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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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?
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
How did you get $411 in today's dollars? The 1070 was $450 at launch. Also using inflation numbers for graphics cards is pointless. Inflation is irrelevant for luxury goods.
It's not amazing but it's very good. Compared to the 1070 it's essentially two generations in a row of 45% gains each. So yes Turing sucked but Ampere brought perf/$ back in line.
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.