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Don’t think AMD have got anything worth getting excited about this year. As for Nvidia, I think they will have their new GPUs coming out this summer, if not definitely sometime this year.
Had enough of pascal, want something new. Though I have been getting tempted to get a 1080Ti as it would probably do the job I need as I really want to play Final Fantasy XV, but prices are just bonkers for such old tech. People on members market are having a laugh with their asking prices also. So will just keep waiting
I know what you mean mate. It is losing it’s charm these days.
It is taking ages for newer cards to come out, when they do they are not as big of an upgrade as they used to be a decade of so ago and to top it of the prices are going silly.
Nvidia need to hurry up and release something soon.
I am excited about the aggressive approach in the AMD's CPU department. What happens there is beautiful
https://wccftech.com/rumor-amd-brin...roadmap-into-2020-detailed-zen-2-zen-3-zen-5/
image hosting no accountI will be a happy panda with the CPUs alone
Stop fretting about new cards coming out or not. Current cards run everything. How can you be bored when you have your 100+ Steam back catalogue to get through ?
It's not about the games anymore.
The hardware is needed because if someone buys a screen which is quadruple standard 1080p their FPS suffers so the manufacturers need to fix this.
Rinse and repeat demands by quadrupling 4k res to 8k if 4k becomes too accessible.
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Honestly I'm loving what I have at the moment i.e 8700K and Titan Xp, Both overclocked of course.
I'm going to be skipping whatever Intel and Nvidia pump out next as I've just started a long term savings fund for myself and this time next year or around Q2/Q3 2019 I will get a new CPU, Mobo and GPU, All the top most ROG on the GPU and mobo side and whatever top end non X platform chip Intel come out with, Hopefully I'll be able to reuse my current DDR4 ram if the industry hasn't moved onto DDR5 by then.
Don’t have a back catalogue on steam, went through them over the years.Stop fretting about new cards coming out or not. Current cards run everything. How can you be bored when you have your 100+ Steam back catalogue to get through ?
These days I don’t bother with games unless I really want to play them.
I could get a 1080Ti or Titan Xp but who wants to over pay for 2 year old Pascal tech at this point?
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I reckon the most exciting thing that can happen right now (shame it’s not going to) is if Nintendo released a Switch which can share resources with a dedicated Nvidia GPU.
Would be nice, buy yeah, not happening.
Pre-ordered Mario Tennis Aces, looking forward to that
From the AMD side there is basically zero rumours, hints, nudges or anything form a consumer perspective. AMD will release a Vega based GPU for the HPC market on 7nm, testing Q4 and release next year.
Doesn;t seem like AMD will do anything this year and is instead waiting for mature 7nm next year.
Nvidia will definitely be releasing something in the next months given all the rumours. Wont be a massive jump since the 12nm process is only a refinement of the current 14/16nm. So around a 40% boost most likely. Only real unknown is what is the exact architecture and how do Turing and Ampere compare to each other and to Volta. I don;t expect anything exciting but another 40% bump in performance per watt on top of NVidia's current lead will be nice. If Nvidia plays hardball they could price the next generation to such a level that AMD would have to sell Vega at a loss
, but I expect Nvidia will be happier with larger margins.
Doesn;t seem like AMD will do anything this year and is instead waiting for mature 7nm next year.
Nvidia will definitely be releasing something in the next months given all the rumours. Wont be a massive jump since the 12nm process is only a refinement of the current 14/16nm. So around a 40% boost most likely. Only real unknown is what is the exact architecture and how do Turing and Ampere compare to each other and to Volta. I don;t expect anything exciting but another 40% bump in performance per watt on top of NVidia's current lead will be nice. If Nvidia plays hardball they could price the next generation to such a level that AMD would have to sell Vega at a loss
, but I expect Nvidia will be happier with larger margins.
I've found myself getting very jaded about the whole PC gaming thing nowadays. Upgrades that only offer a small increase in performance when cost is considered, games that quite frankly are a bit, well, meh, ludicrous prices all revolving around ram availability basically, technology that I find difficult to keep up with (this is age related btw). There just doesn't seem to be anything to pique my interest really. I reckon well done to AMD in getting Ryzen out a while back as thats created an alternative to Intel and a bit of competition. I reckon I've just lost interest in the whole thing now, got other things to worry about as well.
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This^
Not many good games I like atm. Been playing more console and arcade (Neo Geo, jamma arcade) My PC has been mostly used for browsing. I don't think I'll be upgrading anytime soon. Nothing to get excited about.
If I was a big hardware CEO I'd get together with the other hardware companies and invest in a developer to create killer software for my hardware. That seems to be the main driver for hardware replacement. Note that I don't advocate hardware companies writing their own software. It doesn't always go well!