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  1. othertomperson
    fwiw the Samsung Galaxy range of phones tend to be more expensive than Apple flagships in the UK. Considering he moved from a flagship Android device to an iPhone SE (which is entry level and around half the price of the phone he came from) you aren't doing much for your point. The fact that you keep saying this after it is pointed out that your idea of a "cheap low end phone" is actually more expensive than the iPhone in question reveals all that you need to know about your intellectual honesty in this discussion.
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    It was a Galaxy S something or other.
  3. othertomperson
    Dad moved from Android to Apple and said he instantly found it far more intuitive to use, and has no intention of ever moving back.
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    The 1080 and the 1440p monitor make more sense than the 1080 Ti and 1080p. I played Fallout 4 at 4K and my major bottleneck was still RAM. That game has so many random problems and quirks, I'd never base a hardware judgement off of it.
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    Console gamers ask me this a lot, and I still can't given them a simple straight answer. GPU -- tends to be every two or three years CPU -- Six years and counting... RAM -- when my CPU needs it. I added more last year, but I didn't replace my old RAM Storage -- Same as RAM -- I've added to it, but I still have the mechanical drive I bought six years ago. If you buy a good CPU to begin with, you can spend £200 on a new GPU every time there's a new console generation and always have something drastically better.
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    You're still calling it Ryzen 9 when one of the first things AMD explicitly revealed about it is that it isn't called Ryzen 9. Sorry if I don't take you too seriously as a source.
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    Assuming that "workstation" and content creation means FP64 and nothing else. Turns out most people who want 12GB vram for creation reasons probably don't care about double precision.
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    I'd love to see more Vulkan games done as well as Doom. So many people are lauding AMD's Vulkan performance on the back of a sample size of 1. If I were Nvidia, I know where I'd spend almost all of my optimisation budget right now.
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    This idea among fanboys that Nvidia somehow does badly in Ashes of the Sinhularity needs to die. Look at the 580 and 1060, at how they perform next to each other. Identically.
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    They literally have two different architectures in their 500-series. They have done more R&D for this generation of card than Nvidia, who essentially die-shrunk Maxwell.
  11. othertomperson
    Well done, you've grasped the concept now
  12. othertomperson
    You got me. The 550, 580, big Vega and small Vega all use the same die with the same memory controller. They absolutely don't have some cards that use GDDR5 and others that use HBM. Damn. When was the last time AMD did that? Uhhh right now
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    You're talking as if Nvidia don't reuse the same die as well though. There are Quadros and Teslas that use P102 and 104, just like the GeForce Cards. Only the flagship P100 and V100 haven't seen a gaming variant and that's because they are the halo products. Unless you're Pixar or Elon Musk, you're not buying those. There is a Radeon Pro Duo using the same Polaris GPU in the RX 580. Polaris has multiple dies. The rumours are that Vega will have multiple dies. I don't buy this argument at all.
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    I think this is entirely HBM2 related. It was a gamble that blew up in their face. A year late to market, a core that is barely better than Fiji, and to make matters worse it has worse bandwidth than the Titan's GDDR5X at the moment. For all the shit Nvidia got about only putting HBM2 in the P100, it was clearly the right choice. Their marketing is fucking everywhere. I've commented a lot about how their marketing is overwhelmingly negative compared to their competition. When Nvidia have a new product all of their slides are about how much of a performance gain they have against their old stuff -- "look how good we are". AMD's marketing is always a direct comparison with their competition. Whether it be Ryzen against the 6900k, or Fiji against the 980 Ti. Then there's their names. "EPYC" for professional servers and workstations, seriously!? Then there's the out and out smoke and mirrors. Under-clocking Intel by 1 GHz below its boost to hide the fact that IPC is only half of the equation -- and they don't have the other half, "overclockers dream", "FineWine (aka shit launch drivers)". The straight numbers games (all of the GHz for Bulldozer, "eight" "cores", again for Bulldozer, Hawaii extreme memory bandwidth, ignoring the complete lack of compression that makes this necessary, 390X "all of the vram, we NEED 8GB in 2014", which blew up in their face when they then tried to sell a Fury X with only 4. But you didn't need much because HBM! Which was a lie, as it happened, bandwidth does not make up for amount when you need amount). They have good products, putting Threadripper (again for shite names) across multiple dies is brilliant, but holy crap they are a difficult company to like.
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    I wouldn't replace it with anything less than a 1070/Fury X.
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    No it isn't. Nvidia have explicitly said it's not for gamers, and didn't even send sampled out, and when asked why said that it wasn't for gamers. Nevertheless people do use it for gaming because it's a 1080 Ti with all the shaders unlocked. As such it's indicative of the gaming card's performance, as is Vega here. This has absolutely none of the FirePro or Radeon Pro branding on it, whatsoever. This is AMD's Titan equivalent. They've even gone out of their way to copy the "Founder's Edition" bullshit. Edit: forgot the word "samples" for a moment there.
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    Because this isn't a FirePro. This competing with a Titan, which people absolutely do use for gaming.
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    This has been on the cards for a long time. AMD could not shut up when it came to Ryzen. A year in advance of launch they were downclocking Intel 8-cores to show that their IPC was the same, if not slightly better. We're a month away from Vega and the only thing we know about it is that it has HBM? Where are the gaming benchmarks? Where are the shows analogous to what they did with Fiji that at least demonstrate it being comparable with the 980 Ti? Or even their own last gen? Nvidia's marketing is always comparing to previous generation Nvidia products -- where is the comparison with the Fury X? The silence from AMD on this new release until this close to launch (and they continue to be silent) should have worried everyone, as we are now seeing.
  19. othertomperson
    Eh not really. They didn't really change the name, they just specified a range of versions. It was macOS, then with the tenth version it became macOS X (macOS ten), now they're no longer on the tenth version they've taken away the "ten" branding. It would be like keeping a Windows Vista forum for all versions of Windows, because you think "Vista" is synonymous with Windows and Microsoft.
  20. othertomperson
    Conveniently for your point the Titna Xp, not being a gaming card, was not sent out to outlets for the sake of gaming benchmarks, so reliable results are pretty difficult to come by. The only advantage the 1080 Ti could possibly have, however, would be entirely down to cooling, and therefore overclocking. Watercool the Titan Xp and it will pull ahead of the 1080 Ti because when comparing two cards with the same vram, from the same architectural generation, from the same process node, from the same GPU even (GP-102), it really does come down to specs.
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    No it isn't. It has fewer cores, less vram, less memory bandwidth. It's a cut down card in almost every sense. On a less facetious note, I find this need to max settings for the sake of epeen utterly pathetic. I guarantee you will not be able to tell the difference between Ultra and Very High -- particularly if you are only dropping the odd setting down -- and the moment you start bemoaning the inability to render each pixel multiple times and still get more than 60 fps you are truly lost.
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    Titan Xp. You asked for the best, not the most sensible.
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    FineWineTM technology
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    Because a 16 core from either AMD or Intel would be feasible, but fuck paying $2000 for two more cores? As for GPUs, in principle I agree, but I already have £1200 worth of GPU power. I think that's overkill enough for now. There's a reason I said "because I can" and not "money is no object"
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    Essentially that's what I'm asking here. Is "because I can afford to so why not" enough to buy something which I know is in all likelihood going to perform worse than a 7700K, at least for the forseeable future.
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