re: Q1 PC Hardware Releases - Nvidia and AMD GPUs

Reminder that we all need to wait for third party benchmarks. There’s a lot of room for frickery in the statements he made last night

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Maybe with DLSS Ultra Performance on LOL

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If I had to guess, I don’t think they would be that level of dishonest. I think it’s more likely that it’s incorporating their new AI features that are new to this gen. We just don’t know yet whether it’s going to be worth a shite

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I mean, if that statement is relying on 3 to 1 frame gen rate, that sounds like it'll be noticeably choppy and therefore quite useless

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So, the language used was comparing it to the 4090, which already does 2:1 frame gen. I think it’s likely he’s baking the in the extra frame, but not a frame gen vs pure raster, which would get him pilloried by reviewers. But we’ll see soon, hopefully. Because if the reviews for the 4080 come back fricky, then we know the reviews for everything downstream is going to come back fricky.

Chatter is saying release of both the 5090 and 5080 is slated for 1/30 and preorders for the 9070 allegedly start on 1/23, but that bit’s fricky and who knows if it’s just random vendor nonsense.

As a "take with a grain of salt" update, there's a rumored leak that a 9070xt surpasses the 4080 in TimeSpy (raster) and the 4070ti in Speed Way (RT) and is set to be priced at $479 for the reference models and around $550 for AIB models.

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If true, this is a big deal. However, if true, I just can't fathom why AMD would have done what they did at CES, which is why I'm having a hard time taking it at face value. Hopefully we'll have more info in a few weeks.

Oh man that would reset the market.

Therefore there’s no way it’s legit

Got an email from dune awakening talking about them using razer and dlss 4.

We are proud to announce that Dune: Awakening will be one of the first games to feature NVIDIA’s DLSS 4 technology with Multi Frame Generation, along with Razer’s next-gen Chroma and Haptics integration.

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Obviously still to be taken with a significant dose of salt, but a little more fuel for the "4080ti levels of performance" fire for the 9070xt: Videocardz

Now, as a reminder, the 9070xt being the rough equivalent of a two year old 4070ti isn't the potentially interesting part; that's pretty standard generation over generation uplift between the companies. With the 5070ti coming in at $749 and the 5070 coming in at $549, the 9070xt is only interesting if it can truly undercut pricing. Even in pure raster without upscaling, I would expect the 5070 to trade blows with the 9070xt if previous generational uplift roughly carries forward. If AMD either surprises on performance or can actually deliver the card for $450-$499, it could grow legs. Much higher than that and I'm not sure if it gets any momentum.

Not an ideal chart, but it gives a rough context for what I'm talking about:

It’s not really surprising. The 5080 is purposely gimped as shite. It’s like 50% of the cores of the 5090, when the 80 class typically has around 70-80% of the cores of the top GPU die.

Official numbers of raster performance from Nvidia.

5090= ~30% uplift vs 4090
5080= ~15% uplift vs 4080
5070ti= ~ 20% uplift vs 4070ti
5070= ~ 20% uplift vs 4070