4672

Yeah you sold at the right time. Prices are going to drop like a rock as soon as they announce the new hotness, which sounds like it’ll probably be September.

4673

My G-sync ultrawide has me a bit hedged in, but hopefully both companies announce in September, if not release.

Of course, who know what type of scarcity we’ll see with hardware under current conditions.

4674

I eagerly awaited the 2000-series, looking to make the jump to 4K at high framerates. I was left sorely disappointed, obviously. This gen has been a long time coming for me, hopefully the prices aren’t quite so absurd.

4675

DLSS may make 4k120 super easy anyway, if Nvidia can convince/bribe enough studios to support it.

4676

I wouldn’t say it’s going to be super easy, not with ray tracing enabled anyway. :)

‘Control’ is still sub-60 on the 2080ti at 4K with DLSS 2.0 ‘performance’ mode, if you turn on all the ray tracing options.

4677

Rumors are that RT on Ampere is 3-4x faster per RT core.

4678

Have we ever seen a new generation of card that more than doubles frame rates?

4679

500 series to 600’s was the biggest leap I can remember.

4680

Ray-tracing alone being 3-4x faster doesn’t mean framerates will be 3-4x higher, it means RT won’t be a huge hit to performance when you go RTX ON, and it lets them use more RT features like global illumination rather than just a subset like reflections or shadows with low quality as we see today.

Also the 1080ti was darn close to double the speed of the 980ti.

4681

and my 980ti has been quite the workhorse for years now.

4682

More from DF - I’m half way through and so far they love DLSS…

4683

Great video. Does anyone know what exactly he’s showing here:

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He’s talking about the power available to DLSS, theoretically.

He brings it up again near the end, since the Series X has mentioned using Deep Learning:

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EDIT: I googled TOPS, it’s something Nvidia came up with. Tensor Operations Per Second, it’s their way of measuring AI deep learning operations.

4684

Yes, the RTX line of GPUs has custom tensor cores for deep learning stuff that were completely and utterly useless for gaming, so Nvidia tried to figure out something to make them seem worthwhile and managed to hit the jackpot of all jackpots with DLSS2.

There’s nothing stopping AMD from including similar deep learning cores in RDNA2, they aren’t difficult to make, they just take up space on the chip. Something similar could very well be on both XSX and PS5. The challenge there would be replicating Nvidia’s software and machine learning training in DLSS2.

4685

And note that DLSS2 is not perfect in this game. You can fast forward to 13:41 in the video where he goes over the visual artifacts it produces. The really weird ones are the long tails on those objects floating into the sky.

4686

Huh. I had no idea those tails were an artifact

4687

Welp, just sold my 2080 Ti – also got $900 for it. Hopefully you guys are right about the next generation being both around the corner and a big leap forward.

4688

That is awesome! great ROI.

Top end Nvidia cards are pretty much sold out and not being restocked. Signs pointing towards Late August/early September launch for new ones. I just hope we get some real data on AMD cards around the same time so I can decide to pull the trigger or wait another couple months.

4689

Congrats!

I’m gonna have a hard time holding off on the Nvidia 3000 series in September. I have a Gsync display, and I’m gonna be antsy about having a new card before Cyberpunk.

4690

I’m already antsy and have the money set aside. Let’s go, Nvidia.

4691

Yup, me too.