The most important news for me was DLSS coming to Red Dead Redemption 2 (soon). I’ve been really into this recently, and probably have around two dozen more hours to finish. Bumping up settings and frame rate via DLSS with my 3060 Ti will be a treat.
It is good it see that AMD is competing in the new dimensions that Nvidia was establishing dominance in.
According to some initial previews on YouTube, the AMD laptop GPU are pretty impressive, too.
It’s surprising they actually announced it rather than delaying it again! ;)
If you aren’t overcockring, are you even trying? (watercooled I hope)
Well, that was an interesting week. I got an Alphacool AIO to replace the extremely noisy twin fans on my Inno3D 3080.
So… best to make sure you don’t do something unpleasant to your motherboard while fitting it all in the case, right? (Possibly involving a kink in the outlet hose that brought through to me quite strongly the “water” bit of “watercooling”)
Still, it’s a lot quieter once I’ve got the new MoBo in.
I wonder how close AMD’s DLSS competitor is to UE5’s:
Seems it could be close, as they both run on shaders and AMD’s implementation must leverage temporal data (from multiple frames) also. DLSS uses it too.
I think the real question here is whether DLSS quality can be obtained without accelerating via tensor cores. We just don’t know that yet.
Even if AMD’s offering isn’t comparable to DLSS Nvidia should immediately capitulate and support it. Don’t keep gamers waiting for years like VRR. AMD powers all the consoles so whatever they offer will be widely supported even if it isn’t as high quality.
Edit: it looks like FSR may not use temporal data. That may be why the image quality was so poor in the 1060 screenshot in particular. We’ll see in three weeks.
Was hoping the 3080ti would be $999 , but alas it was not meant to be. I guess the $1299 is sorta in keeping with last gen’s pricing for the 2080ti model.
The 3070ti @ $599 is tempting, especially in todays over priced market. I’d still prefer a 3080.
AFAICT, AMD seems to be claiming that Nvidia cards will support FSR day 1. They seem to be advertising the fact that non-RTX cards will support it.
Vega support! Vega Bois Never Die!
The 3070ti is a much more interesting product as it has vastly faster memory. Assuming both are available and in stock I would certainly pray the extra hundie for the 3070ti over the 3070. The 3080ti not so much.
I may not bother to step up my new EVGA 3080 as it’ll cost me at least $300 for marginal performance. I’ll queue to buy it straight up anyway as I could always sell the 3080 for like $2500 probably to a miner as it isn’t crippled there.
FSR looks dubious. We’ll see in three weeks but I’m not optimistic. Even if image quality is an issue it’ll be a nice option for people.
What do ya think of upgrading from a stock 2080 (non-super) to a 3070ti?
I figure in the current market if I can snag a 3070ti card, the resale value on the 2080 is gonna still be decent. And I’d get around a 20% performance bump.
The 3070 would be a ~20% uplift alone, I would expect the 3070ti to be at least 5% faster going by core count alone, and the much faster memory should account for even more performance. My guess would be +25% at least, and maybe as much as +30%. That’s a marginal upgrade if you have to buy a new card straight-up, but if you can sell the 2080 and get it for free that seems like a pretty tasty meatball.
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They had a demo of FSR running on a 1060 I think last night.
They had a single screenshot and the image quality looked like shit.
Admittedly that was not at the highest quality setting, though.
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They had video of a single scene, but it was all pre-recorded like everything else in the presentation so who knows how well it actually works:
I didn’t see any videos with the GTX1060.
3 minutes in the above video.
Ahh I remembered it as a static screenshot. Anyway, it looks like shit.
Happy with and feeling very lucky to have my 3080; even though I had to get a “premium” version, it was still cheaper than the TI retail price.
