Daily Tech News 31 February 2023

• The 7950X3D is not four times faster than the regular 7950X when using the integrated graphics. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The original story from PC Magazine has been updated to reflect the fact that the figures for the 7950X were originally taken with an outdated driver that gave radically lower than normal performance.
  
  The updated tests now show that the integrated graphics performance of AMD and Intel's desktop chips is basically identical. AMD provides one sixth the performance of last year's laptop chips, where Intel provides one third the performance of this year's laptop chips, but AMD's laptop chips from last year had twice the graphics performance of Intel's chips from this year, so for example the racing game F1 22 gets exactly 33 fps at 1080p, lowest quality, whether you're on a 7950X, 7950X3D, or 13900K.
  
  Or a 13500, which seems like the best option from Intel's desktop lineup. Six P cores and eight E cores at 65W. I'm thinking of getting two 13500 systems rather than one big 7900X or 7950X system
  
  
  

• If you want to get a 7950X3D or 7900X3D you might have to wait. (WCCFTech)
  
  I checked my two regular fixers and both are out of the 7950X3D, while one of them still has the 7900X3D available.
  
  I'm not planning to buy either one, though. There's notable benefit for non-gaming tasks and the required drivers make everything more complicated. At least with Intel chips the P cores are always faster than the E cores. On the X3D chips, which cores are faster varies with the application.
  
  
  
• If you need a 64 port 800Gb Ethernet switch chip, Marvell has you covered. (Serve the Home)
  
  Yes, that's 51.2 terabits per second of switch bandwidth. In a single chip.
  
  
  
• If you need a 64 port 800Gb Ethernet switch chip with integrated photon torpedoes, Broadcom has you covered. (Serve the Home)
  
  Yes, that's 51.2 teratons of photnuclear payload. In a single chip.
  
  
  
• A post-MWC roundup including a hands-on repair of that repairable Nokia phone. (The Verge)
  
  In this case the "repair" consists simply of replacing the battery, but if it's something a tech journalist can do - in seven minutes - your dog can probably do the same.
  
  
  
• The Secret Service and ICE illegally spied on civilians. A lot. (Tech Crunch)
  
  "Was that wrong?", they asked. "Should we not have done that?"

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