THE DOG HOUSE posted:

PBCrunch posted:

Does RX 470 satisfy the "minimum requirements" for VR?

HalloKitty posted:

They should not have launched with/should now axe the 8GB 470 and the 4GB 480, to clean-up the line-up.

PBCrunch posted:

RX 470 and RX 480 are way too close together. AMD would have been more consistent with previous nomenclature by calling the cards RX 480 and RX 480X. In the 200 and 300 series, the xx0X card was a full chip at high clock speed, while xx0 was a chip with disabled units and reduced clocks.

Does RX 470 satisfy the "minimum requirements" for VR? If so, AMD should have launched RX 470 & 480 simultaneously and never even mentioned a 4GB RX 480.

axeil posted:

AMD screwed up by making an 8 GB RX 470 and a 4GB RX 480. If you remove those two the product line makes way more sense. I think they did the 4GB RX 480 solely for marketing purposes which...if that's the case then why the hell didn't they just release the RX 470 at the same time?

Harik posted:

I gave GPU passthrough a try, to free up one of my machines for other stuff.

The GPU part works great. Moving from a 2500k to a 4590 (non-K) canceled out the downsides of being virtualized. Didn't even require a reinstall, I just slapped my SSD and GPU in my linux box and went with it.

Anyone know if nVidia still has a stick up their rear end about virtualizing non-quadro cards? There was a bunch of outrage when the drivers first started throwing code 43 a while back, but either they gave up or people gave up on using nvidia GPUs for this, and nobody's really talking about it anymore.

EdEddnEddy posted:

Some sites are getting better at their reporting, but there are more new sites it seems coming up and muddying the waters that it brings the whole average quality of reviews down. Ugh.

On the enthusiast side of things, the new Titan XP doesn't have any special abilities cooked in like the OG Titan did that would warrant a 1080Ti being slotted in Above the Titan like the 780Ti ended up being would it?

I was so drat pissed I didn't wait for that over the 780's I got but at the same time, that was a very short lived Ti era since the 900 series seemed to drop what 3 months after? And lasted for 2 years at that. The 780's were drat good cards though so I really don't regret getting 2 of them when I did.

Shrimp or Shrimps posted:

What do you expect the performance delta to be for a ti compared to a 1080? Speculation is that it has 3328 Cuda cores, which is 30% more than 2560 on the 1080.

Even if you assume straight 30% performance scaling (which it won't be because TPU has Titan XP performance at +30% despite +50% gpu upscaling over GP102 (1080)), it only becomes the better buy if it comes in at an 899 price tag and we assume 1080s start at 699, and only marginally at that.

It's worse, even if we assume +30% performance, if priced at 999, and when you take into account the 649 1080s available, it becomes even less value for money.

But if the ti is only really going to add up to +20% performance, and if we assume similar OC limits (say, 2.1ghz) then aren't we looking at undeniable worse price to performance at the 899 price point? If so, that makes the 1080 probably the first x80 card to be a better buy for the money than the x80ti card, doesn't it? Unless, of course, the ti slots in at 799 which doesn't make much sense.

I also am stupid and may have stuffed up my percentages, so please correct me if I did.

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

ok, so if computer has started randomly going to black screen while I'm just browsing internet pages or even just sitting down in front of it, that means something's breaking, right? I haven't seen it happen while playing games or stressing out the card, just randomly in the middle of nothing.

Brand-new system, windows 10, RX 480 (the XFX factory OC model). Seems to be happening since the latest drivers.

SlayVus posted:

So since old Pascal slides show Volta as being like double the performance of Pascal, would it not make sense to wait for 2018? If a Titan XP can give playable 4k, I can only imagine what GTX 1180 would do for gamers at large.

Vintersorg posted:

But then the newer than Volta thing is shown.... you may need to wait till 2019!

Josh Lyman posted:

My goal in life is to be able to afford Titans without a second thought.

VostokProgram posted:

Apparently yes, but if you're using KVM there's a way to hide that it's a virtual machine


Though I haven't done it myself but I've been reading various VFIO guides and that's what they say

Harik posted:

Yes, but you do that by disabling the features that make it work fast. I'd have to find a way to rent a 1070 to see if it works on my setup before committing $500 to it.

Of course, I need to also give up on my M-Series keyboard and buy a ~~gaming~~ USB, since exactly zero PS2->USB adapters seem to work through the USB forwarding no matter how I set it up. Or I could hack up the QEMU PS/2 emulation to take an input device instead of listening to X11 events...

If it was easy it wouldn't be this much fun, I suppose.

Josh Lyman posted:

My goal in life is to be able to afford Titans without a second thought.

KingEup posted:

I want to underclock a graphics card to elimanate some coil whine which I can do using AMD OverDrive.

I was wondering whether it is possible to make this permanent so it stays underclocked no matter what PC I put it in.

Is it right to think that underclocking will reduce the maximum number of frames per second the GPU can render? Will it also reduce the minimum number of frames per second the GPU can render as well?

SlayVus posted:

unRAID is almost bare metal virtualization os. https://lime-technology.com/try-it/

Otakufag posted:

What's the absolute cheapest mobo+cpu combo that won't bottleneck a 1070?

SwissArmyDruid posted:

I've been eyeing that, but after having dealt with Codeweavers and Crossover many eons ago to play my Windows games on Linux in a barely-stable fashion, I am skeptical.

SwissArmyDruid posted:

I've been eyeing that, but after having dealt with Codeweavers and Crossover many eons ago to play my Windows games on Linux in a barely-stable fashion, I am skeptical.

Horn posted:

With unraid you wouldn't be running your games on linux, you'd be running them on a windows VM. It'll be slightly slower but you won't run into compatibility issues once you have the machine up and running.

SlayVus posted:

Linus has done multiple videos featuring unRAID. Including a 2 gamers 1 desktop and 7 gamers 1 desktop using 7 r9 nanos with water blocks. You trade off like 3-5fps to have 2+ machines in one.

Paul MaudDib posted:

It's always so amusing how the AMD contingent will dump on the 1070 and 1080's MSRP, and then turn around and defend the RX 480 to the bitter end even though there's nary a unit in stock for less than $300.

Paul MaudDib posted:

It's always so amusing how the AMD contingent will dump on the 1070 and 1080's MSRP, and then turn around and defend the RX 480 to the bitter end even though there's nary a unit in stock for less than $300.