Recent content by Sir Beregond

Yep, absolutely can't argue with that. Everyone else is playing catch up from way behind.

Yeah 28nm was really kind of a long lived gen and it's kind of crazy we got 3 (kind of 4) gens of cards out of it. And then what's funny is you can almost say Pascal was Maxwell gen 3 because it was basically just Maxwell on speed due to the drop to 16nm.

Yep exactly. Its anywhere from 2 to 4 slots for the cooler. It's either one or two chips. Its either 384-bit, 448-bit, or 512-bit. Anywhere from 24GB to 32GB. May walk on water.

If you say so.

Correct, 4090 is a cutdown AD102. Yeah honestly this makes sense. Only reason to increase the memory bus is to increase the memory capacity. The increase in L2 seen since Lovelace, with the move to GDDR7 will help the bandwidth. Had they had higher density GDDR7 starting out, then it would...

Tempting for the bench...But I've already got nothing but old cards for it. Need a modern one. :ROFLMAO:

Good chart. Yeah the 4090 is not really starved for power and certainly would have been just fine as a 350W card. Contrast that to Ampere, and my 3080 Ti FE would absolutely love to have more power past its cap.

Yeah it was odd. Coming from the previous gens where support for different features was completely different per model, they just said make all of FX support all the features. Now if many of the FX models were actually capable of driving said features, well...that's another story entirely...

Going from a 4090 to a 5090 Ti is "skipping a gen"?

Well when the 6800 dries up next will be the 7800 XT. But yeah $355 is a pretty good deal.

These days I'd ditch the Arctic Silver. The NT-H1 is a great paste. If it still looks good (not all separated, or something), then use that. My go-to these days tends to be Arctic MX-4, MX-6, NT-H1, NT-H2. I'm not a fan of Kryonaut. It's expensive and really is meant for extreme benching vs...

I have a pretty good and extremely well paid job. Still find it hard to justify $2k for a graphics card when the high end used to be $500-$800. But then again, I also have other priorities in life that $2k is good for. Shrug.

They also take the longest amount of time to give out the smallest amount of "information".

And massively different from the $499 GTX 580 that came before the $1000 GTX Titan. I can buy that these days top end large silicon is a lot more expensive to make, but back then they sure did a great job of completely shifting the concept/branding/pricing of top end silicon. $499 in 2010 is...

Well one can argue that what used to be mainstream price points is completely stagnating in the market for gen on gen uplift. Look at 4060 vs 3060, 4060 Ti vs 3060 Ti, etc. Sure there are feature differences but the overall gen over gen gain was minimal while the cost went up. So...yes. You kind...