Computex 2019

[ssBaldy]

Are you on a Freesync monitor, then?

Unless the Radeon VII craters in price by next year it appears to be the clearly inferior buy, new. Lowest price I'm seeing on PCPP atm is $730. Meanwhile, the RTX 2080 starts at $700, and there are far more sales on it (the best I saw was $590).
https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-2080-vs-AMD-Radeon-VII/4026vs4035
NVIDIA still has better driver support across games, as well as more gimmicky bells and whistles like Hairworks, and with +1300% market share for this matchup expect developers to care more about catering to the RTX. Then there's the matter of ray-tracing. It's also runs much louder, and a bit hotter.

If not Freesync, are you favoring the 37% advantage in FLOP power and the 16GB VRAM?

I just feel reluctant to pay those stagnating cunts from Nvidia. I will be keeping only speakers, mouse and keyboard from my current build, so I will be choosing both the montor and the video card.

 

[GhostZ06]

I will be building the PC this winter. I am almost sure the CPU will be a 12-core Ryzen, while GPU remains to be decided on. Depends whether AMD introduce higher-performing cards based on new architecture. Even if not most likely it will be a Radeon VII since I find spending more than a grand on a video card is just stupid.
The last PC I assembled was for my brother's GF and it was a Threadripper - Nvidia combo for rendering.

oh god....that is fucking sexual

 

[Madmick]

As Jay talks about hopefully amd will have a “ray tracing” driver release soon, as their architecture is actually better for it?

Drivers won't magically add tensor cores to the Radeon VII.

 

[90 50]

Drivers won't magically add tensor cores to the Radeon VII.

Did you watch the whole video? He explains why he thinks amd cards would Ray trace better , but I don’t remember the details and was only half ass listening anyway

 

[Blayt7hh]

The event ended, obviously, but I chip away by looking through several new articles about Computex each day. Samsung upgraded their unique Superwide monitor to 5120x1440:
Samsung Announces CRG9: A 49-Inch Curved 5K 120 Hz FreeSync 2 Monitor

The brightness is the biggest leap over the original unit besides that resolution bump. It went from 600 nits to 1000 nits. Freesync 2 also means that you can run Freesync over HDMI.

That monitor looks absolutely amazing. I would worry though that not enough games would use it well. I might bookmark it though

 

[Blayt7hh]

...what? i... i don't get it. but... why?

I don’t know, but all the videos of people using it seemed to love it actually

 

[Madmick]

Did you watch the whole video? He explains why he thinks amd cards would Ray trace better , but I don’t remember the details and was only half ass listening anyway

Don't waste your time. Virtualized ray-tracing will never match the metal.

 

[90 50]

Don't waste your time. Virtualized ray-tracing will never match the metal.

I’ll have to watch again but it was hardaware based not vitrualized unless I didn’t understand him correctly(as I wasn’t paying that good of attention to begin with) did you watch it to see what his reasoning was?