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Let’s see some benchmarks. I’ve been in this hobby way too long to drink the kool aid every launch. I’ve seen so many things not pan out. We’re basing opinions on the wrong things currently. Show me some numbers.
Let’s see some benchmarks. I’ve been in this hobby way too long to drink the kool aid every launch. I’ve seen so many things not pan out. We’re basing opinions on the wrong things currently. Show me some numbers.
already being talked about and gn did a vid where they talking about it. its posted around here somewhere...I’m waiting for people to freak out about the FE cooler dumping exhaust heat at cpu air cooler, top mounted aio tank, motherboard vrms, etc.
That’ll be fun.
already being talked about and gn did a vid where they talking about it. its posted around here somewhere...
does the math work for 15? the 10 really threw me off! i was figuring 80ti would be 16.A 1000 dollar 3080 Ti with 15 GB of RAM would simply kill off Navi before it hit the ground.
yeah it is and now instead of a bit of mixed air coming from the edge of the card, there is bassically a direct feed into a tower cooler. i would probably build a shroud to direct it behind the cooler.If it actually works like this:
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Then it's an improvement over the 3 open air fans, just randomly circulating air in the case.
yeah it wasnt really the launch it was an announcement.The only caveat I want to toss out there since you asked what we thought about the launch is that the launch hasnt really happened yet
If it actually works like this:
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Then it's an improvement over the 3 open air fans, just randomly circulating air in the case.
Very unlikely as 16gb would require either 256 bit (too little bandwidth) or 512 bit bus (too complex and expensive). 20GB would be more likely as it would use the same bus or 22GB if they increase the bus to 352 bits and hence bandwidth.does the math work for 15? the 10 really threw me off! i was figuring 80ti would be 16.
I was impressed, 10GB on the 3080 is a bit lower than I would have liked to be comfortable for the next two years but for $700 it can live with it. I'm still interested to see what Big Navi brings to the table and what Nvidia will respond with but I likely will get a 3080 near launch anyway and upgrade later if games start using 10gb+ regularly.
That cooler is certainly stealing the hardware side of the show!I’m waiting for people to freak out about the FE cooler dumping exhaust heat at cpu air cooler, top mounted aio tank, motherboard vrms, etc.
That’ll be fun.
That cooler is certainly stealing the hardware side of the show!
I'm wondering if having what looks like two 'columns' of hot air pointed straight up in a normal orientation is good... or bad?
The axial fans on the previous FE and most third-party setups seemed to do alright, and that configuration did have the advantage / disadvantage of mixing the air that feeds other heat generators and coolers.
While I agree, the picture changes completely once you factor DLSS, I think nvidia will push it really hard maybe even making it mandatory for Ray Tracing.My only complaint is that they are still aggressively price gating Ray Tracing, by massively limiting the RT cores. On cards which area already expensive anyway. 2080ti was just barely a 1080p card, with Ray Tracing. And as it stands, that's what the 3070 will be, with the paltry amount of RT cores it has. And time will tell how long it is able to do it, even at 1080p. The 3080 seems like it might squeek into 1440p for RT, with the current handful of games. But I'm not confident about it being able to do exactly that, in some of the next gen games. They talk about a 1.7x increase in RT performance. But then they cut back the amount of RT cores in the 3070 and 3080. So the extra performance is at least partially eaten up, to fill the delta on cores. Theoretically.
Benchmarks could of course prove otherwise. But, it doesn't look good to me, on paper.
What games at what resolution even chews up more than 8GB of VRAM right now? I haven’t heard of any. Not that have a performance impact that I’ve seen.I am in the same boat. Impressed with 3080 but not the ram amount. So it might be best to wait until big Navi launches and see how it competes. Also that should have 16GB. But waiting might work out where we might get 20GB for 3080 model in a few months. Ofcourse for more money but I don’t mind spending another below 1k for 3080 20GB if navi disappoints.
What games at what resolution even chews up more than 8GB of VRAM right now? I haven’t heard of any. Not that have a performance impact that I’ve seen.
We'll see how it pans out but, they are using the Tensor cores to compress VRAM data and it is supposed to be significant. I wonder if/hope it will be backported to Turing.What games at what resolution even chews up more than 8GB of VRAM right now? I haven’t heard of any. Not that have a performance impact that I’ve seen.
DLSS is cool. However, it definitely has some visual problems. Personally, I don't think we should have to rely on it for RT at 1440p or under. But from the looks of it, we may still need to. I think DLSS should be mostly meant for upscaling to 4K (understanding there are some visual issues) or for making high refresh rates possible in more games (understanding there are visual issues).While I agree, the picture changes completely once you factor DLSS, I think nvidia will push it really hard maybe even making it mandatory for Ray Tracing.