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Plandemic is a propaganda misinformation film series. Plandemic - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG The last thing the world needs more of right now is misinformation. I really have no words for anyone who thinks Twitter, or the internet in general, needs to be making it easier for racism and misinformation to spread. The fact that those things have already jumped up so sharply on Twitter with Musk in control can only be a bad thing, and anyone who is in favor of it is frankly a disgusting and ignorant person.

It makes sense to me. For gaming at least, just having a few cores with really good single threaded performance is totally fine. If they raise the floor on E core performance a bit and reduce the number of P cores, overall performance should be about even or maybe even a bit higher while also potentially bringing down power consumption, or maybe overall cost, or both. The S22 35w could be really interesting, 35w for a 22 core chip sounds almost too good to be true.

Not typical news, but I found this video to be extremely interesting and insightful on the topic of upscaling and reducing input lag. The video talks about some simple yet powerful ideas that I hadn't heard before.

Musk has owned Twitter under a week and big names are already leaving the platform, complaining about a hate surge, and calling for tighter regulation WWW.MSN.COM Elon Musk already faces pushback from celebrities, lawmakers, and advertisers worried about Twitter’s changes.

I seriously doubt Musk will be able to improve twitter in any meaningful way. You can't be pro disinformation information and have the goal of getting rid of bots because bots and disinformation go hand in hand. It feels like he's going to turn Twitter into something like truth social.

Hope your HP regen is quick. Ask the nurse for a happy ending.

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/non-x-ryzen-7700-rumored-to-have-8-cores-and-a-much-lower-65-watt-tdp.html If true, this could be a real winner for anyone who wants to avoid an increase to their power bill.

NVIDIA DLSS 3 "Frame Generation" Lock Reportedly Bypassed, RTX 2070 Gets Double The Frames In Cyberpunk 2077 WCCFTECH.COM NVIDIA recently introduced its new DLSS 3 technology that adds a new feature known as Frame Generation on supported GPUs. If a 2070 can do it, the 3000 series must be able to do it pretty well. No surprise that Nvidia would lock this feature out to push their $1000+ 4000 series GPUs. Perhaps this also means frame generation isn't that hard to do on a modern GPU, so maybe we'll see different version of it from other teams in the future.

Tall order to beat! I'll have to think about that one and get back to you.

Oh yea, def not my style either. I'm not sure you guys couldn't handle my style. This is just a very good audio track with talented artists.

Halo Infinite is Meh, but the music is top notch.

For anyone not aware, the girl on the right is the new little mermaid.

I should have said in my post above, which was just meant as fun, thank you E!, it's been great to be a part of this site. Always open to be a part of the process and looking forward to the future. Couple more crusty old farts here and we'll have a real romp on our hands.

Ghostwire Tokyo just got patched to add XeSS and FSR2.1. IDK if I just had my settings too low before, but now I can play with FRS set to ultra and have a locked 60fps with RT. Having tried XeSS now, FSR2.1 is far superior. XeSS isn't bad, but it has flickering issues where FSR does not.

No doubt Nvidia is ahead in terms of performance, and with the wide availability of DLSS on RT games, they are even further ahead that the actual hardware performance is, so for sure the performance for AMD 6000 GPUs on games like Portal RTX will be questionable but it will still technically work. I've seen numbers that the 4090 runs Portal RTX at an average of 24 FPS in 4K native with no DLSS at max settings. If the game doesn't have any lower visual settings options, which seems really unlikely, then probably not many cards that don't support DLSS3 will be able to get playable performance at all. But I'd assume Nvidia would want the game to run on GeForce 2000 series cards to some extent which means it should be possible to get playable performance from AMD cards as well. Sure they can use DLSS2, but worst case scenario and AMD card can do the same performance as GeForce 2000 just without DLSS upscaling. Might be playing Portal RTX and 720p on AMD cards, but it should be doable.

Any RT is going to be DX12 or Vulkan based and will run on any card that supports DX12/Vulkan RT unless the dev does something very unusual. Example: The new Intel cards support RT and they can run RT on all the games that have it. This is because RT is an API feature, so as long as the hardware supports the API it will work. Crysis Remastered is the only game I know of that only does hardware based RT rendering on Nvidia cards, but this is a very unusual case. That game uses DX11 and Crytek build a custom way to have DX 11 make calls to certain aspects of DX12 without requiring DX12, and they built this while Nvidia was the only RT hardware around. They never added support for AMD cards but their weird RT setup runs in software and even runs on the PS4pro and Xbox1x so AMD cards can still do it, it just doesn't run on the RT hardware with AMD cards.

Nvidia and AMD have always had APIs built into their drivers, games, directx, Vulkan. It's nothing new. Nvidia and AMD surely both have tools to help devs build features, but any RT features they build would still rely on the agnostic APIs they work with like DX12 and Vulkan. Games could be optimized more for one team or the other, but they will always work on both unless the dev does something very unusual. IIRC AMD was more heavily involved in collaborating with Microsoft in the creation of DX12 and DXR than Nvidia was. Any notion that RT is an RTX feature and not an API feature of DX12 and later on Vulkan as well is just not correct. RTX is just Nvidia branding, just like GTX was before RTX.

RTX is just nvidia branding. It has no actual meaning.

Drivers are great. No issues for me.

Update: https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/forza-horizon-5-gets-support-for-dlss-2-and-amd-fsr-2.html I hadn't heard about this until today, but apparently FSR2.1 came out a few weeks ago, and has already been added to a few titles. There is definitely a lack of good comparisons out there, but from what I've seen it seems to be indistinguishable from DLSS now. Looks much better in motion compared to 2.0. AMD FSR 2.1 is now available, reduces shimmering and ghosting - VideoCardz.com

I don't know what ACC is. If you're referring to Assetto Corsa Competizione, that game does not have RT. It was initially advertised as a game that would have RT added, but it never happened. Lots of games advertised RT when Nvidia came out with the RTX branding and then never actually followed through. The game did get dlss added and has RT mods, but no official RT support. But even if that were the case, a game being late to add support for cards that came out after the game did is a lot different than saying RT is sometimes exclusive to Nvidia. If there are any games that don't do RT on AMD, it's probably for that reason (that the game came out before AMD 6000 GPUs and the game was never patched) and that reason only. there won't be any games going forward that don't do RT on Nvidia and AMD, and Intel now too. As for Protal RTX, it says it requires a dx12 dxr card, not an Nvidia card. Nvidia wanted people to think RTX means ray tracing and that ray tracing is something exclusive to Nvidia. They made sure to get RT hardware out first so they could brand RT as an Nvidia feature, but RT is really a DX12/Vulkan feature first and foremost, the hardware came after RT was planned/created for DX12. The term "radeon rays" predates RT hardware and was initially a software solution to make RT renders that would run on CPUs via OpenCL. It supports DX12 and Vulkan today, and it's hardware agnostics. There is no "RTX" vs "radeon rays" in games. There's just DX12/vulkan RT. So again, there is no reason at all to think a game will only do RT on one or the other unless it came out before AMD 6000 and was never patched to enable RT on AMD hardware.

If they look washed out, that's from HDR. 60FPS 4K locked with vsync and RT with FRS2 performance mode RX6800

No, they're are not. Any game with any form of ray tracing will work on AMD cards no matter how many times they say RTX in the promos. If you know of such a game, tell us what it is.