1gnoirents posted:

I'm too tired to read it, but the pricing alone (especially the $970!) is awesome. Performance looks good. 970 close to 780ti reference! wow

I feel like I need to preempt this though. Reference 780ti != aftermarket 780ti, here is guru 3d on your typical 780ti



Regardless, this is nice. Slightly above expecations.



No apparent trouble with 4k too despite the memory bus figures, I'll delve into it more tomorrow though. Hopefully my hunch was right about all that even though I have no idea why it is that way

Lemming posted:

MSI 970 seems to be back in stock on Newegg as of this post, I just ordered one

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=14-127-832

il serpente cosmico posted:

9900k reviews are starting to come out.

Yudo posted:

Now that the 2070 looks like a less appealing value proposition, in case anyone is interested this seems like a nice deal:

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487392&cm_sp=Homepage_Dailydeal-_-P1_14-487-392-_-11162018

For the next 12 hours, and EVGA 1070ti is $380 after rebate. That's pretty good for a new card.

Edit: it's the version with the giant 3 slot cooler, so it should keep overclocked thermals in check. There is an MSI 1070ti "Duke" that is $350 after rebate, though I would prefer the EVGA.

BIG HEADLINE posted:

I wouldn't expect the 3070/80 cards until Computex>early Q4.

MikeC posted:

The models look like a total disaster. Literally like stop motion animated or something.

shrike82 posted:

Seems like if you haven’t gotten a card yet, you should wait till we hear more about the Ti.

ijyt posted:

GPU market ain't right, my 1080 sold for $425

CaptainSarcastic posted:

That CP2077 is buggy surprises no one, I think, at least in this thread.

I also think the wailing and gnashing of teeth that happened the last time they delayed it probably pushed them to release it even earlier than the usual "let beta testers pre-order at a premium price" dynamic that seems to have become normalized in the industry.

That latter dynamic is something I'm not sure we'll see change since it is apparently still working, and the number of us who always wait for a game to be out for a while and go on sale before purchasing is probably a minority. Hell, now that I think of it, I guess letting people pay top dollar to be beta testers indirectly benefits me, since I get more polished games at a lower price that way.

FlamingLiberal posted:

There aren’t a ton, no. The DLC has a few new ones.

change my name posted:

Yeah I feel kind of dumb for offloading my new EVGA 1650 Super to a friend for $180 when I upgraded in December

Collateral posted:

Good grief why don't they build fabs in places that have no issues with water. I know there is one in Ireland but the North of England and Scotland get 200+ days of rain a year. Well not 200 but it feels like it.

KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:

Capital equipment is going to cost the same, electricity roughly similar, but yeah the Taiwanese minimum wage is the equivalent of $5.60. The fab workers don't make minimum wage but you can figure that labor costs are scaled accordingly. Not sure what % of unit cost is labor. I bet it's low, but fabs are a relatively low margin business to begin with.

DerekSmartymans posted:

Keyboard Goop is not a myth, but it is a legend.

quote:

To do this, MarineAI is using a huge IBM AC922 supercomputer, "a monster, one of the biggest in the South-West of England" Mr Thompson boasts. In contrast the on-board brain of the submarine resides in a 15cm square box and relies on an Nvidia chip often found driving computer games.

"We built it off the back of the Nvidia chip because it's highly energy efficient," says Mr Thompson. Just like a tiny but powerful Raspberry Pi device used to teach schoolchildren basic programming tasks this approach takes up very little power. And keeping power consumption to the bare minimum is critical to making the submarine's battery last.

Ok Comboomer posted:

I guess the supply chain’s been heavily disrupted and used cats are super in-demand.

latinotwink1997 posted:

Gotta start by stealing catalytic converters for some starter money, then move into the high brow stuff like scalping videocards.

SourKraut posted:

On a related note, I'll probably be seeing my notify for a 3080 Ti come up with EVGA in another few days based on current queue progress. Could obviously be next week still, but I'm about 30 seconds away now. Originally I was going to use my 40% discount code on it... but that expired, so now it'd be for full MSRP minus the associate's code.

I had gotten 3090 FTW3 via step-up, but it's still new in the box because I've been busy with life stuff and haven't even played games recently and thus haven't wanted to swap it in. So I've been tempted to either use the notify for a 3080 Ti and sell the 3090, or keep the 3090 and offer someone the 3080 Ti.

Unlike He Who Does Not Remain, either card would be for cost + shipping if anyone is interested, because I'm a dirty leftist who doesn't care about adding a scalping finders fee. I figured I'd mention it here so if someone is interested and wants to PM me, we can plan for when the notify comes up. Otherwise I'll just let it expire and probably keep the 3090. I'd have made a thread in SA Mart, but since it's a pending notify, that seemed odd?

SourKraut posted:

The 3080 Ti FTW3 Ultra, 3967 sku: https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=12G-P5-3967-KR√

Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:

$850 Tuf Gaming 3080 10GB in stock at Asus' webstore: https://shop.asus.com/us/90yv0fb4-mtaa00-tuf-rtx3080-o10g-v2-gaming.html

The EVGA 3080 is also still in stock, but Asus gives free shipping to everyone (only EVGA Elite members get free shipping there).

Enos Cabell posted:

Zedsdeadbaby posted:

Not everything needs to be remade, just leave it be imo

MarcusSA posted:

3 games

Resident Evil
No Mans Sky (free upgrade for existing owners on steam)
Death Stranding

kliras posted:

msi cards have a literal quiet mode switch. i think some asus cards might as well, but they may or may not be more prone to coil whine. it's a little hard to sus out from the overrepresentation of coil whine reports

msi have announced a refresh of all the 40-series cards through the ventus 3X *E* and gaming x *slim* series, but they haven't actually released the 4080 and 4090 yet afaict, even though the announcement is over a month ago. in general, there's a lot of companies that have announced new versions of their cards lately, maybe in anticipation of christmas shopping. but cards like the asus proart 4080 has thermal issues due to the slimmed down cooling solution, so not all revisions are great, unless you're some purely aesthetic/sff use case

CatelynIsAZombie posted:

What is the actual price of a 4090 right now? Everything I'm seeing on bestbuy or amazon looks really inflated. Is it actually possible to get something closer to msrp than $2,200? If so does that require joining discords and hunting the sales down or are those just nonexistent now?

Cygni posted:

gaming almost back up to crypto bubble levels but holy poo poo that data center...

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

https://videocardz.com/newz/up-to-3x-fps-boost-nvidia-and-amd-frame-generation-technologies-can-work-together-in-games-like-cyberpunk-2077

someone opened up the GPU event horizon

Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:

Ubisoft posted an Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora PC feature deep dive: https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/...tures-deep-dive

I subbed to Ubi+ for a month to try the game. My eyes glaze over during the story cutscenes, and the gameplay is very far-cry-esque, but it is a very pretty game. There's a lot of vegetation detail, with good microdetail down to the ground level. Geometric and texture detail on larger objects are pretty good up close, though there's obvious visual detail pop-in when moving around. The lighting is pretty good. It uses RTGI and RT reflections combined with shadow maps, I believe. There's no basic RT on/off toggle--if you can turn it off, it must be by turning some of the settings to low or something. Anyway, it's not path-tracing level of detail, but you get some fairly natural-looking shading and bounce lighting. The reflections are ho-hum, though. Even with the BVH detail setting maxed, off-screen objects are visibly less detailed in the ray-traced reflections. Even the primary SSR reflections are mediocre. And they still use cube-maps for certain things like transparent windows (with obvious perspective errors).

But I think these are compromises made to let it actually run pretty well on current hardware. I can't speak for midrange or low-end hardware, but I can run the game at 4K ultra settings and "ultra quality" DLSS (which is apparently higher than the normal 75% scale and is more like 2000p at 4K) at around 80 FPS with my 4090 rig. For a game that's as richly detailed as this, I'd say that's pretty good. It at least runs better than the recent UE5 games, and it looks better by certain standards too. The lighting isn't as good as Lumen, but it's significantly more stable looking. I did wish they had something like Nanite though, that pop-in sucks.

Also, from the article above, apparently there's a fun bonus mode:



Haven't tried it yet, so I'm not sure if it actually offers any interesting visual upgrades or if it just increases detail in places you won't notice. I'm guessing the latter.

edit: it just increases reflection, shadowmap, and volumetric resolutions to unreasonably high levels without fixing the issues i did have with the graphical presentation like the low bvh detail or pop-in.

Tiny Timbs posted:

I just watched the ACG review and it looks like a ton of fun if you’re looking for a Farcry game but were disappointed in the last couple of entries

Can you get a cheap code that will activate on a 5800X3D or does AMD have some hardware recognition thing like they do with GPUs?

Zedsdeadbaby posted:

Phoenix should not exist. There's literally no reason for it to exist.

steckles posted:

Nintendo could re-release the Game Boy Advance and call it the Switch 2 and it'd sell well. Being the only place to play Zelda and Mario games probably has a lot more to do with its success than what hardware is inside.

As for Sony and Microsoft, I can't see a really compelling reason why they'd switch off what's proven to be a pretty safe bet so far, at least not in the next generation or two. AMD is the devil they know and have shown that they can make an APU which performs well enough and is cheap enough that it can be put it in a $500 box without losing too much money. They also aren't worth 2 trillion dollars and are probably a lot more willing to negotiate and get along than NVidia is.

Jiro posted:

Weird this person put their arm in an extra thick cable sleeve......