Radeon RX 6700 XT Revealed - The Full Nerd ep. 170
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Date: 2022-03-15
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Adrian
Hypothesis: GPU availability is never really going to get good again. It might get slightly better, but it won't be good.
If you buy a 3090 from a scalper today, you pay around 2. 5K. If you put this card into your PC, and start mining, you'll make that money back in a year. After that, you have a money printing machine. So buying these cards is literally like getting free money, and there is no upper limit. A gamer has one PC, and will need one GPU. A miner will buy as many GPUs as he can, because every single GPU that miner does not buy equates to money lost.
Now, you might point out that cryptocurrency fluctuates, and value will go down again. But what you're ignoring is that these currencies are designed to be deflationary. So it doesn't really matter if prices go down temporarily. A miner should just keep mining as much as possible, and wait until the value goes up again. In fact, the longer you can hold on to your cryptocurrency, the better. So while incentive to mine goes up when crypto value goes up, there's really no reason to stop mining when crypto value goes down.
Finally, you could point out that these cards will end up on the market again once the value of the used card is higher than the expected amount of cryptocurrency it will mine in during the remainder of its life. True. However, these will be cards that will have been mining non-stop for years, -and- they will be one or two generations old, so not exactly the kind of card you actually want in your freshly updated gaming PC. Also, GPU manufacturers are now selling mining cards specifically designed to be non-resalable, so from a gaming point of view, they are intentionally destroying a portion of their cards.
Cryptocurrencies have murdered the GPU market for good. The GPU market will never be the way it used to be in the past.
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Hypothesis: GPU availability is never really going to get good again. It might get slightly better, but it won't be good.
If you buy a 3090 from a scalper today, you pay around 2. 5K. If you put this card into your PC, and start mining, you'll make that money back in a year. After that, you have a money printing machine. So buying these cards is literally like getting free money, and there is no upper limit. A gamer has one PC, and will need one GPU. A miner will buy as many GPUs as he can, because every single GPU that miner does not buy equates to money lost.
Now, you might point out that cryptocurrency fluctuates, and value will go down again. But what you're ignoring is that these currencies are designed to be deflationary. So it doesn't really matter if prices go down temporarily. A miner should just keep mining as much as possible, and wait until the value goes up again. In fact, the longer you can hold on to your cryptocurrency, the better. So while incentive to mine goes up when crypto value goes up, there's really no reason to stop mining when crypto value goes down.
Finally, you could point out that these cards will end up on the market again once the value of the used card is higher than the expected amount of cryptocurrency it will mine in during the remainder of its life. True. However, these will be cards that will have been mining non-stop for years, -and- they will be one or two generations old, so not exactly the kind of card you actually want in your freshly updated gaming PC. Also, GPU manufacturers are now selling mining cards specifically designed to be non-resalable, so from a gaming point of view, they are intentionally destroying a portion of their cards.
Cryptocurrencies have murdered the GPU market for good. The GPU market will never be the way it used to be in the past.
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Mr.
The majority will run their RTX cards though with DLSS, RayTracing, and Resizable Bar (if available. AMD's benchmarks compare with their SAM on and nvidia's performance options off. This is only rasterization performance. If you benchmark, hopefully you'll show this true gap in performance.
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The majority will run their RTX cards though with DLSS, RayTracing, and Resizable Bar (if available. AMD's benchmarks compare with their SAM on and nvidia's performance options off. This is only rasterization performance. If you benchmark, hopefully you'll show this true gap in performance.
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TrickOrTreatAZ
The 6700xt is replacing the 5700xt and if AMD while under no reason in this market needed to it SHOULD be priced at $450. It really should and since you can't really choose to buy a $500 3070 it doesn't matter. But IF they had made this a $450 GPU it would matter.
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The 6700xt is replacing the 5700xt and if AMD while under no reason in this market needed to it SHOULD be priced at $450. It really should and since you can't really choose to buy a $500 3070 it doesn't matter. But IF they had made this a $450 GPU it would matter.
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Mr.
Also, AMD Raytracing is much slower when full path raytracing is on, and is gapped due to lack of dedicated tensor cores. AMD will be open standard, but it's only limited in Raytracing due to the lack of a DLSS competitor (what happened to Fidelity SuperFX.
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Also, AMD Raytracing is much slower when full path raytracing is on, and is gapped due to lack of dedicated tensor cores. AMD will be open standard, but it's only limited in Raytracing due to the lack of a DLSS competitor (what happened to Fidelity SuperFX.
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MoT0R
Had to go the pre-built route for my RTX 3000 series fix. Perhaps I will be fortunate and grab an RX 6700 xt at release. Then my wife can rock the 3060 pre-built system.
Good luck out there.
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Had to go the pre-built route for my RTX 3000 series fix. Perhaps I will be fortunate and grab an RX 6700 xt at release. Then my wife can rock the 3060 pre-built system.
Good luck out there.
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Koji
Because Super Resolution is part of the Fidelity FX package, its likely that 40+ games will have it off the bat when it does finally drop. cant say that about DLSS.
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Because Super Resolution is part of the Fidelity FX package, its likely that 40+ games will have it off the bat when it does finally drop. cant say that about DLSS.
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DrearierSpider1
55: 52 Just this morning my 4. 5 year old GTX 1080 sold for $500 on Ebay. I paid $650 for it, brand new with warranty, in September 2016.
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55: 52 Just this morning my 4. 5 year old GTX 1080 sold for $500 on Ebay. I paid $650 for it, brand new with warranty, in September 2016.
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