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NVIDIA ‘Ampere’ 8nm Graphics Cards

BigBANGtheory said:
I think 4k is going to be with us a long time

It also presents something of a problem for GPU manufacturers because once you are over the hump of being able to render 4K at good frames where is there to go for the mass market. Sure you could point to ray tracing or some other effects but the truth is its going to take years for the market to catchup and to convince developers to go all-in whilst supporting older platforms and hardware. I can see that really only the simmers and VR users stand to gain in this scenario with incremental jumps in performance and visual quality...
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This is my problem with Turing. We are not at the point where NVidia can do what phone companies do and just keep targeting the higher end poser brigade as the technology is still behind where it needs to be.

If you’re not bothered about social image or absolute performance, an iPhone 6 is still a great phone.

When every card can easily do 4K, by all means fleece the top end buyers but that time isn’t here and should be no excuse to bring the price of the lower end up.
 
CuriousTomCat said:
I really don't think increasing the resolution all the time is the answer. 8k is ridiculous!!!

Surely game developers must be doing it wrong in the first place if the image needs 8k to remove jaggies?

A DVD movie has no jaggies at 480p and looks fantastic. Why does a game need 8k to look as good? I don't even think a 16k game would look at realistic as a 480p dvd to be honest. Resolution clearly isn't the correct answer.

1440p should be plenty. We just need games developers to have a board meeting and work things out properly in my opinion.

We need better solutions to these problems. 8k isn't the answer until games look at good as a movie. Then 8k can add extra detail to the movie.
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4K in flight sims on a big screen is an absolute necessity for me to fully enjoy the experience.

It would be like going back to 60hz from 144hz for those that have done it I imagine
 
McGraw said:
On a 40” screen 30cm from your face?
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30cm? People apparently sit 4 foot away from their tiny monitors. No wonder they think 1440p is good enough :p

But jokes aside it’s all subjective. I sit very close to my monitor so high pixel density really helps image quality. Each to their own, but I would never agree with 1440p being plenty.
 
Perfect_Chaos said:
Even the top end still can't easily do 4k if you're talking decently high fps in demanding games.
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Lucky for me I don’t play games that particularly benefit majorly from high fps. I am happy playing the Halo games at 60fps at the moment and also Resident Evil Remake with a controller :D

Oh and both games work perfectly fine with my RX 580 @JediFragger ;)
 
Steve at gamers nexus says various board partners told him Nvidia will announce the RTX3000 cards on 9 September

Also, the board partners do not know the pricing - only the most senior management at Nvidia get told and sometimes Jensen changes the pricing just before going on stage to announce the cards
 
No I suppose that makes sense board partners don't need to know how much Nvidia is going to charge for the first wave of Nvidia GPUs but they must have some idea what the Ampere chips themselves are going to cost unless they are built under some kind of license.

Not long to go know then that's only a month to go and then presumably we'll start getting some Big Navi facts soon after.
 
Grim5 said:
Steve at gamers nexus says various board partners told him Nvidia will announce the RTX3000 cards on 9 September

Also, the board partners do not know the pricing - only the most senior management at Nvidia get told and often Jensen raises the pricing just before going on stage to announce the cards
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Fixed :p
 
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Grim5 said:
Steve at gamers nexus says various board partners told him Nvidia will announce the RTX3000 cards on 9 September

Also, the board partners do not know the pricing - only the most senior management at Nvidia get told and sometimes Jensen changes the pricing just before going on stage to announce the cards
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Yeah I saw that. Fingers crossed for something competitive. I imagine board partners must have some idea of pricing because they'll know the BOM cost and will have an inkling of whether it's going to be expensive to make up a good margin.
 
five8five said:
Fixed :p
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Lol. Sounds about right.

Let’s see if “the more you buys, the more you save” line will be used on Ampere launch.

Don’t just buy one, buy many, give to friends and family. Spread the love, paint the minds and souls of planet green again!
 
Grim5 said:
Steve at gamers nexus says various board partners told him Nvidia will announce the RTX3000 cards on 9 September

Also, the board partners do not know the pricing - only the most senior management at Nvidia get told and sometimes Jensen changes the pricing just before going on stage to announce the cards
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With the way things are it's probably best to get an order in early as possible, especially if looking for a new GPU. Good to hear we should be getting non reference cards quickly after too.

Guessing pre orders for those should be going up same time as the founders?
 
For me 1440p on a 27" sat about 3 foot away has plenty enough pixel density.

9th of September eh? Looks like Nvidia will be first out of the gate, can't seem to find any info on AMD having specified a date for RDNA2 card announcement yet. I'm not in the market for a new card but it feels like ages ago that there was a new GPU release to study reviews for, looking forward to it.
 
Five.Stars said:
Why TF are you sitting 30cm away from a display as large as that?
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Well they do say you'll go blind :p

Perfect_Chaos said:
With the way things are it's probably best to get an order in early as possible, especially if looking for a new GPU. Good to hear we should be getting non reference cards quickly after too.

Guessing pre orders for those should be going up same time as the founders?
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Why AMD can't get custom cards out on release, or just after too, really baffles me.
 
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