So, still a shitshow, basically. Sigh. AMD really needs to do better here to gain adoption in laptops. For Nvidia, you download the notebook driver (or have GeForce Experience do it for you) and … that’s it.

AMD needs to create a unified notebook driver with modularized configs for every OEM. It’s a lot of initial work, but it pays off in the end.

These and other products (like Zen+ embedded) likely fulfill AMD’s (contractual) wafer-buy obligations to GloFo until 2025. Though GloFo is seeing pretty high demand on 12/14nm for products that don’t really need leading-edge silicon. Trailing-edge is just fine and much more affordable.

The amount of carbon emitted depends on your region’s power mix. At night, when solar is unavailable, yes, it might be higher, but honestly, 100W is nothing (0.1kW). If your PC isn’t put to sleep or turned off, and instead idles most of the day, those are entirely your emissions.

Level 3 EV chargers at dedicated stations draw up to 200kW (50/100kW vehicles are common now), so imagine when 95% of the world population has EVs. We’re rapidly heading toward disaster without the necessary infrastructure and no one wants to hear it.

Humans breathe out CO2 as well (and expel methane, an even stronger GHG), and there’s 8+ billion of us doing that 24/7. We’re carbon-based life, so carbon is always going to be emitted. The issue is that we deforested and paved over our carbon sinks because we’re shortsighted anytime money is involved.

Also, good luck solving your issue.

Everyone has an opinion. I think AMD will continue to develop graphics RDNA IP and technologies because it’s in their interest, just as AI/ML in datacenter CDNA IP is in their interest. There has to be a viable alternative to Nvidia. AMD graphics IP numbers in the millions of devices if consoles are included.

I think AMD knows that the community will not support them if FSR is forked to use AI and limits compatibility to RDNA2 and newer; I can already see the backlash. Yet, in every DLSS vs FSR thread, everyone keeps harping on about how AMD needs to improve FSR’s upscaler (likely Nvidia DLSS users with Nvidia hardware). Well, to do that, you have to break its wide compatibility, and then the options become limited for those without the necessary hardware. So, for these people, I think AMD can improve the upscaler for newer hardware and keep compatibility for older hardware (even if older HW can’t use the new algorithms). It just takes time, and I’m sure AMD is using Xilinx hardware to develop better algorithms for FSR. They just have to not use algorithms patented by Nvidia or anyone else. That’s a tough proposition.