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#5903511 Posted on: 04/09/2021 04:49 PM
No that is correct. We're not re-testing all SAM, RT and Compute results with each brand-specific card. These are based on the reference numbers. Such pages should reflect/mention that, but I'll re-check.
I'm a fan of your work DON but something is wrong with the numbers when you use SAM, the most logical result I can compose in my mind is that the numbers with SAM open are from the reference 6700xt?
No that is correct. We're not re-testing all SAM, RT and Compute results with each brand-specific card. These are based on the reference numbers. Such pages should reflect/mention that, but I'll re-check.
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#5903524 Posted on: 04/09/2021 05:25 PM
One thing I've noticed is that AMD seems to be calling its compute cores "RT cores", for RX6k, and it seems kind of strange to just forget about compute cores--as they are still there. This was basically done as a nomenclature change to match nVidia's "tensor core" marketing. Tensor Cores are simply an arbitrary stage in the nVidia GPU processing pipelines capable of doing limited mathematical instruction, that nVidia markets as "tensor cores"--tensor cores do not exist in nature, and any number of devices/chips can and do have their own custom "tensor cores" that bear no resemblance to what nVidia is marketing, just as AMD's "RT cores" will not be found anywhere apart from RX-6k. But it's all just good ol' marketing BS in terms of GPUs. Kind of like the "machine learning" buzzword. Like all buzzwords, it's meant to impress the people who don't understand that a buzzword rarely describes any real technology--it's marketing, again. Like "nanotech", and so on.
My 5700XT has 40 CUs, but HH's chart doesn't even mention CU's. Very interesting. So if HH was to follow the marketing to its logical conclusion then that would mean his chart would have to show zero (0) "Ray Tracing Cores" for RTX-2k/3k..
This is where marketing takes us.
More and more I'm looking at both nVidia and AMD as a battle between vaporware marketing kings...as disgusting as that is, atm. If only they could ship the products to match the hyperbole, we'd be in high cotton.
https://www.techspot.com/article/2049-what-are-tensor-cores/
One thing I've noticed is that AMD seems to be calling its compute cores "RT cores", for RX6k, and it seems kind of strange to just forget about compute cores--as they are still there. This was basically done as a nomenclature change to match nVidia's "tensor core" marketing. Tensor Cores are simply an arbitrary stage in the nVidia GPU processing pipelines capable of doing limited mathematical instruction, that nVidia markets as "tensor cores"--tensor cores do not exist in nature, and any number of devices/chips can and do have their own custom "tensor cores" that bear no resemblance to what nVidia is marketing, just as AMD's "RT cores" will not be found anywhere apart from RX-6k. But it's all just good ol' marketing BS in terms of GPUs. Kind of like the "machine learning" buzzword. Like all buzzwords, it's meant to impress the people who don't understand that a buzzword rarely describes any real technology--it's marketing, again. Like "nanotech", and so on.
My 5700XT has 40 CUs, but HH's chart doesn't even mention CU's. Very interesting. So if HH was to follow the marketing to its logical conclusion then that would mean his chart would have to show zero (0) "Ray Tracing Cores" for RTX-2k/3k..
This is where marketing takes us.More and more I'm looking at both nVidia and AMD as a battle between vaporware marketing kings...as disgusting as that is, atm. If only they could ship the products to match the hyperbole, we'd be in high cotton.
https://www.techspot.com/article/2049-what-are-tensor-cores/
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#5903679 Posted on: 04/10/2021 11:22 AM
I checked one of my usual stores, and this exact card is in stock, but the price is ludicrous 929 euros. How much was this card supposed to cost, VAT included? 550 euros?
Thanks a bunch, miners.
Seen a couple 6700 XT's available at local retailers, but all with a price higher than an RTX 2080S before COVID....
I checked one of my usual stores, and this exact card is in stock, but the price is ludicrous 929 euros. How much was this card supposed to cost, VAT included? 550 euros?
Thanks a bunch, miners.
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#5903754 Posted on: 04/10/2021 07:12 PM
I checked one of my usual stores, and this exact card is in stock, but the price is ludicrous 929 euros. How much was this card supposed to cost, VAT included? 550 euros?
Thanks a bunch, miners.
Just wait until RAM and SSD's start to rise in price.... bet most of our local retailers will put a hefty sum on top, if at least the labor for people working on the floor in them factories would go up instead of the same greedy fuckers taking it all.
I checked one of my usual stores, and this exact card is in stock, but the price is ludicrous 929 euros. How much was this card supposed to cost, VAT included? 550 euros?
Thanks a bunch, miners.
Just wait until RAM and SSD's start to rise in price.... bet most of our local retailers will put a hefty sum on top, if at least the labor for people working on the floor in them factories would go up instead of the same greedy fuckers taking it all.
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It would also be nice if you had the time to make a comparison of the 2 companies with SAM on and if it is possible in a larger range of games.