It’s not a great idle temp but what is it doing under load?
stusser
6464
So for some inexplicable reason my new GPU came with a year subscription to GeForce Now. Because obviously anyone spending $700+ on a videocard is looking to stream games over the internet.
Anyway, I gave the account to my brother, who uses a mac laptop. Set it up with the Steam Family stuff to share my library, and now he’s playing Dying Light at 1080p60 on his mac. So that’s neat.
Yeah, this seems like a baffling move to me as well. It also sounds like it tears through data caps so I haven’t bothered with it.
If anyone wants my Now code, feel free to PM me.
stusser
6466
If you have relatives without gaming PCs, it’s pretty cool to let them play most of your steam library. But I can’t imagine having any use for it myself.
Newest “leaks”/rumors about RDNA2 is a confirmation of Infinity Cache (which is a real thing as it comes from a patent filing, although its inclusion in RDNA2 is just assumed). Supposedly the high-end die will trade blows with the 3080, AMD’s unnamed upscaling/DLSS competitor is faster but not quite as nice looking, and it comes up a bit short on ray tracing compared to Ampere.
I’d be skeptical of all of the above, but figured I’d pass it along.
Aceris
6468
When you gather together the space cache, the power cache, the reality cache, the mind cache, the time cache and the soul cache and place them in the Infinity GPU, then half of all NVidia GPUs in the world will disappear.
stusser
6469
If all those “leaks” are true, it will really come down to price, availability, and power consumption. If it’s 250w, costs $649, and you can actually buy one, that would be a very sexy competitor to the 3080.
Also, woohoo, got my tracking number and delivery is on Thursday! Finally gonna play Control.
morlac
6470
LOL, it could explain the availability issues.
Thrag
6472
Check how they hooked up the pump. If it goes to a fan header use the bios settings or whatever the MB’s utility is to make sure that fan is full time full power and not on some variable power profile.
Editer
6473
All of the fans are set to exhaust. Gonna swap two around, and yeah, it’s on a fan header so I set it to full speed.
Could also be in the “What could possibly go wrong?” and “Do you trust this computer?” threads… More seriously, if this requires a GPU (presumably an Nvidia one) to accelerate either the “compression” or the “decompression”, it’s a non-starter in practice.
Wow, that is awesome. Very clever.
If you need expensive RTX card with tensor cores though, you could probably afford decent internet bandwidth too… ;)
Seems like a more practical, albeit limited, use case for this is real time mocap for animation. You could storyboard a film/show with real actors.
Maybe helpful for some people… an apparent attempt at queue management from EVGA in the US.
I went ahead and signed up. I’m sure my position in the queue indicates that I’ll be notified sometime next year, but it’s one less place to be checking.
stusser
6480
Here’s a cool video exploring the new DLSS2.1 ultra-performance mode, scaling up nine times. 720p upscaled to 4k looks pretty acceptable. Not perfect, but acceptable, and framerates are stupid high.
The fuckery continues!
It has been almost 3 weeks since launch and the supply situation remains completely absurd.
My two-week-old Office Depot “order” was just summarily cancelled after the seller and manufacturer decided that they, in fact, had no idea when they could make & provide the cards. So basically they were speculatively selling pre-orders.
I can barely contain my contempt for the situation.
Diego
