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Nvidia

Nvidia announces RTX 5090 for $1,999, 5070 for $549 — plus AI, DLSS 4, and more
Nvidia DLSS 4 is the magic bullet behind the RTX 50-series' touted 2X performance — Reflex 2, Multi Frame Gen AI tools come to the fore
Jensen says DLSS 4 'predicts the future' to increase framerates without introducing latency (Updated: Nope)
RTX 5090 Founders Edition is the only SKU that meets Nvidia SFF-Ready requirements
Nvidia introduces RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5070 laptop GPUs — RTX 50 Blackwell goes mobile with up to 24GB of GDDR7 memory

AMD CPUs/APUs

AMD’s beastly ‘Strix Halo’ Ryzen AI Max+ debuts with radical new memory tech to feed RDNA 3.5 graphics and Zen 5 CPU cores
AMD launches Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D, claims 20% faster gaming performance than Intel’s flagship Arrow Lake processors
AMD Launches ‘Fire Range’ HX3D mobile processor with game-boosting 3D V-Cache, other HX Series SKUs built on Zen 5 desktop CPU silicon
AMD launches Ryzen AI 300 and 200 series chips for laptops
AMD announces Ryzen Z2 series processors for handhelds — more performance, better efficiency, coming soon
AMD quietly introduces Ryzen 5 9600 — non-X variant brings back Wraith Stealth cooler

AMD GPUs

AMD RDNA 4 Radeon RX 9000-series GPUs revealed: Targeting mainstream price and performance with improved AI and ray tracing
AMD's first RDNA 4 GPU die pictured: Navi 48 around 390 mm2, targeting mainstream gamers
Radeon RX 9070 GPU preorders are seemingly scheduled for January 23 — Asus RTX 9070 and RX 9070 XT show up at US retailer, but pricing remains unknown
Radeon RX 9070 RDNA 4 GPU purportedly performs similar to RTX 4080 Super in CoD Black Ops 6

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jeez loise... the 5090 takes 4 slots 😮, thats insane...

cannot say im surpriced at rdna 4 targetting mainstream for now, they need time to come up with a viable answer to DLSS and even though FSR has seen some major improvements it can only go so far.

The amd cards are still pretty good and more than enough for gaming in 2025 the nvidia flagship models are kinda overkill for a normal gamer.

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3 hours ago, revelator said:

strange some other site claimed it was 4 slots wide 🙄, well that bodes somewhat better but the pricing means it is only for the wealthy or bankrobbers 😂

For people doing AI work or game streaming as a job, an RTX 5090 could be a business expense, and they'll make back every dollar spent on it. They might be able to write it off on their taxes too. The 32 GB of VRAM is most likely to benefit AI workloads.

If you're a gamer buying it, it could be an unexpectedly low performance boost over the 4090 despite the specs, and allow you to play the latest slop games at 4K 165 Hz or whatever. But plenty of people pay more than $2k (+ electricity costs) on their hobbies, so enjoy it I guess.

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hmm sure i do have power tools for my hobbies but a bit over 2k is about what i spend a year on electricity 😉.

so not really a good upgrade for a 4090 unless you use high refresh monitors in 4k hmm.

are there actually any games yet a 4090 cannot run at 60 fps minimum ? no matter the resolution / refresh rate.

well i suppose running something like cyberpunk 2077 in 8k with a refresh rate of 165hz might bring even the 4090 to its knees heh.

well it can actually play it if using some DLSS magic otherwise nope.

7680x2160 DLSS Quality + Frame generation 41
  DLSS Balanced + FG 48
  DLSS Performance + FG 57
  DLSS Ultra Perf. + FG 62
  Native Unplayable
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kinda strange that the lower settings actually get lower framerates than ultra in that resolution but my best guess its because of the framegen.

this test was made by a youtube user who happened to have access to a 8K high refresh TV and a 4090.

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heh black myth wukong absolutely destroys the 4090 with raytracing on and no DLSS even in 1440 res.

without DLSS and full raytracing / pathtracing it only goes to about 22 fps in 1440, in 4k it tanks completely at 11 fps havent seen anyone attempt to run it at 8k yet with DLSS off. with DLSS on quality it can actually manage around 70 fps in 4k and around 90 fps at 1440.

while gorgeous this trend with games that noone besides god can run is starting to become a problem.

in retrospect i suspect management might pull the rug out under devs who like toying to much with these new technologies, after all they are getting payed to make money and with noone able to run things unless they have the latest and greatest hardware they are loosing a good deal of income.

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On 12/4/2024 at 3:06 AM, jaxa said:

will dxvk and support for older games improve in the battlemage version?

i fully understand that arc driver is no intel HD driver

Intel Arc battlemage price is quite a bit different where I live here than out there. The estimated difference can be 40-50 dollars. Perhaps it's better to ask my friend who is working abroad to buy it(B570) and send it to me when he comes back here

The dilemma is the pricing between Australian or US dollar(I hope my acquaintance knows the best pc parts shop near the oregon-california area)

 

*edit for the high end tier the difference can be $100-$150 , quite amazing 

 

pricing in singapore or malaysia : 0 difference

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its come a long way allready but i cannot say it will work for all titles yet :).

kinda strange that the pcie bus is limited to x8 for the battlemage ???.

tests show that in 4k it takes a quite nice leap over the 4060 ti fe model which gets even better at 1440 resolutions, in 1080 the 4060 ti fe takes the lead somewhat so the card is not as good in low reolutions.

so 1440 res seems the sweet spot for it.

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On 1/12/2025 at 3:20 AM, taffernicus said:

will dxvk and support for older games improve in the battlemage version?

i fully understand that arc driver is no intel HD driver

There's no way to be sure. First impressions seem like Battlemage's drivers are much better than Alchemist's, but there are still some weird issues. You are still going to have a problem on systems that don't support resizable BAR. I don't know that it improves support for games using older versions of DirectX. It's unclear if Intel dGPUs will be well supported years from now, certainly they could exit the market and refocus their efforts on iGPUs.

There's reasons why it's cheap.

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yeah drivers seem to have matured a bit but as you note there are still some problems.

well considering its there second model im not to surpriced, it does take time to reach a certain level of competence in this market.

yeah it happened once before where they dropped the gpu market instead focussing on the iGPU side, so it might happen again only time and sales numbers will tell 😉.

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at one point i considered the intel cards but the rebar problems made short work of that as my board does not support rebar by default (can be hacked in via a bios mod though).

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might actually try the rebar bios mod at some point to see if there are any performance differences, though it requires running a small program to enable it in windows/linux.

im also starting to ponder if i should get my hands on a 570x board and a ryzen 5900X3d to keep my 3070 rtx occupied (should be more than enough for that card since my old x99 runs quite ok with it). i can reuse the dram from the x99 since they are way to fast for this board anyway.

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well tried the rebar mod and failed... the problem being that the later x99 bioses have locked the nvram sections of the bios to prevent that kind of tampering sigh. there is a workaround but it is quite nasty as the tool to add the module has a bug that renders the padding inoperable so first we add it with this tool and then we have to extract the modified sections for that module and readd it to an unmodified bios so as to not f... up the padding. sadly without this hokery pokery you cannot flas the bios at all as the bios flashback feature plainly refuses becuse the padding is corrupted argh!. you can force it with afuwin but it might turn the board inoperable in the worst case or have strange bugs in the best so im not sure i even want to try.

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well got it working but it was somewhat more convoluted then i expected...

the rtx 3070 does not support rebar by default either so i had to flash a new vbios for that as well.

strangely the 2080 ti does support it ??? wtf. 🤯.

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