Will *Tower of Fantasy* Get DLSS 5? This Round of Hardware News Is Wild

Last night, while the guys in the dorm were queuing up for games.\nEveryone was lining up.\nWhile scrolling hardware news.\nHere’s the conclusion first.\nThere’s a huge amount of information in this round.\nSome of it is exciting.\nSome of it made my blood pressure spike.\n\n

\n\nFirst, NVIDIA.\nAt the recent GTC conference.\nIt officially unveiled DLSS 5.\nThe official pitch set the bar extremely high.\nCalling it the biggest breakthrough in graphics.\nSince the debut of real-time ray tracing in 2018.\nThe core point is also very straightforward.\nDLSS 5 is the first to introduce a real-time neural rendering model.\nPut simply.\nIt blends generative AI with traditional manual rendering.\nThe goal is to make lighting and materials look more real.\nAnd it also emphasized.\nThat artists can still stay in control.\nIt’s not about handing everything over to AI and letting it run wild.\n\nMore importantly.\nDLSS 5 is planned to launch this fall.\nStudios and companies like Bethesda, CAPCOM, NetEase, Tencent, and Ubisoft are all set to adopt it.\nPerfect World’s Hotta Studio is also on the list.\nThis matters a lot for multiplayer gamers.\nMore stable visuals.\nBetter frame rates.\nThat old machine my roommate uses.\nMight finally let us down a little less in the future.\nAbout as rare as not having the dorm internet cut out during a team fight.\n\n

\n\nThere’s also NVIDIA’s CPU lineup.\nThe existing Vera CPU has already entered full mass production.\nDeliveries will begin in the second half of this year.\nThis chip is based on Arm.\nWith 72 cores.\nNVIDIA says IPC is improved by 1.5x.\nAnd after that there’s another one codenamed Rosa.\nExpected to launch in 2028.\nReports say it will focus more on single-thread performance.\nAnd will also pair with the BlueField-5 DPU and ConnectX-10 SuperNIC.\nThe meaning here is obvious.\nNVIDIA isn’t just making graphics cards.\nIt wants to serve the whole table.\n\nAMD hasn’t been idle either.\nAccording to news from the Linux patch tracking platform.\nAMD is aggressively working on instruction-level optimizations for RDNA 5.\nThe focus is on Dual Issue VALU and FMA coordination.\nThe target is pretty wild.\nTo try to double GPU performance under specific workloads.\nRDNA 3 and RDNA 4 already had dual-ALU pipelines before.\nBut the compiler never fully squeezed out their potential.\nNow RDNA 5 wants to make up for that.\nIf it works.\nFrame rate stability in regular rasterized games will improve.\nAI workloads will benefit too.\nEven next-gen AI upscaling and frame generation.\nSuch as FSR Diamond.\nCould also ride the wave.\n\n

\n\nOn the mobile side.\nThe GeekBench 6 database.\nAlso surfaced an AMD platform codenamed Plum-MDS1.\nIt’s widely believed this is Medusa Point.\nIn other words, Zen6’s first appearance.\nThe record shows 10 cores.\nWith 1MB of L2 cache per core.\nAnd 32MB of shared L3 cache.\nBut another import-export manifest lists it as 4C+4D.\nThat is, 4 Zen6 cores plus 4 Zen6c cores.\nThe two don’t match.\nThe original article’s take.\nIs that GeekBench may have identified it incorrectly.\nSo for this part.\nBetter to wait before getting too excited.\n\nThe most outrageous part is in the second half.\nFirst came the DDR5 price hike warranty fiasco.\nAn Australian consumer named Goran bought a Corsair 32GB DDR5-5600 kit in 2024, and it failed.\nThe retailer Umart tested it and confirmed there was a problem.\nBut refused to replace it directly.\nThe reason was even more absurd.\nThey claimed that replacing it with the same type would still count as an “upgrade.”\nAnd would require an extra payment of over 400 Australian dollars.\nOtherwise they would only refund the original price of 155 Australian dollars.\nBut memory with the same specs has now risen to 500 to 600 Australian dollars.\nThat’s like lending your meal card to your roommate.\nThey max it out, then compensate you based on last year’s food prices.\nWho could put up with that.\n\n

\n\nAnd on top of that, the retailer kept the faulty memory.\nLeaving the customer unable to take it to Corsair for the official limited lifetime warranty.\nAfter Goran submitted the documents.\nHe waited three full weeks without hearing back from Corsair.\nIt wasn’t until HardwareUnboxed stepped in.\nThat the brand said it was handling the issue.\nOverseas netizens were unhappy.\nWhich is not surprising at all.\nThe scariest thing when buying hardware.\nIsn’t that it breaks.\nIt’s getting the runaround after it breaks.\n\nOn the other side.\nThe Chuwi situation is even more bizarre.\nThe CoreBook X had previously been torn down.\nAdvertised as a Ryzen 5 7430U.\nBut in reality it was an older Ryzen 5 5500U.\nNow the CoreBook Plus has reportedly been exposed for the same thing.\nAnd it’s not as simple as a software misreport.\nReports say it may have altered its identity through the BIOS.\nMaking the BIOS, Windows, CPU-Z, and HWiNFO64 all show it as a 7430U.\nBut when the chip was opened up, its OPN number was 100-000000375.\nA check on AMD’s official website.\nShows that it corresponds to the 5500U.\nHong Kong distributor Hornington has already confirmed.\nThat some batches of the CoreBook X 7430U Laptop, CoreBook Plus 7430U Laptop, and UBOX 7430U Mini PC are affected.\nAnd has decided on a full recall and refunds.\nNow that’s what actually dealing with a problem looks like.\n\nLastly, a word for anyone planning to build a PC.\nMemory prices are chaotic right now.\nAnd after-sales support can be a minefield too.\nCheck the warranty terms first.\nThen look at the price.\nDon’t just chase the lowest deal.\nAs for graphics cards, the article mentions.\nThe ASUS DUAL RTX 5060 Ti O8G is selling for 3499 yuan.\nAnd the Gigabyte X870E A PRO X3D motherboard plus Ryzen 7 9800X3D bundle.\nHas a subsidized price of 5484 yuan.\nIf your main focus is multiplayer gaming.\nI’d recommend prioritizing a stable platform first.\nDon’t get tripped up on the CPU and memory.\nThe graphics card can wait a little.\nBecause when gaming with friends, the thing you fear most.\nIsn’t slightly worse image quality.\nIt’s you disconnecting.\nAnd then the whole dorm starts flaming you.\nThat’s just too real.