Yesterday, a surprising announcement came down from Nvidia. Surprising both for its content but also the braggadocio on display – Nvidia is “unlaunching” the RTX 4080 12GB… Read more “Sidenote: Failure To Launch: The Abrupt End of the Geforce RTX 4080 12 GB Model”
Tag: graphics cards
Sidenote: The AMD Radeon RX 6600XT And The Insanity of the GPU Market
Last week, AMD made a big announcement at the Chinajoy festival – a new GPU. RDNA 2 continues its march down the product stack, moving from the… Read more “Sidenote: The AMD Radeon RX 6600XT And The Insanity of the GPU Market”
Sidenote: The Disappointment of the Current Era of Graphics Cards
Availability is starting to open up, and more people are getting their hands on Nvidia’s RTX 3000 series cards and AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 series cards. As… Read more “Sidenote: The Disappointment of the Current Era of Graphics Cards”
Sidenote: The GeForce RTX 3060, Radeon RX 6700 XT, and The Growing Midrange Gap
When I got into PC gaming, there was something really great, almost magical about the hobby. Sure, the high-end was up with $1,000 CPUs from Intel, exponentially… Read more “Sidenote: The GeForce RTX 3060, Radeon RX 6700 XT, and The Growing Midrange Gap”
Sidenote: Nvidia’s Branching Product Paths of Geforce and CMP, and The Bad Precedent It Sets
Earlier this week, Nvidia, clearly tired of weeks of headlines about how the current supply shortages and cryptocurrency mining craze had made their Ampere-architecture GPUs near-impossible to… Read more “Sidenote: Nvidia’s Branching Product Paths of Geforce and CMP, and The Bad Precedent It Sets”
Sidenote: Discussing Ray-Tracing Implementations and Why RT Faces an Uphill Battle
Last time I discussed ray-tracing, it was largely to discuss if RTX, as implemented by Nvidia, had been a bust. That post and its conclusions all focused… Read more “Sidenote: Discussing Ray-Tracing Implementations and Why RT Faces an Uphill Battle”
Sidenote: My Hilarious, Awful, But Amusing Experience Trying and Failing to Get a Radeon RX 6900 XT
This last Tuesday, I had a mission. On Monday night, I took a sleep aid, passed out at 7 PM, and waited to awaken early on Tuesday… Read more “Sidenote: My Hilarious, Awful, But Amusing Experience Trying and Failing to Get a Radeon RX 6900 XT”
Sidenote: The Abysmal Supply of PC DIY Components in Late 2020
As I noted in my last Sidenote post about my own system build, I am at the point a lot of builders are currently – waiting for… Read more “Sidenote: The Abysmal Supply of PC DIY Components in Late 2020”
Sidenote: My New Gaming PC For Late (Hopefully) 2020 – The Parts, The Current Build, The Wait For An In-Stock CPU/GPU
Upgrade fever has hit, and with black November/cyber week deals, I’ve managed to snag pretty much all of my system upgrade with 3 key exceptions – the… Read more “Sidenote: My New Gaming PC For Late (Hopefully) 2020 – The Parts, The Current Build, The Wait For An In-Stock CPU/GPU”
Sidenote: Comparing GPU Software Kits Between Nvidia and AMD
I’ve been talking a lot about GPUs lately. A LOT. A big part of that is that the market is really fascinating to me for the first… Read more “Sidenote: Comparing GPU Software Kits Between Nvidia and AMD”
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