn't sound like an actual upgrade. It sounds more like what NVIDIA has done in the past, where they cut down a higher-end GPU to put in lower-end cards. So

it'll likely be the same specs and performance, just built from a higher-end GPU. At

the end of the day, it's clear that memory prices are forcing companies to do some really weird things.