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BIG HEADLINE posted:nVidia making such a big deal recently about raytracing makes me think back to the console "bit wars" of the 90s. I do wonder what kind of support and adoption we'll see; I shudder at the software-based implementation of the feature and its impact on FPS. Already difficult enough to remember which graphics settings are major bottlenecks.
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SwissArmyDruid posted:edit: ack, not the last page. Still, so. We're back to heavy compute on GPUs again, are we? PLEASE don't resurrect the decaying corpse of GCN again, AMD. PLEASE. I'm getting the exact opposite impression, the announcement makes it sound like the raytracing is done on fixed function hardware and only the denoising step is ran on the shaders.
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Mar 20, 2018 08:38
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Can't wait to see the rise of raycoins.
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coke posted:So with all the GPU stocks being cleared, does that mean a new product is incoming?? It means new GPUs, why else would they stop producing Pascal chips? You make money by moving product, the only reason they aren't making Pascal chips is because they already switched their production capacity over to the new stuff. I don't know when the new cards will come out, Nvidia might be having yield problems or the AIBs might have issues getting enough VRAM but they want this stuff out ASAP so they can sell cards and bring in more revenue.
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Mar 20, 2018 09:13
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 Geez I can't imagine why this card was only used for the past 3 months
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GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:Can't wait to see the rise of raycoins. https://rendertoken.com 
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Mar 20, 2018 11:29
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is there a similar rule for xCoins as there is for porn? 
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Mar 20, 2018 13:59
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Don’t Deepfakes need a lot of Cuda? Deepcoin is gonna be huge.
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ufarn posted:Like Hairworks, the feature doesn't necessarily have to be useful as long as it can make AMD look bad in benchmarks. No reason to not promote the hell out of it for them. AMD should invent some kind of graphics feature that only works on Ryzen APUs
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Mar 20, 2018 15:28
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amd should invent a video card
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Alpha Mayo posted:
Used for 3 months but with the equivalent wear'n'tear of 3 years!!!
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Mar 20, 2018 16:38
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Looks like Kyle Bennett was right and from today the "gaming" brands (strix, aorus, etc) are nvidia only, while AMD is relegated to the generic asus etc with the lovely coolers thankfully Sapphire is still around, they're better and cheaper than all the other brands
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3peat posted:Looks like Kyle Bennett was right and from today the "gaming" brands (strix, aorus, etc) are nvidia only, while AMD is relegated to the generic asus etc with the lovely coolers Hey don't forget VisionTek.
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Mar 20, 2018 17:24
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I still hold out hope that 3dfx will someday rise out of the ashes of history like a bold, raytraced phoenix.
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Domestic Amuse posted:I still hold out hope that 3dfx will someday rise out of the ashes of history like a bold, raytraced phoenix. NVIDIA owns all their assets
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magimix posted:As year-end treat for myself, I picked up an ASUS ROG PG279, and it is loving lovely. For me, it stems from a couple of aspects. Previously I could un-cap the frame-rate but then have tearing, and tearing is nails-down-a-chalkboard noticeable and intolreable to me. Screen-tearing pains me. Or I could lock to 60Hz (on my LG 27EA63V-P), but then have some juddering or pacing issues unless I ratcheted settings down sufficiently. With the hardware-sync, I get no tearing, and no need to worry about ensuring absolutely consistency of framerate. I get to crank everything the hell up, squeeze everything I can from my card (the 980ti seems to do alright at 1440p), and it's good times. I got a FreeSync monitor about 2 years back and it's been so amazingly useful that I'm cool with being stuck with AMD indefinitely. My RX480 runs a bit hot but after I spent a few days the other month going through and doing a thorough undervolt/underclock it runs perfectly fine for 1080p. I've also only ever owned ATI/AMD video cards and they've all worked great for me. axeil fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Mar 20, 2018 |
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axeil posted:I got a FreeSync monitor about 2 years back and it's been so amazingly useful that I'm cool with being stuck with AMD indefinitely. My RX480 runs a bit hot but after I spent a few days the other month going through and doing a thorough undervolt/underclock it runs perfectly fine for 1080p.
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Mar 20, 2018 19:40
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Stanley Pain posted:is there a similar rule for xCoins as there is for porn? People are stashing irrevocable child porn links, dox, copyright infringement, and leaked state secrets in the blockchain quote:In order to investigate whether this means that bitcoin miners are all in possession of illegal data, a group of German researchers conducted a census of "arbitrary blockchain content" that had been stashed in the blockchain through methods like CryptoGraffiti, the Satoshi Uploader, P2SH Injectors, and Apertus. Porn is already in the blockchain. And it can NEVER be deleted. SwissArmyDruid fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Mar 20, 2018 |
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Mar 20, 2018 20:27
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yyeah i can see that being used as justification, makes a great headline
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Domestic Amuse posted:I still hold out hope that 3dfx will someday rise out of the ashes of history like a bold, raytraced phoenix. Same, but Bitboys
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Mar 20, 2018 20:40
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Oculus started publishing their users hardware stats I knew NVs marketshare was skewed but... yikes 
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Mar 20, 2018 21:20
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That real-time ray tracing tech looks cool but it's going to be years or even decades before we see it become the norm in video games. Especially if the true next-gen consoles don't support it because it will be too expensive to put into said consoles. We might see a few games use it here and there exclusively for PC but that will be it.
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Mar 20, 2018 21:24
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repiv posted:Oculus started publishing their users hardware stats whenever i upgrade a graphics card, i always look at AMD first. i mean my first loyalty is to my wallet and the performance level i want, but at the same time, gently caress nvidia's stranglehold. i haven't purchased an amd card in 12 years.
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repiv posted:Oculus started publishing their users hardware stats Keep in mind this is Oculus hardware stats, not all users. There is a selection effect going on here so it's not representative of all gamers. Since you need relatively high end gear to run a rift, it's not a surprise you find high end NVidia on that chart.
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AMD used to work much more closely with Oculus than NVIDIA did, once upon a time. I don’t know if that’s still the case.
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Lockback posted:Keep in mind this is Oculus hardware stats, not all users. There is a selection effect going on here so it's not representative of all gamers. Since you need relatively high end gear to run a rift, it's not a surprise you find high end NVidia on that chart. 
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What the hell is the "other" in this case?
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Zil posted:What the hell is the "other" in this case? matrox
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Zil posted:What the hell is the "other" in this case?
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Wonder if you could get Steam running on like an old WinXP box with a 3DFX card and ancient drivers? Kinda makes me wish I was more of a packrat so I could try.
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VMs with virtual GPUs probably get thrown in the "Other" pile as well.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:The picture on Steam isn't much prettier: And remember that the Steam figures include APUs as well, whereas NVIDIA's marketshare is (almost) entirely discrete, so you would expect "gaming systems" to look different even before you cut it down to "VR gaming systems". Although I guess there might be some old NForce systems still kicking somewhere... Paul MaudDib fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Mar 20, 2018 |
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Paul MaudDib posted:And remember that the Steam figures include APUs as well, whereas NVIDIA's marketshare is (almost) entirely discrete. Although I guess there might be some old NForce systems still kicking somewhere.
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the nucas posted:whenever i upgrade a graphics card, i always look at AMD first. i mean my first loyalty is to my wallet and the performance level i want, but at the same time, gently caress nvidia's stranglehold. Then you've somehow managed to miss out on all the best GPUs Ati/AMD has put out since R300  . RV770, Cypress, Tahiti and Pitcairn (once they sorted the frame pacing issues) were all amazing.
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When you're spending hundreds on a single piece of PC hardware, you're not going to let something as silly as brand loyalty be a factor in your purchasing decision. This has been a general consensus among PC hardware enthusiasts for as long as I can remember. Everyone was using AMD Athlon CPUs back in the day because it was much better value for money. Around that same time everyone had a Radeon 9200 or a 9700 pro as well, because they offered the best price performance ratio, while the GeForce 5700s and 5900s couldn't even render DX9 as advertised properly (and this got found out big time when HL2/Counterstrike Source became massive). Whatever is giving the most performance per dollar is the one that gets bought. It's not like politics or sport or even console gaming where you doggedly stick to one side. I don't think it's strange to see Nvidia getting an enormous share of the market at all. It is a little bit of a concern right now though, because when it becomes that lopsided, it gets harder and harder for the underdog to come up with something competitive.
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Zedsdeadbaby posted:When you're spending hundreds on a single piece of PC hardware, you're not going to let something as silly as brand loyalty be a factor in your purchasing decision. ;o
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