Captain_Yuri said:

Me just skipping one gen and a referesh:

Considering how I'm not all that big into RGB, I think I'm sold on these.

Daisy chaining and easy radiator application, as well as less controllers scattered around is really nice, but it's the airflow and simple look that really gets me. 

Only downside is that they don't do them in 140mm size, which I would really love to have mounted to the front of a new case, but I imagine they'll eventually make some. Either way, I'm sold on these and I'll likely use them for my next build for sure. 

They also cost half the price at $25 a pop vs Corsair's Lightloop 120mm $45.

The fuck, they can't just move NDA like that. I can only imagine that one of the bigger outlets is not done with their review yet.

only the FE of those 3000 series has that coolingsystem? hmm now i get why some make these cards hideous, that system must be topnotch

For those who waiting for AMD's showing first, there's some interesting info from Redgamingtech

Granted rumours and stuff so take with a grain of salt. Standout tidbits

• Performance per watt improved to 60%
• DD6 only (leaked earlier this week on Twitter) GPU will max out at 16GB for top end SKU's
• But 128MB cache to compensate
• GPU clock frequency 'console like', so probably 2.2Ghz like the PS5 or thereabouts.
• Has cards directly competing with Nvidia RX 6700 > RTX3070 /  6800 > 3080 /  6800 XT > 3080 Ti /  6900 (top SKU). RX 6900 will be faster than 6800XT but won't be competing with RTX 3090.

Think I'm gonna wait. Also I bet his source is Kopite :P

Last edited by hinch - on 12 September 2020

Red Gaming Tech is as dodgy as it gets to be honest.

Redgamingtech is aligned almost perfectly with my prediction, I give geforce 3090 the slight edge against big Navi, but let's see reviews first. The big cache seems interesting, maybe we get 256-bit bus + big cache with 12/16GB Vram options. On Rtx performance, I think big Navi will either have 1.5x or 2.1x performance advantage against geforce 2080 ti.

That sounds too good to be true, and we know what tends to heppen in these cases.

I'd love for it to be real, but I'm going to keep my expectations in check until we get more sources claiming the same.

Speaking of RDNA 2. Big Navi may have gotten benchmarked in Ashes:

[Possible AMD RDNA2 GPU]

MSI Gaming X Trio 2080Ti 74.4 (156.63%)
2080Ti water stock 71.4 (150.31%)
EVGA XC Black 2080Ti stock 64.9 (136.63%)
> AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics 63.9 (134.52%)
MSI Gaming X Trio 2080 stock 54.4 (114.52%)
2070 stock 47.5 (100%)

Personally I don't like when companies use Ashes to benchmark gpus as it's a very cpu related benchmark. Also for those that don't remember, EVGA XC Black was released to hit that $999 MSRP that Nvidia claimed was the MSRP of the 2080Ti which majority of the cards never hit. So the factory clocks in the EVGA XC Black is lower then the Founders Edition cards. But still, assuming it's Navi 22, pretty good so far. Grains of salt until it comes out though!

Last edited by Jizz_Beard_thePirate - on 12 September 2020