You'd be a fool to buy an RTX 3070

[Action_Johnson]

About $50 more bucks gets you double the VRAM, Infinity-whatever-they-call-it with Ryzen 5000, and likely better performance than a 2080Ti (which I'd say is still slightly better than a 3070).

 

Prove me wrong. 

[minibois]

1 minute ago, Action_Johnson said:

Prove me wrong. 

I'll make up my mind once the reviews drop

[WereCatf]

2 minutes ago, Action_Johnson said:

About $50 more bucks gets you double the VRAM, Infinity-whatever-they-call-it with Ryzen 5000, and likely better performance than a 2080Ti (which I'd say is still slightly better than a 3070).

But I wouldn't be getting e.g. far better drivers, CUDA or NVENC.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

1 minute ago, WereCatf said:

But I wouldn't be getting e.g. far better drivers, CUDA or NVENC.

Tohe drives are fine now. Though it might come down for what you do. Gaming, you might as well get the 6800, but if you need cudo or nvec, you are forced to get the 3070

[mahyar]

im a neural network enthusiast and im saying nothing can compete with cuda

AND nvidia will reveal super or ti card soon 

[GoodEnough]

1 minute ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Tohe drives are fine now.

asides nvidia's drivers were just awful when people first got their hands on the 3000 cards

[Mateyyy]

4 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Tohe drives are fine now.

The problem isn't now - or in other words - 15 months after release, but rather at launch.

Navi's drivers were a shitshow for more than half of said 15 months, and the VII wasn't all that different either.

[Kilrah]

2 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Tohe drives are fine now.

How can you know for sure the drivers for a not-yet-out product won't be broken?

 

Anyway, no reviews no point. 

[Helpful Tech Witch]

Just now, GoodEnough said:

asides nvidia's drivers were just awful when people first got their hands on the 3000 cards

the drivers were part of the problem, but nvidia not giving game ready drivers to aibs fast enough was part of it. Thats why aib crashes were worse, though the FE had some of it.

[GoodEnough]

2 minutes ago, mahyar said:

enthusiast

key word, enthusiast.

people choose amd over nvidia because they arent made of money

[Blademaster91]

2 minutes ago, mahyar said:

im a neural network enthusiast and im saying nothing can compete with cuda

AND nvidia will reveal super or ti card soon 

If you need CUDA then then yeah you have to buy Nvidia.

But I am expecting Nvidia to release a 3080Ti with slightly more CUDA cores and more vram, and since theres 2 empty solder pads on the 3080, possibly a 12GB card. Although a Ti card from Nvidia would have to be $999 to go between the 3080 and 3090.

[mahyar]

Just now, GoodEnough said:

key word, enthusiast.

people choose amd over nvidia because they arent made of money

define enthusiast

[Senzelian]

13 minutes ago, Action_Johnson said:

Prove me wrong. 

Prove yourself right first.

[Slayerking92]

13 minutes ago, Action_Johnson said:

Prove me wrong. 

Prove you are correct first.

 

[mahyar]

1 minute ago, Blademaster91 said:

If you need CUDA then then yeah you have to buy Nvidia.

But I am expecting Nvidia to release a 3080Ti with slightly more CUDA cores and more vram, and since theres 2 empty solder pads on the 3080, possibly a 12GB card. Although a Ti card from Nvidia would have to be $999 to go between the 3080 and 3090.

well cuda isnt necessary for neural network but cpus are extremely inefficient in neural network processing 

[Jurrunio]

12 minutes ago, Action_Johnson said:

About $50 more bucks gets you double the VRAM, Infinity-whatever-they-call-it with Ryzen 5000,

VRAM isnt everything, no difference between 16gb and 10gb if you dont go beyond 2560x1440

 

13 minutes ago, Action_Johnson said:

and likely better performance than a 2080Ti (which I'd say is still slightly better than a 3070).

We'll see

[Briggsy]

There's always going to be a niche use-case for a 3070 over 6800. I'd argue if you can get a used 2080ti for the price of a 3070, get the 2080ti for the additional VRAM and overclocking headroom.

 

If you care about RT then you clearly haven't used it yet, because it's still a Beta feature that runs like a turd. I'd wait for next-next gen before getting excited about it.

 

If you're a content producer worth your salt then you're not looking at the 3070 anyway.

 

All that being said, if you make your GPU choice based on brand loyalty then none of these things actually matter. If like myself you have AMD and Nvidia graphic cards to mess around with, there are some strengths and drawbacks with both brands. for example: Nvidia is able to utilize available VRAM better when VRAM is tight by dynamically adjusting the texture quality of objects in-game, while AMD using their image sharpening tech and deeper colors make lower resolutions look a lot better than they should. If you don't have both to compare side-by-side, you're probably going to be biased toward what you already own.

[Guest]

You'd be a fool to proclaim someone a fool based on first party, non-independently verified info.

Nvidia's first party info was not taken at face value. AMD's shouldn't be either. Even if Lisa's haircut is cooler than Jensen's jacket.

[Blademaster91]

5 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

the drivers were part of the problem, but nvidia not giving game ready drivers to aibs fast enough was part of it. Thats why aib crashes were worse, though the FE had some of it.

The Nvidia 30 series launch was a mess, and yeah that is an important point, AIB's didn't get drivers soon enough to test for stability, thats why the capacitor layout was a problem. The reviewers got drivers before the AIB's did, yet people still give AMD crap for drivers.

[GoodEnough]

2 minutes ago, mahyar said:

define enthusiast

nvidia is more often targeted to people who have the extra money to spend on a more "reliable" gpu than someone who doesnt, i think your wallet would agree with me that amd still has better price to performance, even if it may or may not be slightly slower or faster

[Fasauceome]

ahem

 

TENSOR CORES

 

that is all

[GoodEnough]

2 minutes ago, Briggsy said:

If you care about RT then you clearly haven't used it yet, because it's still a Beta feature that runs like a turd. I'd wait for next-next gen before getting excited about it.

you dont know the definition of running like a turd until you have tried running continuum rt on a rx 580 lmao

[mahyar]

1 minute ago, GoodEnough said:

nvidia is more often targeted to people who have the extra money to spend on a more "reliable" gpu than someone who doesnt, i think your wallet would agree with me that amd still has better price to performance, even if it may or may not be slightly slower or faster

tenser cores and cuda core amd simply can not compete with these 

[Koeshi]

2 minutes ago, mahyar said:

well cuda isnt necessary for neural network but cpus are extremely inefficient in neural network processing 

The annoying thing with CUDA is that that it isn't particularly better than OpenCL in terms of actual performance, but because the software out there is almost all optimised for it rather than OpenCL.  Which of course leads into the cycle of people that need compute buy Nvidia, so developers target CUDA, so people buy Nvidia, so developers...

[mahyar]

Just now, Koeshi said:

The annoying thing with CUDA is that that it isn't particularly better than OpenCL in terms of actual performance, but because the software out there is almost all optimised for it rather than OpenCL.  Which of course leads into the cycle of people that need compute buy Nvidia, so developers target CUDA, so people buy Nvidia, so developers...

well no cuda is much better than open cl when comes to my workloads