Nesrie
3789
I don’t know. Seems like it’s a mess to me, especially when the difference is so minor we’re not even listing the model.
I think these companies have let it get a little out of hand here.
Market segmentation is a hell of a thing, and GPU manufacturers have exploited it for decades now. Rebrands are even worse. All very deceptive and anti-consumer.
rei
3791
AMD hw-accelerated encoding and support in video apps (OBS, DaVinci, FFMPEG) is still broken-ass with new stuff:
Remember reading about GPU encoding of video so many years ago as the revolution for doing high quality Blu-ray ripping without taking all day…guess it’s still in the development phase.
No it works great on intel CPUs, Nvidia GPUs, and older AMD ones, it’s just broken on the new ones.
It sounded like he was measuring real-time encoding performance, not recorded video encoding. So the new cards might still be good for recorded video, just not for live streaming video.
NVENC only recently became good enough for live streaming and real time encoding, it was previously recommended to stick to x264 for live streaming just a few years ago.
rei
3795
AMD driver and application support for their hw accelerated video is what’s buggy, lacking and minimally supported.
Whoa, only a 5-6 month run? Talk about a short lifespan.
Heck I mean, techradar just reviewed it 7 days ago, lol.
Makes me wonder if we will see a Navi based high end card sooner rather than later?
The Radeon VII was a rebranded workstation-class card, the AMD Instinct ml50. It was never intended to be sold to consumers because it’s a huge chip, very expensive to make, and only as fast as a GTX 1080ti.
Nvidia gave AMD an opening with the 20-series ridiculously high prices and poor performance, so AMD priced the Radeon VII to compete with the 2080, where they could still make some money. The Super refresh rendered it utterly obsolete, as they couldn’t afford to price such an expensive card to make competitively with the 2070S.
Sad that I went to buy an eVGA 2060 Super, it was in-stock, added it to my wish-list, then the next day it was sold out (Newegg.ca). I just wanted to sit on it for a week; bad decision. Is stock exceptionally low for these or is this just the launch shortfall typical of new graphic cards?
Might have more to do with the Ryzen launch (rush of people building new systems).
Great shot!
Why a little MB in such a big case though?
rei
3802
The hands look off to me along with a lot of other weird Photoshopped perspective.
It’s also clearly taking place in some sort of sex dungeon.
Needs more waifu for that
Soma
3805
Now that the Super is here, local retailer is cutting price of 2070 down to a level I deem… acceptable. Not fancy buying a new system outright, I think I may just have to take the hit. 2060S on some benchmarks isn’t actually as good as a 2070, so I think I’m gonna stick with 2070.
RX 5700 XT is supposed to be on par with 2070, yet a bit cheaper, but the lack of raytracing is a factor here. Looking forward in 1-2 years time, 2070 seems like a better option.
I’m reading similar things in the tea leaves/at Microcenter. Seems like $460 is the new price point for the base 2070 with open box options down to $400.
That’s not exactly a full tower there.
rei
3808
Ray tracing as a checklist feature for future proofing is pointless since it runs so slow.
