Guys, Steam is doing their Spring Cleaning Event, from today to May 28th: https://store.steampowered.com/springcleaning

This is not one of those sales with lots of cheap games, but at least there are some games free to try.

Heavy Rain seems to be a good PC port.

An i5-6600 and a GTX 1060 gives you solid 60fps in 2560x1440p resolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLgJTCkDbGE
An i5-6600 and a RX 570 also gives you solid 60fps in 2560x1440p resolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdl2GftkjBQ

The PS4 version only runs in solid 30 fps in 1920x1080p resolution and there was never a PS4 Pro patch:
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-heavy-rain-on-ps4-face-off

Well Super isn't used for Nvidia branding or hasn't for a long time. I'm not sure if there used to be Super branded cards way back though.

First off, E3 isn't all that far away and there have been new Switch rumors and leaks for a while. Secondly, the Nvidia Tegra+GeForce SOC in the Switch. Thirdly, with the next gen consoles having AMD ray tracing capability, and Nvidia boasting about how they did it first and do it best, it wouldn't be crazy to think RTX is in someway implemented in the new Switch model(s) that are supposed to be coming out, even if the ray tracing is mostly just for marketing, considering they are handheld hybrids. Unless they aren't...

Super is also hardcore Nin branding, plus retro is in style and has done well for Nin with the classic mini consoles.

How is this "Super" reveal going to strictly be anywhere releated to Nintendo?.

Yeah, I'm aware of their deal with Nintendo in regards to the Tega powering the Switch, but just because of that one deal, doesn't automatically involve nvidia deep into Ninty territory, not with nvidia having more of it within other markets and desktop GPU's included.

if anything, this reveal is likely to be based either within refresh or new variant territory, rather than "we're releasing an exclusive piece of kit, that's 110% definitely going to power the Switch 1.5/2.0".

We kind of know that Nvidia is going to release the Ampere 7 nm GPUs the next year. It doesn't seem "super" relates to any of it.

Personally I'm thinking higher-clocked versions of the Turing GPUs to compete with Navi, named "super" like some of their cards were named "ultra" in the past. With a smaller chance of a new Tegra chip which could, perhaps, be tangentially related to Nintendo's plans on the mid to long term (since Nvidia has called Tegra Xavier a "supercomputer" already in the past). And a new Switch-exclusive chip being the least likely IMO.

Super sounds like something at the high end, to compete with Navi they need to refresh the mid range. My guess is it's either a super minimal refresh or a rebranded Titan. Anyway it's most likely driven to take away some spotlight of the Navi reveal and nothing else.

Worst case would be they're using this refresh to bridge time to a delayed Ampere.

Watched that AMD Computex Keynote, and it was glorious:

Navi not being GCN-based anymore, but RDNA, consumes 50% less and is 25% more performant per clock than Vega (1st gen, not Vega VII), aiming for about RTX 2060Ti-2070 performance. Oh, and they're called RX 5xxx, like RX 5700 for the announced Model.

But the big announcement was with next-gen Ryzen. They just showed:

Ryzen 5 3600 and 3600X (6C12T)
Ryzen 7 3700X and 3800X (8C16T)
Ryzen 9 3900X (12C24T)

15% improvement in IPC, higher clock speeds (Ryzen 9 gets 3.9Ghz base, 4.6Ghz Turbo, plus maybe some XFR on top of that), apparently beating Intel CPU both in multicore and singlecore performance (though that's in low single digits, so basically a draw in singlecore). Oh, and the Ryzen p 3900X destroyed the Intel i9 9920X (also 12 cores) in Blender(Ryzen was done long before the i9, as in 20-30% more performance) despite costing less then half as much.

Prices range from $199 (R5 3600) to $499 (R9 3900X), so more expensive than the leaks, but considering how low they were, that was pretty sure from the get-go.

Here's a link to a live reaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr4j6OMYya4

But I suggest you take the tl;dr version as the other one is 2 hours long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qqBijKHuHM

How do you think this will play out in the future? Will Intel find a counter anytime soon? Will Navi catch up to Nvidia in performance per watt?

Can't wait for the first benchmarks...

Edit: Also, Linus' reaction is... Epyc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7hofCnniJE

Reading Computex news feels like I'm in a bizarro universe. AMD has IPC now? Intel GPU beating AMD? What has this world come to.

Then there is the new 9900KS with a turbo of 5GHz on ALL threads. That certainly sounds like something that would put my Noctua D15 to good use.

Isn't that what they're doing anyways since it's not launching until next year ? 

Also while on the subject of the new ryzen processors, it'd be interesting to see what exactly is the OC'ing headroon for it is ...