Guess l’ll just keep waiting
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Hardware market really is garbo right now.
The original card was operating at just one (yes one) FPS 1% low and 0.1% FPS lows, while the 16GB card operated with 60 and 40 FPS respectively. Average frame rates also went up, from 54 to 71 FPS.
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street prices of Chinese 2 slot 4090s have gone up like $700 since I got mine lol
I win something or other
also lian li sent me a new power switch for my eBay Dan A4 for free after I was unsuccessful soldering so that rules
but yeah, essentially every nvidia card on the market from the last 2-3 generations that clocks between 20 and 80 tflops right now is pretty cut down memory wise and overpriced, they’re getting really lazy about consumer product differentiation when they wanna make server GPUs
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ohh that explains why the 3070 isn’t actually faster than a 2080 ti in practice lol
“framerate” is such a misleading way to present that, it’s really “is it paging out to memory or not”, and “what settings do you need to avoid it”, because nobody would find it tolerable. This should be written as, “here are the games you need to lower settings to an unacceptable degree in”.
At any rate, it’s really funny how much this mirrors the 970, released at a similar point in the console life and with that split 3.5/.5GB RAM pool, the same 50% of the total memory of the consoles, its processor outstripping its memory pool for the same reasons.
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you don’t even need a GPU with a low amount of VRAM to experience this in modern games
force your Windows page file onto a spinner and see how often you get those 1-10 fps stutters
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not sure if I mentioned but my work got me an M2 pro and while it’s objectively well made and performant and it’s nice that the macbooks have 120hz now… there is literally nothing exciting about this computer.
imo a lot of the design changes from the 2018 MBP are borderline regressions — I actually miss the touch bar, and magsafe feels like kind of a nuisance now that everything else charges off of USB-C. I think they overcorrected from negative feedback based on just how bad the 2016 machines were. ARM performance is obviously great, but their software support is honestly very boring now compared to windows/nvidia in both compute and gaming categories.
I’d said I was gonna get around to an M3/Pro on account of AV1 support but now I really can’t see myself bothering to upgrade beyond whatever work gets me
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fwiw i only use magsafe as the “travel” charger — almost every time i charge it while stationary i’m using a USB PD brick or 100W PD work laptop chargers we pass around
i know the 140W adapter that comes with the 16” is faster over magsafe but i don’t think the 96W adapter over magsafe is appreciably faster than 100W PD
re: the gestalt of the object i knew i was just down bad for the chonk
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6000 generation of AMD graphics cards have become a good deal when on sale, which is often.
6600xt $230
6700xt $320
6800 $450
6800xt $500
6950xt $600
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AMD takes the savings of not making good drivers and passes it on to you, the consumer
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AMD certainly earned a reputation for bad drivers 5-10 years ago.
My r9 270x would sometimes randomly crash and recover while web browsing.
My RX 580 would black screen under load because the XFX design had flawed power delivery.
The 5700xt had black screens for the first 4 months until a driver update.
Is the 6000 line actually bad though?
With exception of issues with multiple monitors using mixed resolutions and mixed refresh rates, which is something windows struggles with generally and causes my 3080 to flash asleep and awake for a few seconds on wake-up. I haven’t heard specific problems with the 6000 line outside of the normal anecdotal chatter. The broad consensus among analysts is that it’s the best it’s ever been because AMD finally has the money to invest in a driver team due to the success of its CPU division.
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On the linux side it has completely flipped from nvidia to amd, mostly due to the fact that amd’s official drivers are open source(well, they have closed source drivers as well, but the open source drivers are also supported and are a part of the mainline kernel).
My only frustration with amd on linux is that ffmpeg doesn’t seem to have good support for amd’s gpu encoders/decoders. At least, not on my mint 20 install.
AMD still really really really lacks compute middleware because they don’t have the CUDA ecosystem which people talk about lots of different ways, whether it’s “drivers” or “creative workloads”, but it’s a real gap
it’s really silly that the best ways to tax apple silicon GPUs are video encode/decode (zzz) and emulating gamecube games. someone has got to be embarrassed over there. just start writing grants c’mon
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yeah I have a hard time believing that they even have much of a captive professional market for “laptop that can run after effects kind of well” which is the only other userbase I can imagine I’m overlooking
it’s just not there afaict
i think i found the MBP more exciting because i also use a thinkpad x1 most days and it makes me fantasize about destroying it
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i plum do not understand the push to eliminate load screens with streaming/background loading/crevice shimmying
the only 3D games i play are online and necessarily full of loading screens and it’s fine! show me some item descriptions, give my eyes and thumbs a rest for thirty seconds, whatever
i am way more annoyed by little hitches when i open a door or turn a corner
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that’s easy to say when destiny is the only game I’m aware of that has the sense to let you mess around in your inventory during any loading screen or dialogue or cutscene. but I agree, when I saw the great mood setting loading screens in hitman’s freelancer mode I thought what a shame it would be to lose these
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and if a game is going to make me “manage inventory” i want an API for it. i’m utterly ruined for AAA action RPGs
most games could do without the inventory
it’s a shame master chief collection didn’t preserve the various moody halo load screens
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