NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards
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AMD has said RDNA2 will launch before the consoles. Id guess that means sometime in October.
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kegkilla
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Can't say from first hand experience but I've heard a lot of bitching the last couple years about high-end cards lacking the VRAM for 4k games.
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I mean, VRAM usage mostly just scales with pixel count. Some additional usage for shaders and effects and stuff, but 90% just raw pixel count.
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And higher res textures. Ive kept my 980 Ti for 6 years and it has 6 gigs of ram yet the 3080 only has 10 gigs? Seems like this is a case of forcing people into buying the 3090, or forced obsolescence after a few years.
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I feel like there is something Nvidia isn't saying/leaking re: these cards (change in architecture, more tensor/RT cores, something) because otherwise something doesn't jive here. 80% more transistors & only 20% more Cuda cores... This is on 7nm as well, the power draw to (estimated, probably poorly estimated) performance is way out of whack.
I'm interested to see the presentation but not as excited as I was - hope I'm proven wrong, otherwise I will probably wait until AMD drops their next gen cards. Do the 7nm Samsung nodes just suck compared to TSMC?
I'm interested to see the presentation but not as excited as I was - hope I'm proven wrong, otherwise I will probably wait until AMD drops their next gen cards. Do the 7nm Samsung nodes just suck compared to TSMC?
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Depends what model you wanted, you could definitely get stock ones for fairly close to 1000-1100, when they were in stock. It's just most third party partners put some base level factory OC on them and a better cooler and sold them for 1200ish.
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That was also in the time of the Cryptoboom and no competition, which has passed. You started being able to get 2080Ti's again for $999 Sept last year.
As I understand it, most of these cards are on 8nm, which means that the 50% we thought we were getting became the 35% we are seeing and guarantees Super refreshes next year for double dips. I can't believe that pricing that says Big Navi/RDNA 2.0 will be more expensive than 3080 unless it's blowing the doors off it. It will be the best Oct/Nov for tech in a decade.