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Shoulda bought AMD stocks back in December when it was ~$9/share. orz
I, for one, welcome our Nvidia overlords.
do you use a special rice to dry it up?
Anyways, given the current glimpses of RTX2080 Ti raytracing performance, it's not looking good.
https://www.techpowerup.com/247007/...cing-sotr-barely-manages-30-60-fps-at-full-hd
The Star Wars demo frame times show the RTX card in that machine running at what...22 fps?
The previously consistent 40-50% gains year to year (i.e. generation to generation) for GPUs has now been annihilated to a mere 20-30% thanks to NVIDIA destroying their competition through marketing and reducing the pace to fill their coffers. Pascal was one of the most blatant abuses of that, having not released a card for more than 2 years until this week.
Yeah and to add insult to injury, it basically took 2 years for the higher end cards to be readily available at MSRP.
It's just a sad state of affairs in the GPU market. Process node improvements have slowed down, memory prices are sky high, and there's basically no competition from AMD. AFAIK PC sales have gone down the gutter too with longer and longer upgrade cycles, so I guess it's inevitable that the market moves towards low volume high margin products.
On the flip side at least the CPU market has been quite exciting the past few years....except that for gaming it feels like a 6 year old processor still isn't much of a bottleneck especially at higher resolutions.
I think you guys are hard on Nvidia. you can "gain" up to 3 times the number of fans on one card.
will their ray tracing thingy be significant for 3D graphists at least? because for gaming I'm the sort of guy who would 10billion percent(Dr Stone style) say something like: "wow it's really super pretty. how do I turn it off?"
will their ray tracing thingy be significant for 3D graphists at least? because for gaming I'm the sort of guy who would 10billion percent(Dr Stone style) say something like: "wow it's really super pretty. how do I turn it off?"
There's actually quite a few games which benefit much more from multicore now. There's games choking on quad cores (I think check one of the AdoredTV coffee lake videos? I believe there's a few other sites that covered it).
Once we get to the point where 1440p/60fps/high isn't possible any more, I'll finally retire the ol' girl. My days of chasing ultra are long gone and to be honest its not like i can reaaaally tell the difference in the heat of the moment. Maybe Zen 3/4 will be out by then. XD
I hope something does come out of that memory price fixing lawsuit in China but I think it might be a slap on the wrist.
Oh there were also rumours that Intel are getting into the discrete GPU game so maybe things will get spicy in ~5 years time.
Is that show actually good? it seems like it's super meme-able which usually isn't a good sign for a show actually being good.I'm pumped about the next episode of Hataraku Saibou. The last ep ended on a cliffhanger!
Eh, a lot of other industries price gouge all the time, so this really shouldn't be anything new to anyone. It sucks but what can you do about it other than avoid buying a new GPU?Probably the last thing you want but sure. Have fun with price gouging.
Hasn't PC gaming been dying in general along with all non-mobile gaming though? So it makes sense they'd have to raise profit margins somehow.Yeah and to add insult to injury, it basically took 2 years for the higher end cards to be readily available at MSRP.
It's just a sad state of affairs in the GPU market. Process node improvements have slowed down, memory prices are sky high, and there's basically no competition from AMD. AFAIK PC sales have gone down the gutter too with longer and longer upgrade cycles, so I guess it's inevitable that the market moves towards low volume high margin products.
On the flip side at least the CPU market has been quite exciting the past few years....except that for gaming it feels like a 6 year old processor still isn't much of a bottleneck especially at higher resolutions.
Is that show actually good? it seems like it's super meme-able which usually isn't a good sign for a show actually being good.
Eh, a lot of other industries price gouge all the time, so this really shouldn't be anything new to anyone. It sucks but what can you do about it other than avoid buying a new GPU?
Hasn't PC gaming been dying in general along with all non-mobile gaming though? So it makes sense they'd have to raise profit margins somehow.