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[Roid Jones]

Any 32-inch monitor suggestions?

 

[daze23]

 

[Th3G3ntleman]

Don't buy Samsung monitors brehs

 

[MajesticLion]

How does an RX 6950 XT have lower performance than an RTX 2070?

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

How does an RX 6950 XT have lower performance than an RTX 2070?

In what setting? The AMD cards are good at rasterization but not at ray tracing because the hardware isn't mature

 

[MajesticLion]

In what setting? The AMD cards are good at rasterization but not at ray tracing because the hardware isn't mature

Go on, please. I don't know enough about ray tracing + hardware, I thought it was more software dependent.

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

Go on, please. I don't know enough about ray tracing + hardware, I thought it was more software dependent.

20XX series has dedicated components for ray tracing operations. It was the first generation of them, but they were good enough to handle an RT workload. The 6000 series (and I think even the 7000 series) don't have dedicated hardware for it, so even though the cards are comparable in a regular workload, when you add in RT computation, it's just no contest. AMD is effectively a generation behind with ray tracing. Software optimizations can help but it looks like being able to completely offload anything RT related is the correct path.

 

[MajesticLion]

20XX series has dedicated components for ray tracing operations. It was the first generation of them, but they were good enough to handle an RT workload. The 6000 series (and I think even the 7000 series) don't have dedicated hardware for it, so even though the cards are comparable in a regular workload, when you add in RT computation, it's just no contest. AMD is effectively a generation behind with ray tracing. Software optimizations can help but it looks like being able to completely offload anything RT related is the correct path.

I'm going to have to read up more on this.



Thanks!

 

[Responsible Allen Iverson]

How does an RX 6950 XT have lower performance than an RTX 2070?

Portal RTX is using RTX raytracing which is made for NVIDIA cards.

 

[daze23]

Portal RTX actually runs decent on my 2070 Super

1440p, DLSS Performance, 'High' preset, getting around 40fps. not the best, but I was preparing for a slide-show

 

[Ciggavelli]

Testing the loop now. Only one minor leak in the beginning, luckily. If all goes well, I’ll start it up tonight

 

[Responsible Allen Iverson]

 

[duckbutta]

Testing the loop now. Only one minor leak in the beginning, luckily. If all goes well, I’ll start it up tonight

Thought you were done with custom loops breh

 

[Ciggavelli]

Thought you were done with custom loops breh

I was, but I got the itch again. This build was MUCH easier than my super complex last one. This one had the distroplate for the case (I bought it for that specific reason), so it was just straight lines.

 

[Schadenfreude]

20XX series has dedicated components for ray tracing operations. It was the first generation of them, but they were good enough to handle an RT workload. The 6000 series (and I think even the 7000 series) don't have dedicated hardware for it, so even though the cards are comparable in a regular workload, when you add in RT computation, it's just no contest. AMD is effectively a generation behind with ray tracing. Software optimizations can help but it looks like being able to completely offload anything RT related is the correct path.

It would be nice if games used AMD's FSR tech, but they currently don't. I will say this -- Nvidia is getting greedy AF with their 4080 pricing; AMD has a shot to steal market share with the 7900XTX and 7900XT if it's priced right and the performance is close to the 4080 or beats it for less $$.