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Agreed. Seems like a few more months could have allowed them to iron this out and get closer to the 3ghz they were aiming for.

This isn't the first time something like this has been demonstrated, but this is a very interesting point of progress none the less. Variable Bitrate Neural Fields NV-TLABS.GITHUB.IO Neural approximations of scalar- and vector fields, such as signed distance functions and radiance fields, have emerged as accurate, high-quality representations. State-of-the-art results are obtained by...

Demand for GPUs has gone up a lot, and Nvidia makes the best ones. Data centers are relying on GPUs now more than ever. Even if their margins stayed the same, they would probably be making money hand over fist because they're in a huge market with very few sellers. I'm not saying it's just inflation though; I'm saying inflation is a big part of it... and there are rising manufacturing costs from getting to these extremely small nodes/ Moore's Law starting to break down, and there is the greed factor from Nvidia.

Hope the US follows suit soon.

Well the inflation part is definitely accurate, you can easily check on that. US Inflation Rate by Year: 1929-2023 WWW.THEBALANCEMONEY.COM The U.S. inflation rate by year is the percentage of change in prices from one year to the next. It responds to business cycle phases and interest rates. So between 2020 and 2022 inflation is about 14%, with another ~3% estimated for 2023. No quite 20%, but pretty close. If inflation is just 15%, then GPU manufacturing prices only need to have gone up another 15% for AMDs prices to make sense compared to RDNA2. If you assume AMD has to pay 15% more for manufacturing simply because of inflation, and then they want to charge 15% higher prices because of inflation, that's 30% right there and that's about how much their prices have actually increased if you think of the 7900XT as being a replacement for the 6800XT.

I'm not an expert on what the exact causes of inflation are from, but in this case it's clearly COVID related, and if that's because companies decided to be greedy at the same time and saw COVID is a good excuse to raise prices or not, IDK. I just know that inflation from the last two years is about 20%. And yea, Moore's Law ending is definitely why AMD went the chiplet route. Nvidia doubled down on the typical design and decided to simply push prices and power. Chiplets helps curve the price increase from Moore's Law ending effects, but chiplets don't eliminate the extra cost all together. If GPU manufacturing costs are 20% higher (just a number I made up), and inflation is 20% higher, that's 40% higher end game prices right there. I think it adds up. It sucks, but it adds up. I don't think AMD got more greedy, their prices are realistic, unfortunately. I don't think the same is true for Nvidia, but they're not as greedy as they look. With Nvidia I think it's a combination of greed and higher manufacturing costs while doing nothing to change the design to bring costs down. They decided to just lean into the higher end of the price curve and be a premium brand even more so than before.

It's not the only reason, but a big one. Bigger than I think most people talking about this have yet to realize. There's also inflation, which is about 20% since the last gpu releases, which is pretty huge.

I hate to be a broken record, but these price hikes are related to Moore's Law ending and the kind of issues that arise from it; and this is just the beginning of the end. Without some kind of major unforeseen advancement in chip design this is just physics making thing more expensive, and probably also a bit of greed on Nvidia's side. As other's have noted, both Nvidia and AMD seem to be releasing cards that seem to be upper mid-tier cards and calling them top-tier cards, and I think this is a means of getting people more used to the price hikes. By calling the $1000 GPU an 7900XTX, it won't sting as much when they release a 7920, 7950, and 7990 or whatever they call it, should they decide to release more powerful cards; but that sort of raises so questions about what a top-tier card is. Is it the best GPU they can make within a given design or is it a GPU that runs up against the line of what consumers are willing to put up with as far as price, heat and power. I think Nvidia and AMD are trying to answer those questions right now. So, maybe we'll see a lot of higher tier cards come out and push these new releases down into the mid-tier over time, or maybe Nvidia and AMD will decide to draw a line based on cost and power consumption. These are the kinds of things that need to be address as Moore's Law starts to break down more and more. Not the only factor at play, but it's a huge part of all this. Now onto the topic of the 7900XTX release; AMD has been right on the mark for the last few years at least. Their GPUs neither impress or disappoint; they just exist as a decent but not exciting option against Nvidia. Whenever it seems like they have an opening, they just give us something average. If their RT performance had been maybe 20% better, this would have been pretty exciting. AMD has said they sees RT as still being too early to focus more on, and that they plan to make it a top priority with the next series of GPUs, RDNA4 I would assume. If true, and they can catch up to Nvidia while still having just as impressive raster number, then next gen will be the first really serious RT gen.

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Review | TechSpot WWW.TECHSPOT.COM The Radeon RX 7900 XTX is a pretty good GPU, at least relative to its GeForce competitor, but whether or... Similar to previous cards, the raster performance is usually very good, while RT is not.

Clipped some gameplay moments together and made this video:

Probably one of the only times Fortnite will ever be interesting.

So excited to see a new Armored Core game. The AC games on PS2 were among my all time favorites.

Valve didn't make this. Nvidia is listed as the publisher, with Lightspeed being listed as the dev. With that in mind, it's no surprise that even at the lowest settings it's basically unplayable on AMD. Considering Cyberpunk (Ray Tracing) and Quake RTX (Path Tracing) both run at acceptable levels at lower resolutions on AMD, I'm sure Portal RTX could too if it weren't specifically an Nvidia tech demo. What's kinda lame about it though, with Nvidia being the publisher, it will never be optimized for any AMD hardware so even with better RT hardware from AMD it will probably remain an Nvidia only thing. I never expected this Nvidia push to add RT to older games to be something that would work nearly as well on AMD cards as it would on Nvidia cards, but I never thought Nvidia would be the publisher of these mods/game refreshes. If Valve were making this and simply using some Nvidia tools to make adding RT easier, at least we AMD users might get thrown a bone but it's looking like that will not be the case if this is any example.

I got about 15-25fps with my RX6800 at 720p. It will run on any RT hardware, but clearly it's pretty much designed to be a DLSS demo judging by the reviews which I think will surprise no one. It does sound like 30fps+ is possible on a 3000 series card at 1080p-1440p with DLSS2.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS MINIMUM: OS: 64-bit Windows 10 / Windows 11 Processor: Intel i7-6700, AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Memory: 16 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Storage: 25 GB available space RECOMMENDED: OS: 64-bit Windows 10 / Windows 11 Processor: Intel i7-6700, AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Memory: 16 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Storage: 25 GB SSD available space ULTRA: OS: 64-bit Windows 10 / Windows 11 Processor: Intel i7-12700K, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 Memory: 32 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Storage: 25 GB SSD available space Portal with RTX on Steam STORE.STEAMPOWERED.COM Experience the critically acclaimed and award-winning Portal™ reimagined with ray tracing in this free DLC for Portal owners. Start thinking with portals, with RTX on. So far, mixed reviews. Seems that people don't generally like Portal being used as a DLSS3 demo.

10-year Call of Duty contract has been signed between Microsoft and Nintendo. (guru3d.com) Can't wait to hear how Sony will cry about this. This whole thing boils down like this IMO: MS: We want to catch up with Sony and be able to build high quality xbox games. Let's acquire some dev studios so we can do that. Activision: I want to be acquired and my employees hate me anyway. MS: Sounds good, let's do it. Sony: OMG NOOOO THEN MS WILL HAVE A GAMING DIVISION ALMOST AS BIG AS OURS. THIS IS A CRIME!! Also Sony: **acquires Nixxes to make PC games in 2021** **acquires 6 more gaming studios** **acquires Bungie in 2022** **acquires 5 more gaming studios** List of acquisitions by Sony - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

Good to hear that they're making good advances on drivers. Still a long road ahead for intel, but we're all hoping for more competition in the GPU market so I'm definitely routing for them.

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I'm not offended, I just now think you're a crazy person for asserting that a $1000 case is reasonable. I don't get offended by other people's mental health issues. It does seem like you want to be offensive though, I guess so you can play the victim card when people get annoyed with you. Seems like a pretty bad strategy.

Best way to ensure no one else will have it is to get a cheap no name case . I have a 540 air. I got it used for $40 and that seemed like a steal at the time. Now it feels very dated and clunky. The extra room in the back did not make it any easier to work on lol, which was part of what I wanted from it. Kinda want that infinity mirror case...

Oh yea I'm definitely aware of Lian Li and their tendency to always try to come up with a unique design. There was a Lian Li case that would come up when I worked at DS that everyone hated doing, but it was an SFF case so people hated working on it for obvious reasons. They do a good job at making cases that stand out in good ways without looking too flashy. Looks like the prices on their cases have come down a lot though, probably because that space is so competitive now.

Was just looking at cases to see if some of the cheaper cases are doing the dual chamber thing that Sir B's case has. Found one for $80 that doesn't look as nice, but is pretty similar. Rosewill CULLINAN PX RGB-ST ATX Mid-Tower Gaming PC Computer Case, Supports 240 & 280mm Liquid Coolers, 4 Dual-Ring Remote-Controlled 120mm RGB LED Fans & 80mm Rear Fan, Tempered Glass - Newegg.com WWW.NEWEGG.COM Buy Rosewill CULLINAN PX RGB-ST ATX Mid-Tower Gaming PC Computer Case, Supports 240 & 280mm Liquid Coolers, 4 Dual-Ring Remote-Controlled 120mm RGB LED Fans & 80mm Rear Fan... Also found this one for $70 that has an infinity mirror in the front and that is cool AF IMO. Bgears B-Optillusion Mid Tower ATX Glass Mirror LED Black Optical Illusion PC Gaming Computer Case ARGB LED - Newegg.com WWW.NEWEGG.COM Buy Bgears B-Optillusion Mid Tower ATX Glass Mirror LED Black Optical Illusion PC Gaming Computer Case ARGB LED with fast shipping and top-rated customer service. Once you know, you Newegg!

It does look cool. I suppose if that design becomes popular, we will see cheap cases doing it in a couple years. I guess that's what you get these days from a more expensive case; moving the PSU to the back and the radiator to the side so that it looks a little bit cooler.

Hmm what an odd case. Looks pretty normal at first, but definitely not so normal on the inside. What made you go with that case?

I've never encountered any of the issues you mention with a cheap case, aside from maybe the rear panel being flimsy, which happens on more expensive cases too. I think there is a good argument to be made that a lot of people still buy expensive cases in no small part because they don't realize how much cheap cases have improved. When I worked at Digital Storm around the intel 4th gen era, more expensive cases were a big deal. Cases like the Corsair R300 were like the standard for a good gaming case without being over the top expensive, but now pretty much any $50 case is going to be much better than an R300, and there's not really any features I can think of to look for in a case that today's cheap cases wouldn't have. I'd much rather have a $50 case from today than a $300 case from 2015.