Daily Tech News 16 February 2025

• The launch prices of AMD's 9070 XT and 9070 have been revealed - probably - at $750 and $650 respectively. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  They won't sell at those prices, not against Nvidia's $550 5070 and $750 5070 Ti. AMD is done in graphics. The 9070 XT needs to be at least $150 cheaper than the 5070 Ti to compete at all, even if it is faster.
  
  
  
• The actual retail price of Nvidia's $750 5070 Ti looks to be $900. (Hot Hardware)
  
  Oh.
  
  Nvidia is toast too.
  

• Could AMD's announcement that there would be no 32GB model of the 9070 XT have been a modified limited hangout? (WCCFTech)
  
  Alleged leaks from alleged graphics card partners are that there is indeed at 32GB model on the way, just that it may have a different model number.
  
  
  
• The Khadas Mind 2s is a very expensive mini-PC. (Notebook Check)
  
  Its 16 core Intel 255H has good single-threaded performance but is well behind AMD's 12 core Ryzen 370 on multi-threaded tests.
  
  That's coupled with soldered RAM (bad) but 64GB of it (good), and a single M.2 2230 slot for storage (meh).
  
  That costs you $1599.
  
  Then you need to buy a dock (a more reasonable $179) and probably a graphics module ($999 for and 8GB 4060 Ti, or $1099 for 16GB).
  
  And an M.2 2230 SSD.
  
  It's not badly designed, as such. It would be quite interesting at one third the price.
  
  
  
• Some monkey: Sri Lanka is scrambling to restore electricity after a monkey triggered three days of nationwide power cuts. (Reuters) (archive site)
  
  Power has been partly restored but cuts continue as does the work

  An outage lasting six hours on Sunday was blamed by power minister, Kumara Jayakody, on a monkey that disrupted a grid station in a Colombo suburb. No power cuts were implemented on Wednesday, which was a holiday in Sri Lanka.

  That's... Whatever.

  The animal had come into contact with the transformer at the station, disrupting supply to the entire country. There were no immediate details on whether the monkey survived the incident.

  Given that it shut down a gigawatt power grid, I'm guessing not.
  
  

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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