Quoting: subDespite not even remotely considering Nvidia products for myself,
someone not waiting for AMD's release (soon) before buying a 30XX must be outright crazy. :D

I want to agree with you. But for people who dont care about nvidia vs AMD. For $700 in 1.5 months, AMD is not going to go roll out something noticeably faster than the 3080. They might roll something out at $700 but the same speed, or they might roll something out 20% faster than 3080... but costs more.

And at that point, you've just waited 1.5 months to get something that is roughly equal.

The reason to wait is because rushing into anything is a bad idea, or because you care about open source drivers (most buyers are going to be Windows, so not like AMD is really winning any favor there). I personally am waiting because of open source drivers, so for the moment I'm an AMD "loyalist". This generation is theirs to lose. I'm basically planning on building a new PC with a threadripper 4960x and a radeon 6700xt at the end of the year. If the top tier card of theirs is slower than a 3070, or costs $1000 for less than 3080 performance... I'll go nvidia. But I 100% don't expect to get a better price to performance deal, only better open source drivers.

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"Do you want to talk at our X11 Conference?"
"Sure I'd love to talk about Wayland"

I really hope that's how it actually went down. Seems like it has been well received (and I have no idea if there is any "bad blood" between X and Wayland devs, hopefully there is a unified "make Linux better" camaraderie).

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Quoting: The_Aquabatbecause synthetic benchmarks are not real world gaming.
100% increment in performance is just a buzzword.

They did 2 things here:

1. compared the 3070 to the 2080ti, then compared the 3080 to the 2080 (non super). They primed your brain so when you hear "twice as fast" you think "twice as fast as the 2080ti"... Even though 25% faster than the 2080ti is exactly what their graph (shown in the article) roughly says.

2. pushed REALLY hard for RTX numbers. Linus Tech Tips says Nvidia reached out and told them "oh no, the double performance thing was for Quake RTX and Minecraft RTX". In reality, the 3080 is only 25-75% (depending on game) faster than the 2080. (which still leaves it faster than a 2080ti by a pretty nice margin).

What really bothers me the most is that this is in fact a new fastest card. it IS faster than the 2080ti, at like half the price. No one buying this is getting ripped off, even at the lower numbers (unless AMD has something even faster for even cheaper coming out in a month, and even then, worst case, it will be comparable). So why even bother to fluff the numbers. The only reason is because most 1080ti owners didnt upgrade to 2000 series. Which is a good thing in a way because of e-waste and what not... But nvidia this time around really wants everyone to feel the need to upgrade, even if they dont need to.

I personally am holding out for some big navi news. It looks like the driver situation is already making some progress.

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Whenever I see "linux support" and "VR support"... I feel like that doesn't always guarantee "VR on Linux support"

linux + valve index + this game = ?

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Quoting: The_AquabatI keep hearing about Navi being buggy, I haven't find bugs on my navi. Maybe I hit the silicon lottery? is there any documentation about the bugs? are there any workarounds?

I booted into windows for the first time in 5 years and kept getting BSODs on my Vega64. Which only happen when I have 3 monitors on. Turn off a monitor? Rock solid. Found forum posts describing this from over a year ago. While the Navi launch was a bit bumpy on linux, AMD drivers on windows have perpetually been a disaster for every GPU after polaris. A lot of the "Navi is terrible, worst thing ever" stuff is Windows drivers related. Not that there arent any hardware gotchas, or linux driver issues (see shmerl's post for references), but I've mostly heard positive things about Navi on linux recently.

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It sounds like what I've been doing with JACK but better (I've just been using it as a mixing board). I haven't looked much at pipewire because for some reason when I see "and video" I assume it's going to somehow be wayland related (which I personally am not ready for)... but it sounds like it's more "and video CAPTURE" rather than video output. Now I kinda want to try this.

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Curiously, it encodes it using JPEG

Almost all video formats use key frames and diff frames. If the goal is to have a rolling window, you don't want key frames to roll out of the window and be left with a bunch of useless diff frames. There are probably more efficient ways to do this, but this is a surefire way to make sure you have full data for every frame up until you do the video compression, even if JPEG is mostly a weird choice because per frame compression may make the video compression act weird.

Seems like it gets the job done though.

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Quoting: ValckNow this looks interesting!

Hopefully now I can finally turn off the RGB crap you simply can't avoid buying these days... will this idiocy never stop?
Glossy glarey displays, piano black finish, RGB lighting inside closed cases, I don't even want to know what may come next.

I game in a dark room where color replication is better than glare reduction. My case is class on several sides.

RGB isn't just for "all the colors flashing like its a rave". I have mine set to permanently blue to match my water cooling loop. Lighting is a thing I actually want for my PC, which is a bit of a show-piece for me, and toggle-able RGB is far more efficient than having a "no lights" SKU, a "blue" SKU, a "red" SKU. etc.

You can turn it off, so getting mad that it exists is just getting mad that people have different preferences.

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Watching people on twitch, it seems pretty straightforward. I wonder if living in the middle of nowhere affects latency to datacenters. Would be fun to try out.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Ubuntu support? Currently it's too hard to run PoE on it.

Sorry, what?
Steam -> Steam Play -> Download & play PoE.
How is that hard?

I mean, sure, native would be even better, for performance alone, but PoE is definitely one of the best running games on Proton right now (at leat post Proton 4.2). Most of the problems reported on ProtonDB are actually bugs/performance issues of the game itself (like heavy stuttering when shit hits the fan) which happen on Windows as well.
I'd know, I played on both platforms for dozens of hours ;)

I've consistently gotten it to launch. But it would always (90% of the time) crash on load screens between zones, or hard lock my entire computer. I've never found it to be "playable" through proton, even if I've been in game and killed some creatures before. Maybe I need to give it another try.

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