LouNeko

@LouNeko@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only press who previewed the RTX 5060 under Nvidia’s test conditions are getting review drivers, reports claim⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to play little off topic devils advocate here.

  I’ve recently had to choose between a 5070 TI and a 9070 XT for my new setup.

  If I were to listen to any reviews - the general consensus would be that Nvdias 50XX Series is a steaming pile of dogshit that will burn your house down and kill you dog.

  Every single of those reviews boils down to: AMD slightly faster but actually worse at everything. But because price lower number, AMD better. PS: Nvidia bad.

  The RTX series is primarily a gaming card and gaming performance is all that matters, not all that additional fluff that reviewers dish out to make a 7 min video into a 20 min video.

  Nvidia has the clear R&D advantage for new technologies, older titles barely matter in this discussion because everything pre DLSS era is going to run at 200+ FPS at 4K anyway (with the exception of 32bit PhysX titles, dick move Nvidia).
  Newer titles on the other hand, are an absolute wildcard of performance because nobody cares about optimization anymore. I’ve used a 1080 Ti for 8 years and even some of the newest titles still ran at around 60 FPS maxed out. But here’s the catch, the discrepancy between highest and lowest setting has gotten miniscule, to the point where you’d get 60 FPS on lowest and 50 FPS on max settings with a 1080 TI. My personal reason for an upgrade tho, was Raytracing and Generative AI Performance, both at wich AMD sucks.

  “Don’t blame the Card, blame the Game.”

  Nowadays performance is more about the rendering technique rather than the visual settings. And when it comes to technique Nvidia is clearly the winner. Now that I have a reference between DLSS and FSR, I can confidently say that AMD will be in 2 years where Nvidia is now.

  Let’s talk about price. People are still living in the fantasy that GPUs are going to cost 400€ again like it’s 2014 (which they didn’t even do back then). 800€ is the new baseline for a midrange GPU - that’s just how it is now. I’ve paid around 900€ for a 1080 8 years ago, now I paid around 900€ for a 5070 TI and get about triple the performance. So what’s the problem?
  I think there’s a small but obnoxiously loud minority of “must have the newest thing” babies that didn’t get the memo when we reached the technical limitation of the Moore’s Law about 10 years ago. You won’t get double the performance in 2 years for the same price. No reason to whine about it. Want to get your moneys worth, keep you old GPU for another 2 years, there problem solved.

  Also, what not a single reviewer ever has mentioned is the significant increase in power draw that AMD has over Nvidia.

  Let’s do a simple calculation:

  Price for a 9070 XT: ~800€
  Price for a 5070 Ti: ~900€
  Difference in favor of AMD: 100€

  Power draw 9070 XT: 300W
  Power draw 5070 TI: 250W
  Difference in favor of Nvidia: 50W
  (Based on tests of the same games with equal settings)

  My regional price per 1kWh is ~0,40€
  100€ / 0.40€ per kWh = 250 kWh
  250 kWh / 50 W = 5000 hours

  My average game time per day is maybe 2-3 hours, make it 2.5 h.

  5000 h / 2.5 h per day = 2000 days ≈ 5.5 years

  Since electricity prices are constantly on the rise, and I intend to keep my current setup for maybe another 8 years, the price difference between Nvidia and AMD doesn’t really matter in the long run.

  The funny thing is I paid about 2200€ in 2017 for a high-end build that could play everything I throw at it, and now I paid 2000€ for another high end build that can play everything I throw at it. People forget to mention that while GPU prices have gone up. Everything else has gone down. RAM and HDD/SSDs, are dirty cheap nowadays.

  While yes, Nvidia is a greedy and shitty company, let’s not pretend like their product doesn’t do what’s advertised - that is playing games really well. And AMD is not a saint either, their GPUs aren’t exactly cheap either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mr. Deepfakes, Largest deepfake porn site shuts down forever due to critical service provider terminating their service permanently.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tinder will try AI-powered matching as the dating app continues to lose users⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe stop predatory pricing, implement a ironclad privacy policy, do something against bot spam, stop selling sensitive and personalized user data, do something against harassment and gender discrepancy.

  But no, ChatGPT in a trenchcoat will surely save you.

  Who even gives a shit, all dating apps are owned by only 2 companies. They’re all the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mortal Kombat 1 will get the T-1000, Conan, and the Scream guy alongside a new story expansion⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  O’Brien?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve faces a £656 million lawsuit in the UK for 'overcharging 14 million PC gamers'⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What the hell are these points?
  
  Steam forces developers to ask for higher prices?
  Ah, yes, because Activision is so eager to sell Call of Duty for just $20 but big bad Steam is just forcing their hand and they have to sell it for $70. See if you look at their own store where they can set their own prices its… also $70… hmm, that’s weird. Maybe others… nope same prices across all platforms. Almost like publishers can actually freely decide on their prices.
  
  Steam also forces customers to buy DLCs for games on their platform.
  Well, how else is this going to work? I buy a game on Steam and then call up the devs to venmo them $2 and they send me a DVD in the mail? Or should I make a new account on some other website and get my DLCs seperatly from there? Most games don’t even sell you DLCs, they sell you credits so you can unlock content that’s already in the game. Often times you have to buy those credits trough the devs website and link your account to Steam. That’s already a pain it the ass.
  
  Steam takes 30% of the cut.
  True, that sound like a lot. Imagine you’re a solo Dev and you’ve been working 9 years on a game. 3 of those years you’ve essentially been working just to pay off Steam. But look at what you get for those 3 years. You get a seperate store page for your product that you can essentially design however you want. You get access to high speed distribution servers all over the world, that also allow you to effortlessly push updates out, the option for regional pricing, the industries most reliable user review system, an integrated discussion and fan art forum, third party controller support (important for people with disabilities), and a refund system. Sure 30% still sounds like a lot, but would you be able to provide all this if you would’ve self publish the game, probably not.
  
  Steam is consistently the cheapest option to buy games on sale. And even if it isn’t the cheapest, at no point in time have I thought, man Steam has this game for $7.49 but EGS has it for $6.99, I better get it on EGS. Maybe on GoG but no where else.
  
  It’s mind boggling to think that through inflation and some shortages almost all groceries have nearly doubled in price over the last 20 years, but a AAA game is still $60, even though the cost of making a game has skyrocketed. Imagine gas prices would’ve stayed the same over the last 20 years and people would complian that gas station sandwiches would tast like shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some mainstream game series where you really do need to start from the first game?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The Witcher. You can even transfer your save game between 1 & 2 and 2 & 3.