AMD Hype!
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@loopback0 said in AMD Hype!:
More like: Nvidia finally bothered to implement the open standard developed by AMD and published 12 years ago. Just a few months after AMD bothered to do so themselves.
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@Gąska The article does point out that Nvidia's probably only done it because AMD have.
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That must be the pettiest downvote I've ever received.
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Maybe someone's insecure about the size of his graphics card.
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@Zerosquare said in AMD Hype!:
Maybe someone's insecure about the size of his graphics card.
I once had a graphics card so large I had to cut away parts of the case to make it fit.
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That day I learned to check the dimensions of stuff before making a purchase.
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I once had a graphics card so large I had to cut away parts of the case to make it fit.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUzCn-ITJ_o
TLDW; Is it better? Yes but also no.
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Fuck.
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So, good at pushing triangles, not so good at anything else. Worse ray tracing (considerably so), and no supporting technologies like DLSS (which is the part they always sucked at).
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no supporting technologies like DLSS (which is the part they always sucked at).
They're working on a DLSS equivalent, it's just not here yet.
Here's another review which is pretty much the same.
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@loopback0 said in AMD Hype!:
They're working on a DLSS equivalent, it's just not here yet.
Will it be here before or after normal mortals will be able to buy a RTX 30xx card?
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@loopback0 said in AMD Hype!:
They're working on a DLSS equivalent, it's just not here yet.
Will it be here before or after normal mortals will be able to buy a RTX 30xx card?
Yes
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T plus 1042. Best Buy still says the 6800s are "coming soon", but customer service still claims it will happen today. So I keep refreshing because I have nothing better to do with my life.
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A little birdie told me the cards might appear on Best Buy within the next 5-10 minutes.Nope.
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A little birdie told me the cards might appear on Best Buy within the next 5-10 minutes.Nope.They probably did. They're sitting in a box at the back of the store. The web people (in India) don't know that yet.
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@dcon yesterday I was told by an "agent" with European-American sounding name that they are "waiting for a green light from AMD". I was told by 4 others at different times of the day that they will very definitely be available that day (FTR: it's tomorrow 11AM and still "coming soon"). So I have no idea if any of that was real of if they're just bullshitting. I just finished a live chat with another one and they said they're still waiting for the delivery and they don't know when it will arrive, but they're pretty sure it will be today.
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A little birdie told me the cards might appear on Best Buy within the next 5-10 minutes.Nope.They probably did. They're sitting in a box at the back of the store. The web people (in India) don't know that yet.
FWIW: the web people are in Edina, Minnesota, USA. (I know a guy on their server team.)
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A little birdie told me the cards might appear on Best Buy within the next 5-10 minutes.Nope.They probably did. They're sitting in a box at the back of the store. The web people (in India) don't know that yet.
FWIW: the web people are in Edina, Minnesota, USA. (I know a guy on their server team.)
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I know a guy on their server team.
I wonder what he'd have to say about the bots.
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I know a guy on their server team.
I wonder what he'd have to say about the bots.
Probably that the site has been just as available to them as it has been to regular shoppers.
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@Parody not?
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@Parody not?
No idea.
My cynical side says that as long as enough people get through the process to sell out of however many
$PRODUCT
s they had then the corporate overlords will be pleased. My practical side says the server team will do everything they can to maximize their bonuses. Sometimes these things align with consumer interests.
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Meanwhile, I shall wait until supplies and stock stabilize before I buy mine. Also want to see how the 6900 performs before making a decision, which will also give time for partner model releases (with better cooling), tests of those and even better ability to make an informed decision about which one to get. My Radeon VII will chug along happily in the mean time.
Also, it seems AMDs MSRP was complete bullshit (at least here) meaning no cards could be sold at MSRP because that would make the stores do a net loss on the cards due to no profit margin.
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Damn... so the thing I didn't know until seeing it on a video just now is that there's a staggered launch between the AMD Radeons and the third party Radeon cards?
They did a worse job than Nvidia with availability?
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@loopback0 I think we'll have to see a couple weeks from now how availability looks. But it would take severe scarcity for AMD to have worse availability than Nvidia, as AMD got over a month to fulfill day 1 orders to beat Nvidia in that. More like AMD wants to have limited exclusivity for their
founder's editionreference design now that it's no longer completely shit and actually looks good.
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My plan is to revisit this in January, when hopefully things have calmed down a bit.
Not that there's any chance of me going AMD on the GPU front either way, but the new Ryzens look neat.
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The new, slim box design will enable Intel to ship a larger quantity of processors to retailers and distributors, allowing for a slight advantage over AMD and its larger box design for the company's AMD Ryzen 7000 series processors.
Between this staggering finding and Palit having discovered absolute dark power we're truly on the edge of groundbreaking innovation that will propel humanity in that-way direction.
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@Applied-Mediocrity that dumb explaination aside, both AMD and Intel ship CPUs in boxes that are ridiculously sized for what's inside.
It's a huge improvement over silly shit like this:
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@loopback0 Still have mine somewhere in the box of all the "valuables". The guy whom I sold the proc didn't want it ("fuck no" would be accurate enough translation, I believe).
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@loopback0 said in AMD Hype!:
@Applied-Mediocrity that dumb explaination aside, both AMD and Intel ship CPUs in boxes that are ridiculously sized for what's inside.
It's a huge improvement over silly shit like this:
I dunno, I'd be tempted to buy just for the box.
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@loopback0 said in AMD Hype!:
@Applied-Mediocrity that dumb explaination aside, both AMD and Intel ship CPUs in boxes that are ridiculously sized for what's inside.
For the price, I'd expect them to ship in a nice wooden box.
( Image stolen from Amazon product. )
I mean, they're more expensive than some wines that ship in glass bottles in nice wooden boxes.
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For the price, I'd expect them to ship in a nice wooden box.
I mean, they're more expensive than some wines that ship in glass bottles in nice wooden boxes.
Sure but I'd also rather not be paying for the unnecessary packing.
The last time I bought a CPU, they were available in retail or OEM packaging. OEM came in a small, plain, padded cardboard box and cost less than the retail did.
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For the price, I'd expect them to ship in a nice wooden box.
Fetal leather pouch, with platinum embroidery.
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I last bought a graphics card about 5 years ago. [checks notes] Yup, May 2017. And then there was Bitcoin mining and plague and other nonsense that kept me deferring a new purchase for longer and longer.
If I buy a new one now, will it be better than the old one?
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@loopback0 said in AMD Hype!:
For the price, I'd expect them to ship in a nice wooden box.
I mean, they're more expensive than some wines that ship in glass bottles in nice wooden boxes.
... OEM packaging. OEM came in a small, plain, padded cardboard box and cost less than the retail did.
Same here, if I even remember, since they were PIII 933s.
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@PotatoEngineer said in AMD Hype!:
If I buy a new one now, will it be better than the old one?
You'll probably see a very significant hashrate improvement.
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@PotatoEngineer No. But it will be faster.
Filed under: I agree with whatever gribs said
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in AMD Hype!:
@PotatoEngineer No. But it will be faster.
And probably more expensive, too!
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@Zerosquare Definitely. But if one's dead set on spending that kind of money, it's probably a good time, what with the ETH crash and the 40-series paper launch.
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@loopback0 said in AMD Hype!:
@Applied-Mediocrity that dumb explaination aside, both AMD and Intel ship CPUs in boxes that are ridiculously sized for what's inside.
For the price, I'd expect them to ship in a nice wooden box.
( Image stolen from Amazon product. )
I mean, they're more expensive than some wines that ship in glass bottles in nice wooden boxes.
With a box like that, I could start a diary of my thoughts and store them in it.
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@PotatoEngineer said in AMD Hype!:
I last bought a graphics card about 5 years ago. [checks notes] Yup, May 2017. And then there was Bitcoin mining and plague and other nonsense that kept me deferring a new purchase for longer and longer.
If I buy a new one now, will it be better than the old one?
At the very least the reviews will be funny.
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Piped
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mGARjRBJRX8
FTFY. (Those Piped and Nitter links never work for me.)