Broken Silicon 76.5: RDNA 2 & Ampere Availability Trainwreck Discussion with Not An Apple Fan
Added 2020-11-25 23:34:19 +0000 UTCPaul of Not An Apple Fan joins Tom for an impromptu discussion on how this year is just not an easy one for buying the newest toys. Whether a 6800XT, 3080, PlayStation 5, or XBOX Series X - demand is unprecedented.
0:00 What even is a paper launch?
20:03 Was RDNA2 a paper launch?
30:00 Should AMD have pushed back the launch?
40:00 Explaining the insane demand
50:00 DLSS Discussion
1:00:00 Ray Tracing and RDNA 2
1:16:50 Why are AIBs gouging RDNA 2 so hard?
1:28:39 More RDNA 2 Stock is coming soon (both NAAF & MLID confirm), RTX 3090 Issues
1:37:25 Key differences between Ampere, RDNA 2, XBOX, and PS5 Launch
1:49:00 Should people be this desperate to buy any of this?
LINKS!!!!!!:
https://twitter.com/mooreslawisdead/status/1331656304067272708
Comments
I have a theory that AI in DLSS does not do much else other than act as a marketing tool. I think the performance uplift mostly comes not from machine learning, but from Nvidia spending an excessive amount of engineering hours to optimise a few games. This advertises not only their gaming products but the machine learning cards as well. If I am right by the time DLSS 2.0 works on every game, the image quality will be much worse. However by then people will just assume the image quality is good and no one will bother checking it for 100s of games.
Laz
2020-12-31 21:21:32 +0000 UTC
