The Final Fantasy 15 Benchmark: A Look at Power Consumption and Performance

The benchmark results for Final Fantasy 15 on the Xbox Series X were recently made public, revealing some interesting insights into the system's performance and power consumption. The system without the NPu (Neural Processing Unit) achieved an impressive 118 frames per second while consuming a significant amount of power, at 338 watts. This is not surprising, given that the NPu is designed to handle complex AI tasks, which can be resource-intensive.

However, when the NPu was enabled, the system's power consumption decreased dramatically, from 338 watts to 261 watts, while still managing to deliver a respectable 107 frames per second. It's worth noting that these results may have been achieved in Edi's Eco mode, which is designed to be more power-efficient. The fact that the system can achieve such high performance without sacrificing too much power suggests that Microsoft has done a good job of optimizing the console for energy efficiency.

Boost Mode for High Performance and Stability

According to Carreon, there is also a boost mode available for high-performance and stability. This mode is designed to provide additional performance boosts when needed, while still maintaining stability and preventing overheat issues. It's unclear what specific features or settings are included in this mode, but it sounds like an important tool for gamers who want to get the most out of their console.

Lawnmower 5.0 Ultra: A Convenient Tool for Lawn Care

In a completely unrelated story, Manscaped has unveiled its new lawnmower 5.0 Ultra, which is designed to make lawn care easier and more convenient. The lawnmower features interchangeable trimmer blades and foil plates, allowing users to customize their cutting experience. It also comes equipped with an LED light for navigation, making it easier to cut through thick foliage without getting lost. Additionally, the lawnmower is portable and charges conveniently via a USB-C cable, making it easy to take on-the-go.

Upcoming Ryzen 9000 X3D Series CPUs: Could Launch Sooner Than Expected?

Rumors are circulating that AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9,000 X3D series CPUs may launch sooner than expected. According to an allegedly trustworthy source, the team is working on a workaround for the 3D VC (Virtualization) technology's higher thermal resistance, which could allow for higher boost clocks and improved performance. This would be significant news for AMD, as they've been working hard to improve their x3D line from last time. If true, this means that we may see these chips launch within just a couple of months.

Xbox Handheld: Will Phil Spencer's Words Come to Pass?

During the Xbox showcase, Phil Spencer made headlines when he revealed that his team is working on different form factors for the Xbox console, including a handheld device. He literally said that he thinks Xbox should have a handheld and that he's in charge of making it happen. This has sparked excitement among fans, who are eagerly awaiting news about this rumored device. While nothing has been officially confirmed yet, Spencer's comments suggest that we may be getting our hands on an Xbox handheld sooner rather than later.

Data Breach Investigation: Privacy Officials Launch Joint Probe

In a separate story, officials in Canada and the UK have launched a joint investigation into 23andMe's recent data breach. The company has admitted to storing sensitive client information without adequate safeguards, which led to the theft of sensitive data from approximately 6.9 million clients. While only 14,000 accounts were compromised, the fact that it took around 5 months for the company to notice suggests that there may have been some gaps in their security protocols.

Arm-Based Laptops: Linux Notebook Manufacturer Tuxedo Unveils Prototype

Linux notebook manufacturer Tuxedo has unveiled a prototype laptop at Computex featuring a Snapdragon X Elite S chip. The system will run on Tuxedo's in-house Linux distribution, which is being ported to arm architecture. This marks an important milestone for the Linux community, as it could pave the way for more affordable and powerful laptops.

3D Spatial Audio: Nokia Makes First Phone Call Using New Technology

In a breakthrough that could revolutionize phone calls, Nokia has made the first phone call using 3D spatial audio technology. The Evas codec is part of an upcoming upgrade to 5G cellular networks, which promises faster speeds, improved efficiency, and better positioning capabilities. This new technology uses two or more microphones to create a richer audio experience, making it ideal for applications like video conferencing and gaming.

TechLink: A Gen Emoji for Tech News?

In conclusion, that's all for this episode of TechLink. Unfortunately, we won't be getting a gen emoji for tech news just yet. However, we'll keep working on it, and who knows? Maybe one day we'll see a special emoji just for the tech community.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enat Apple's annual worldwide developers conference the world's once most valuable company finally drank the AI Kool-Aid after being usurped by first Microsoft and then Nvidia in terms of the world's most valuable companies and now all the Apple faithful will drink this Kool-Aid Too Apple intelligence is the company's new set of features and tools that leverage primarily Apple's own custom models running on device but they also announced private Cloud compute a brand new standard for privacy in AI which reportedly extends your privacy bubble to include some server space Apple said that unless a given server's security has been verified by them Apple devices will cryptographically refuse to talk to them a phrase that I'm definitely going to steal use it for on your in-laws I cryptographically refuse yeah apple took great pains this morning to assure everyone that if this all fails to respect user privacy Craig federi will commit Sudoku with a new Apple pencil he's a deeply troubled man so what are these Apple intelligence features well Siri has a new icon it's AI generated no Siri has basically taken the Bradley Cooper Limitless drug and can now retain more context and conversations use what it sees on your screen and all the info it knows about you AKA personal context to search for stuff and perform cross app actions you could ask Siri in messages to add this address to Dam I's contact card now show me photos of him in a pink coat now edit it and make it pop now add this to my note where I'm collecting details about his life at which point Siri would probably start feeling uncomfortable if it could feel but it can't yet I'm still better developers can Define actions like these with the app intense API so this kind of power won't be limited to just Apple apps nor will the new systemwide generative writing tools like rewrite proofread summarize and smart reply which have wonderfully descriptive names and will work across any app image playground meanwhile is a standalone app for generating images in three available Styles based on discrete Concepts you select rather than a written prompt it runs entirely on device and so can theoretically be used to generate images forever can be hooked into from other apps like messages and can even generate images of people in your photo library to really give your stocking report some extra Pizzazz this is what I imagine they look like in my head also I'm a cat you can also generate Emoji so they called them gen Emoji frankly I think Apple could do better photos now has cleanup which is just Magic Eraser as well as natural language search for photos and videos and a feature that will create a slideshow movie with music based on a prompt there's a handful of other OS features like mail summaries priority notifications and the focus feature using a to determine which messages are okay to distract you with but wait what about that open AI deal well if series brain juice is wearing thin she'll ask you if she can ask chat GPT for help the chat box can also be accessed through the aforementioned writing tools with no open aai account required although paid subscribers can link their account to access their benefits now Apple says all of this will be available to try this summer launching as a beta with iOS 18 in the fall sadly Apple did not mention working on AI powered robots although IO it is getting harder and harder to believe Craig is a real person he's too perfect no man was born with those eyebrows now that was all the AI stuff Apple also announced miscellaneous updates to their various os's including a lightning round of vision os2 updates for the tens of Vision Pro users still remaining although that figure will go up now that Vision Pro is coming to more countries sadly just imagine instead of tens they could have dozens of users you can now look at photos with other Vision Pro users so you can relive your daughter's first steps while also staring at your mother's dystopian cyber ghost I don't know Apple moved on from all this quick so I will too iOS 18 will give iPhone users a taste of Android's custom color themes for app icons customization of the Quick Settings I mean control center although you can also adjust widget size there so fair enough and the ability to hide apps in a locked folder developers can also allow their apps to privately pair with certain devices instead of the user pairing the device on a system level which sounds more secure I think messages now supports text formatting fun new little text effects message scheduling which they call send later and messaging via satellite that will definitely feel cooler it's going it's going to space nice mail has categories now which I'm surprised it didn't have already tap to Cache will let iPhone user ape the old way we used to transfer money and iOS 18 has a game mode now because real Gamers use apple and they are valid but what about the really big iPhones that's right iPads many iPad OS apps will now have an apple tves floating tab bar which morphs into the sidebar you'll be able to draw while sharing your screen and share play but most important of all at long last iPad has a calculator app I'm not crying I kind of forgive Apple for taking so long because it's got a feature called math notes that looks sick it will execute handwritten calculations generate interactive graphs and even create contextual sliders to modify values that you wrote in there fine Apple whatever okay it's cool in notes you can train the smart script feature on your own handwriting and then it will conform your Hasty messy handwriting into that style along with text you paste and then you can just scribble to delete which is not as cool as making the other end of the pencil an eraser but I'll take it and then of course we have the new Mac OS Sequoia which will support fullon iPhone mirroring complete with full screen control audio and the ability to drag and drop files directly into iPhone apps from your Mac at this point in the presentation Craig Force grabbed his iPhone for no reason and unironically that was just that was just funny and cool and I just wanted to tell you about it moving on Ma ask will finally have Windows style window snapping along with an actual passwords manager called passwords and Safari will have these contextual highlights and Page summaries and last couple things here Assassin's Creed shadows will come out on Mac and the iPad airpods will let you nod or shake your head to tell Siri yes or no so you don't have to talk to her in public cuz that's embarrassing and watch OS 11 will come with a new vitals app that can monitor your vitals and tell you if something's off that sounds potentially life-saving while the new effort rating that tells you whether you're slacking in the fitness department just sounds judgy which is a perfect way to end the Apple stuff time to move on let's go don't judge me Craig graphics card manufacturer powercolor is using AI to make AMD radon gpus much more power efficient now there are some downsides mostly that power color is naming the technology Edge AI my response to that is no thank you I don't want it EDG by AI powercolor claims that by equipping radon graphics cards with an npu from AI partner caneron maybe running cyberpunk and Final Fantasy 15 consumes about 22% less power this is likely due to Edge AI putting the gpus into what some researchers call a goon State impressively those numbers are even higher than what can apparently be achieved by amd's own power saving feature having said that the EDI does have a slight effect on frame rate based on live demos from powercolor booth at computex two systems running the Final Fantasy 15 Benchmark were shown the system without the npu achieved 118 FPS while consuming 338 Watts the system with the npu only consumed 261 Watts while maxing out at an FPS of 107 not bad but these results seem to be from edi's eco mode which is meant to be more power efficient according to caneron there is also apparently a boost mode for high performance and stability which is good because I've heard things can get unstable if you edge too much manscaped trim your Hedges the right way with manscapes lawnmower 5.0 Ultra its trimmer blade and foil plade are interchangeable letting you choose from buzzcut Bal to Jeff Bezos Bal to some kind of wacky in between B and to navigate the thicker foliage the lawnmower 5pm Ultra even comes with an LED light so you don't get lost in the woods it's also portable and charges conveniently with a USBC cable meaning you can whack weeds anywhere although in some places getting permission first would be the gentlemanly thing to do check out the lawnmower 5.0 Ultra manscaped.com TechLink and use code TechLink for 20% off and free shipping quick bits oh yeah I've got quick bits do you want them amd's upcoming ryzen 9000 x3d Series CPUs may be coming up much sooner than you think an allegedly trustworthy source told Outlet Club 386 that that team Red's Next 3D vcash equipped chips could launch just 2 months after the 9,000 non x3d processors and that would be particularly impressive since AMD told PC Gamer they're making big improvements to their x3d line from last time now this probably means they found a workaround for the 3D VC's higher thermal resistance allowing for higher boost clocks I mean it's not like they've cracked the fourth dimension unless hello science I'd like to report a crime there Jacob I did it okay I did it while this weekend's Xbox showcase came and went without the rumored reveal of an Xbox handheld Xbox Chief Phil Spencer kind of basically mostly confirmed it existed during an IGN live interview not only did philliam Wallace say the hardware team at Xbox is working on different form factors but he literally said he thinks Xbox should have a handheld and he's in charge of those things so we should have a handheld I think so I think we should have a hand you want to say anything about no I don't want to say since he's the boss that should mean we're getting one unless he doesn't realize he's the boss of Xbox I mean for all we know he might thinks he's just a model for casual jackets he looks good privacy officials in Canada and the UK are launching a joint investigation into 23 nme's recent data breach to determine if the company had adequate safeguards to keep client information secure and whether they alerted authorities and affected clients within a reasonable time frame whatever safeguards there were clearly weren't adequate in the sense that sensitive data from 6.9 million clients was stolen despite only 14,000 accounts being compromised and it apparently took around 5 months before the company noticed but maybe the British have some other definition of what adequate means like how they call them biscuits instead of cookies you know we don't know how it works over there I think everything's upside down rubber means eraser oh I made a mistake have you got a rubber windows isn't the only OS getting arm-based laptops Linux notebook manufacturer tuxedo is apparently also getting in on the fun they unveiled a prototype laptop at computex featuring a Snapdragon X Elite S so tuxedo is currently working on porting their in-house tuxedo OS Linux distribution to arm architecture but the notebook should be ready by Christmas that means that this year Santa is going to give us a multitude of comments online saying how windows on arm is so much worse than Linux on arm and we know it's going to happen oh oh oh I use Arch did you know and noia says that it has made the first phone call using 3D spatial audio using the immersive video and audio services or Evas codec sure the Evas codec is part of an upcoming upgrade to 5G cellular networks that's supposed to be faster more efficient and better at cellular positioning which is big news for fans of not dying because an ambulance can't find you according to Nokia spatial audio could be enabled for most phones with two or more microphones this would give calls a richer quality and allow users to deploy Google's new audio fart Emoji with surround sound Reverb whoa I feel like I'm there but there's no audio Emoji for the tech news so you'll just have to come back on Wednesday for another episode of TechLink nothing can be done I mean we'll work on it could make a gen Emoji for it I stupidat Apple's annual worldwide developers conference the world's once most valuable company finally drank the AI Kool-Aid after being usurped by first Microsoft and then Nvidia in terms of the world's most valuable companies and now all the Apple faithful will drink this Kool-Aid Too Apple intelligence is the company's new set of features and tools that leverage primarily Apple's own custom models running on device but they also announced private Cloud compute a brand new standard for privacy in AI which reportedly extends your privacy bubble to include some server space Apple said that unless a given server's security has been verified by them Apple devices will cryptographically refuse to talk to them a phrase that I'm definitely going to steal use it for on your in-laws I cryptographically refuse yeah apple took great pains this morning to assure everyone that if this all fails to respect user privacy Craig federi will commit Sudoku with a new Apple pencil he's a deeply troubled man so what are these Apple intelligence features well Siri has a new icon it's AI generated no Siri has basically taken the Bradley Cooper Limitless drug and can now retain more context and conversations use what it sees on your screen and all the info it knows about you AKA personal context to search for stuff and perform cross app actions you could ask Siri in messages to add this address to Dam I's contact card now show me photos of him in a pink coat now edit it and make it pop now add this to my note where I'm collecting details about his life at which point Siri would probably start feeling uncomfortable if it could feel but it can't yet I'm still better developers can Define actions like these with the app intense API so this kind of power won't be limited to just Apple apps nor will the new systemwide generative writing tools like rewrite proofread summarize and smart reply which have wonderfully descriptive names and will work across any app image playground meanwhile is a standalone app for generating images in three available Styles based on discrete Concepts you select rather than a written prompt it runs entirely on device and so can theoretically be used to generate images forever can be hooked into from other apps like messages and can even generate images of people in your photo library to really give your stocking report some extra Pizzazz this is what I imagine they look like in my head also I'm a cat you can also generate Emoji so they called them gen Emoji frankly I think Apple could do better photos now has cleanup which is just Magic Eraser as well as natural language search for photos and videos and a feature that will create a slideshow movie with music based on a prompt there's a handful of other OS features like mail summaries priority notifications and the focus feature using a to determine which messages are okay to distract you with but wait what about that open AI deal well if series brain juice is wearing thin she'll ask you if she can ask chat GPT for help the chat box can also be accessed through the aforementioned writing tools with no open aai account required although paid subscribers can link their account to access their benefits now Apple says all of this will be available to try this summer launching as a beta with iOS 18 in the fall sadly Apple did not mention working on AI powered robots although IO it is getting harder and harder to believe Craig is a real person he's too perfect no man was born with those eyebrows now that was all the AI stuff Apple also announced miscellaneous updates to their various os's including a lightning round of vision os2 updates for the tens of Vision Pro users still remaining although that figure will go up now that Vision Pro is coming to more countries sadly just imagine instead of tens they could have dozens of users you can now look at photos with other Vision Pro users so you can relive your daughter's first steps while also staring at your mother's dystopian cyber ghost I don't know Apple moved on from all this quick so I will too iOS 18 will give iPhone users a taste of Android's custom color themes for app icons customization of the Quick Settings I mean control center although you can also adjust widget size there so fair enough and the ability to hide apps in a locked folder developers can also allow their apps to privately pair with certain devices instead of the user pairing the device on a system level which sounds more secure I think messages now supports text formatting fun new little text effects message scheduling which they call send later and messaging via satellite that will definitely feel cooler it's going it's going to space nice mail has categories now which I'm surprised it didn't have already tap to Cache will let iPhone user ape the old way we used to transfer money and iOS 18 has a game mode now because real Gamers use apple and they are valid but what about the really big iPhones that's right iPads many iPad OS apps will now have an apple tves floating tab bar which morphs into the sidebar you'll be able to draw while sharing your screen and share play but most important of all at long last iPad has a calculator app I'm not crying I kind of forgive Apple for taking so long because it's got a feature called math notes that looks sick it will execute handwritten calculations generate interactive graphs and even create contextual sliders to modify values that you wrote in there fine Apple whatever okay it's cool in notes you can train the smart script feature on your own handwriting and then it will conform your Hasty messy handwriting into that style along with text you paste and then you can just scribble to delete which is not as cool as making the other end of the pencil an eraser but I'll take it and then of course we have the new Mac OS Sequoia which will support fullon iPhone mirroring complete with full screen control audio and the ability to drag and drop files directly into iPhone apps from your Mac at this point in the presentation Craig Force grabbed his iPhone for no reason and unironically that was just that was just funny and cool and I just wanted to tell you about it moving on Ma ask will finally have Windows style window snapping along with an actual passwords manager called passwords and Safari will have these contextual highlights and Page summaries and last couple things here Assassin's Creed shadows will come out on Mac and the iPad airpods will let you nod or shake your head to tell Siri yes or no so you don't have to talk to her in public cuz that's embarrassing and watch OS 11 will come with a new vitals app that can monitor your vitals and tell you if something's off that sounds potentially life-saving while the new effort rating that tells you whether you're slacking in the fitness department just sounds judgy which is a perfect way to end the Apple stuff time to move on let's go don't judge me Craig graphics card manufacturer powercolor is using AI to make AMD radon gpus much more power efficient now there are some downsides mostly that power color is naming the technology Edge AI my response to that is no thank you I don't want it EDG by AI powercolor claims that by equipping radon graphics cards with an npu from AI partner caneron maybe running cyberpunk and Final Fantasy 15 consumes about 22% less power this is likely due to Edge AI putting the gpus into what some researchers call a goon State impressively those numbers are even higher than what can apparently be achieved by amd's own power saving feature having said that the EDI does have a slight effect on frame rate based on live demos from powercolor booth at computex two systems running the Final Fantasy 15 Benchmark were shown the system without the npu achieved 118 FPS while consuming 338 Watts the system with the npu only consumed 261 Watts while maxing out at an FPS of 107 not bad but these results seem to be from edi's eco mode which is meant to be more power efficient according to caneron there is also apparently a boost mode for high performance and stability which is good because I've heard things can get unstable if you edge too much manscaped trim your Hedges the right way with manscapes lawnmower 5.0 Ultra its trimmer blade and foil plade are interchangeable letting you choose from buzzcut Bal to Jeff Bezos Bal to some kind of wacky in between B and to navigate the thicker foliage the lawnmower 5pm Ultra even comes with an LED light so you don't get lost in the woods it's also portable and charges conveniently with a USBC cable meaning you can whack weeds anywhere although in some places getting permission first would be the gentlemanly thing to do check out the lawnmower 5.0 Ultra manscaped.com TechLink and use code TechLink for 20% off and free shipping quick bits oh yeah I've got quick bits do you want them amd's upcoming ryzen 9000 x3d Series CPUs may be coming up much sooner than you think an allegedly trustworthy source told Outlet Club 386 that that team Red's Next 3D vcash equipped chips could launch just 2 months after the 9,000 non x3d processors and that would be particularly impressive since AMD told PC Gamer they're making big improvements to their x3d line from last time now this probably means they found a workaround for the 3D VC's higher thermal resistance allowing for higher boost clocks I mean it's not like they've cracked the fourth dimension unless hello science I'd like to report a crime there Jacob I did it okay I did it while this weekend's Xbox showcase came and went without the rumored reveal of an Xbox handheld Xbox Chief Phil Spencer kind of basically mostly confirmed it existed during an IGN live interview not only did philliam Wallace say the hardware team at Xbox is working on different form factors but he literally said he thinks Xbox should have a handheld and he's in charge of those things so we should have a handheld I think so I think we should have a hand you want to say anything about no I don't want to say since he's the boss that should mean we're getting one unless he doesn't realize he's the boss of Xbox I mean for all we know he might thinks he's just a model for casual jackets he looks good privacy officials in Canada and the UK are launching a joint investigation into 23 nme's recent data breach to determine if the company had adequate safeguards to keep client information secure and whether they alerted authorities and affected clients within a reasonable time frame whatever safeguards there were clearly weren't adequate in the sense that sensitive data from 6.9 million clients was stolen despite only 14,000 accounts being compromised and it apparently took around 5 months before the company noticed but maybe the British have some other definition of what adequate means like how they call them biscuits instead of cookies you know we don't know how it works over there I think everything's upside down rubber means eraser oh I made a mistake have you got a rubber windows isn't the only OS getting arm-based laptops Linux notebook manufacturer tuxedo is apparently also getting in on the fun they unveiled a prototype laptop at computex featuring a Snapdragon X Elite S so tuxedo is currently working on porting their in-house tuxedo OS Linux distribution to arm architecture but the notebook should be ready by Christmas that means that this year Santa is going to give us a multitude of comments online saying how windows on arm is so much worse than Linux on arm and we know it's going to happen oh oh oh I use Arch did you know and noia says that it has made the first phone call using 3D spatial audio using the immersive video and audio services or Evas codec sure the Evas codec is part of an upcoming upgrade to 5G cellular networks that's supposed to be faster more efficient and better at cellular positioning which is big news for fans of not dying because an ambulance can't find you according to Nokia spatial audio could be enabled for most phones with two or more microphones this would give calls a richer quality and allow users to deploy Google's new audio fart Emoji with surround sound Reverb whoa I feel like I'm there but there's no audio Emoji for the tech news so you'll just have to come back on Wednesday for another episode of TechLink nothing can be done I mean we'll work on it could make a gen Emoji for it I stupid\n"