Don't forget the stupid RNG powers that come with said loot, like the corrupted gear. Thank fuck they are doing away with that crap. We're prob going to get Anima powered gear with likely RNG powers for those pieces too. I just don't like how insanely heavy Blizz are into RNG based mechanics. My Warlock has some spells which basically fall under RNG dmg, which is really shit for roll checks for raids. 

Yea we will see how it goes but I am starting to believe those rumours about Big Navi being 3070/3070 Ti performance.

The one thing to remember is that RDNA 2 does now have full support for Direct X 12 Ultimate while RDNA 1 doesn't. So it should perform better than RDNA 1 on the games that use those Direct X 12 Ultimate feature set so there are changes for sure. The kicker is Turing's RTX GPUs also has full support for Direct X 12 Ultimate.

So in theory, for those games that don't use Direct X 12 Ultimate, it could be that RDNA 2 performs similarly to RDNA 1. But those that use Direct X 12 Ultimate, RDNA 2 should see performance gains.

But when Ampere arrives, both AMD and our wallets still start to sweat.

I mean you can play for weeks or even a month without anything useful for your build. Like my Outlaw Rogue and it insistence on giving me unless secondary stats, powers and armor types; with the same repeat wrists, belts and gloves drops, with crap corruption powers. Its just depressing logging in knowing that the chances of getting upgrades is super low lol.

I mean it works for Diablo games because of the sheer amount of loot you get but for WoW it was few in and far between. Way too random gear for work you put into it.

Uh, what's with everyone talking about path tracing? We're barely at a point where ray tracing is getting sort of viable, and people are already wanting path tracing? I mean sure, eventually, but in at least five years for any actually useful purposes? Nope?

Doesn't have to mean much for RDNA2 GPUs.

After all, most console GPUs are pretty much custom made and don't quite follow the same conventions as conumer GPUs. The GPU in the One X for instance is a weird mix of features from GCN 1, 2, and 4, the GPU in the 360 was basically a Radeon X850, X1900 and X2900 mashed together from their feature sets. And as I noted before, the GPU needed quite some cuts to fit into such a small die considering the much smaller RX 5700 already took more die space than the GPU in the XSX despite being produced in the same process yet the latter having more CU and additional features.

It's simple, really. The high end isn't high end anymore when a higher end is introduced. That's why we don't consider a 980ti high end anymore. The i7 stopped being high end when the i9 was introduced.

In the end it's how you want to define it. For me high end is the highest end. Of course it's weird to call a 2080 midrange but feel free to invent a new name for it. You yourself are using a tier that's above high end so you can put a 2080 in high end. But that kinda betrays the "end" part of the descriptor.

Here's hoping but I am gonna remain skeptical. Wish AMD would at least give us an announcement date seeing as Nvidia already has one for Ampere.

Well if we are gonna spend $2100 on 3090. Only having Ray Traced reflections is gonna be yawn worthy with 2nd generation of RTX and Tensor Cores. Minecraft RTX already has path tracing so 3000 series + DLSS could have it be implemented at some level with better looking games. Or at least give us ray tracing through global illumination as well as reflections.

Speaking of 3000 series...

3060 $400
3070 $600
3080 $800
3090 $1400

https://twitter.com/GarnetSunset/status/1296916731378704391?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Don't believe any of the price rumours though.

This might be budget DIY, but it's kinda impressive for what it is. Never would have thought of building a PC case out of foam board.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJveIh78y-w

I'd like to see him build a mini PC this way, and see how much he can get away with in terms of lack of airflow vs case durability.