To be fair, W1zzard is weirdly positive in all his reviews. He gave the 7900 Xtx, 7900 XT, and 7900 GRE "editor's choice". He gave the 7800 XT, 7700 XT, and 7600 "highly recommended". I think the 7600 XT is the only RDNA3 GPU without an award.
To be fair, W1zzard is weirdly positive in all his reviews. He gave the 7900 Xtx, 7900 XT, and 7900 GRE "editor's choice". He gave the 7800 XT, 7700 XT, and 7600 "highly recommended". I think the 7600 XT is the only RDNA3 GPU without an award.Techpowerup's review hinges on ridiculous levels of weird positivity over the 5070 Ti. Not only does W1zzard get somehow better FPS than everyone else, he also refers to the fake MSRP as a "controversy" (as if it wasn't easily observable), scores the card according to the $750 price and then puts an Editor Recommendation stamp on it at the end.
Because TPU has such large and easy to reference charts with lots of different generations you know that at the launch of the 7000 series TPU's numbers and the $750 MSRP are going to be brought up and no one will remember what they actually sold for.
To be fair, W1zzard is weirdly positive in all his reviews. He gave the 7900 Xtx, 7900 XT, and 7900 GRE "editor's choice". He gave the 7800 XT, 7700 XT, and 7600 "highly recommended". I think the 7600 XT is the only RDNA3 GPU without an award.
"Fine, everything is amazing. If everything is 100% then it's all the same and I get to take the money and make a living."
(not the case of anandtech, though... those guys simply stopped making GPU reviews period)
Tom's hardware was Anandtech's boss; I'll let you deduce the rest.You only get to take the money and make a living while you have an audience that follows your content because they trust your judgment.
Many publications have fallen in the last decade, in no small part because their audience started believing more in other sources.
(not the case of anandtech, though... those guys simply stopped making GPU reviews period)
Then you are surprised.I haven't kept up with the PhysX thing, but couldn't you run that in software like 15 years ago? Sure performance was horrendous but it surprises me if it can't be brute forced decently today.
Then you are surprised.
This is the worst Nvidia generation in a long long time.
That’s fair but I played the bejeebus out of Borderlands 2, for example on my peasant AMD GPU. I don’t remember suffering. How is this worse?Then you are surprised.
WTF M8? They took away a feature for flying spaghetti monster's sake. That's bad. You did not play the games with the PhysX effects, but it was a big selling point for Nvidia marketing. They sponsored games to use it the way they do DLSS and RT/PT. Now they are sending you back to the days when you needed a second cheap Nvidia card to do PhysX in those games. 🤣That’s fair but I played the bejeebus out of Borderlands 2, for example on my peasant AMD GPU. I don’t remember suffering. How is this worse?
(Not discounting its dumb for nVidia to have dropped it without some sort of software magic to translate it to 64 bit)
The question is, will they block you running say, a 1060 in there with your 5090? Hmm, maybe I need to upgrade to a 1200w psu to run the phys-x gpu.
The games run fine without the GPU accelerated PhysX. What it did was added some exclusive effects e.g. Arkham Knight has it under game works as fog, smoke, and debris. They are grayed out when playing on Radeon.Wow that's insane. How did Radeon guys play this game at that time then? Surely you can also turn PhysX off too right?
Inb4 Nvidia trains an AI model to fake physics simulations that only runs on newer Nvidia GPUs via tensor cores rather than just literally running the actual physics simulations on the shader cores like how we used to.Ahh the joys of black box or locked out proprietary engines and tech. Right DLSS-Tim at HUB? It was so nice when Nvidia blocked using Nvidia gpu for phys-x and amd for video in the same system.
Edit: Fun video comparison from PCMR:
Nononono, nerfing features bad.WTF M8? They took away a feature for flying spaghetti monster's sake. That's bad. You did not play the games with the PhysX effects, but it was a big selling point for Nvidia marketing. They sponsored games to use it the way they do DLSS and RT/PT. Now they are sending you back to the days when you needed a second cheap Nvidia card to do PhysX in those games. 🤣
From what I recall, the original Ageia PhysX cards were nothing but a RISC core with some VLIW SIMD units slapped onto it.How much of a GPU do you need to run PhysX? Would a 710 be sufficient, or a 1030?
You lose the way it's meant to be played."what do we lose gameplay wise"
Or as they say in the 4K UHD world, the Director's Intent.You lose the way it's meant to be played.
Yeah, I read that wrong. Apologies. I should have known you were not running interference.Nononono, nerfing features bad.
You also went on to answer my question, but I meant "what do we lose gameplay wise" - I didn't notice BL2 running bad on my 6800 setup when I fired it up a while back when they made the old Tiny Tina's DLC standalone and I wanted to see where I had left my Gaige progression wise