Recent content by Peppercorn

nvidia's drivers are far more buggy than AMD drivers and Radeon Settings is far and above a better UI than nvidia's stuff.

On price/perf alone the 2700 XT and 2700 are the card to purchase if looking to spend $450 or $349. Only the fanbois are going to think: well i'd like to spend $450 but I guess i can spend an extra $50 and get lower performance. If there needs to be any other reason, there are plenty like...

No need to compare it to anything. The added bloat is another nvidia tax on their already overpriced cards. If raytracing was usable without tanking performance then an argument could be made to how useful the implementation was. I guess. But as it stands the ballooning of the die is something...

I would wager that customers don't appreciate having to foot the bill for their prototype experiment and bloated die, nor have i witnessed very many at all advocating from the CEO's pov rather than the consumers. Yes, "they" got the best of both worlds, that doesn't translate at all to the...

I think everyone agrees that adding 50% bloat to the die with next to 0 return for the end user for their money is a brutal design choice. If/when the time is right, I think AMD's implementation will be more elegant and efficient. Maybe some sort of CPU/GPU hybrid approach?

Well ok, but i would have thought all that was rather obvious. So about the same as nvidia saying X architecture is 10x faster than Y architecture. I hope this isn't cementing the notion that people need to be spoon fed information in one direction or another to analyze these kinds of things. It...

I'm not sure i understand. Is the premise that AMD should show their worst case scenario? Does this hold true for all other companies?

Doesn't look like much of a killer, there are still tons of 580s and 590s being sold.

Vote to have this thread pinned? I'm trying to remember the last time a review on a major release wasn't pinned but i'm coming up empty.

Of course AMD will support DXR, it's probably been on their roadmap for years since they work very closely with Microsoft. But it looks like they have the right strategy, instead of what Nv attempted by ballooning the die size and breaking the backs and banks of gamers. The hubris of Huang and...

No RTX features. lol. Nv fans are sure hanging their hat on something that appears to be a flop. I'd actually call having no RTX features a plus at this point, it ballooned the die, skyrocketed the price and has zero benefit to the end user while currently implemented in a single game with less...

That's quite the word play there. First you pick a sky high number out of thin air and then use it as a comparison? Is there any credible source stating that 16GB of HBM2 runs 350 bucks? There is no chance it costs anywhere near that. Simple economics supports that, because nobody would use it...

Can't happen, their margins will tank. They released way to large of a die for the consumer market. They said, "hey, you want ray tracing? you have to pay this huge premium we have to charge due to our die size" and i doubt many are willing to fork out that premium for some bling in their games...

I think the ray tracing effects are unrealistic and tacky, and a waste of resources. Resources for which the consumers heavily pays the price for. The water in FarCry 5 for example looks much better than any demos we've seen from ray tracing so far, without the need to spend $1200 and 100's of...

I mean, wasn't it obvious that this kind of thing would happen when goldman faps signed an agreement with nv? That was when their stock started becoming ridiculously over valued, and nvidia being friends with the scum bags on wallstreet also started acting like they were above the law. And there...