Recent content by Akkedie

This is really superb work W1zzard, bravo! Answered every question I had.

It's definitely because you haven't played it. I would also say this though, the game is a lot less pleasing to the eye if you play it in SDR, particularly daytime. The scale of the world as you're in it and the freedom of movement cannot be properly conveyed in screenshots, which is why when...

4 hrs? If I'm not actively using the PC to do something intensive then it's running AV1 encoding almost all the time, so we're talking more like 16 hrs/day. That's basically less time than between generations AND I'm on a superior platform (AM5) AND am not cooler-constrained and can use my fav...

Incredibly disappointing. They really needed to beat the 4080 in raster across the board for it to even have a chance because when we start counting RT, it's a complete bloodbath, nevermind DLSS 3. Seeing RDNA 3 not improve RT % performance loss compared to RDNA 2 is just baffling. GG

So, AMD even more hopelessly behind Nvidia in RT than last generation. Baffling! Guess I'll buy Nvidia for the first time. Imo the way they will do it is when they do a refresh line-up with Supers, just like they did for Turing.

If they stick to 6P they will get completely and utterly trashed by Zen4 3D in gaming. Already it looked dodgy for them given that we'll get that first, never mind all the upgradeability to probably up to Zen6 3D. Even in MT it's not so clear all the e-cores make sense, I'm looking at AV1-SVT...

There is no such thing as AI denoising used in any game afaik, where did you read this?

Please, can you test games with RT at 720p? It's maddening how ignored this test scenario is but in fact it's the most relevant one given how much of a beating RT puts on CPUs, and it's in fact settings you'd use. It's for me the only reason I need more CPU power. :(

Great work W1zzard! Thanks a lot for including Greedfall & The Surge 2, I love those games and went 6800 instead of 3070 precisely because 8 GB is not enough in the former and the extra raster power is great in the latter.

People were crying their sad little hearts out about MSRP but I'm looking at real prices and a 6600 XT is still 30% cheaper than a 3060. Mining efficiency is also insane. This card is an absolute BANGER atm! Get your order in while you can, this won't last. :rockout:

What if I told you...

Damn, it turns out the reference AMD was the ideal price/perf model. :D

This isn't quite accurate. Yes, you can enable it as you develop and try it out but if you want to ship a game with it then you need Nvidia's explicit blessing. That's why even though it's easy to implement you don't see it get widespread adoption. It's the same for every other RTX/Gameworks...

Funny at 3070 better price/performance. Meanwhile in the real world retailers everywhere are selling it for way more than MSRP if it's ever even in stock. Let's stop these foolish comparisons when product doesn't exist in stock! How long has been Ampere out and they still can't produce cards...

Yes, got myself a month of U+ and been going through WD:L first and now AC:V. I love AC more than WD by far but there's some obvious areas where WD is much much more advanced than AC which is struggling very much particularly with far off LODs (in fact, still well below standards established at...