NVIDIA ‘Ampere’ 8nm Graphics Cards

[humbug]

See, some of you have got this all wrong..

many years ago I was married, my wife wanted to start a family but she said I would need to cut back on my pc component purchases..

now I’m in my 40’s with no sprogs and re married to my left hand..

3090 here I come

lol...

 

[Jacky60]

Of the many things that may cause humanity to implode, I don't think that Nvidia overcharging for GPU's is one of them.

A 'butterflies wings', you never know.......I can see how it might contribute, sort of.

 

[Jacky60]

Look, stop making it so hard, just be a good boy and get ready to hand over 2K to Gibbo and Jensen

 

[BigBANGtheory]

if its the Butterfly effect then I think Apple started it, or was it Miami Vice with the white Ferrari

 

[K1LaW8tt5]

if its the Butterfly effect then I think Apple started it, or was it Miami Vice with the white Ferrari

it started with the tamagotchi

 

[Jacky60]

Its a pass

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-rtx-3090-founders-edition-board-passes-rra-certification/

Not a Credit, Star or Distinction?

 

[labbby]

Just heard a new rumour that if you buy a 3900 the planet will be hit by a comet the size of New York..

apparently Dinosaurs also couldn’t control their spending on high end gpu’s

 

[Stu999]

Just heard a new rumour that if you buy a 3900 the planet will be hit by a comet the size of New York..

apparently Dinosaurs also couldn’t control their spending on high end gpu’s

What's the downside? AMD will be annoyed their CPU caused the end of the world.

 

[labbby]

What's the downside? AMD will be annoyed their CPU caused the end of the world.

this is why they should have stuck with Ti

I stand corrected my phone seems to auto correct 3090 to 3900 ffs, it’s done it’s twice now

 

[K1LaW8tt5]

How could you possibly know that, were the actual games included in the stats?

the stats for all the games are there. The most popular being CS:GO, DOTA 2 and PUBG. If you look at the graph the number of online users has been continuously growing but (since it was accessible) the number of players actually playing games is rather steady.
also of note is if you remove the spike when PUBG released(its hugely popular among pc gamers and cheaters) and COVID(not a game the real thing) then it has been mostly a flat line the 3 or 4 years.

That's why I wouldn't use that as definitive proof that pc gaming is on the up and up. steam doesn't include fortnite or modern warfare or battlefield and includes rubbish casual games and the likes of wallpaper engine.


I don't think sony/microsoft release statistics for ps4/xb for a comparison of player counts.

I'm not saying my analysis is 100% accurate but just making the point that looking at the most popular games being played I don't think anyone will be building a monster rig to play them

 

[McGraw]

I wasn't just on about GPU prices when I said I'll remain an idealist I meant it in the broadest sense! If we carry on a species obsessing over making money (which is basically a man made concept) above all else we are bound to fail as a species.

I agree with this. Capitalism is a stage we need to get past.

 

[chaparral]

now I’m in my 40’s with no sprogs and re married to my left hand..

3090 here I come

At lest you're getting it now

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

the stats for all the games are there. The most popular being CS:GO, DOTA 2 and PUBG.

None of those games require high end GPUs and have cartoony graphics which scale well to weaker PCs. In fact if you look at which games that tend to make up a large amount of PC gaming revenue its twitch shooters and MMOs,most of which are not known to push graphics that much,ie,even people with older PCs can run them fine. If anything they probably need a better CPU.

 

[K1LaW8tt5]

None of those games require high end GPUs and have cartoony graphics which scale well to weaker PCs. In fact if you look at which games that tend to make up a large amount of PC gaming revenue its twitch shooters and MMOs,most of which are not known to push graphics that much,ie,even people with older PCs can run them fine. If anything they probably need a better CPU.

that was also the point I was making. Probably badly.

 

[Gregster]

That's what stagnation means the video gaming industry growing because of the 1.5 billion pc gamers and mobile gaming while console gaming userbase has remained the same since 2005. "Of those nearly 3.1 billion players, only about 8% are dedicated console consumers"
https://www.ign.com/articles/three-billion-people-worldwide-now-play-video-games-new-report-shows

Also found these after a few minutes search:

PC is now Ubisoft's most lucrative platform
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/66644/pc-now-ubisofts-lucrative-platform/index.html

PC gaming, driven by its 1.3 billion players, will grow 4.8% year on year in 2020
https://venturebeat.com/2020/05/08/...rs-will-spend-159-3-billion-on-games-in-2020/

Sega will "aggressively" focus on PC after Steam strength during lockdown
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-08-19-sega-to-aggressively2

Microsoft may actually be committed to PC gaming this time
https://venturebeat.com/2019/06/24/microsoft-windows-pc-gaming/

Meanwhile Nvidia and AMD posting record breaking profits, companies like Samsung, LG and HP investing on PC Virtual Reality and displays and peripheral companies like Corsair and Razer thriving. Twitch.tv, youtube and e-sports all dominated by PC gaming while Steam breaks concurrent user records every year dwarfing PSN and Xbox live. Even Sony is now releasing their games on PC.

Steam hit its all-time concurrent user peak over the weekend
https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/16/21181272/steam-concurrent-user-record-set-cs-go

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a...n-earnings-raising-annual-forecast-2020-07-28

Now show a me shred of evidence that PC gaming is somehow declining.

Great post and shows the PC getting stronger

 

[BigBANGtheory]

Just heard a new rumour that if you buy a 3900 the planet will be hit by a comet the size of New York..

apparently Dinosaurs also couldn’t control their spending on high end gpu’s

3900 is an AMD Ryzen Processor u muppet

 

[labbby]

3900 is an AMD Ryzen Processor u muppet

haha you need to read my edit. i didn't edit my mistake, im just going to sit in the corner for a few hours

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

that was also the point I was making. Probably badly.

I just read some of the earlier posts in the thread - serves me right for only reading the last few!

I agree,most of the growth is in titles which are scalable,ie,a number of the older titles you talk about. I suspect for AAA "tech demo" games,consoles are doing better than expected due to cost(maybe outside of stuff such as Star Citizen). This is what consoles give you,an affordable way to play some of the more demanding single player titles.

 

[Quartz]

it's been posted already,

I have not found it. Yes, of course the 90 million includesmultiple account holders, but I doubt there are that many of them. And there are 19 million people using Steam RIGHT NOW.

Anyway the issue was high-end gamers being in decline. Do you have any evidence to justify @beany_bot's assertion?

 

[JediFragger]

Its a pass

Pffffffft, it obviously avoided the UK government's algorithm quite nicely there