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Bryton is not a name that springs to mind when you think of the best cycling computers (opens in new tab), so much so that this particular model was boxed up with a casquette, bidon, a pair of cycling socks and a waterproof case for your phone presumably with the purpose of increasing brand awareness.

Plugging in into the USB-C charger it switched on quickly and then you’re prompted to download the Bryton Active app. This is where it went wrong…

Bryton Rider S800: set-up

The Bryton Active app feels unfinished, the user interface is unattractive compared to those of the market leaders and it’s difficult to navigate.

Pairing the head unit to the app was a difficult process in itself, taking a long time for the two to find each other. Navigating around the app was tricky, with a lot of ‘non-obvious’ menu names not making things easier.

For example, when trying to change the data fields seen on the head unit for my interval session the menu title for this within the app was “Grid Setting”. Once my ride was done, it took an age to sync – and this is something that has not improved with subsequent rides such that now I just plug it into my laptop to get the data.

The mapping function was fine, though again somewhat ruined by the difficulties with the app. Getting routes from the app to the head unit is a lot of faff – any data sharing between the two seems to take multiple attempts and be very slow. Due to the huge screen, the maps functionality on the head unit is quite good – it’s clear what kind of roads are which and the turn by turn navigation is great. It includes features like auto-rerouting and route retracing too.

Screen

The main redeeming factor of the Bryton S800 is the touchscreen – it’s huge. It’s 8.6cm along the diagonal which did make it look a bit silly between my 36cm bars but these are admittedly on the narrow side.

Once you’ve figured out how to change data fields, these are numerous. The colours are bright and clear – swiping between screen options is quick and easy.

The screen makes use of, according to Bryton, Memory In Pixel technology (MIP). This is a battery saving bit of tech – the idea being that only pixels which need to be refreshed are updated each time the screen changes such that no power is diverted to refreshing pixels that remain the same.

Battery life and charging

Bryton claims a 36-hour battery life for the Rider S800 which is impressive for a device with a bright screen and while I’ve not been on a 36-hour ride, it does seem to never lose power. This battery life is due to the MIP screen technology.

The ride

The Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT, yet another GPU that you probably won't be able to buy. — Enlarge / The Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT, nonetheless another GPU that you most likely would not be in a position to obtain.

Sapphire

When AMD announced its finances-helpful RX 6500 XT graphics card at CES early this thirty day period, the organization proposed that the solution had been designed with limitations that would make it unappealing to the cryptocurrency miners who have been exacerbating the ongoing GPU scarcity for more than a year now. But now that reviews of the card have commenced to strike, it’s crystal clear that its gaming effectiveness is the collateral damage of people constraints.

Assessments from Tom’s Hardware, PCGamer, TechSpot, Players Nexus, and a litany of other Computer system gaming YouTube channels are unanimous: the RX 6500 XT is regularly outperformed by previous-era graphics cards, and it comes with other caveats over and above efficiency that restrict its attractiveness even further more. (Ars has not been supplied with a evaluation unit.)

The main of the trouble is a 64-bit memory interface that limitations the quantity of memory bandwidth the card has to get the job done with. Moreover, the card has only 4GB of RAM, which is commencing to be a restricting aspect in contemporary games, in particular at resolutions over 1080p. Many exams observed the RX 6500 XT outperformed by the 8GB variant of the RX 5500 XT, which released at the tail end of 2019 for the very same $199 (and you could in fact discover and obtain it for that cost).

The components restrictions also make the GPU’s assist for hardware-accelerated ray-tracing almost useless. Tom’s Hardware says that in the titles that are playable at all with ray-tracing enabled, the configurations have to be turned down minimal adequate that game titles really don’t in fact seem that a lot greater. The RX 6000-series’ ray-tracing functionality lags powering the Nvidia RTX 3000 sequence throughout the lineup, but it really is specifically disappointing in this article.

The Asus Dual Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition. You can't buy this one, either. — Enlarge / The Asus Dual Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition. You can not obtain this 1, either.

Asus

The card’s four-lane PCI Categorical 4. interface also poses a dilemma. When it has a PCIe 4. connection to get the job done with, the RX 6500 XT appears to be great, and even high-stop playing cards really don’t frequently need to have all the bandwidth that the typical 16-lane link offers. But it brings about difficulties for PCs that use PCI Express 3. TechSpot’s review identified that making use of a PCIe 3. connection with the RX 6500 XT knocked off 10–15 percent of the card’s by now lackluster efficiency. And PCIe 3. programs are not historic record: Intel’s 10th-era Main chips, any Ryzen processors however running in a 300- or 400-series motherboard, and the Ryzen 5000G processors with integrated graphics all use PCI Specific 3. and are still being bought at most merchants. These are particularly the varieties of more mature and more cost-effective PCs that spending plan-minded gamers are much

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Bryton Rider S800 review – wonderful bike computer, woeful app

Bryton Rider S800: set-up

Mapping and navigation

Screen

Battery life and charging

The ride

The testimonials are in: AMD’s mining-averse RX 6500 XT also is not wonderful at gaming