I think I’m still content with a 3070 despite the 10-20% framerate boost with the 6800. I get the value there but I haven’t broken the $500 barrier yet either. I’m curious to check out DLSS and I have a gsync monitor anyway.
Ideally this would drive Nvidia’s prices down, but I don’t see that happening by tomorrow. I might try to snag a card at launch and then I won’t feel too bad if I miss one. Gives them a chance to lower prices. Just need something by December 10th.
stusser
6845
3070 is priced appropriately, it’s $80 cheaper than the 6800 but also slower, maybe 15-20% depending on how much you believe AMD’s numbers.
The 3080 is $50 more than the 6800XT, but it isn’t like Nvidia would sell more if they dropped its price. Demand is not a concern.
Nah. Maybe we’d have seen a price drop on the 3070 if they’d launched a 6700.
Are AIB 3070s also going on sale tomorrow?
Yeah, at 6am pacific, I think. Worried they will be sold out before I get out of bed.
I hear you. I’ve never paid more than $350 for a video card. I don’t want to start now. Surely there will be a good option at $350 next year?
rei
6850
Is there an all in wonder version to plug my console into?
Aceris
6851
That shit is hard yo.
And there’s no point in putting tensor cores on the card if they dont have the software to take advantage - it uses up silicon budget they could use for more FP32 instructions (which it seems is what they have done).
And you’re using an AMD CPU :)
You’ve got to think Nvidia will release a 3060 (or maybe a 2660?) once they have the fab bandwidth. I’m certain AMD will release a 6700 or whatever and I can’t see nvidia letting them have that market segment without competition.
Or maybe most of nvidia’s fab bandwidth is producing server cards to sell to Amzaon and Microsoft because that’s where the real money is, and this whole gaming thing is just a sideline to them. Kind of scary really.
stusser
6852
Yes there will absolutely be 3060s and 6700s coming out. Might not be until Q1 2021 though.
My feeling is Nvidia won’t release another GPU without ray-tracing and DLSS support.
Aceris
6853
Oh also, “Smart Access Memory” is some turn-of-the-century Microsoft level anticompetetive bullshit. Using control of the platform to implement a secret API which only you can use that gives performance benefits.
stusser
6854
They would certainly like to offer that performance to people with intel CPUs too, they’re trying to sell GPUs. They limited it to AMD CPUs with 500-series motherboards so there must be some technical reason for that, assuming the whole thing isn’t BS in the first place.
500-series is the only ones with PCIe 4.0.
Aceris
6857
Other way round. The point is that the API hasn’t been published, there’s no reference hardware, so NVidia weren’t able to use it. Hell they had to do their benchmarks on a CPU and motherboard that you cannot buy today.
Aceris
6858
This would be a fair comparison if 75% of monitors were sold by nvidia and they had added gsync to their newest monitor and simultaneously released a new graphics card that used gsync.
I mean, gsync is still anticompetetive bullshit, but if AMD had wanted to persuade the monitor manufacturers to add freesync earlier they could have done so. It’s not on the same level.
It seems unlikely this is legally anticompetitive, since AMD isn’t in a dominant position. Maybe one day.
Freesync (and now “GSync-compatible”) is much more common than hardware GSync anyway.
mono
6861
I got this yesterday as well. I didn’t need a second card, so I passed the order on to one of Qt3’s favorite streamers (not Tom) rhymes w/ Mason JcMaster.
Good lord, this thread grows faster than most of the P&R threads.
@mono @Editer When did you guys put in your notifications? I’m trying to extrapolate where I am in the queue.
