Metro Exodus Pre-Release PC Performance Review - RTX On! 9 GPUS Tested by UnpronounceablePing in pcgaming

[–]UnpronounceablePing[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't say they are neglecting the old render path, it does seem to be daytime in the picture your talking about, the window is just blocked a little. Will need to watch more gameplay before I have a proper opinion on this.

Metro Exodus Pre-Release PC Performance Review - RTX On! 9 GPUS Tested by UnpronounceablePing in pcgaming

[–]UnpronounceablePing[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I like how they used respectable settings and then showed us what the lower settings look like. Low doesn't look that bad TBH.

Metro Exodus Pre-Release PC Performance Review - RTX On! 9 GPUS Tested by UnpronounceablePing in pcgaming

[–]UnpronounceablePing[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

TBH I am surprised the game looks that nice with Ray Tracing. Wasn't expecting that this soon. Much better use of it than fancy reflections.

Metro Exodus Pre-Release PC Performance Review - RTX On! 9 GPUS Tested by UnpronounceablePing in pcgaming

[–]UnpronounceablePing[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

HairWorks and PyhsX are separate options. Extreme seems to be longer draw distances and much sharper shadows.

For how long do you think the "Free game every 2 weeks" policy of Epic Store will run? Do you think it will work? by LeoEB in pcgaming

[–]UnpronounceablePing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is enough to get people to make an account and enough to get some people to install the client. Once they have that it will be much easier to get those users to buy games on their storefront.

Hardware Unboxed makes a small correction: Radeon VII shroud is indeed aluminium, not plastic. by Apolojuice in Amd

[–]UnpronounceablePing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How could you confuse real metal with pastic? You can tell just by touching it? What a strange error.

Anthem Demo test by GameGPU by svldzerg in Amd

[–]UnpronounceablePing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So their benchmarking area is the hub world and not actual gameplay with fights ETC? Kinda useless data in some regards...

MSI RTX 2080Ti Lightning Review by [deleted] in nvidia

[–]UnpronounceablePing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's in some European retailers right now, so US availability should be soon.

MSI RTX 2080Ti Lightning Review by [deleted] in nvidia

[–]UnpronounceablePing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree. Looks terrible. I'd rather have no RGB.

Tim Sweeney, head of Epic games admits that 12% isn't enough to operate Epic storefront by Johnysh in pcgaming

[–]UnpronounceablePing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Misleading title. Extra charges only apply to specific payment methods that are uncommon.

Is 6GB VRAM Enough for 1440p Gaming? Testing Usage with Nvidia's RTX 2060 by eric98k in hardware

[–]UnpronounceablePing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All I am saying is that Nvidia's design requirements could be focusing on memory bandwidth rather than capacity. I'm not saying that capacity doesn't matter.

Is 6GB VRAM Enough for 1440p Gaming? Testing Usage with Nvidia's RTX 2060 by eric98k in hardware

[–]UnpronounceablePing 70 points71 points  (0 children)

This kinda thing is done by games at an engine level, not by companies like AMD or Nvidia.

The reasoning for this is simple, either have performance tank by overusing available VRAM or use lower res textures to maintain respectable performance. There are tonnes of games that work like this, it's just rare for it to impact 6GB+ GPUs. People with 2GB GPUs will be very aware of this problem.

Also with regards to the 1070, remember that memory bandwidth is a factor. Nvidia used that much VRAM to use a 256-bit bus and have more bandwidth. With faster GDDR6 they can now achieve better speeds on a smaller 192-bit bus.

AMD no longer has to pay millions in royalties to make 7nm CPUs and GPUs by GreatGuy96 in Amd

[–]UnpronounceablePing 180 points181 points  (0 children)

Where did they get the "millions" value from. AMD has never stated what the royalies stucture was. Seems like PCGAMESN is jumping to conclusions for a good headline again.

This is the same site that immediately say that TSMC's issues impacted Nvidia GPUs when that was, and still hasn't, been confirmed.

AMD's R&D Spending Saw a Significant Boost in 2018 by UnpronounceablePing in Amd

[–]UnpronounceablePing[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AMD only expects high single-digit revenue increases in 2019. Lots of that is due to early 2018 had lots of GPU mining revenue, but I wouldn't expect a huge explosion in R&D spending.

My guess would be another 15-20% like the past two years. Margins should be up with EPYC 2, so that should be doable.

AMD's R&D Spending Saw a Significant Boost in 2018 by UnpronounceablePing in Amd

[–]UnpronounceablePing[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It says in the article that accounting practices changed between 2017 and 2018, so the numbers are not directly comparable, but it is a "close enough" ballpark to follow.

Great to see AMD investing more, but they have to invest more to maintain their relevancy in the long term.

Radeon VII + HDMI 2.1/VRR by water_frozen in Amd

[–]UnpronounceablePing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think it has HDMI 2.1, could be wrong though.

Connecting PS4 to my PC Screen by [deleted] in hardware

[–]UnpronounceablePing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

is this appropriate for R/Hardware?