morlac
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Nice. I was looking at the $499 version of that with Nano IPS screen (in your link). Whatever that is :) It sounds better for sure…haha. More research incoming.
It has a slightly higher color range, I guess. ‘Nano IPS’ is just an LG marketing thing. I think when we’re in the millions and millions of colors, I’m already good with that.
I haven’t used them but a lot of folks seem to like NZXT’s BLD service. I’ve looked at them as a solid option if I decide not to build my next rig myself.
Thanks, this is great list of suggestions to browse once the next generation is out.
The Nano is what you want if you are doing a lot of photo editing with products like Adobe on a professional level, like if you are a photographer by trade, for example.
I know this is the wrong thread but this just went on sale today.
(For the curious, no, Amazon won’t give me the $36 difference because ‘we don’t do that anymore’). Assholes. They used to be decent people, remember those days? I do, vaguely.
How long have you had it?
I don’t get it until tomorrow. I placed the order a day and a half before the sale.
You can always re-order, and refuse the first delivery. :)
Nah I’m just eating it, it’s dumb, but hey.
I preordered a reveb G2, gonna need me a whole lot of computer to drive that baby!
Wont be buying a box tho, just swap in parts. In effect it’s a whole new machine however, CPU, mobo, ram, nvme ssd, GPU, and psu.
Damn. Apparently this changed this spring. Does your credit card offer price protection?
Man I don’t know, I’m a week into quitting smoking, feel like the floor of a NYC taxi cab, and it’s just a $36 difference.
Thats 4 quality hoagies you have been robbed of!
More like 72 delicious Jack in the Box tacos!
vyshka
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I picked that monitor up last holiday season, and I love it so far.
After many years of disappointing overpriced sidegrade launches, shit may be starting to wake up. Latest rumors suggest AMD may be very competitive this cycle.
- AMD RDNA2 will be literally twice as fast as the 5700XT, so 45-55% faster than the 2080ti. Launching November.
- Nvidia Ampere will launch on Samsung 8nm (really an optimized 10nm) process rather than TSMC 7nm, which will limit their power efficiency and clockspeeds substantially. Launching September.
- “8nm” 3080ti will also be 45-55% faster than 3080ti, clocking to around 2.0Ghz. Uses 300 watts stock, overclocked it goes up to 400 watts. Said it “overpowered the air conditioning in a small room”.
- Then Ampere will probably have a “Super” refresh in 2021 on TSMC 7nm silicon when it’s freed up… by AMD going to 5nm. The refresh will clock to 2.5Ghz and be much less power hungry. This will be a far superior product, assuming 5nm fabrication happens on schedule and Nvidia gets to use it, all of which is by no means guaranteed. And when it does AMD will be on 5nm so they’ll still be ahead.
- Ampere ray-tracing is “3-4x as fast” as Turing. Supposed to be a monstrous improvement. “RTX on” is no longer a major performance hit, and developers don’t need to choose between reflections, global illumination, shadows, etc. Turn everything on.
- DLSS 3 is coming too, much easier for developers to implement if their engine supports TAA.
- Ampere uses its tensor cores to hardware accelerate texture decompression, just like the XSX and PS5.
- Also much like the XSX and PS5, Ampere’s new NVlink allows it to use your RAM and SSD essentially as VRAM, eliminating any memory constraints, allowing streaming large levels, etc.
- Safe bet RDNA2 will have hardware texture decompression and some way to use RAM and SSDs too, given that AMD hardware powers the XSX and PS5.
As before, these rumors are actually sourced from AMD and nothing is substantiated, so huge pinch o’ NaCl. That’s why there are very few AMD leaks.
Nvidia is going to have to lean very heavily on DLSS. That’s their main competitive advantage. If they can convince major games to use it, they’ll win handily. Otherwise AMD’s relationship with TSMC fabs has them soundly outmaneuvered. And who knows, maybe AMD has their own version of DLSS in the wings?
Do you think this will make having more than 16GB of memory worthwhile?
Also, PCI 4.0 was mentioned. Is that marketing fluff or might it actually matter with NVlink?
This is the most important thing, imo. I’m not so worried about massive general performance gains over previous Gen… I’m using 1440p
Has AMD lived down its reputation of yore for having flaky drivers? Because all the cool tech specs in the world don’t overcome that if it’s still the case.
