Meanwhile, over on the Stalker Discord, a GSC dev even suggests "there is a chance we can have even [Unreal Engine] 5.6," but ...

In essence, while the simple act of turning a volume knob in an analogue system turns down the audio in a set of degrees with perfect efficiency, this kind of descending, volume-reducing pattern ...

With 288MB of L3 cache reportedly available in the top-end Nova Lake CPU, Intel looks as though it's taking AMD 3D V-cache head on.