At the rate they're discounting their GPUs, they wont be in for long. Because "cheap" is the only reason why they're staying in this game, and the cheaper they get, the less profitable they are, and less R&D to make better GPUs. It's a vicious cycle.

If you want them to stay in the game, shouldn't you ask them to stay in the game to be more competitive performance-wise, rather than just offering cheap GPUs?

And we are already seeing significantly higher prices for Nvidia GPUs. Sure, it may be because Nvidia can price their products however they like because there is no competition, but who's fault is that Nvidia has no competition at this point? AMD needs to realize that the PC market is not like the console market, because they sure is treating it like one. In console market, you can offer the hardware cheap, even at a loss, but that loss is offset back into profit by margins they get from software. PC games are pirated left and right, offered discounts (bundled in and Steam sales, etc), there's no margin to get from there, other than placing those margins from GPU sales.

In the end, you cannot get something out of nothing. You have to pour in R&D cost to get better GPUs. R&D cost comes from profit margins from hardware sales in the PC business. When you mark your pricetag that cheap with razor thin profit margin, in the case of AMD, allegedly in the name of "catering to the masses", the funds you get from these margins to roll back into R&D dwindle away as well. Hence why you see them being 2 generations behind in terms of hardware efficiency (480 being equivalent to a 2-year old 970), because their R&D cost is that much smaller (because they sell their GPUs cheap), and smaller budgets means slower GPU development.

Civilization VI Ultra Settings on 3440x1440. Twin Titan X Pascal SLI, although I'm fairly sure that the game doesn't need SLI for the kind of performance you're looking for in a 4X game.

The game has this weird glitch during intro movie. Audio out of sync from spoken language in the game.

WHQL/Game-ready drivers are out for Battlefield 1/Titanfall 2/Civilization VI, download your here: http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/...driver-released or using GFE.

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Oct 23 2016, 01:46 AM

Why not both? I'm sure in the future, there will be resolution at 4K with Ultrawide format. Vertical resolution would be 2160 pixels but horizontal resolution would have to be 5040 pixel to qualify as Ultrawide. 5040x2160.

I've tried 8K on my rig, it can do it, framerates drop to high 40s, but that's easily compensated by G-Sync. 5040x2160 is less demanding than 8K.

But if you have to choose one, Ultrawide is less demanding than 4K, and will provide more longevity with a set setup specs than 4K. Bear in mind though, Ultrawides on games that does not support them will have black bars on the side.

Doom 2016 running on Titan X Pascals SLI on Ultra Nightmare Graphics settings, on Ultrawide 3440x1440 G-Sync 100Hz. Rock solid 100fps all the time. Also a sneak peek at Doom Arcade Mode, things get more frantic in that mode since health pickups are less, you're running and gunning for higher scores by chaining more kills.

Gonna be testing how allegedly good the PSVR headset is running traditional games in Cinematic Mode with its supposedly better non-pentile pixel array display. Supposed to be cleaner. With its 1080p display, I can run traditional 2D games in Cinematic Mode applied with higher AA to clean the image up further with supersampling from Nvidia Control Panel.

G-Sync emulates high framerates experience at low FPS. It basically extends the life of your rig because even when your performance drops to below 60-70fps, it feels like triple digit fps experience.

I envy you. In situation like these, it's better to NOT know things. Bank account won't be screaming too.

RM7xx. Price reveal in less than 24 hours.

The GTX1050 is meant to replace the 750Ti while the 1050Ti's performance is enough to be on par of GTX960. Hence why it's priced on the RM7xx range.

20 minutes to NDA lift. Topmaid basically spoiled the price surprise already.



VR/living area rig completed. Simpler rig for a simpler less demanding use, 4790K + GTX1080FE + EVGA Hybrid Kit. Everything liquid cooled via AIO coolers. The noisiest component is can on the Hybrid shroud, which hardly spin with the temperature topping out at 50C. The Silent Edition case keeps everything silent with internal paddings, the only noise I wanna hear is from the VR headphones.

2 hours to go!

Prelim result: Titanfall 2 in 4K 3840x2160 everything maximum: 57-64fps. AA off 85fps! i7 4790K 4.4Ghz + GTX1080 EVGA Hybrid running at 2100Mhz core.

Yup, I played Civ VI for about 8 hours yesterday, cramped my palm clutching the mouse for too long without realizing it. Won at "Prince" difficulty, won by "Culture". Had to stop China from winning the Space Race by sabotaging Space Ports and stealing techs using spies.

EDIT: revising that to 4K All max to 45-51fps, AA off lower 50s. The training mission is tame in terms of graphics intensity compared to the Typhon crash landing.

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Oct 28 2016, 02:43 AM

Heh, talking about being denounced, the other two competing civs knows that I've been spying on them, and denouncements from them seems permanent, I gave them resources and money also they still don't care.

Last night's Titanfall 2 first playthrough, with framerate counter at top left. Video recorded in 4K, still processing by Youtube. i7 4790K + GTX1080 with EVGA Hybrid AIO Kit.