As I've said in the past, visual fidelity improvements are often discerned by their absence, not their presence. Turning on RT might make you...
If you have something useful to contribute maybe it’s better to do it directly instead of trying to create a grandiose mystique about yourself first.
Which leads into the following question -- does the RDNA2 L3 include any hooks for programmer-controlled data pinning, or is it purely...
"Fast" has two attributes - latency and bandwidth. CPUs are extremely latency-sensitive and in fact use caches more for latency reduction than for...
I've been in agreement with you (more or less) that an approximately average/reasonable/unremarkable (pick your favorite middling adjective)...
You're missing my point, but I'll get to that in a moment. You're reaching 3 generations into the past, and down to the $329 bucket ($360 after...
Thanks @manux. Linus's quote from the video: "it's just that way more people want GPUs than usual". Demand > Supply, and it's just tough to ramp...
I participate in these forums to have interesting discourses with people like yourself (i.e., fellow forum members). I don't have any desire to...
If you start with a pre-conceived narrative you can always cherry-pick specific data points that seemingly support that narrative. Here are some...
You're all ignoring the harsh reality of Moore's Law leveling off. We're still getting area shrinks and power reduction, but $/xtor is the...
First gen *ever* for PS actually! Second for Xbox (the OG had a P3). (Assuming "real" == "out-of-order superscalar" which is a perfectly fine...
Unintentional sampling bias is always possible. However I agree with you that I have not seen any rigorous examination of these flaws or an...
Folks perhaps it's time to wrap up this specific PS5-2060 discussion. People are going around in circles. I think we all appreciate the tricky...
Perhaps you misread my post. I said exactly what you are saying here -- they are all approximations, and so it's fair to compare them. I did add...
Money influences prioritization of activities within the available time.
That observation is consistent with AnandTech's data (https://www.anandtech.com/show/16493/nvidia-launches-cmp-dedicated-mining-hardware) showing...
So-called "native" resolution is just another approximation at producing a ground-truth image (which would be a hypothetical...
Yeah caches reduce DRAM energy consumption by filtering accesses, but they themselves do consume energy. A crude estimate is that a 1MB cache...
I like the "Performance Target" and "Notes" fields in that chart :-D
Thanks for digging up the data. I wasn’t trying to claim that the 3080 sold more/faster than those older cards. I was arguing that it sold enough...
Yeah I think we can expect to see some good use of RT from talented devs like Insomniac, R*, Nixxes, etc. They do have to put in additional effort...
Agreed. I do hope Intel stops their weird practice of lumping their highest-end IGPUs only with their highest-end CPUs. Anybody spending cash on a...
Hmm, you are right it seems its mobile only (though Notebookcheck has an entry with specs and all). My bad.
Discrete sub-$100 GPUs? I don’t know if that’s a market any more.
December Steam hardware survey shows 3080 at 0.48%, which is a very fast 2-month ramp. Wish I had historical data to compare vs. prior $700 GPU...
Even though we do not have Alex's training to meticulously tear each frame apart, our brains do subconsciously detect the inconsistencies. Decades...
And that's why I keep insisting (ad nauseum) that DLSS comparisons should be performed an iso-performance setup. The non-DLSS options will have to...
Leaks are juicy gossip for us but are absolutely awful for vendors. Months of careful competitive positioning can be disrupted because some...
3080 is 10,667 on Fire Strike Ultra per Guru3D. 6800XT is clearly gunning for that perf tier (at least in terms of rasterization). The cache...
Yeah I think this is an important point. If DLSS's sole use were to boost framerates to eleventeen-hundred fps it wouldn't be that appealing....
Easy there. Nobody's making up lies, everything I stated was linked to specific posts. We're all just trying to precisely understand each other....
What the heck? I literally quoted your post, and you literally re-iterated your point 2 posts back. You keep saying you're willing to drop...
Onus is on **you** to show us a list of settings you would use on native/TAA 4K to make it iso-performance with DLSS 4K. This is because many of...
https://forum.beyond3d.com/posts/2117140/
I'm still waiting for @Kaotik's reduced settings "here and there" for an iso-performance comparison vs. DLSS.
How much memory bandwidth would you need to feed 160 CUs? If you believe Navi 10 is a reasonably balanced design, then 4x of 5700xt is 1.8GB/s.
Do you have any evidence for this supposed “pay for DLSS” claim or is it purely a figment of your imagination?
See, that would make sense if the 3070 were a mystery. But it's not. Specs, performance tier and price are known. There's nothing left to adapt. I...
That statement is (a) false and (b) makes no sense. The 3070 has already been announced. Oct 29 is when it's available for purchase. Pushing it to...
So... do we think AMD (a) presented a conservative set of workloads so as to maintain an element of surprise for the 28th or (b) put their best...
AnandTech notes that CoD:MW does not have a standardized benchmark and therefore it's meaningless to compare numbers from different sources....
Furthermore, conflicting with a big PS5 reveal (which is happening tomorrow) is bound to hurt a lot more than conflicting with a corporate...
I may be misremembering but I think @nAo used a logluv format to pack HDR info into a 32bpp RGBA format for a PS3 era game.
Of course you can. Let's see here... we'll start with a Ryzen 3700X for $299......... uhh......... I mean, I almost made it -- all that was left...
I love the device for what it does - it achieves efficiency by sacrificing needless (for a lot of people) pixel-pushing, while maintaining enough...
Agreed. Users care more about the indirect *consequences* of power consumption, i.e., heat and noise from inadequate cooling solutions. A proper...
Thanks! Oh right, of course. Duh! Thanks again.
I love this little guy. As an engineer I have a thing for small, efficient devices. The idea of dramatically lowering resource and cooling costs...
Sure, making notable progress along one axis of photorealism will naturally expose the inadequacies of the other axes. But perhaps we should enjoy...
What's the point? Once all the numbers are available it ain't fun no more. The fun is all in armchair extrapolation from scraps of news. Carry on...