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Nvidia CEO Trashes AMD's New GPU: 'The Performance Is Lousy' (gizmodo.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Yesterday, AMD announced a new graphics card, the $700 Radeon VII, based on its second-generation Vega architecture. The GPU is the first one available to consumers based on the 7nm process. Smaller processes tend to be faster and more energy efficient, which means it could theoretically be faster than GPUs with larger processes, like the first generation Vega GPU (14nm) or Nvidia's RTX 20-series (12nm). I say "could," because so far Nvidia's RTX 20-series has been speedy in our benchmarks. From the $1,000+ 2080 Ti down to $350 2060 announced Sunday, support ray tracing. This complex technology allows you to trace a point of light from a source to a surface in a digital environment. What it means in practice is video games with hyperrealistic reflections and shadows.
It's impressive technology, and Nvidia has touted it as the primary reason to upgrade from previous generation GPUs. AMD's GPUs, notably, do not support it. And at a round table Gizmodo attended with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang he jokingly dismissed AMD's Tuesday announcement, claiming the announcement itself was "underwhelming" and that his company's 2080 would "crush" the Radeon VII in benchmarks. "The performance is lousy," he said of the rival product. When asked to comment about these slights, AMD CEO Lisa Su told a collection of reporters, "I would probably suggest he hasn't seen it." When pressed about his comments, especially his touting of ray tracing she said, "I'm not gonna get into it tit for tat that's just not my style."
It's impressive technology, and Nvidia has touted it as the primary reason to upgrade from previous generation GPUs. AMD's GPUs, notably, do not support it. And at a round table Gizmodo attended with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang he jokingly dismissed AMD's Tuesday announcement, claiming the announcement itself was "underwhelming" and that his company's 2080 would "crush" the Radeon VII in benchmarks. "The performance is lousy," he said of the rival product. When asked to comment about these slights, AMD CEO Lisa Su told a collection of reporters, "I would probably suggest he hasn't seen it." When pressed about his comments, especially his touting of ray tracing she said, "I'm not gonna get into it tit for tat that's just not my style."
I'm not planning on upgrading my video card until I can get 4K video running at 60 FPS for new games. Neither nVidia nor AMD can pull that off, with nVidia coming the closes in its video cards priced above $1000.
Maybe the next video card generation...
It's not what it used to be when Commander Taco was still in place. Back then the tech world was more exciting, with new technologies constantly emerging, and MS the evil villain of the computer scene whom everybody loved to hate. Facebook is an amateur compared to the shenanigans MS pulled back then, and came away with. The articles just were more interesting back then. The /. crowd has changed too. Back then we had really intelligent discussions by smart people in the comments. Nowadays I sometimes think I got lost on a Trump loving, climate chenge denying site paid by the fossil fuel industry. Or there's just a bunch of selfrighteous wankers telling each other how stupid they are. No fun.
I'm much more on Ars than /. now because Ars has the better articles, more interesting comments and /. often is just a copy of the Ars website with a different layout an less in-depth conversations.
-- Cheers!