You can find a more up to date performance per watt charts by checking the more recent GPU reviews such as with techpowerup:

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/asus-geforce-rtx-3080-noctua-oc/36.html

I do think you may want to wait until July to see if Lovelace is any good. A 4070 may be able to give you the performance of a 3090 while using less power than a 6800XT while giving you all the benefits of going Nvidia. The announcement should also make current GPUs like the 6800XT get discounted assuming the mining trend doesn't come back so waiting might be a good idea.

The 6800XT is a pretty great GPU regardless though so it will last you a long time.

I don't see how Intel managed to get a 5% of the market unless they've almost floored China with them, because I don't remember them being available anywhere else (except Korea in Samsung laptops).

It's quite suspicious.

In any case, scalpers and crypto miners are no longer buying cards (the first ones are having troubles selling the ones they got, which fills me with joy), but that will change when the new Nvidia and AMD cards launch.

That would be an impressive CPU upgrade.

As for where to find those charts, the answer to both is the same: TechPowerUp.

Not only you can find a relative performance chart for each GPU in their database (here's the one for the 6800XT you mentio), but in their reviews they have a Performance per Dollar (here's for the 6800XT, in base of the launch price in 2020), and they also have a performance per Watt, lately renamed to Efficiency (and yes, I'll also link here the one from their 6800XT review).

I hope it helps.

That cat lady making rounds lol, I just watched a comic dub vid and she was there:

(near the end of the vid).

The Thursday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate is free to keep for a limited time
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/warhammer-40000-chaos-gate-is-free-to-keep-for-a-limited-time/
This year's Warhammer Skulls showcase included announcements for several new videogames in Games Workshop's mega-gothic far future Warhammer 40,000 setting: a boomer shooter called Boltgun, a card game called Warpforge, and a cRPG from Pathfinder developers Owlcat called Rogue Trader. We also saw a bit more of the upcoming Space Marine 2. While we wait for all those, here's an older game to tide you over.
Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate is a squad tactics game published by SSI in 1998, and you can get it for free right now on GOG as part of the Warhammer Skulls 2022 Digital Goodie Pack. The pack includes a concept art book for 2006 strategy game Warhammer: Mark of Chaos, a bundle of wallpapers, including some promo art from last year's under-rated FPS Necromunda: Hired Gun (well, I liked it), and a few discount codes, as well as Chaos Gate.

Tell Me Why is free for Pride Month
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/tell-me-why-is-free-for-pride-month/
Tell Me Why, the narrative adventure from Life is Strange developers Dontnod Entertainment, is available for free on Steam and the Microsoft store throughout June in celebration of Pride Month.

The new free Epic Store game is Wolfenstein: The New Order: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/wolfenstein-the-new-order
And, once again, the free game for next week is a mystery.

GOG has a new Warhammer Skulls Festival Sale, with up to 90% discounts during 6 days: https://www.gog.com/partner/warhammer.

Steam has three new sales:

• The new daily deal is Ocean's Heart, 60% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1393750/Oceans_Heart/
• Everybody's Gone to the Rapture is going to be 50% off until June 7: https://store.steampowered.com/app/417880/Everybodys_Gone_to_the_Rapture/
• And the Warhammer Skulls Festival also arrives at Steam with up to 90% discounts until the 8th of June: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/skulls

Guess what, the Humble Store also has a Warhammer Skulls Festival Sale featuring up to 90% discounts during 6 days. The keys are for Steam: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/warhammer-skulls-event/.

Fanatical has three new sales:

• Jackbox Games puts its titles up to 69% off: https://www.fanatical.com/en/franchises/jackbox
• Annapurna Interactive puts its games up to 75% off during 7 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/publishers/annapurna-interactive
• And the Platinum Collection BYOB for June has launched with 17 games to choose for your 3, 5 or 7 games bundle: https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/platinum-collection-build-your-own-bundle

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

fpPS4 is yet another Playstation 4 emulator for PC, available for download
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/fpps4-is-yet-another-playstation-4-emulator-for-pc-available-for-download/
Developer red-prig has released a new Playstation 4 emulator for the PC, called fpPS4. According to reports, fpPS4 is an open-source PS4 emulator, and currently runs two commercial games. These two games are Sonic Mania and We Are Doomed.
fpPS4 is the fourth Playstation 4 emulator that has appeared online. The other three are Kyty, Spine and GPCS4. All four emulators are in a very early stage, so don’t expect to emulate any of the triple-A PS4 games on your PC anytime soon. Nevertheless, it’s cool witnessing more emulators popping out.

New Fallout New Vegas Mods overhaul NPCs and all quarry areas
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/new-fallout-new-vegas-mods-overhaul-npcs-and-all-quarry-areas/
Fallout New Vegas fans, here are two mods/texture packs for you today. The first Texture Pack will overhaul a lot of the game’s NPCs, whereas the second one will improve all of the game’s quarry areas.
Going into more details, Vegas NPC Overhaul is an overhaul for 67 NPCs in base New Vegas and a few from Dead Money and Honest Hearts. Modders Balebandr0 and Enjoyer have made major changes to the detail and poly count of the NPCs. Many characters have been completely remade with new outfits, hairstyles, and facial hair to fit their personalities better than the vanilla game.
On the other hand, Redesigned Quarries gives all quarries in New Vegas a complete and total facelift with working LODs, new meshes, and landscape repaints. Therefore, limestone quarries will no longer look flat and unappealing; they now feel more world accurate, and much more unique.

GAMING NEWS

Sonic Frontiers gets a 7-minute gameplay video
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/sonic-frontiers-gets-a-7-minute-gameplay-video/
Following its teaser trailer, SEGA and IGN have released a brand new video for Sonic Frontiers, featuring 7 minutes of gameplay footage. This video will give you an idea of how the game looks and plays.
>> Meh. Not my kind of Sonic.

New trailers for Warhammer 40K Darktide, Space Marine 2, Boltgun & more
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/new-trailers-for-warhammer-40k-darktide-space-marine-2-boltgun-more/
Games Workshop has shared new trailers for numerous Warhammer 40K games that are currently in development. Among them you can find a cinematic trailer for Warhammer 40K: Darktide, as well as a “Behind the Scenes” video for Space Marine 2.

The Thursday news, part two:

Kingdom Hearts co-creator Shinji Hashimoto retires after 28 years with Square Enix
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/kingdom-hearts-co-creator-shinji-hashimoto-retires-after-28-years-with-square-enix/
Shinji Hashimoto, the producer of Final Fantasy games and the co-creator of Kingdom Hearts, has retired after 28 years at Square Enix.
He announced his retirement on Twitter, saying he was "very grateful" to everybody and was looking forward to continuing his support for the company as a fan. The official Square Enix Twitter also honoured Hashimoto, saying "thank you for everything" alongside a video message from the man himself.
>> Thanks for the games.

The next 40K videogame is a free-to-play card game
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/the-next-40k-videogame-is-a-free-to-play-card-game/
Not content with the Warhammer x Magic: The Gathering crossover due in August, the grim far future setting of Warhammer 40,000 is coming to a new collectible card game of its own called Warpforge. Just announced as part of the annual Warhammer event Skulls for the Skull Throne, Warpforge will be a free-to-play card game based on "brutal and fast-paced skirmishes."

This free horror game is about the sheer terror of turning off the lights before bed
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/this-free-horror-game-is-about-the-sheer-terror-of-turning-off-the-lights-before-bed/
(...)
Lights Off! is a free first-person horror game that's been on Itch.io for a while but recently popped up on Steam. It simulates that fear of turning off the lights and climbing the stairs to go to bed in the dark, and despite the low-fi graphics it's immediately and immensely effective. You begin on the ground floor of a brightly lit house at midnight and you have to walk through the rooms and click off each light one by one. In the near silence (except a faint and ominous hum) your footsteps are a little too loud and the sharp click of each lightswitch, along with the encroaching darkness, make the tension quickly grow from slightly uncomfortable to "Oh God something is gonna get me." If ever I wish a game had a sprint button, this is the one.

John Madden returns to the cover of Madden NFL for the first time in more than 20 years
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/john-madden-returns-to-the-cover-of-madden-nfl-for-the-first-time-in-more-than-20-years/
The very first John Madden Football launched for the Apple 2 on June 1, 1988, kicking off one of the most successful and longest-running videogame series of all time. 34 years later, on June 1, 2022, Electronic Arts has announced that the legendary NFL coach and commentator, who died in December 2021 at age 85, will return to take the cover of Madden NFL 23.

Dontnod spellchecks itself, is now called Don't Nod
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/dontnod-spellchecks-itself-is-now-called-dont-nod/
French studio Dontnod, the developer of games including Life is Strange, Vampyr, and Tell Me Why, has a new name, sort of. To celebrate its 14th anniversary, the studio has announced that it is now officially known as Don't Nod.

Diablo Immortal isn't quite pay-to-win, but it's close
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/diablo-immortal-isnt-quite-pay-to-win-but-its-close/
If you're looking to pop demons and pick up some loot in Diablo Immortal for more than a few hours, you'll probably have to pay. NetEase and Blizzard's mobile-first and now PC-ported Diablo game is built to obfuscate how real money transactions can influence your character's strength, but the most dedicated players are probably going come to their conclusions soon, and it doesn't seem like they'll be positive.
>> What a surprise, right?

Battle with Be’lakor in a major update to Warhammer: Vermintide 2’s Chaos Wastes expansion.
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/battle-with-belakor-in-a-major-update-to-warhammer-vermintide-2s-chaos-wastes-expansion/
Warhammer: Vermintide 2’s Chaos Wastes expansion is getting a major update, themed around Warhammer’s first demon prince, the treacherous Be’lakor.
Chaos Wastes is a free expansion for Vermintide 2 that launched in April last year. It’s a side-adventure that takes the game’s cooperative rat-bashing and turns it into a roguelike affair, with randomly generated levels, multiple ways to progress, and its own upgrade system based around purchasing abilities and equipment with coins dropped by enemies.

SAPPHIRE reportedly preparing Radeon RX 6700 non-XT with 10GB RAM, launch on June 9th

https://videocardz.com/newz/sapphire-reportedly-preparing-radeon-rx-6700-non-xt-with-10gb-ram-launch-on-june-9th

Intel’s Flagship Raptor Lake Core i9-13900K 24 Core CPU & Flagship Arc A770 Graphics Card Spotted

https://wccftech.com/intel-raptor-lake-core-i9-13900k-24-core-cpu-and-arc-a770-desktop-graphics-card-leak/

AYANEO 2 Geek gaming console to feature Ryzen 6000U APU (Zen3+ & RDNA2) for at least 699 USD

https://videocardz.com/newz/ayaneo-2-geek-gaming-console-to-feature-ryzen-6000u-apu-zen3-rdna2-for-at-least-699-usd

It's like they are announcing a new product every week to see which one sticks

Alleged GeForce RTX 4090 series PCB leak shows NVLink and 16-pin power connectors but no USB Type-C display output

https://videocardz.com/newz/alleged-geforce-rtx-4090-series-pcb-leak-shows-nvlink-and-16-pin-power-connectors-but-no-usb-type-c-display-output

Personally I do think Kopite's leak that it will be announced in July is a bit optimistic where as Igor's leak sounds more reasonable.

Do We Actually Need PS5 Pro/ 'Xbox Series Next' Enhanced Consoles This Generation?

Richard does bring up a lot of good points that affects both future PC hardware and console development. In the past, not only did we have massive node shrink but cost per transistor prices were also falling. These days, not only do we not have such dramatic node shrinks anymore but companies no longer get the discounts per transistor like they used to. So it will be much harder to get the leaps while keeping a similar price point.

Every time I see that title all I hear is Andy Samberg.

Looks like Modern Warfare 2 is coming to Steam!!! While not fully confirmed yet, this may as well be a confirmation. Thank You Microsoft for buying all these companies and bringing them to Steam and cleaning up PC gaming.

If Nvidia starts mass producing Ada in August, there's no ay we'll see cards with them in the same month. September at the earliest.

And yeah, Richard makes a good point about why it's way to soon for mid-gen refreshes, which may not even happen.