This is promising. While a 3070Ti equivalent might now quite the top end or flagship.. if priced right and Intel have ample supply at launch. This could be a the GPU people have been looking for. Assuming scalpers/miners don't sweep them up.

Tbh we might be at the end of the tunnel for Bitcoin. With many countries banning Crypto currency and Russia looking like its going to follow.. We just need the other big player like US to abolish it and its gg. Hopefully it dies out this year though as the tech coming up (GPU wide) is definitely to look out for.

[Rumor] In other news Insider/leaker Greymon55 states there's going to be a RX 6000 refresh coming up from AMD. No RDNA 3 until late 2022 or even 2023?

AMD seems to be preparing a new version of the RX 6000 series, I don't know the details, maybe an upgrade to 18Gbps?

— Greymon55 (@greymon55) January 17, 2022

Probably not even if the 3080's somehow drop to $1000 in 6 months time it's still a massive premium over MSRP and by then the 4080's will be on the verge of launching and Nvidia will likely bump up the price and list them at $900-1000 MSRP before AIB's add another few hundred on top knowing people are desperate for new GPU's and the GPU market will be just as terrible.

I wish I could be more optimistic about the 4000 series but I just can't bring myself to be.

Yea it will be interesting to see. If Bitcoin and etc actually does go back down to reasonable levels and Eth switches to staking, then we may see the cryto go back to pre-ampere levels. If that happens, then the supply should once again normalize but that would be bad for Intel cause if priced the same, I am sure most people would choose Nvidia any day of the week.

We will see though but if Intel messes up this opportunity, it would be the biggest facepalm we have seen in a while.

Yea I am sure the price is gonna be pretty high but they generally don't make pricing decisions until closer to launch. So if they see the market stabilizing, while I am sure the price will still be higher than Ampere launch, it might not be too bad. And considering the rumours of GPU performance from Lovelace/RDNA 3 supposed to be insane where even a 4070 should be able to beat a 3090. Many people could get away with getting a "lower tier" gpu. But we will see though.

Personally I'll be aiming for the 4090 assuming the price is less than $2000 USD.

1) Developers aren't interested in NFTs, but publishers are, and they are the ones that decide what developers will do.

2) Ok, that would have been a great ending. Too bad it couldn't happen.

3) Yeah, read it the other day. So stupid. Servers them right.

Nvidia is so confident with the 3050 that it even claims that it's faster than other cards with ray tracing enabled... because the other cards used for the comparison can't do RT: https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-happily-confirms-rtx-3050-is-faster-with-raytracing-on-than-gpus-without-raytracing-support

And have our prayers been listened and the whole crypto scene is falling apart (if only temporarily)? Let's hope so, and that many scalpers lose lots of money as well.

They knew what they were agreeing to when they signed that deal with Epic. Now they have to face the consequences.

No delay so far for RDNA3. Probably it's just AMD trying to counter the new Ti cards and, since RDNA2 is bandwitch starved, the memory bump could bring some benefits.

After the last two years, it's understandable to be wary about what's going to happen.

Ray Tracing and DLSS since neither the 1650 /1050 have Tensor Cores either. Of course, it wouldn't have taken AMD much to be competitive against the 3050 but instead, they chose the eviler villain route. Come on Intel, release the goods for a good price please...

Hopefully the cryto market doesn't do a 180 like it did back last summer when it last crashed. But as more countries as banned/regulating it, least for now, it sounds like the storm will be dying down... Least until we see the mining performance of Lovelace/RDNA 3

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 is not good for Ethereum mining

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3050-is-not-good-for-ethereum-mining

"Our source in China provided some Ethereum mining performance of the upcoming RTX 3050 graphics card. It appears that the card ships with the Lite Hash Rate algorithm in place because the hash rate drops from 20-ish to 12.5 MH/s in a matter of seconds. "



This might actually be a seriously good budget card.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1366540/Dyson_Sphere_Program/

save 20% on the best game of 2021

Sid Meier’s classic flight simulators are now on Steam
https://www.pcgamesn.com/solo-flight/steam-sid-meier-games
As for Meier’s games, you can now pick up both Solo Flight and F-15 Strike Eagle. Solo Flight was released in 1983, in the very earliest days of PC flight simulators. F-15 Strike Eagle was released in 1984, and spiced up the whole ‘flying around’ thing with combat missions.
>>Steam linkgs: Solo Flight and F-15 Strike Eagle.

Underworld Dreams is Coming Soon To Switch and PC
https://www.keengamer.com/articles/news/underworld-dreams-is-coming-soon-to-switch-and-pc/
Delve into the bowls of an old, abandoned church as you search for answers to the fate of your brother. Underworld Dreams: The False King is coming to Switch and PC sometime this spring. Inspired by HP Lovecraft, the old-school horror adventure will be haunting players soon.

Syberia: The World Before Release Date Set for March 2022
https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/syberia-world-before-release-date-set-for-march-2022
The Syberia: The World Before release date has been revealed for PC -- you'll be able to play Kate Walker's newest adventure in mid-March 2022.
>>March 18 to be precise.

Elder Scrolls 6 is still only in pre-production, it seems
https://www.pcgamesn.com/the-elder-scrolls-vi/pre-production-2022
It’s been over ten years since the release of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and yet it seems like Bethesda still only has the eagerly awaited The Elder Scrolls VI in pre-production – and it might not start full production on the RPG sequel until Starfield is released later this year.
>>They can only always re-release Skyrim a couple more times.

Nvidia has cracked the code...

That's right! Nvidia's Geforce Now Cloud Streaming Service has Lower input latency with games that have Nvidia Reflex integration than a Xbox Series X running locally! Now at 120fps, the Series X takes the lead once again but the fact that Nvidia's Geforce now can do it when both platforms are at 60fps is insane. And when games don't use Nvidia's Reflex, at 60fps, it's still faster than the Series X:

Say what you will about Nvidia as a company but their engineers are absolutely nuts. And they do this which giving you much higher quality image than the rest of the cloud streaming providers like Stadia and xCloud. Now obviously, this is dependent on server location, your internet speed, if you are on wifi or not and etc. So we obviously still have ways to go. But this is the first step on making Cloud become viable. And for those that don't have a real 3080... Well if you can deal with Series X input lag, you can now use a Geforce now subscription that configures you with a PC with a 3080 for $100 every 6 months. And the best part about Geforce now is that it's linked to your steam Library. So any game you purchase on steam, you can use with Geforce now and any progress you make in Geforce now gets saved on Steam.

Tbh thats why i see a future in cloudgaming, being within a 100 miles of many big serverhubs, the biggest downfall is my bunker of a home if i play on wifi