not unlike every launch before it…not enough time to manufacture enough product to saturate the supply chain, which is further exacerbated by the mess COVID has caused.
How is it acceptable to have a 300W TDP card in 2020? Or more like 350+
Most powerful card I ever had is a 970 at ~150 TDP and the heat blasting out of the PC is just too much. Doesn’t matter how good the cooling is, a watt is still a watt, it will generate that heat.
I know many people don’t care about these things as long as the card is “silent”, but what the fuck dude.
Nvidia, you were supposed to the efficient one, not “beat” the Vega series on TDP. Vega being arguably the biggest flop in GPU recent history (big price and low stocks, mediocre performance, very hot, very bad reference designs, late to almost no vendor cards).
I don’t really care what anyone says about the 3000 series, lower power efficiency in my book is a regression.
Either AMD comes up with something actually good, or I’m skipping another GPU generation.
well…while manufacturing process makes the GPU’s smaller and smaller, they are getting bigger in the sense that as more space opens up due to die shrinkage, they can cram all the more tech into the same size, which increases power draw.
CPU’s don’t seem to suffer from this as much, until you start adding more cores, then the TDP sky-rockets.
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I think CPUs had the same behaviour before Ryzen launched. Intel just wasn’t competing until then, so they didn’t push too much performance out.
7700K was a small furnace itself, 9900K even more, once they had to actually compete.
Ryzen launched on a smaller die, had more tech in it, and was more efficient while only slightly behind Intel in performance. Oh and they also had more cores.
Guess we will have to wait and see what AMD does in the GPU market.
Until and can challenge nvdias performance and driver support or intel sidelines nvdia with a miracke priduct nvdia can just do whatever the fuck they want at this point
Also am I the only having a hard time believing cyberpunk’s requirements? For how good that game looks relative to other games and how they run they must have optimised it to hell and back to perform decently on a 1060
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The 1060 was a 200-300$ card at launch, that’s not cheap. It’s the previous generation mainstream gaming card (before the 1660/2060).
Any reasonable company would want their game to be playable by everyone with the lowest barrier of entry possible. Especially one which is very heavily invested in a single game.
Unless it’s some sort of gimmick game “partnered” heavily with a GPU manufacturer, or looking to sell game development tools. Or just a very poorly done console port.
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1060 is currently the most popular card on the market so it makes sense they are targetting it its more of a pleasant surprice it runs well on cheaper cards. obviously the target fps and resolution is 1080 60 making this a nice surprise considering past speculation. its just personally my 1070 is starting to show it’s age with newer games but to be perfectly fair my standards has increased a ton.
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I was not expecting to run the game at max settings at 144hx 1440p with rtx on even with the 3080 but with what they revealed here it mkes it seem more possible
Personally, I’m buying the game and if it’s playable at 2k on the 970 without too much compromise, I’m fine with that.
If it needs more, I can wait to play it until the GPU market settles with the upcoming releases.
Im doing the same. too many realeases and toom uch hype currently. Im gonna wait for the platform to mature a bit more myself. too many rumors and speculations currently.
a 3090 review has leaked and it only shows a 10% performance gain over the 3080…
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Double the price for 10% performance boost. People be going crazy to buy one though.
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Wow that is mediocre.
lol I wonder how they do in synthetic benchmarks or 8k gaming. It may be double. if the rumored 20 gig 3080 is real I wounder how it will compare. also now Im begining to doubbt he 3070 claims I knew they werent gonna be better due to lower physical cores but I thought it would match the 2080ti not be lower
hmmm. it was pointed out an RTX Titan cost $1000 more than the RTX 3090s price and it was only about 5% faster than the 2080 Ti.
time will tell once more reviews surface.
Able to be 10% better at gaming ?
Worth it.
Like with everything.
When being at high performance levels, those few tiny tiny % do cost a lot more, lot more.
Like, if you have tuned ur car to high performance levels. Getting it going more like in 1/4m runs, like 10% or more. Will probably cost double of the total spend amount, likely much more.
The 3080 is already pushing over 400W, what can they do for even that 10% before it gets ridiculous?
That moment when r/AyyMD/ jokes are not jokes anymore.
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hmmm…AMD talked about their Ryzen / Athlon 3000 C CPU’s meant for Chromebooks. they’re based on Zen+ and the top end is 4c / 8t…should be a very potent CPU for a high end Chrome device.
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Guys I have been trying so hard to be patient in regards of the GPU that I am planning to get, but man it sucks so much that I have to wait for some of the new 3000 series to get in stock and I am contemplating if I should get the 2000 series instead for a cheaper price. I mean I just need that high end card that I am seeking for for many years and this is just once in a life time for me to have.