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Re:AMD Announces Ryzen “Zen 3” and Radeon “RDNA2” Presentati... by srtjstjsj on Thursday September 10, 2020 @11:03AM (#24432973)
Does it really matter for gaming?
Re:AMD Announces Ryzen “Zen 3” and Radeon “RDNA2” Presentati... by zamalek on Thursday September 10, 2020 @11:44AM (#24433382)
Disclaimer: I'm personally hoping to complete my current build as a "Red Box" (AMD CPU, AMD GPU). However, facts are facts.

DLSS 1.9 was impressive, but has its problems and would understandably be avoided by most gamers. DLSS 2 is a whole different story[1], and is highly likely to be something that most gamers enable. 4K/60 or 1440p/240 are the golden standards for PC gamers (depending on whether you prefer high resolution, or high framerates) and DLSS 2 would help you achieve either.

RTX is nice, Minecraft RTX has done a lot for marketing it. Probably still a coin-flip on whether a gamer would eat the performance hit for the quality improvement.

[1]: https://youtu.be/YWIKzRhYZm4

Re:AMD Announces Ryzen “Zen 3” and Radeon “RDNA2” Presentati... by tmpz22 on Thursday September 10, 2020 @11:54AM (#24433467)
> 4K/60 or 1440p/240 are the golden standards

Those are $1200+ monitors at any decent resolution.

EDIT: by resolution I mean the horizontal dimension of the monitor, where pc enthusiasts typically go for 27+ inches in width which are more expensive as you scale in size, add a curve, etc.

Re:AMD Announces Ryzen “Zen 3” and Radeon “RDNA2” Presentati... by nitrogen on Thursday September 10, 2020 @12:05PM (#24433582)
And you're talking about $600-$1200 GPUs, plus similar or higher for CPU+MB+RAM. People who buy these things are willing to pay for maximum performance.
Re:AMD Announces Ryzen “Zen 3” and Radeon “RDNA2” Presentati... by xxpor on Thursday September 10, 2020 @12:29PM (#24433836)
I bought this 4k/60 monitor for $500 3 years ago:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00SHZSXVI/ref=asin_title?...

No gsync/freesync, but I wasn't intending to game on it anyway.

Re:AMD Announces Ryzen “Zen 3” and Radeon “RDNA2” Presentati... by the_pwner224 on Thursday September 10, 2020 @12:08PM (#24433616)
You can get a real good quality 4k60 for $400, or one with shitty color for much less. The LG 27gn950 is 4k144 + full DCI-P3 for $800, but unfortunately has been sold out everywhere since it was released a week or two ago.
Re:AMD Announces Ryzen “Zen 3” and Radeon “RDNA2” Presentati... by gameswithgo on Thursday September 10, 2020 @12:43PM (#24433995)
the resolution is specified, do you mean image quality? gamers tend to sacrifice that for refresh speed and low input latency.

There appears to be no FPS performance gain going from 144hz to 240hz though so you don't have to get crazy.

Re:AMD Announces Ryzen “Zen 3” and Radeon “RDNA2” Presentati... by tmpz22 on Thursday September 10, 2020 @12:52PM (#24434099)
I meant the dimensions of the monitor i.e. 27in, 32in, etc. 27 inches seems to be one of the most popular dimensions.
Re:AMD Announces Ryzen “Zen 3” and Radeon “RDNA2” Presentati... by throwaway2048 on Thursday September 10, 2020 @11:48AM (#24433410)
DLSS and RTX are still game specific, with very few games that have developed for them. It has been a generation, if there was going to be a big flood of DLSS and RTX titles, it would have happened already.
Re:AMD Announces Ryzen “Zen 3” and Radeon “RDNA2” Presentati... by kllrnohj on Thursday September 10, 2020 @02:35PM (#24435207)
> DLSS and RTX are still game specific

Note that DLSS 2.0's model is not game specific ( https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/nvidia-dlss-2-0-a-... )

DLSS support is still game specific as it needs additional data beyond just the color buffer to do the up-scaling, such as motion vectors, but it at least doesn't need the expensive part that put it out of reach of eg. indie games.

So it's now on the "if unity & unreal support it, you'll see everyone have it in a few years" trajectory. Probably, anyway, similar to things like TXAA & FXAA.

Re:AMD Announces Ryzen “Zen 3” and Radeon “RDNA2” Presentati... by ErneX on Thursday September 10, 2020 @12:52PM (#24434097)
RT is here to stay, both next gen consoles have it.