AMD details HYPR-X, a one-click performance boost technology

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-details-hypr-x-a-one-click-performance-boost-technology

"The HYPR-X will be a single click performance boost technology combining Radeon Super Resolution, Radeon Boost and Radeon Anti-Lag. "

Lol yea so not a Reflex competitor at all... Reflex decreases input latency without any visual hit what so ever to the game. Radeon Boost either dynamically lowers the render resolution to increase framerate for dx11 or enables VRS in dx12 which makes certain aspects render at a lower quality to increase frame rate. Radeon Anti-Lag is similar to Nvidia's NULL where you enable in the driver and gives a minor input latency decrease and we all know Super Resolution.

All is to say that Radeon engineers still have no idea on how to make a Reflex alternative. Just like Radeon Boost, I am sure most people would rather leave this setting off.

AMD Ryzen 9 7845X Zen4 “Dragon Range” mobile CPU with 12-core has been spotted

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-9-7845x-zen4-dragon-range-mobile-cpu-with-12-core-has-been-spotted

The more I hear about 7000 series laptop CPU models, the more cringe it gets. They may be powerful cores but the naming is horrid.

Alleged Intel 13th Gen Core-HX high-end laptop specs emerge, up to 24 cores and 5.4 GHz clocks

https://videocardz.com/newz/alleged-intel-13th-gen-core-hx-high-end-laptop-specs-emerge-up-to-24-cores-and-5-4-ghz-clocks

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NVIDIA Taiwan Twitter account gets hacked to promote Dogecoin

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-taiwan-twitter-account-gets-hacked-to-promote-dogecoin

So the 4080 is a very good card with a terrible price.

From GamersNexus review, it gives 70% of the 4090 performance for 75% of its money, making the 4090 a better deal, whihc is insane given its price. But it gets worse, because it's around 50% faster than a 3080 while also costing 50% more (MSRP) than the card it should replace.

Let's hope the 7900XT/XTX beat the arse out of this thing and foces Nvidia to (agressively) drop the price.

I think the 4080 will be a testament to how many people truly care about the brand and Nvidia specific features. It should be around 10-15% slower in Raster while being $200 more expensive against the 7900XTX. But it should be 50%+ Faster than 7900XTX in Ray Tracing along with other goodies such as Reflex and DLSS. Nvidia clearly thinks people will buy the 4080 over 7900XTX because of those features cause Nvidia certainly has had plenty of time to discount it. We will see if that ends up being true.

And the problem is... that Nvidia will sell a lot of them. Whether that "a lot" is enough for Nvidia remains to be seen but, for our own sake, let's hope that it's not enough. Otherwise, the price of the RTX 5000 series will be even worse.

I've seen where rich and mobile gaming folks take things, this can only get worse and worse, until eventually, years later, everyone stops paying for it.

I'm just glad that I'm one of those folks out there who is price conscious and aware of where the shit is going to hit the fan. Most rich folks out there don't care about price, thus being price conscious doesn't even factor or begin to be a thing for them to consider, so they won't care about the long-term damage they will cause. 

I don't give a sh*t about rich people, as you call them, but this is a problem that affects more than just the high end.

If the xx80 card gets a price increase, then the xx70 will also follow suit because otherwise the xx80 wouldn't be attractive from a price/performance point of view. And if the xx70 rises its price, so will the xx60 and xx50 cards for the exact same reason. So it's not just the xx80 price going up that is the problem, but the fact that they carry the whole stack with them, hurting mid-range and low-end consumers as well.

The 4080 is such a scam tbh. It a good product with a nonsensical price. But in all honestly not that great of a generational uplift considering the downsides of power size and price to last generation hardware.

I'm more inclined to buy a mid range AMD card next year if Nvidia starts bumping up prices for SKU's all round. Or look for a good second hand 3080 on Ebay. Because F supporting these shitty prices and enabling and encouraging them to keep sky high prices.

The value of these cards are pretty shocking to be honest with no real movement in performance per dollar/pound/euro unless you get a $1600 graphics card. Or a $1000 card which only performs similarly to last gen's 3090Ti in Raytracing. Raster performance is good enough at 3080 levels of performance, at 4K anything more is a bonus.

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Yea Nvidia went full Nvgreed mode this time around. If there's one thing this shows us is that without competition, Nvidia would increase their prices to unobtainable levels if anyone wants any meaningful increases gen on gen. 3000 series had great prices because AMD was so competitive but 4000 series has shit prices because AMD is back to being AD103 competitor. They also know that AMD is not able to match RT either which is a key selling point that will always be brought up along with DLSS.

So the PC industry is again stuck in a shitty situation. Before it was the miners, now its Nvidia and AMD to a degree (Looking at 7900XT). I think if Lovelace sells similar to Turing where the sales weren't very good, Blackwell might trend back to Ampere in terms of pricing and performance. But that's another two years of waiting. So now it's back to Ampere or RDNA 2 in terms of affordable GPUs but Ampere is basically just back to 2020 MSRP while RDNA 2 is getting meaningful discounts.

So overall, it's like, buy Nvidia for a premium and get the features while supporting their shitty pricing or buy AMD and just deal with it until Nvidia learns a lesson. Quite lame considering the PC gaming side hasn't seen such insane amount of support from devs in quite a few generations.

Yeah its been pretty awful years for GPU's. And before Ampere we had those awful Turing prices. Ampere was like harking back to the Pascal days in actually delivering good uplifts for reasonable amount of money accross the stack. And now Nvidia seems to regressing back again, this time worse. Especially now that people are used to spending over north end of a near a grand or more on graphics cards.

What doesn't help is that AMD just continues to follow Nvidia's lead. Whether it be to performance to feature sets. And doing the bare minimum to catch up. They need to be much more proactive and not just price adjust their stuff to what Nvidia is doing. RDNA 1 release was meh, didn't try. RDNA 2 was better. 3 well, is just looking okay but still behind on where it counts. Because they wanted to make a reasonable GPU for under a $1000.. as they know they still can't compete with Nvidia in RT anyway. Man, they just needed to make a big ass GPU and screw the noise. Cut the RAM if need be if its using too much power and go balls to the walls.

The whole situation reminds me of when Intel were the only dominant CPU manufacterer for a long time and charged what the market was willing to bare and didn't try harder than offer quad core CPU for multiple generation,so we had a stagnant market. It wasn't until AMD finally pulled its fingers out and came out with Zen. And now we have more multicore CPU's than you can swing at mutliple price brackets; from flagship, to low end and mobile. Because AMD were competitive and now Intel and AMD are at each others throats.

I'm hoping this generation tanks for Nvidia to teach them a lesson. AMD too, to a lesser extent. Unless both come out with some good offering in the mid-range and they actually price these cards to what they should be in and slot in. Else its going to a long wait for Blackwell and RDNA 4.. While both AMD and Nvidia tries to clear out its old stock of GPU's that they had made for miners.