When do the next generation GPUs drop?

[lordkosc]

Wish he was the real Tech Jesus, so he could multiply the cards to give to everyone like the loaves and fishes.

[KevinC]

Wow, yeah, they weren’t kidding about raytracing. From that review:

[mono]

Since I’m never gonna turn RT off, and will take advantage of DLSS when it’s available, these AMD cards are a non-starter. Looking forward to their next iteration.

[jpinard]

@mono

Since I’m never gonna turn RT off, and will take advantage of DLSS when it’s available,

This is me too. If I’m spending my time playing a game, I really want to enjoy it in all it’s visual (and audio) glory. I guess I’m a graphics whore.

[Scotch_Lufkin]

Same, as long as I can hit 60fps I’m content with the settings. Valhalla I hit about 70-80 fps on the very highest settings, and while I could probably get to 90 pretty reliably by lowering somethings here and there, I just won’t do it. 74 average is 100% fine with me and it looks amazing.

[Knightsaber]

@jpinard

@TimJames

It’s my first night with the Discord bot and I’m already a strung-out wreck, conditioned to feel instant disappointment at the sound of a notification.

I never even got that stupid thing to ding me. I wonder what I was doing wrong? I thought I had it setup right.

Wanted to tell you, that like 80+ people got cards 2 hours ago from the discord alert. The mb went crazy. Newegg got a huge drop today.

I got my FE via this method. It took two weeks of suffering, though.

[DarthMasta]

The RT performance is a bit of a bucket of cold water, I assume both consoles will have similar RT performance (or even lower), and if things are similar to this generation, games will still mostly be driven by console hardware.

[stusser]

Yes, the RT performance disparity really won’t matter for that reason.

Lacking DLSS may matter, if it gets popular and AMD’s answer to it doesn’t really satisfy.

[TimJames]

Did you change your buying technique or was it just luck?

[Knightsaber]

100% luck.

I didn’t use the phone app or anything, just hit up Best Buy on their first FE drop and went through the whole ‘I would like to purchase this’ process and it worked fine.

[AK_Icebear]

I think I’m set on a 3070 now, after seeing the AMD reviews. Hopefully the new AMD cards ease some of the demand on the RTX… Wishful thinking, I know.

I finally signed up for that Discord bot, nerves will be shot by Thanksgiving…

[Misguided]

Which one? If it is the one from upthread, can someone throw me a different invite link? I left and can’t rejoin

[triggercut]

The Ebay marketplace bounced back a little for scalpers today for 3080s. You can still find existing Buy It Now auctions at under $1100, and even a few reserve-met bidded auctions are coming in right at over a thousand…but a lot of new Buy It Now auctions that went up today went back to $1200 or so as an average.

I think we saw a little bit of a scared market earlier in the week over the launch date of the new Radeon cards…but once it was clear that these were as scarce, if not scarcer, than nVidia Ampere offerings, the scalpers got a bit emboldened.

[Tim_N]

I feel so stuck in this generation, and not because nothing is actually available.

I am forced to buy Nvidia because I use cards for deep learning in Tensorflow (please let me know if AMD are on equal footing this gen somehow but I doubt it).

I have a 11gb 1080 Ti and I don’t want to ‘sidegrade’ into something that has less RAM. So with the cancellation of the 16gb 3070 / 20gb 3080, and 0 desire to buy a 3090, I guess I am going to have to wait for the Ti versions?

[Dan_Theman]

Well, AMD did just release this thing, but I have no idea if it suits your needs (or your budget). Of course, it’s not a gaming card.
https://www.amd.com/en/products/server-accelerators/instinct-mi100

[Tim_N]

@Dan_Theman

Well, AMD did just release this thing, but I have no idea if it suits your needs (or your budget). Of course, it’s not a gaming card.

Hey that’s interesting, thanks for linking! I should have mentioned that on my home PC I need it for games and computing. When people write about the 3080 “only a very tiny proportion of gamers could ever use over 10GB of VRAM”, I guess I am one of those sigh.

[Aceris]

@Tim_N

Hey that’s interesting, thanks for linking! I should have mentioned that on my home PC I need it for games and computing. When people write about the 3080 “only a very tiny proportion of gamers could ever use over 10GB of VRAM”, I guess I am one of those sigh.

Yeah the 3090 is basically built for your use case, unfortunately that means you are (or in this case, are not) paying a “professional” tax over what it would cost as a pure gaming card.

[Lamalo]

Welp, finally got my 3080. It’s the Gigabyte Vision OC model, because that’s all they had.
Luckily my case has a dark tempered glass side, so all the whiteness won’t poke my eyes out.

Picture with cat will be uploaded later, when I get home.

Edit: Cat is fine, but not ecstatic.

[lordkosc]

The gigabyte cards seem decent, I like that they have 2 hdmi.

[jpinard]

The only good thing to come out of COVID was I’m able to get a new video card and PS5. There is a new FHA program (for those that had to buy under one), that if you took the covid hardship deferrals on your mortgage, you’d be able to refinance your house at a lower interest rate for free. So I had to skip making 2 mortgage payments, and today is my signing which will change my interest rate from 4% to 3%. I’ll still end up paying off my mortgage at the same time as before and I’ll be paying $75 less per month.

If you hadn’t considered this kind of thing, look into for your own mortgage.

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This goes for more than just FHA. VA, USDA, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac as well.