We have two quest 2’s and they are great. Pretty sure we paid $299 for them, which is what they are “dropping” the price to…
Wireless + built in battery and works with steam… it’s a pretty amazing price. I also liked the screens over the Vive 2.
Guys, nVidia is a small indie company and cannot afford to provide as much VRAM as larger companies like AMD. They are doing the best that they can to try and compete. We should be grateful and above all SUPPORTIVE. Look at the AIB manufacturers, most of them produce cards at virtually a loss...
My laptop is basically a 3070 (3080 mobile) level gpu with 8GB.
The low VRAM isn’t a huge deal, worst case in games like Harry Pottery I changed textures from ultra to high and DLSS helps too, which I can’t notice the artifacts.
I don’t think there was a single game where I could tell the...
First loss of what? Revenue?
Who cares, not unexpected after the rush of the pandemic, gross margin is still high at 50%. Profit isn’t even shown but I am sure it’s still very positive.
And I don’t even like AMD, but this is a nothing burger.
I’d still be on a 1080ti if I didn’t want HDMI 2.1 for my 120Hz TV…. Then my 2080ti dying right after warranty ended… hmmm.
And if OP cared about RT I’d stretch for something as new as possible, that still seems kind of niche.
I just vsync (gsync) to 75/100/144 depending on the game, capping it at those framerstes. I usually adjust settings to about 70-80% usage so my minimums stay consistent. Then it had the PL when needed here and there. Just food for thought….
I’ve done it slightly to reduce noise (or more set a max temp target / fan curve) but yeah on these cards that are quiet and cost so much I fail to see the reason.
It’s basically only useful to counter power usage complaints by non-owners. I’d be surprised to find an owner who cared on a card...
Ended up putting my 3080 in my kid’s eGPU and the time spy is about 9,000.
4080 in my main rig is 24,741. FE is super quiet. I figure I’ll be set until it dies, hopefully in a decade, with my 3440 21:9. Maxes around 58C.
Also holy crap is it heavy, the shipping box was 17 lbs!! Lol. At least...
Exactly. I don’t need to spend half a night fixing 4 PCs.
This is a good example why I avoid AMD. The 7950x3d is the same deal, you have to waste time figuring out how to make it clock up right in some games.
I tried AMD once.. 2700x and Fury X.. spent way too much time trying to mitigate...
I just bought a 4080 FE for my kid’s eGPU for her surface pro 8.
I’ll have to bench it and see how constrained thunderbolt 3 is.
Her 1080ti just died and I wanted a FE. Didn’t see that option for the 4070ti.
I like that income and spending chart.
GPUs aren’t expensive in the scheme of things. Problem I see happening, and why I think nVidia pushed RT so hard, is the vast majority of us have GPUs that can run everything just fine. Rasterized has been at diminishing returns for years and is “easy” to...
I was reading the 7800X3D is likely better for most people since it’s homogenous and the 7950 doesn’t spool up right in some games. So you’re probably spot on.
Not sure why everyone acts like the only setting is Ultra…. Low occlusion / shading still looks amazing and has minimal frame rate hits. That’s really what you want RT for anyways.
Everything has more depth and is less bland with it on. I also get off to the spells reflecting on the objects...
Games like the Witcher 3, Hogwarts, ect look way better with RT ambient occlusion and shadows. Even just RT low.
Yennefer with RT 🔥🔥
You also can’t compare stills. You need to play it.
What sk3ch said.
Honestly surprised this thread is still going after goldentiger’s posts.
Buy the best nVidia card you can afford. There’s literally no justifying AMD unless it’s emotional, which is foolish.
At least buy AMD’s latest gen if you’re going to be like that.
I’d look at performance reviews. Also not a terrible idea to let nVidia release a driver for the game.
Raster and RT at 1440p from: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/hogwarts-legacy-benchmark-test-performance-analysis/6.html
From that, the 7900xtx runs at 15fps with RT unless you set RT to low.
I would highly recommend a SSD since it streams in everything.
Following up from earlier am using high/medium textures/RT low/DLSS quality with my mobile 3080 (only 8GB) and the game looks great.
With RT off it ran ultra buttery smooth. A mobile 3080 is basically a 3070 with 8GB.
I swear...
Just turned it off and I think it does get rid of a lot of the ambience without it. Does also get rid of the microstutters though.
I’ll mess around when the kid is asleep - there also hasn’t been a game ready driver released for this yet.
I also didn’t try RT Low. In other games I got 95% of...
Check reviews but without RT. I think without RT you’d be fine?
Performance is a little wonky but not bad for freshly released imo. Game is beautiful so far. I did notice my laptop 3080 is only at 50% gpu usage, 75hz, 1080p, high, medium RT, DLSS quality. We play on a TV 8’ away so there’s...
Yes.
Raster performance has long been past diminishing returns, except mayyybbee in niche VR games but anything less than +/- 20% is hard to even notice. Even where AMD has an edge in any actually demanding game DLSS is generally well implemented gives you a substantial boost.
Honestly the...
Need to video machines at work. Is Gopro still the best option for this? I figure suction cups to attach them to the glass and maybe a tripod?
Thoughts [H]?
You pump it back and forth depending on the power at the time. You’d have to make a lake at the bottom.
I am sure the homeowners on Lake Arrowhead with homes costing tens of millions won’t mind not being able to use the lake and the thunderous roar of water. Hah. It’s green, right?
It’s funny because Lake Arrowhead in CA would be great. Only a few miles the elevation drops ~3000 feet.
The lake has 15,640,000,000 gallons of water. 3000 ft of head is 1300PSI.
550 watts per GPM. Could get a couple of gigawatts out of it. ;)
It’s less of an issue as a battery since you pump it back and fourth.
And like I mentioned earlier in the thread you’d need at least 800 hoover dams of power gen (maybe not all that water volume, depends how much backup you want) if you wanted all power to come from “renewable” energy it’s...
Most of what you wrote is wrong. We can’t “recycle everything”. Also large turbine blades aren’t “wood”. As hilarious as it would be to see a 120ft wooden blade, they are mainly epoxy and eglass or epoxy and carbon fiber.
Also the storage required for green energy I once calculated out to be...
That has to be super niche that these would help. In my area they walk through yards house to house (suburbs), the city side walks they’d faceplant from cracks/potholes, and rural they drive mailbox to mailbox…. And if any mailboxes are up steps (city) I am not sure how that would work.
And...
To be honest both AMD and Intel have "incredibly advanced, sophisticated technology."
It’s good to have hard choices as a consumer.
Still can’t get over billions of switches (transistors) flipping billions of times a second for a few hundred bucks. What a time to be alive.
Also, to me...
He literally didn’t go on anything uneven. He went around the few cracks there were.
There’s no “magic” the wheel diameters are small. You hit a small hole, or a decent crack between concrete slabs, and you better be really springy.
Might be ok in the south that doesn’t have winters and chewed...