4772

That rumor about the RAM amounts feel like specs for specs sake. Like the phone manufactures that stick 10-12 GB when it will never be needed.

4773

Yeah I meant to type GTX 1080 Ti. I can’t justify $1000 for 15% performance delta though.

4774

I have to confess. I bought a 5500XT. I love it, despite the atrocious timing, and despite the terrible price/performance. It is ludicrously overengineered for a 130W card. It is the Subaru Legacy of graphics cards, and as of yesterday I own one. Fin.

4775

Reveal next month, sounds good. Will be interesting to see if my 1070 can live another “season” as long as I stay at 1440.

4776

If you want a console-equivalent experience you need RT support. If you don’t care about games looking worse on your gaming PC than consoles, then sure.

4777

Fighting talk!

4778

Looks like something is coming August 31. Probably announcing the 30-series, then shipping on September 9.

4779

Nvidia posted “21 Days. 21 Years” countdownish thing. 21 days would be August 31st, which would be 21 years since the GeForce 256 brought in hardware T&L.

Anyway, maybe an announcement on 31st and availability on the September rumored date?

EDIT: Stusser beat me. :)

4780

Gotta move fast, bro.

4781

I hope the emphasis on the number 21 means that the series 21xx is coming, not 30xx.

4782

Finally, a countdown I can get behind. But I’ll need a countdown for how long until the cards are in stock without a massive markup. We’re probably not the only ones anticipating this next generation.

That sounds like a good guess.

4783

I imagine it’s another year (or “season” as @instant0 describes) before Ray Tracing is prevalent enough to be something you might need to have a video card for, and by then 4000-series cards will be around. Just because the games on next gen consoles start coming late this year/early next with it more common doesn’t mean anyone needs to upgrade right now after all. Waiting a year and replaying titles that came out 2020/2021 in late 2021 seems like a perfectly reasonable approach if you wanted to squeeze another year out of your card.

4784

We’re 2 years out from the previous gen. In a year you might see a clock bump like the supers but that’s about it, in my opinion. I don’t see them rolling out another generation of card in 2021, especially if they dribble out the x70 and x60 releases.

All bets are off if AMD really comes out strong and takes the performance crown or is a much better price/performance ratio, but I’m doubtful this go around.

4785

There are rumbles that Nvidia managed to piss off TMSC (Nvidia pissing off a strategic partner? Where have I heard that before?) and had to settle with Samsung’s 8nm node. AMD has a superb relationship with TMSC and will have the superior 7nm node this year.

AMD might also want to keep the node supremacy by transitioning to 5nm as soon as possible. And the word is Big Navi 2 will move to a chiplet approach, just like Ryzen did.

4786

If you want to play all console ports at console-equivalent quality, you will need a RT-capable GPU in 2021. That doesn’t mean every game will even support RT, or that it will be hugely impactful. But that statement I made is true.

I posted about those YouTube rumors earlier in the thread. Take with a ton of salt, but sure, it’s plausible.

4787

From what I read, it wasn’t pissing them off so much as trying to hold out for better pricing and AMD happily said “we’ll pay that” and bought all the availability.

4788

They’re likely going to be competing with Intel too.

Man, Intel’s fall from grace has been swift.

4789

It really has. They really blew the doors open with the Core 2 Duo. Man, that was such a great chip at the time, the speed was incredible when I first got mine. That was what, back in 2006 or something? I guess this is what almost 15 years of complacency gets you. Seriously considering my first AMD CPU since the Athlon this go around!

4790

I think someone upthread or maybe a different thread linked to an interview with a former Intel engineer and he blamed it on management mostly promoting MBAs within the company to the top, instead of actual engineers.

4791

Skylake was great too. Intel’s fall really began in 2017 or so.