Initial benchmarks on sites dealing with less useful operating systems shows a fairly consistent gain of 25% over the 2080 Ti. Which makes it slightly less optimistic than what nvidia says, but still pretty good for current games. However, that mostly applies to 4K/Ultra scenarios (besides a few others that manage very high GPU loads on lower resolutions). But if that's what you want, this seems like a quite attractive GPU for the price. Nothing special enough to replace a 2080 Ti though.

It would be nice if AMD could finally put something competitive out, but seeing that the 5700XT barely breaks half the performance of the 3080, it's not likely the RDNA2 will suddenly compete with the 3080.

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Quoting: Guest(high pitch excited noises) I am far to hyped about an 11 year old game getting an update.

So you'll be going through you backlog before touching this one, right? :tongue:

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Quoting: robredzHope X Pane can get something that more than competes, sometimes the eye candy seduces, but soon falls short in some way.

I don't think that is realistic. The resources that need to be put into it are way beyond the total size of the flight simming market. The only reason microsoft can do it is because they can leech of their bing maps. And even then I'm highly suspicious about them actually covering the cost. At least X-Plane is an open platform with a large community that brings us stuff like Ortho4xp that allows us to do it ourselves.

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Quoting: robredzThe dealbreaker for many in UK will be the online connection speed, Ok the MSFS will look awesome, but looing at specs, I'd get away with high, but would need aCPU and GPU upgrade sonner rather than later. Am looking at the RTX3070 but not right away. Problem is the Cryptominers might try to grab all the cards again.

The dealbreaker for MSFS2020 should be that it is not only a microsoft product, but a microsoft lock in. Eventually microsoft is going to want a return on their investment. Of course they're playing nice now, but it won't stay that way. Having microsoft in a niche product is a scary thing. There is a reason why they got rid of fsx and nothing has changed since then.

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Quoting: EhvisYou'd think that Linux users, who have been on the receiving end of FUD, would be slightly more careful with what they say. Unfortunately not the first time this has been proven wrong.

So Noveau poor performance is not Nvidia fault? Facts != FUD.

No it's not. It's a consequence of NVIDIA keeping secrets, but that doesn't make them at fault. And the way you wrote it was suggesting nvidia was late to the party and actively worked against nouveau. Neither of which is true. Nvidia has made closed source drivers for 20 years now and has behaved the same for all of those 20 years. They're entirely predictable and entirely what you would expect from a big market leading company.

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Quoting: fagnerlnI love the design choices of Manjaro's team, it's always clean and with nice colors. I hope that Xubuntu changes their theme, that greybird feels too antiquated.

What's the name of this theme?

Always funny to see how different personal taste can be. To me this looks about as off putting as it can get.

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Quoting: x_wingI know, my point is that once upon a time noveau capabilities weren't that bad... but Nvidia happened.

You'd think that Linux users, who have been on the receiving end of FUD, would be slightly more careful with what they say. Unfortunately not the first time this has been proven wrong.

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The thing I find mildly interesting about this is actually Apple. Just as they're switching to using ARM for laptops and (some) desktops, it is acquired by nvidia. Makes you wonder if Apple had actually tried to acquire ARM as well. Also makes you wonder whether nvidia is trying to get back into apple hardware.

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Very well made. Everything worked smoothly and intuitively. My only problem with it was that I had no idea what some of the items were.

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Apart from L4D2 with Sin, it's still been a lot of Factorio. Megabase still not done, but it is growing! And the biter attacks are relentless. :grin:

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