Recent content by xtremesv

I know it's just a name but I'm also curious why Nvidia didn't opt to denominate it "RTX 3080 SUPER" as the changes justified it. Anyway, now we have RTX 3080 10GB and 12GB versions.

Ironic, NVIDIA brags about their share in the AI revolution but they're easily fooled by bots, probably coded by teenagers.

My 9900K runs very hot even with a 360 mm AIO. I can't imagine how heat is going to be kept in check as we're talking of 10 cores on an ancient process by today's standards.

I had used SLI for 3 years, first with 2 GTX 660 Ti and then with 2 GTX 960, until I got tired, the first experience with a multi GPU setup was very good most of the time but with some recent AAA games getting poor SLI support out the box (Batman Arkham City for example not getting multi GPU at...

30-80%? Don't you think that's a rather large margin to come up with a conclusion. Well anyhow, if that study is valid then the part of SSD age being more critical than use worries me.

I don't see how pointing out a fact can be trolling. Mantle has gathered that much attention because it coincided with the release of new gen consoles not due to a revolutionary idea being implemented for the first time. Forgive me if I don't have faith in Mantle the way you do.

Stock exchange is a type of legal gambling. One hour you win, the other you lose. I don't see how these poor investors have a case.

Remember 3dfx Glide? Well it's not hard to guess how Mantle could end.

Yes, probably APUs are the future but until they are more powerful and fully flexible they are not viable for enthusiasts. And speaking of Mantle I don't really think it will become relevant, the only way it could succeed is if Nvidia ceases to exist.

The reality is sad, practically AMD is saying goodbye to performance and enthusiast PC builders. We won't see anytime soon an APU with 8 physical cores, Haswell-level IPC and R9 290X-like performance. They just threw in the towel. The immediate result: no competition, high prices, slow innovation.

I'd go for DX11.2, even though the new tiled resourcing feature is nowhere to be seen in games yet, the perspective is appealing, vivider, larger and more complex environments.

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My same thought exactly, people were forgetting that is not just Win 8.1 + DX 11.2 games, nvidia and AMD must play as well and certainly they're going to release their compatible GPU's but not every gamer out there buys every generation of graphics cards. DX 11.2 might become relevant in 2...

The reason I left Windows 8 was the horrid bugs I found, one of them, which annoyed me so much, was when I plugged my external hard drive, my copy of Windows got disactivated warning me I had to validate it again :mad: once I unplugged my HD Windows reactivated itself again. And I won't speak of...

This doesn't change a thing. AMD is incapable of delivering a competitive GPU relying on 28 nm process as nvidia could (not talking about pricing though). Instead of developing a more efficient GPU to fit current technology, they must wait for others to do their job. I know perhaps I'm being too...