theglaze wrote on Jan 12, 2021, 21:56:
4GB more than the 3070, 2GB more than 3080... huh?

Cheaper, lower speed memory. 360.0 GB/s for the 3060, 448.0 GB/s for the 3070, 760.3 GB/s for the 3080.

It doesn't, but it's just an early sample with low clocks. Clock-for-clock it's got pretty good performance, so it really depends on what they're targeting for final clock speeds.

Beamer wrote on Nov 30, 2020, 22:43:

Cutter wrote on Nov 30, 2020, 21:12:
It'll be interesting to see if Biden picks another Wheeler or goes corporate whore on this one.

What did everyone call Wheeler when he was announced?

A reminder

I was one of the skeptics, but damn Wheeler was an amazing surprise. I honestly hope Biden brings him back in (if he'd even be willing to take it on again).

Isn't the 6800XT coming in at faster than the 3080 in most games at 1080p and 1440p? And then at 4k the increased memory bandwidth becomes important again? And then I'd expect it to swing back in the 6800XT's favor again when games start to require 11GB of VRAM (but probably like 2 years from now).

Apple's M1 MacBooks Are Stronger Than Intel MacBooks, Even When Emulated.

In one specific benchmark. Dear god, all of this "ELEVENTY TIMES FASTER" BS is based on Geekbench, that has always given huge benefits to mobile processors comparative to performance in actual workloads. Go look at the new Cinebench benchmarks for the M1. It's... fine. It's fine! It's comparable-ish to a 4xxx mobile Ryzen in single-threads and more comparable to an Intel mobile part in multi-threads.

Cutter wrote on Nov 5, 2020, 22:26:
Huh, there seems to be plenty of them for sale here.

Plenty for sale locally here, too. Just no 5950Xs, which probably ought to be expected.

jdreyer wrote on Sep 22, 2020, 18:25:
NASA plans for return to Moon to cost $28 billion.

Problem, poor starving people?

If it makes you feel any better, that money never would have gone to poor starving people.

HorrorScope wrote on Sep 18, 2020, 13:18:

Ozmodan wrote on Sep 18, 2020, 12:42:
I really have to wonder about these tech magazines that constant spout unconfirmed nonsense. Like in the one talking about Gigabyte cards coming out, they consistently refer to the 3070 being faster than the 2080ti and I after looking at the 3080 test results that compared it to the 2080ti I have great doubts that it is true.
Personally I see the 3070 somewhere between a 2080 super and the 2080ti at best. Nothing worse than constantly spouting marketing nonsense.

One thing that is blurring these lines now is "traditional raster", "rtx", "dlss". Perhaps one can cherry pick a situation where the 3070 can equal a 2080ti. I no yesterday I read a lot of "NV lied the 3080 isn't x faster than a 2080TI", well in some cases it is.

The big one was that they said "2x as fast as the 2080" which is... only true in 100% ray-traced Quake 2. Only situation. In almost all other cases it's 50% faster, which is *great* enough that they had no reason to be misleading. But they just had to reach out there.

eRe4s3r wrote on Sep 7, 2020, 21:13:

ventry wrote on Sep 7, 2020, 20:24:
Steam's latest hardware survey shows how unpopular RTX 2000-series GPUs are

The reality is: Not a lot of people have that sort of money spare for a video card.

Not really... it just shows that nobody wanted to upgrade from the 1xxx series.

Pretty much. Four years, later, and I would still have to pay $500 to match the performance of the GTX1080 I paid $600 for in 2016.

TriggleDiggle wrote on Aug 31, 2020, 21:17:
It seems that the expected number of deaths from old age, heart attacks etc is way down this year, Because the dogwhistle is killing those people.
So the rise in the deaths isn't as large as some people are making out since those people would have died anyway. But its also not as small as the 6% that Trump is claiming.

That's actually the opposite of what the data have been showing. Reported deaths from pneumonia, heart disease, and other "old age" diseases are shockingly way up this year, particularly in places like Georgia and Florida. Hmm I wonder why that could possibly be.

Hydroxychloroquine: A Morality Tale.

Not often that you come across a pretty well-regarded doctor just straight up saying that the scientific method is useless and doctors should just dose their patients with whatever they think'll work.

phinn wrote on Aug 9, 2020, 12:15:
TikTok is garbage so no problems here with these bans.

TikTok sucks, but pretty sure we'd all be (rightly) infuriated if China started demanding that Google/Apple/whatever needed to sell all of its operations in China to a Chinese business.

The Half Elf wrote on Aug 1, 2020, 00:45:
We are taking advise from PewDiePie on judging other people?

I mean, PewDiePie is terrible too, but Rogan is an idiot and it's terrifying that so many people trust him so much.

phinn wrote on Jul 23, 2020, 10:22:
This is really confusing, I thought AMD said Zen 3 was coming this year, this press release says Ryzen 4000 is still Zen 2.

AMD's Zen naming scheme is very confusing. The CPUs (with no graphics) go as:

Zen: Ryzen 1000
Zen+: Ryzen 2000
Zen 2: Ryzen 3000
(probably) Zen 3: Ryzen 4000

The APUs (mobile, and desktop CPU with graphics) go as:
Zen: Ryzen 2000 APU/mobile
Zen+ : Ryzen 3000 APU/mobile
Zen 2: Ryzen 4000 APU/mobile

Giving them the benefit of the doubt, I think they rationalize it because the mobile parts have generally included some improvements over the desktop parts from the same gen.

The Zen 3 parts will probably show up at the very end of this year, and will probably be limited to either server and/or desktop w/ no graphics. Zen 3 mobile parts (who knows what the naming scheme will be) probably won't show up until mid next year.

Beamer wrote on Jul 23, 2020, 09:06:

Nullity wrote on Jul 23, 2020, 08:56:
Years ago, I used to work at a job that provided Aeron chairs for everyone. It was without question the most comfortable chair I've ever sat in, before or since. I've always wanted to get one of my own, but I could never justify the high price.

Before the pandemic started though, I was more seriously considering it. I was trying to decide between the Aeron and the Mirra 2. I know the Embody is supposed to be great as well, but it was always even more expensive, and since I've never sat in one, I didn't consider it.

During the pandemic I'm seriously considering it. Odds are I'll be working from home 2-3 days a week for the remainder of my life, just seems to be how every major company is planning right now. And I'll be working from home for the next 6, anyway. So may be worth the investment.

Had an Embody at a previous job, and it was indeed the best chair I've ever used (including the Aerons, which made up most of the chairs in the office). I have a Steelcase Leap at home, and it's okay but the Embody was nice.

ldonyo wrote on Jun 24, 2020, 12:36:
Facial recognition can't identify people most of the time, so thinking it can predict behavior of any kind, let alone specific behavior, based on an image of a face is beyond ridiculous.

Phrenology in techbro clothes.

Cutter wrote on Jun 23, 2020, 20:37:
There is not a single fucking thing preventing ANYONE else of any race, creed, color, or religion from going out and competing by starting their own business.

Have you ever had a single introspective moment where you sat back and thought, "Perhaps I, a straight white man of a certain age, do not have a monopoly on truth and experience? Maybe a person not like me has experienced life differently? Maybe sometimes things happen when I am not looking? Maybe even when I have witnessed things, I interpreted them differently than others? And perhaps, even, my interpretation was incorrect?"

People who say “you mad?” and call others “snowflakes” got upset about an option in a video game for children.

Hahahaha that is a magnificent line.

eRe4s3r wrote on Feb 17, 2020, 15:05:
Big, good, RPG's... only CD Project is making them. So imo they can take their sweet time to make them perfect. For me that's about the only games that are must-buys.

Larian? Both Divinity: OS games were amazing.

jacobvandy wrote on Dec 16, 2019, 17:04:
I don't think they could get away with just making up numbers with several multi-billion-dollar companies involved as sponsors.

Facebook straight-up lied about ad impressions by up to 900% for 2 years.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/17/17989712/facebook-inaccurate-video-metrics-inflation-lawsuit