Finewine? Radeon RX 6800 XT vs GeForce RTX 3080 10GB, 50 Game Benchmark
Of course, Hardware Unboxed still downplays plenty of features that Nvidia leads in such as Ray Tracing, DLSS, Nvenc encoder and omits various other advantages such as RTX broadcast and it's advantages on various workstation applications. But overall their conclusion was essentially what I predicted when these two GPUs came out. It doesn't any make sense to get AMD GPUs at similar price points as the Nvidia GPUs if the Raster performance is similar. Even if the 3080 was losing, it will be by a tiny % and the advantages that you get in feature set is significantly higher.
We also relearn the age of lesson of, just because the consoles are using a similar architecture for AMD, that doesn't mean it will translate to advantages on PC. Also if you think about it, both Sony and Microsoft engineers surely had access to AMD's plans of adding in infinity cache and yet, both of them decided to omit that feature from all of their consoles and instead, go the traditional higher memory bus + bandwidth similar to what Nvidia has been doing.
All in all though, we will see how Lovelace vs RDNA 3 will turn out. But one thing to always keep in mind is, Nvidia is not Intel.
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D reportedly does not support overclocking (yet?)
https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-7-5800x3d-reportedly-does-not-support-overclocking-yet
Not that you can OC these much anyway but it sounds like a skip considering Zen 4 is on the horizon.
Apple makes my brain hurt…
As usual with Apple and their press events, there's always*** with their claims. While I am sure their M1 Max Ultra can go up against a 3090 in certain applications when the media engine in involved, it will most likely be less powerful than a 3060 Ti when all is said and done imo. While costing $4000 to start. But for a specific kind of crowd, this is certainly their dream machine.
Valve does what FromSoftware don’t, thanks to Steam Deck’s precaching update
When an iGPU is able to play the game more smoothly than a 3070... If Valve continues to fix games that have performance issues at launch before the developers do, that will certainly make an interesting case to perhaps use SteamOS as a gaming OS. But at the same time, they can really only do this because they have such low level access so it probably won't work non-Steam Decks.
Confirmed: GeForce RTX 3090 Ti launches on March 29th, reviews coming on the same day
Probably will be 1% faster than a normal 3090 for a higher price and at 450 Watt and will get smoked by a 4070 in 4-6 months. Basically skip because even a scalped 4070 will be a better deal.
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
