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Captain_Yuri said:

JEMC said:
There's been a lot of rumors regarding the performance of Big Navi, but not a single one about yield problems.

But it doesn't really have to be a very big chip. The Navi 10 chip of the 5700 series is 251 mm², double that and it would still be smaller than the Ampere chip of the 3080. Of course, it's not that simple and the added ray tracing hardware will also take more space.

Yea that's true. It's just annoying as to how late it is. Like if you have a competitive product, what would be the reasoning to not steal your competitors hype? They had almost a month to prepare since Nvidia did that countdown and they have 3-4 weeks since the event to come out with something to give people a reason to wait for Big Navi. Instead, they are like, go ahead Nvidia, do your thing, I'll just showcase my product a month later. Have all dem sales.

It's not like they even need to commit to a release date. They could have showed it off in September and been like, releasing in November/December and people would be fine with that if it's that good.

Well, to be fair, there's nothing AMD could do to stop Nvidia from selling the first batches of their cards. There's a demand for them and even if they had a better product, Nvidia's brand powe would be enough to still sell them. So why not wait until you have a finished product to launch it? You'll also have the benefit of doing some final tweaks to the BIOSes and the price to get a more competitive product.

By the way, and talking about selling cards, looks like cryptominers are at it again:

Hold your breath: GeForce RTX 3080 Might Become Hard to get - Cryptocurrency Miners Again
https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/hold-your-breath-geforce-rtx-3080-might-become-hard-to-get-cryptocurrency-miners-again.html
The first in the row of to be released RTX series 30 graphics card is, of course, the GeForce RTX 3080, and something very ominous is happing in Asia; miners already have obtained many cards, and they want them badly s the mining compute capacity of 115 MH/s is triple that of the RTX 2080.

In the photos below originating from the Chinese forum Baidu, there are users actually who managed to get hold of several cards (before launch). It's staggering to see as photos are showing RTX 3080 cards in piled up in stacks. The fact that the cards already have been sold is weird, but more worrying is that a new mining craze might ignite shortages, and this will drive availability for consumers down and prices up.

Miners that mine Ethereum, as you can see in the screenshot for the RTX 3080 achieves a computing power of 115 MH/s, nearly three times faster than an RTX 2080 that is capable of 35 to 40 megahashes per second. No values for energy consumption are given, the 3080 seems theoretically more efficient if one contrasts the tdp of both cards with the hash rate. Mining cryptocurrency in Asia is quite profitable, given the relatively low energy costs.

(Can't post the pics, sorry)

With the increase in compute power that Ampere brings, this time around it could be the Nvidia cards the ones more affected. Or not, I know nothing about crypto mining other than it's bad for our wallets.

Pemalite said:
Is that a tower CPU cooler on that GPU? JFC.

From what I've read in several places, using a CPU cooler in engeenering boards isn't uncommon.

Captain_Yuri said:

If anyone wants to have a visual orgasm:

That's cheating. Everything is x10 times better (or less worse) with that song.