RazgrizOne

When your response is so obviously canned (and arguably forced) it really takes a lot of the sting out of it lol

You’re so close dude.

how do you think spies got money before bitcoin first launched…?

I assume people mean 3440x1440 when they say 1440 as it’s way more common than 2560x1440.

Most people do not use WS as evidenced by the mixed bag support it gets. 1440 monitors are by default understood to be 2560x1440p as it’s 16:9 which is still considered the “default” by the vast majority of businesses and people alike. You may operate as if most people using 1440+ are on WS but that’s a very atypical assumption.

Raytracing sure but otherwise the 4090 is actually better than the 5070 in many respects. So you’re paying a comparable price for Raytracing and windows dependency, which if that is important to you then go right ahead. Ultimately though my point is that there is no point in buying the insanely overpriced Nvidia offerings when you have excellent AMD offerings for a fraction of the price that don’t have all sorts of little pitfalls/compromises. The Nvidia headaches are worth it for performance, which unless you 3-4x your investment you’re not getting more of. So the 5070 is moot.

I’m not sure what you’re comparing at the end unless you meant a 9070XT which I don’t use/have and wasn’t comparing.

The planet money piece is very long so I’ll have to check it out later, but the Vice article says nothing of the sort and actually spends time mocking people and saying it’s a conspiracy. So I’m not really sure how that at all supports what you’re saying. It just says CIA is interested in and involved in crypto, which makes sense given how it’s used. It does not say anything at all like what you claimed

BTC was invented and supported so spies could move money across borders without being caught by official government bodies/banks.

I’m not even against tricks like upscaling and such to be honest. If it looks good I’ll take it lol. But I do agree they don’t feel like long-term, hardened solutions vs something more like “raw performance.” And there’s no doubt There is a certain elegance to AMD’s cards

Not all of us can afford to spend $3000 for a noticeable but still not massive performance bump over a $700 option. I don’t really understand how this is so difficult to understand lol. You also have to increase the rest of your machine cost for things like your PSU, because the draw on the 5xxx series is cracked out. Motherboard, CPU, all of that has to be cranked up unless you want bottlenecks. Don’t forget your high end 165hz monitor unless you want to waste frames/colors. And are we really going to pretend after 100fps the difference is that big of a deal?

Going Nvidia also means unless you want to be fighting your machine all the time, you need to keep a Windows partition on your computer. Have fun with that.

At the end of the day buy what you want dude, but I’m pulling down what I said above on a machine that cost about $1700. Do with that what you will

Not 1440 like you’re thinking. 3440x1440 is 20% more pixel to render than standard 2560x1440’s. It’s a WS. And yes at max settings 80-90fps is pretty damn good. It regularly goes over 100 in less busy environments.

And yeah it’s not matching a 5090, a graphics card that costs more than 3x mine and sure as hell isn’t giving 3x the performance.

You’re moving the goalposts. My point is for 1/4th the cost you’re getting 60-80% of the performance of overpriced, massive, power hungry Nvidia cards (depending on what model you want to compare to). Bang for buck, AMD smokes Nvidia. It’s not even close.

Unless cost isn’t a barrier to you or you have very specific needs they make no sense to buy. If you’ve got disposable income for days then fuck it buy away.

Source…? I feel like this needs sources.

Yeah I got a 9070 + 9800x3d for around $1100 all-in. Couldn’t be happier with the performance. Expedition 33 running max settings at 3440x1440 and 80-90fps

Once the 9070 dropped all arguments for Nvidia stopped being worthy of consideration outside of very niche/fringe needs.

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Or - and this is a crazy idea - we could not pick sides and just stop killing each other?

What a flagrantly dishonest way of framing what they said

Damn I really struck a nerve. My bad dude

Honestly at this point Microsoft has a much bigger problem with people abandoning PC/laptops for smart phones and tablets, a space that they do not occupy at all. Steam/Valve is not the major problem

My dude you can’t admit you didn’t read the article then defend the fact that you didn’t read it like that. Just read it and then comment lol

SteamOS does not scare the shit out of them at all. Microsoft’s money is in dominating the business world. They like being in the video game world but it’s only a portion of their portfolio whereas Valve is all in. Plus SteamOS didn’t hurt them last time, why would they believe it will this time? Maybe it will, but unfortunately smart money is not betting against microsoft on this. Valve will continue to nibble at the edges and expand linux gaming, which is awesome, but look what it’s taken to get to just under 5% of the gaming market (that’s ALL of linux btw, not SteamOS).

Until Valve offers commercial offerings (never) I think M$ isn’t losing sleep. They aren’t even on the same plane in terms of scale and resources. They’re competing for handheld pc gaming, but it’s not high stakes for microsoft at all.

What a cringe title. I love bazzite - I run my PC I just built exclusively on it! - but microsoft doesn’t give 2 shits about it. I highly doubt they give Bazzite any thought.