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ggrobot Elite Member
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Posted: Sat May 07, 2016 10:10 am Post subject: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 announced [41384] |
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At a special event today, Nvidia announced their new flagship graphics card: the GeForce GTX 1080. The card uses a new Pascal GPU built on a 16nm FinFET process, as well as GDDR5X memory from Micron. Nvidia says they spent several billions of dollars developing Pascal, and the result is a massive GPU capable of powerin
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Koogle Elite Member
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Posted: Sat May 07, 2016 11:17 am Post subject: |
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4k at 120hz... finally
shame intel is being so shitty with there new cpu line up its total crap, still pushing 4core cpu's as mainstream, maybe 5years ago that was alright, should able to get 6-8core with ht at decent price now, instead anything above 2-4cores for intel is major ripp off.
imagine if amd/nvidia was so fucking stingy with gfx card improvements every release cycle, and wasn't increasing the number of the gpu cores by the 100's every release.. no one would bother upgrading.. yet intel think everything should keep paying for barely 10% improvements. Pathetic they should start bundling more cores and increase the die size area...its not like they aren't fucking everyone with shitty new mobo respecs every release so they could certainly make those changes... but then they rather just ripoff people instead, and they wonder why less desktop users upgrade their cpu's |
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El_Coyote Elite Member
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Posted: Sat May 07, 2016 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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I don't upgrade my cpu because it's no where near the bottleneck as quickly as the GPU gets with game development. |
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lorcro2000 Elite Member
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Posted: Sat May 07, 2016 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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This is why I'm still rocking an AMD 6970 in my gaming rig and squeezing the very last out of that one - it would have been stupid to get a 980 knowing Pascal was around the corner. |
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Tom Elite Member
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Posted: Sun May 08, 2016 1:41 am Post subject: |
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Intel, nVidia and AMD have been ripping people off for a long time. But will anything change? Nope and that's why more and more go to console. Intel may be bad but nVidia is the worst. |
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psolord Elite Member
Joined: 06 Aug 2005 Posts: 941 Location: Greece
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Posted: Sun May 08, 2016 10:46 am Post subject: |
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The idiots are going to release new graphics cards in the heart of the summer. I will be at my cottage by then. |
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Csimbi Elite Member
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Posted: Sun May 08, 2016 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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Koogle wrote: | imagine if amd/nvidia was so fucking stingy with gfx card improvements every release cycle, and wasn't increasing the number of the gpu cores by the 100's every release.. no one would bother upgrading.. |
Noone's upgrading CPUs nowadays - that's why Intel's sales are dropping.
I don't think they realized that.
They did drop the ball on doubling the computing power every two years long ago...
So I dropped the ball on upgrading my CPU as well.
And probably the need to upgrade PCs are the reason why people thing that the PC market is stagnating.
People buy a new video card now every 2-3 years instead of a PC. |
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doodah Junior Member
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Posted: Sun May 08, 2016 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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Csimbi wrote: |
They did drop the ball on doubling the computing power every two years long ago... |
They never promised that, unless you mean the common misinterpretation of Moores law? |
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doodah Junior Member
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Posted: Sun May 08, 2016 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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Koogle wrote: | shame intel is being so shitty with there new cpu line up its total crap, still pushing 4core cpu's as mainstream, maybe 5years ago that was alright, should able to get 6-8core with ht at decent price now, instead anything above 2-4cores for intel is major ripp off. |
Until developers get better at splitting work up, there's not a lot of point of getting more cores. It is ridiculous though, considering that their Xeon line is up to 22 cores + HT now (although those are obviously not cheap!) |
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El_Coyote Elite Member
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Posted: Mon May 09, 2016 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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doodah wrote: | Csimbi wrote: |
They did drop the ball on doubling the computing power every two years long ago... |
They never promised that, unless you mean the common misinterpretation of Moores law? |
Considering who posted it, you can count on the misinterpretation. |
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Tom Elite Member
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Posted: Mon May 09, 2016 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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doodah wrote: | Koogle wrote: | shame intel is being so shitty with there new cpu line up its total crap, still pushing 4core cpu's as mainstream, maybe 5years ago that was alright, should able to get 6-8core with ht at decent price now, instead anything above 2-4cores for intel is major ripp off. |
Until developers get better at splitting work up, there's not a lot of point of getting more cores. It is ridiculous though, considering that their Xeon line is up to 22 cores + HT now (although those are obviously not cheap!) |
You are absolutely right, programmers need to code better to utilize the power in the hardware available. Games that use more CPU than GPU for a mild example. Poorly imagined. Everyone knows especially for games, most games are written like shit/bloated. It's already been known for sometime that adding more cores is not beneficial, something since proven that more CPU/cores does not scale/= faster. Unless you've been living under a rock. |
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