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Captain_Yuri said:

Alleged European pricing of Intel 12th Gen Core “Alder Lake-S” series leaks out

https://videocardz.com/newz/alleged-european-pricing-of-intel-12th-gen-core-alder-lake-s-series-leaks-out

As usual, the gap between i7 and i9 is crazy. Most likely, "without VAT" will be the retail pricing in the US. It will be interesting to see the performance but with PCI-E 5 and DDR5, I am excited!

With these prices, it will be tough for Intel. AMD dropped the prices for several of their chips, making intel look pretty expensive by comparison with these prices.

The i9 is more akin to the 5900X (both have 24 threads) but priced against the 5950X

The i7 is supposed to go against the 5800X but priced similarly to the 5900X

The i5 12600K is not much cheaper than the 5800X anymore, while the KF is more expensive than the 5600X

Captain_Yuri said:

Far Cry 6 PC requirements revealed

https://www.pcgamesn.com/far-cry-6/system-requirements

Now it's an AMD sponsored title so Nvidia GPUs will probably get gimped and no DLSS of course.

Raster:

Now Ray Tracing is a bit weird:

So at 1440p, a 3070 is able to match a 6900XT with RT on but at 4k, we need a minimum of a 6800 and 3080? I am assuming it's due to the usual AMD sponsored Vram nonsense.

The 4K setting is just at 30 FPS, something that's much more manageable for AMD GPUs with RT, so there a 6800 could suffice while for 60FPS with RT a 6900XT would be needed.

As for the increase to a 3080, it might simply be that the Raytracing combined with the 4K textures needs more VRAM than the 8GB that those NVidia GPUs can offer. But that's something we'll see after it's release.

Last edited by Bofferbrauer2 - on 03 September 2021