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NVIDIA ‘Ampere’ 8nm Graphics Cards

Vertigo1 said:
It's been virtually confirmed for a while that the higher end Z490 boards will support PCIe4 to some degree with a Rocket Lake CPU.

What extent exactly is unclear but certainly for the GPU. What's interesting in the above is they confirm support for a PCIe4 M.2 NVMe drive yet the block diagram for my Aorus Master clearly shows that all three M.2 interfaces are on the chipset, which is on the other side of the DMI 3.0 bus which is PCIe3 x4 and won't change.

Rocket Lake will be adding an additional four lanes to the CPU so perhaps they've engineered the boards such that, with a Rocket Lake CPU in place, they can somehow switch one of the M.2 slots to use these additional PCIe4 lanes direct to the CPU.
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Honestly it's the thing holding me back with this all is the whole PCIe4. I really don't want to fork out buying a whole new rig if it's going to be an issue in a years time because it doesn't have PCIe4 or has some kind of weird compatability issue. I really don't want to hold out until middle of next year though especially with Cyberpunk around the corner and I also don't want to go AMD due to having issues with them many moons ago.
 
xraycat87 said:
Still not sure if I get a 3070 for 1440p. Or go big with the 3080 which will allow my system to max out at 144hz?

Ive never gamed beyond 60hz not sure if I expect too much.
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It also occurred to me (I game at 1440p 144hz too) that with a 3080 we can render at 4k and downscale to 1440p for better IQ if needs be.

I assume that's how it works right?

I can either set 4k in the games menu and play on my 1440p panel or use the Nvidia Geforce app to do the downscaling?
 
opethdisciple said:
It also occurred to me (I game at 1440p 144hz too) that with a 3080 we can render at 4k and downscale to 1440p for better IQ if needs be.

I assume that's how it works right?

I can either set 4k in the games menu and play on my 1440p panel or use the Nvidia Geforce app to do the downscaling?
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That's my thinking aswell, having that headroom will. Also help push me into a new dimension with 4k.
 
Greebo said:
What game is that please? As I keep being told the 3070 is faster than the 2080ti (* ** *** **** ******) in everything yet it's 5.5% slower there............

Interesting to see that the 3090 is 20% faster than the 3080 as expected.
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FTFY

* RTX on
** In some games
*** When looking at the sky
**** Requires your PC to be West-facing
****** When sat on a corner sofa
 
For the last few years I have been quite happy with low fps. I believe with Odyssey I have been gaming in the low 40s quite happily.

Gsync sorts it all out for me.

I also played control over Xmas 2019 and maxed that out at ultra at 1440p and had no issues at all. (minus RTX of course) No idea what the fps was but Gsync again sorts it out.
 
I would be happy with the 3080 but concerned that the super/ti will come out later for the same price, but that depends on AMD's upcoming cards.
 
xraycat87 said:
Still not sure if I get a 3070 for 1440p. Or go big with the 3080 which will allow my system to max out at 144hz?

Ive never gamed beyond 60hz not sure if I expect too much.
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Once you go over 60Hz you will never want to go back. How about 1440p panel with DSR, much better than AA. Horsepower is guuud.
 
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jonneymendoza said:
Yes i dont understand why the 3080 is so power hungry and the 3090 is so big yet it only uses 20watts more?
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Mvidia clearly had yield issues on Samsung 8nm. They try to make a Titan, but they all fail to different levels: GA102 best case, a couple SMs fail and you get the 3090 which is 200 cores down due to SM failure then even worse you get major SM failure and that becomes the 3080 and you gotta use high power to get there too. it's really in the name, the 3080 is a GA102 that didn't cut the mustard and experienced a large amount of SM failure that's why the wattage is so high - Nvidia has to produce crazy amount of 3080 just to get a few decent 3090 and even the 3090 has some dead SMs
 
WesleyBurns said:
Once you go over 60Hz you will never want to go back. How about 1440p panel with DSLR, much better than AA. Horsepower is guuud.
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True. I’d like to go 4K, but I’m not paying nearly a grand for a 4K 27inch display that does 144Hz. Once the monitors come down to reasonable prices, I’ll make the jump, till then, I’m sticking with 1440p 144Hz.
 
WesleyBurns said:
Once you go over 60Hz you will never want to go back. How about 1440p panel with DSLR, much better than AA. Horsepower is guuud.
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Can you explain this to me please. As I have never used it before and it did occur to me today that with a 3080 at 1440p@144hz I could upscale my image for better IQ.

But I don't know if you set say the res to 4k in a game and just game as normal on my 1440p panel or do I have to do something specific in the Nvidia control panel/Geforce Experience to make it work?
 
Greebo said:
What game is that please? As I keep being told the 3070 is faster than the 2080ti in everything yet it's 5.5% slower there............

Interesting to see that the 3090 is 20% faster than the 3080 as expected.
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link to the 3070 result? I can't see any posts in the last few pages mention the 3070 I'm not sure what you're talking about
 
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