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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...

I agree. GPUs more than ever have had staying power where you didn't need to upgrade.

Looks like a 24GB card then relying on increase bandwidth from the GDDR7 over G6X and the L2. If these end up being true.

Pfft. Last 512-bit consumer GeForce product was in the 200-series in 2008. Sure there was a Titan with HBM, I'm not counting that. I just don't buy it. I still don't think this is going to be MCM yet at all. For one, wouldn't you then be able to use a smaller die with multiple chiplets? None of...

Dumb rumor. Full AD102 is almost double the size of AD103 in terms of CUDA core count. Not quite, but pretty close. But likewise has the 384-bit vs the 256-bit. I don't see anything here to suggest that 2x GB203 somehow is now a GB202. Those are two different chips and we should absolutely just...

4070 Ti super was kinda disappointing imo. It got the increased bus and capacity, but didn't really get to being a budget 4080. It was still cut down on L2 cache closer to the 4070 Ti.

While I definitely don't disagree, that pricing won't make any sense. Not saying most of 40-series pricing made sense either but they did end up having to do a Super series to somewhat course correct in some segments, most notably the 4070 Super and 4080 Super. If it really and truly fully...

Agreed. I have no complaints of the many years of service I had from 8.1 Pro on my 4790k rig.

People sure leave out details when they say "use a silver kill coil". Silver should not be used in any loops containing nickel plated blocks, but yes would work absolutely fine if just bare copper blocks. No I wouldn't say money has been wasted for additives. A bottle of Inhibitor+ and Hades+...

Yeah the performance gained per dollar spent really isn't there for custom loop anymore. But there certainly are other reasons. Some like puting together custom loops like any other hobby where the money spent is probably not returned in any other way than enjoyment of doing it, and done...

Correct. Corsair is going the route of rebranding a lot of stuff - i.e. slapping a sailboat logo on and marking it up on their radiators which are just Hardware Labs L-series. Corsair's fittings OEM is Bitspower, which actually does work out because sometimes they are cheaper than actual...

EK continues to masquerade as some high end (with high prices) watercooling company and people keep gobbling it up. Meanwhile they have some of the worst quality control and general quality I've seen whether it's their plating, quality of materials, screw torque, etc. I've yet to have a single...

Sure I guess if you want to throw in real Titans as GeForce gaming cards. I really am just speaking on the GeForce stack sans Titans though. Add Titans because they occupy this bizarro slot between gaming card and prosumer card, sure. But really Titans were absolutely different every single gen...

Same. Its on a desk and definitely produces much less heat than my previous 2019 Intel i9 model did.

I can literally work all day on my M1 Pro MBP on battery and not even think about having to look and see what my battery is at.

Yep I work all day long often on my work M1 Pro MBP 16" battery. On the other hand, my old Intel i9 based 2019 MBP 16" would die in an hour.

You could play it single player no problem, but a lot of parts of the game (such as map events, expeditions, operations, etc.) are built around multi-player. I honestly haven't done much story to be honest - I'd guess from that perspective the older games like New Vegas would be far more...

No no I don't think you understand. Past several gens aside from the initial 4070 launch, it was the 70, not the 80 card that matched the previous gen flagship in performance. 20-series was another bad one but I think got better over time where the 70 Super was matching 1080 Ti performance. Give...

This absolutely. The M1 was a huge change coming from Intel. I had an Intel i9 based MBP from work and it frankly sucked. Then got the M1 Pro MBP and the battery life is great and the machine does everything I need it to. Since the M1, the M2 and M3 have been more iterative then anything else...

A base model 4070 Ti Super should also be $800. $800 for a 4070 Ti is flat out overpriced now that the Ti Super exists. Does Amazon not have any MSRP models? MSRP for a Ti Super should be the same as an MSRP Ti - $799.

Fallout 76 got a lot of flack when it first came out, and rightfully so. Last few months, the wife and I have been enjoying it as something to play together for what it is - camp building, events, dailies, expeditions, etc. almost like an MMO light.

My god that card is comically thick. :ROFLMAO:

Greatest of all time is a stretch. Greatest longevity and value for a halo product in recent history? Absolutely. But I think the 8800 series and the ATI 9700 Pro deserve a mention for greatest of all time. The 9700 Pro really started the idea of creating giant (what was considered giant at the...

AMD had acquired ATI by that point. They were just still using the ATI branding. I think the HD 3000 series was launching around the time the acquisition completed if I recall.

Part of it is I just don't trust EK QC these days. But yeah that makes sense with the colored coolant. Glad to hear otherwise no issues.

So when you described your loop as "filthy", what did you mean exactly? Yeah Cryofuel once upon a time was rebranded Mayhems X1, then it wasn't and that's when it started having reports of gunking and other issues. Even the clear.