Coming This Week on Digital Foundry (Week 22, 2023) (Patreon)

Hi everyone, Rich here with your update on everything happening at Digital Foundry right now. Apologies if you were expecting this yesterday, but it was yet another public holiday in the UK - we're stacked with three day weekends in May this year. Still, there's a ton going on so let's get to it.

* Tom is finishing up the Lord of the Rings: Gollum video, but there has been a patch so this requires checking. First impressions: no change on PS5. Beyond that, he'll be looking at Street Fighter 6.

* Oliver has just handed in his analysis of the Marvel's Spider-Man 2 trailer, so expect some early access on that imminently for premium/retro supporters. Beyond that, we're waiting for Diablo 4 code.

* Alex has just finished his tech retrospective on Company of Heroes 3. This video is the first sponsored one we've done this year, but when you'll see it, I don't think you'll be disappointed. It's a deep dive into Relic Entertainment's rich tech history.

* John is on the final stretch with his System Shock remaster coverage and while he'll be covering Final Fantasy 16, there's still the matter of the latest DF Retro to factor in.

* Will is currently benchmarking the Ryzen 4800S desktop kit, which is the Xbox Series X CPU repurposed into a PC product. As the PCIe bandwidth is there to make it run with a discrete GPU (unlike the PS5-based 4700S equivalent), we're aiming to benchmark this as we would any other gaming CPU. There should be some fascinating results! We'll also be rebenching the Ryzen 5 3600 for comparison, as well as a Ryzen 7 4750G (which also has a very Series-like CPU).

* Rich (ie me) powers on with the 1080p GPUs: Radeon RX 7600, revisiting Arc, RTX 3060, 6600, 6650XT. Is the 1080p GPU market really as crappy as everyone says it is? I dunno... the 3060 12GB and 6650XT should be decent, right? Arc seems to be getting cheaper all the time! Looking forward to this.

It was a fairly quiet week last week, even though we 'dropped' the 4060 Ti review and the big Zelda performance content, so as you'll see here, we've got a lot of stuff nearing the end of production. Hopefully we'll see that translate into more early access opportunities through the week!

Post-1080p GPU benching, I will be making good on my promise to acquire an RTX 2050 laptop and look into the long-teased Switch 2 GPU 'simulation'!

Anything you'd like to see us cover this week? There's a box 'for your comments below' and I invite you to use it! Have a great week!