Personally I am expecting AMD's RDNA2 to get the least amount of real world gains compared to Nvidia's Ampere. The reason is there isn't much of a node shrink with RDNA2, just an architectural change. Meanwhile Nvidia is going to have both a node shrink + architectural. I wouldn't be surprised if AMD's RDNA 2 pricing is close to Ampere as well since they couldn't massively undercut them with RDNA 1 without tensor cores and without ray tracing so they certainly can't do it with Ray Tracing.

Also this is AMD's first attempt at ray tracing vs Nvidia's second generation ray tracing. Hopefully their performance is good but I have lots of doubts that it can even keep pace with 3080.

Edit: Removed a sentence

Don't worry, I didn't forget it - in fact,I hope NVidia does good on those improvements. But my fear was more fueled by the TGP of 350W for the 3090, which simply doesn't sound like the performance per watt improvement is really that big unless the clock speed also went up quite a bit.

WTF? AMD has already denied that rumor and said it's an architectural redesign to make it consume much less for the same performance. That's like if I had said that Ampere would be just another rehash of Maxwell with Raytracing slightly more firmly bolted on than with Turing.

Those rumors with the 350W figure also mention the use of GDDR6X and, as has been said in this thread several times, that type of memory hasn't been announced yet. Who's going to make them a memory that hasn't been designed yet?

I'd use a grain of salt with that rumor, starting with the name. All the xx90 cards were dual GPU parts and the -Ti suffix has brand value. While it's not impossible, 'm having a hard time believeing that they'll change all that without a good reason.

Alright maybe I was a bit too presumptuous with that sentence loll

At least the dust won't let you see the dead animals inside.

And that's also the reason my current PC has a positive airflow.

nVidia will definitely have the edge, they are a few years ahead of AMD at this point in architectural efficiency.

AMD has managed to keep pace with nVidia by introducing die-shrinks far more aggressively... However, that advantage disappears with Ampere, nVidia has a ton of transistor room to play with at 7nm.

Putting my plan to buy a new laptop on hold while trying to fix my current one. Already ran into the first stupid thing. There is a Lenovo Diagnostics tool you can run from USB to check your components. The .exe you have to run to create the medium won't install because it only runs FROM Lenovo devices. So to create the tool to fix your broken Lenovo device you need a working Lenovo device.

Looks like I'll have to go back to trusty Hiren's BootCD.

edit: Well, this isn't good news. It shows a hardware error on the NVME controller.

edit: gave up on fixing it. It's way too fiddly for my gorilla hands and I'm more likely to break it than to fix it. To get to the SSD you have to remove 22 tiny screws and a dozen tiny cables to be bale to remove the mainboard. I'm currently looking for a laptop again.

Dang looks like I found my perfect monitor. LG 48" CX OLED TV 4k (120hz HDMI 2.1). May be a bit too big but should be fine with custom ultrawide (1600p?) resolution. A bit pricey though at £1500.

Get it and tell me how good it is for gaming. I plan to get the 65" for me for both of my PCs.