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    Where Gaming Begins: Ep. 2 | AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series Graphics Cards - 11am CDT 10/28/20

    I think you're arguing with the boogeyman. And yes I know quite a bit about it thanks.
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    Where Gaming Begins: Ep. 2 | AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series Graphics Cards - 11am CDT 10/28/20

    I agree that's the case in terms of status quo where AMD only supplies 20% of the market.
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    AMD RDNA 2 gets ray tracing

    https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ray-accelerator-appear-to-be-slower-than-nvidia-rt-core-in-this-dxr-ray-tracing-benchmark It's funny how relatively subdued (and in this case more accurate) AMD's technical marketing is. Nvidia has RT "cores" where AMD has mere accelerators.
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    Where Gaming Begins: Ep. 2 | AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series Graphics Cards - 11am CDT 10/28/20

    I would think it goes without saying that in order to gain market share you need to produce and sell more product. I was replying to the post above regarding a marketing push - clearly that only helps with demand not supply.
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    Radeon 6000 series speculation

    Annotated die shot. https://twitter.com/Locuza_/status/1321528253539123200
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    RTX 3xxx performance speculation

    Why would they drop the price on a card they can’t keep in stock? Most people buying 3090’s for $1500+ aren’t doing so rationally and nothing in AMD’s presentation would change that.
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    AMD’s RX 6000 GPUs to Boost Perf With Ryzen 5000 CPUs via Smart Memory Access

    Same here, hopefully the RDNA2 whitepaper clears it up. Obviously the traffic between the CPU and GPU still goes over PCIe. If I had to guess it has something to do with buffer swaps between VRAM and system memory. When a CPU needs to read or write to VRAM it first has to copy the data into...
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    Where Gaming Begins: Ep. 2 | AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series Graphics Cards - 11am CDT 10/28/20

    Do we have Navi 21 die size yet? The die that was showed off in the presentation looked quite chunky. It’s far from obvious that AMD is enjoying great margins on the 6x00 cards. CPU margins are likely much healthier. That would cost a lot more than $200m when you include marketing folks...
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    Is it possible Nvidia/AMD are sandbagging their numbers for the 30xx and 6000 series? Plus some other ramblings

    I wouldn’t call that sandbagging. It’s well known that Nvidia doesn’t support productivity optimizations on its gaming SKUs. They weren’t trying to fool anyone because you could simply look at Quadro performance for the same chip.
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    Where Gaming Begins: Ep. 2 | AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series Graphics Cards - 11am CDT 10/28/20

    I’m sure it’s there. It’s just strange that AMD didn’t mention it. Lots of people are looking forward to 4K 120 VRR.
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    Where Gaming Begins: Ep. 2 | AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series Graphics Cards - 11am CDT 10/28/20

    We don’t normally get thermal and noise info from these events. What was surprising was no mention of HDMI 2.1, 4K/120Hz or any improvements to the encoder. I’m pretty sure they’re supported on 6x00 cards but does AMD believe gamers don’t care about those things?
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    Where Gaming Begins: Ep. 2 | AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series Graphics Cards - 11am CDT 10/28/20

    Yeah VSR and DSR. VSR is probably the more accurate name as there isn’t anything dynamic about it. DLSS should really be DLUS, deep learning under sampling.
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    Is it possible Nvidia/AMD are sandbagging their numbers for the 30xx and 6000 series? Plus some other ramblings

    Nope. Such things only exist in fantasy and don’t happen in the real world.
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    Where Gaming Begins: Ep. 2 | AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series Graphics Cards - 11am CDT 10/28/20

    Looks like it's some Microsoft sample app. https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/rdna-2
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    Where Gaming Begins: Ep. 2 | AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series Graphics Cards - 11am CDT 10/28/20

    Sprinkle salt... https://twitter.com/ghost_motley/status/1321538287446695939
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    Where Gaming Begins: Ep. 2 | AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series Graphics Cards - 11am CDT 10/28/20

    You know repeating nonsense over and over doesn’t make it true right?
  17. M

    Where Gaming Begins: Ep. 2 | AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series Graphics Cards - 11am CDT 10/28/20

    I suggest you read my post again. I didn’t say anything about missing features.
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    Where Gaming Begins: Ep. 2 | AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series Graphics Cards - 11am CDT 10/28/20

    Well done AMD. You’re back in the hunt. This is reminiscent of 7970 or 290x days. Performance and pricing are on par so now the marketing guys on both sides will be on overdrive. Despite what a minority of naysayers are proclaiming AMD absolutely needs to demonstrate competitive performance in...
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    Where Gaming Begins: Ep. 2 | AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series Graphics Cards - 11am CDT 10/28/20

    That’s true. I would’ve liked to see evidence that “it just works”. We don’t know if developers hardcoded their RT implementations to look for specific Nvidia hardware. I was hoping AMD would help answer that question today.
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    Where Gaming Begins: Ep. 2 | AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series Graphics Cards - 11am CDT 10/28/20

    They showed other Nvidia titles like Youngblood and Doom Eternal.
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    Where Gaming Begins: Ep. 2 | AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series Graphics Cards - 11am CDT 10/28/20

    The 6800 effectively kills the 3070. Nvidia will respond with something faster at $600.
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    Where Gaming Begins: Ep. 2 | AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series Graphics Cards - 11am CDT 10/28/20

    Definitely. It was kinda weird that AMD didn’t talk about existing raytracing titles like Control or Cyberpunk. It would be terrible if they don’t run on the 6 series. AMD didn’t talk raytracing performance at all.
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    Where Gaming Begins: Ep. 2 | AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series Graphics Cards - 11am CDT 10/28/20

    The increase was for Smart Memory Access + Rage mode. I would bet it’s the overclock that’s responsible for 100% of the increase.
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    GeForce RTX 3070 Reviews

    Well that’s obviously not true. Just look at the shit texture resolution we get on PC. Developers target lowest common denominator memory capacity (i.e. consoles). The good thing is that the new consoles are now packing decent memory.
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    HDMI 2.1 has major issues.

    I have a C9 and a 3 year old receiver and eARC works fine passing uncompressed 5.1 PCM from PC/PS4 -> TV -> AVR. Zero lag.
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    Did Nvidia's 30x0 launch diminish likelihood you will wait for AMD big Navi?

    No it isn’t. The chip is used in receivers. The Xbox and Nvidia cards are fine. Just plug them directly into the TV.
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    GeForce RTX 3070 Reviews

    I need something under 120w. Looks like that will be at best a 3050.
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    GeForce RTX 3070 Reviews

    That's just a label on a box. There's no guarantee that it's comparable to anything. Price, features, value can all change from one generation to the next. Sure but that only lasts as long as the current naming scheme. And even then it's not always reliable.
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    GeForce RTX 3070 Reviews

    I look at it the other way around. Model numbers are arbitrary. It’s not about the price of the x70 it’s about how much more am I getting for the same money regardless of the label on the box.
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    GeForce RTX 3070 Reviews

    Yeah FE.
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    GeForce RTX 3070 Reviews

    The 1070 FE was $449 at launch. The 3070 and 1070 are two completely different products. You can't use inflation to evaluate the expected price of the 3070 just because it ends in "70". The price for equivalent 1070 features and performance has dropped. As usual with technology there is rapid...
  32. M

    GeForce RTX 3070 Reviews

    How did you get $411 in today's dollars? The 1070 was $450 at launch. Also using inflation numbers for graphics cards is pointless. Inflation is irrelevant for luxury goods.
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    GeForce RTX 3070 Reviews

    It's not amazing but it's very good. Compared to the 1070 it's essentially two generations in a row of 45% gains each. So yes Turing sucked but Ampere brought perf/$ back in line.
  34. M

    Cyberpunk 2077 Delayed Again (Dec 10th now)

    That means nothing these days. There will be a day zero patch.
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    GeForce RTX 3070 Reviews

    I suspect $500 will go further this time tomorrow.
  36. M

    GeForce RTX 3070 Reviews

    Screw that. It should be compared to previous $500 cards.
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    So.....who's buying a 3070?

    Reviews are looking good. Demand will be through the roof unless AMD shits all over it tomorrow.
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    Did Nvidia Cancel the RTX 3080 20gb and RTX 3070 16gb

    12GB is more than enough but unless they go even higher on power usage there won't be much of a performance uplift to justify a price increase over the 10GB 3080.
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    Radeon 6000 series speculation

    Bigly cache https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/jilc4n/linux_amdgpu_patch_confirms_128mb_cache_on_navi_21
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