That Always On Display not coming to older iphones is so dang funny. Like the iphone 13 pro has oled ltpo display that can go down to 10hz vs iphone 14 pro has a oled ltpo display that can go down to 1hz. Yet Apple is like naw bro, you need the 14 pro to get that always on display hurr durr.

Meanwhile every samsung phone for the like last 5-6 years had it as an option with or without the oled ltpo display because you don't need it if you implement it right. Since OLED screens can turn off individual pixels, you could get rid of the wallpaper and only have the timer and app icons and you largely won't lose much battery. But Apple be like, gotta keep that wallpaper bro... Funniest shat ever.

Damn, sounds like even if you want to get one, it may not be easy.

And here i had the hope i could run endgame DSP at +60fps before 2023

I don't think Nvidia is in that position, at least not yet. And prove of that is the 4080 12GB, and AIB only card. If Nvidi wanted to hurt them they would have also done a F.E. card with that GPU.

Now you could argue that giving the 12GB model to AIB is a poisoned gift, because it will be very difficult for them to launch custom models close to the $900 MSRP and will, instead, be closer to $1,000 or even a bit more, putting potential buyers in the mindset of "if I'm spending that much, why not go for the true 4080 instead?". But well, AIBs aren't run by stupid people, and if they think that Nvidia is cutting the grass off their feet, they'll make something about it.

I don't really agree with that. Sure, the difference between the 4090 and real 4080 is massive, But I think it has more to do with Nvidia leaving a gap big enough between the different models to fit the -Ti models that will come next year, so they bring enough performance improvements to make them look good enough.

After all, while Nvidia didn't say a thing, GALAX confirmed the chipsets uded on each GPU, and they don't differ much from what they've been using these last generations, with the exception of the 4080 being AD103 when Nvidia rarely uses the x03 name.  

Between low availability and ridiculous prices, the idea of Nvidia putting these cards out of reach to make the remaining Ampere cards more enticing sounds more plausible.

After all, we have to remember that Nvidia tried to renegotiate its contract with TSMC to reduce it, which TSMC said no. So we know that Nvidia has the chips, and it's only a matter of willing to use them now or not.

Gotta say that I'd love to have that LEGO sest.

Going with a farily recent architecture like Ampere would do wonders for a Switch console for its DLSS capabilities.

So to sum it up...

Ngl, the last AAA I truly enjoyed and felt like I got my monies worth was RDR 1, and that was 12yrs ago, and ever since then that's just slowly declined, to a point where I now just don't like how gimmicky and flashy AAA's have gotten, and yet with all the tech they have, so little substance.

Take for instance, Conan Exiles, yes it's another open world survival game, but it featured Nvidia's Sand technology. Where is that tech years later?, no one fucking knows, because no one us using it, and that malds me, because I thought it was so fucking cool to drag a corpse through the desert on a rope, and see my deep footprints on the sand, and seeing the corpse leave a trail that spanned nearly a mile, and I thought to myself "wow, this would be so fucking cool if AAA companies did this sort of interactivity", and here we are today and everyone and their execs are focused only on RT, no interactive water sources, sand, fire, dirt, etc, just how to make everything one big fucking shiny puddle (a puddle you can't even interact with to distort the reflection).

AAA is just all flash, little substance, and it sucks, because all the money that goes into them you'd think would involve higher player agency and interactivity, but no, it's wasted on a thing veil of pretend realism. 

Honestly, if my previous co-worker wasn't a douche and moved to the UK with my 980ti I lent to him, I would gladly hand it over to you free of charge, because it lasted me during the times of MGSV, up till 2017.

Also yeah, power bills atm are going up and even though my fan curve cannot be altered (I had to remove the middle broken fan of my 1080ti, so now the GPU outright ignores all custom fan curve modules and ramps up the fan speed to max when playing any intense 3D game), I've still had to undervolt my GPU, to not drain more energy. 

If nothing else, impressive clock speeds

I wouldn't hold out for them wanting to continue support for the now previous version of DLSS, I imagine Nvidia will treat it as legacy, and push devs to use 3.0, meaning nvidia will be forcing folks to go for the new lineup, or face being shut out of perf gains on prev gen cards. 

Yes that'd be evil shit, but what company these days hasn't been dreaming of gaining more pushing power and wanting to really tell the customer how they see them as?.

Yea we will see. Nvidia has historically been great at supporting their older GPUs, especially compared to competitors. But I wouldn't be surprised if their tune has changed. They really need a loss cause it feels like they are becoming blinded by their own success.