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Latest Comments by Gerarderloper
NVIDIA have officially announced the GeForce RTX 2000 series of GPUs, launching September
21 Aug 2018 at 5:00 am UTC

LOL you missed the point.

Its about stressing the GPU not if the benchmark performs at a playable FPS (most are over 60fps with 1440p and some at 4k btw).

Anyway I've mentioned the regression in results on my phoronix link, maybe someone will know whats going on..

NVIDIA have officially announced the GeForce RTX 2000 series of GPUs, launching September
21 Aug 2018 at 4:53 am UTC

1920x1080 results are not overly reliably, the best way to do comparisons is 1440p and 4k because it actually stresses the GPU.

Anyway I think I know whats going on, compare the mad max benchmarks of the two links and you will see two things, first is that the Vega cards now have slower performance for some reason (regression) and second is the 1070ti has had its performance increased.

This could be CPU related, I dunno if the results were done on the similar hardware, the recent results were done at 5ghz so we should have seen the CPU eliminated from the results somewhat since it will not struggle at 5ghz.

Anyway I prefer to go by the lastest bench results, and they clearly indicate VEGA has some issues, maybe Phoronix has some configuration issues I dunno.....

NVIDIA have officially announced the GeForce RTX 2000 series of GPUs, launching September
21 Aug 2018 at 4:32 am UTC

Quoting: Shmerl
Quoting: TheRiddickVega is doing quite bad vs NVIDIA cards, around 20% slower in many cases, go read over at Phoronix about the Vega64.
Not sure what you were reading, Vega is beating Nvidia in many tests. That is Veta 56 vs GTX 1070 and Vega 64 vs GTX 1080. That is actually better than on Windows.

To match these new cards AMD will obviously need to produce something new as well.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia-pascal-aug18&num=1 [External Link]

And your source mate?

NVIDIA have officially announced the GeForce RTX 2000 series of GPUs, launching September
21 Aug 2018 at 3:50 am UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: Perkeleen_VittupääBoycott Nvidia now!
Yeah except there are no other real options, at least when you go past 1060GTX performance level!!!!!

When there is no alternatives then boycotts are VERY hard to do, your asking people to accept a more expensive and MUCH slower option (Vega)!!!!

NVIDIA have officially announced the GeForce RTX 2000 series of GPUs, launching September
21 Aug 2018 at 3:33 am UTC

Still gotta slap the watercooling kit on my 1080ti mini card. I won't be able to afford a 2080TI until probably well into next year so that's ok. MAYBE AMD will figure something out by then if we're lucky? they just don't seem to be all that interesting in consumer GPU's anymore!

Anyway isn't the price increases also due to TRADE WARS related nonsense? like a %25 price increase on parts from China that is somehow going to cause prices to increase for the whole world because well the consumer regardless of where they are must pay for that BS like always right?!

Quoting: ElectricPrism<3 <3 <3 OPEN SOURCE DRIVER OR GTFO. <3 <3 <3
Vega is doing quite bad vs NVIDIA cards, around 20% slower in many cases, go read over at Phoronix about the Vega64. Open source drivers are cool and all but we are not seeing performance on par with how AMD runs under windows vs NVIDIA cards.

Valve may be adding support for using compatibility tools for playing games on different operating systems
15 Aug 2018 at 4:56 am UTC

It could work but developers would need to participate at least by saying they allow it for their titles, and are willing to pass on tech support questions to valve and whoever is helping valve.

Allowing DXVK for example to just work on everything is asking for trouble because you need to at least proof test things first on both AMD/NVIDIA GPU's so people don't constantly get issues.

Insurgency: Sandstorm is looking real good in the latest videos, Linux version should come in the first couple updates
14 Aug 2018 at 12:49 am UTC Likes: 1

Reminds me of the original COD Modern Warfare game, was less ridiculous then its sequels.

Set Phasers to fun! Stage 9 lets you explore the Enterprise-D from Star Trek The Next Generation on Linux
14 Aug 2018 at 12:47 am UTC

It will be interesting if they manage to get the ship moving, being able to warp around to different systems and do away missions. Not a bad effort, hopefully copyright trolls don't sink it.

DXVK 0.65 is out for Vulkan-based D3D11 in Wine, fixes for Monster Hunter World, Yakuza 0
13 Aug 2018 at 4:20 am UTC

Quoting: Whitewolfe80
Quoting: ShmerlWhat's worrying in better performance? You can't stop progress.
Oh i actually have to explain it. If i am a game dev and I have some linux users asking for a port now currently the options are one do it in house which means hiring staff two have feral do it which obivously incurs costs. Or 3 do nothing and wait for linux users to buy windows copies and play it through wine meaning i have to do fuck all and i still get 100 percent profit. Which one would you choose if its anything other than option 3 your lying or have never worked in large corporation.
The developers are still better off packaging up DXVK with their steam release and make it Linux install and all done for the player. Most people won't have the patience to mess with DXVK regardless of how easy people think it is!