You just made me realize that Exodus has already released. I then realized that they pulled the game from Steam and it is now an Epic game launcher exclusive which sucks.
It is on the windows pass thing too now if you want to play it on that. If you get a years xbox live, you can upgrade for $1 which gives you all the games too
Game Pass for PC is 10/10 so far. I'm loving it. $1 and a bunch of games to play. The new Xbox application is a step up from the awful Windows store. Although, my concern is whether or not they can keep adding PC games to keep the subscription worth it. Also, I haven't seen it explicitly stated yet whether Xbox Live Gold is required for online PC games on Game Pass or not. (Edit - I found the answer. You do not need Gold to play Game Pass games online. Source: https://support.xbox.com/en-US/bill...-pass-pc-faq#afec6f83ea274c4a92551588f5dfa222 )
Info on the new Super cards. My understanding is the old non-Supers will simply go EOL. So, the new cards keep the same price and there wont be any deals on the old ones. These will be available 2 days after the AMD Navi release. People don't seem to be super excited about the Supers. Nvidia is boosting these cards just enough to beat AMD but not enough to really give consumers what they want. I'd personally rather see a 2070 at $350 than a 2070 Super at $500. To sweeten the deal, the cards will also include Wolfenstein: Youngblood and Control.
2060 Super and 2070 Super reviews are out. The results look pretty good. In my opinion this is what Turing should have been at it's initial release. All the early adopters got screwed. The original Turning was the shortest lived GPU product line ever. I think the 2060 has only been out for 6 months and it's now dead. The fact that they kept their plans for a second launch hidden until now is just crappy for consumers. Regardless, I really like the 2070 Super. Performance is about 13% higher than the 2070 and that finally gives us 1080Ti performance at a $500 price point. If I can get over my annoyance with Nvidia I might buy one before Cyber Punk comes out. The 2060 Super is about 14% faster than the 2060 but the price also went up about 13% to match. Heat, power consumption, and fan speed, also went up so it's kind of a wash. I think they built it to compete directly with the AMD 5700XT which will cost $50 more. AMD better be ready to cut prices.
Yeah these look pretty good. They’re actually a good upgrade for 10 series owners. Early adopters who picked up the first gen cards got shafted. I might pick up a 2070 Super.
NVidia is launching the 1660 Super. It’s basically a 1660Ti for the price of a vanilla 1660. I would imagine it will be a big seller at $229 as that’s usually a really popular price. The vanilla 1660 was underpowered and the 1660 Ti was overpriced. But this looks perfect from a price/performance standpoint. Probably not what you’d want for 4K or high refresh rate 1440p, but perfect for 1080p or 1440p 60fps. https://www.anandtech.com/show/15010/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1660-super-review-feat-evga
1660 S looks like a good deal but Nvidia's mid-range naming convention is getting confusing. Too many sixes. 1060 3GB, 1060 6GB, 1650, 1660, 1660 TI, 1660 S, 2060, 2060 S. I think the average consumer might get confused. It's sort of like when super markets fill the shelf with 15 different version of the same Crest toothpaste.
I agree. It's a very crowded part of the video card market with confusing names. Anyway the 1660S seems like what the 1660 cards should have been all along, basically 1070 level performance for a bit over $200.
I don't get it. The 1060ti is faster by about 1%. Why didn't they just drop the price of the 1060ti rather than make a whole new card that performs exactly the same? It will get interesting if stores start dropping the price of 1660ti to clear them out.
1660 Ti = 1% faster than the Super for $50 to $75 more depending on the version vanilla 1660 = 15-20% slower than the Super for $10 less No one in their right mind is going to pick either of those options. Retailers will need to cut prices to clear out stock.
Starting to think seriously about upgrading from my GTX 1080 to the RTX 2080 Super. I usually want pretty substantial upgrades when I buy a new card, but I'm anticipating lots of holiday deals popping up that I could jump on. On paper I didn't think the specs were such a massive leap, but in benchmarks it seems to be not only outperforming the GTX 1080Ti but also very close to past Titan cards. Starting to get tempted by the MSi cards with the FROZR cooling if I find it on sale that includes a game I want.
The Super cards are much more compelling than the launch cards. But also keep in mind that we are on the back end of Turing. It has been out for 1.5 years at this point. nVidia will have a new architecture out in the next 6 months probably.
That's the main concern I have. I usually wait until a card has close to double the power of my current card, but I've been thinking a RTX 2080 Super w/ a game on a holiday sale might be enough for me to pull the trigger earlier than usual. A much better card will probably arrive within 6 months as you said, but I personally wouldn't buy a new card until a non-reference version that is quiet and has great cooling is available. I usually like to get a non-reference version on sale with a game. I'll see what happens with the prices during the holiday sales. I'm certainly not desperate for an immediate upgrade but am starting to think more seriously about upgrading.
The 3000 series will be Nvidia's first 7nm GPU so I'd expect it to have some considerable performance improvement. Rumors say lower power, faster clocks, improved ray tracing, with a lower price than the equivalent 2000 series. I think pricing will depend on yield but I wouldn't expect less that $500 for a 3070. It's expected to come out in June but additional rumors say a 7nm chip shortage could delay the launch by 4 months. That makes it almost 1 year away. Buying now or waiting is always a tough decision.
Pulled the trigger on a RTX 2080 Super deal. I wanted a discounted non-reference card that was is powerful, runs quiet and cool, and includes a free game. Found it. https://www.newegg.com/evga-geforce...182-kr/p/N82E16814487464?Item=N82E16814487464 I have a pretty nice GTX 1080 it replaces that I might be able to get a few hundred bucks out of: https://www.newegg.com/msi-geforce-...-8g-oc/p/N82E16814137084?Item=N82E16814137084 If I can get $300 or more out of the old card, the GTX 2080 Super and Modern Warfare only cost me $400 even if a crop of incredible new cards are available in a year. Shouldn't be too regrettable of an impulse buy even if it gets surpassed significantly next year. The only thing I dislike is that it has double rather than triple fans like my GTX 1080, but the user reviews indicated it typically runs pretty quiet and cool. I didn't think one more fan was worth an additional $50 to $80, and not all of those included as much of a discount or a free game.
I prefer double fan coolers. My Strix 980 had two fans and my Strix 1070 has 3. The 980 was significantly quieter and still ran very cool.
That's a nice 2080S. I think $300 is pushing it for a used 1080 when Newegg has a new RX5700 with a free games and a warranty for $310.