Ja50n

I miss the old days when the big complaint against Apple products was that they were arguably overpriced...

I miss the old days when the big complaint against Apple products was that they were arguably overpriced...

I miss the old days when the big complaint against Apple products was that they were arguably overpriced...

There are plenty of great Hackintosh builds, though!

I miss the old days when the big complaint against Apple products was that they were arguably overpriced...

I miss the old days when the big complaint against Apple products was that they were arguably overpriced...

I miss the old days when the big complaint against Apple products was that they were arguably overpriced...

I miss the old days when the big complaint against Apple products was that they were arguably overpriced...

The vast majority of Android users aren't going to use an alternate app store unless it's pre-loaded on their phone, and even then they'll probably stick with the Play Store.

Forcing developers to only use Google's payment processing method, which I'm sure they get a cut of, seems a little anti-consumer...

Ok, some PRELIMINARY results and analysis...
 
Battle of the 6 cores at my house. Each test was run at least 2 times, the first time observing actual core clocks, 2nd time without monitoring software which generally lead to a small increase in score.
 
With HT/SMT on, stock clock settings.
 
Ryzen 1600: 2536 (all core clock 3.4 GHz, dual channel 2933 ram, 124.3 points per core per GHz)
Ryzen 2600: 2912 (all core clock 3.8-ish GHz, dual channel 2666 ram, 127.7 points per core per GHz)
i7-8086k: 3390 (all core clock 4.2 GHz, dual channel 3000 ram, 134.5 points per core per GHz)
i7-7800X: 3144 (all core clock 4.0 GHz, quad channel 3000 ram, 131.0 points per core per GHz)
 
With HT/SMT off
 
Ryzen 1600: 1994 (97.7 points per core per GHz)
Ryzen 2600: 2276 (99.4 points per core per GHz)
i7-8086k: 2600 (103.2 points per core per GHz)
i7-7800X: 2369 (98.7 points per core per GHz)
 
Improvement from HT/SMT on vs off
Ryzen 1600: 27%
Ryzen 2600: 30%
i7-8086k: 33%
i7-7800X: 29%
 
Intel CPUs seem to do a bit better here, but I haven't tested for ram scaling at all yet, so that might be a factor where it wasn't really in R15. Speedup from HT/SMT is in ball park of 30%, so similar to R15. The 8086k seems to do a bit too well compared to the others.
 
With more time, I'd set systems to run at fixed clock so there is no ambiguity. Also I could try to use the same speed ram in all to help equalise that also.

That explanation they gave is...misleading. A simple way of increasing the GPU-load is to simply...disable vsync/gsync/freesync. No, the reason for this limitation is that those tensor-cores can't handle high FPS -- if they let you turn on DLSS when the GPU isn't already taxed to the max, you'd quickly notice your FPS tanking simply because those tensor-cores ain't fast enough. If your FPS is already low(-ish), enabling DLSS won't hurt anymore and it'll seem like it's magically increasing your FPS instead.
 
Basically, NVIDIA wants to limit DLSS-usage only to situations where it won't hurt the technology's reputation.

Be careful, as I’d say there’s a lot of bias in your results. The majority of people visiting the forum, finding your post, and then weighing in by voting and commenting are probably very unhappy with the move away from 16:9... it would be interesting to see the results of a Strawpoll during a WAN show for a broader audience polling, though hopefully the results would be similar

Release price is one thing, but we’ll see what market forces do. Vega was an interesting one last year...

Release price is one thing, but we’ll see what market forces do. Vega was an interesting one last year...

Release price is one thing, but we’ll see what market forces do. Vega was an interesting one last year...

Release price is one thing, but we’ll see what market forces do. Vega was an interesting one last year...

Release price is one thing, but we’ll see what market forces do. Vega was an interesting one last year...

Release price is one thing, but we’ll see what market forces do. Vega was an interesting one last year...

I can understand wanting to appeal to the broader audience... but... was anyone really asking for the 2:1 aspect ratio? Was anyone on an iPhone X thinking “LTT sucks, I can’t even tell I have a notch when I watch their videos!”? Every time I watch an LTT video now, I’m distracted looking at black bars that shouldn’t be there, bars that pretty much no other YouTube channel has... and I forget to pay attention to the video.

It was easy to see where this format war was headed simply by looking at the fact that FreeSync is free while Nvidia takes a $200-$500 cut for every Gsync monitor. Their implementation was far more expensive and no better in quality than a comparable FreeSync panel.

It was easy to see where this format war was headed simply by looking at the fact that FreeSync is free while Nvidia takes a $200-$500 cut for every Gsync monitor. Their implementation was far more expensive and no better in quality than a comparable FreeSync panel.

It was easy to see where this format war was headed simply by looking at the fact that FreeSync is free while Nvidia takes a $200-$500 cut for every Gsync monitor. Their implementation was far more expensive and no better in quality than a comparable FreeSync panel.

Linux gaming performance just needs to get a little bit better, then I can ditch Windows for good...