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NVIDIA Launches New $219 Turing-Powered GeForce GTX 1660 (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: NVIDIA took the wraps off yet another lower cost Turing-based graphics card today, dubbed the GeForce GTX 1660. For a $219 MSRP, the card offers a cut-down NVIDIA TU116 GPU comprised of 1408 CUDA cores with a 1785MHz boost clock and 6GB of GDDR6 RAM with 192.1GB/s of bandwidth. Generally speaking, the new GeForce GTX 1660 is 15% to 30% faster than NVIDIA's previous generation GeForce GTX 1060 but doesn't support new ray tracing and DLSS features that the majority of NVIDIA's new Turing cards support. Performance-wise, GeForce GTX 1660 is generally faster than an AMD Radeon RX 590 overall. Boards from various OEM partners should be in the channel for purchase this week.
with two free games and RX 580s are readily available for $120 on ebay (just got one for $100) they're probably feeling a bit of pressure on the low end.
Also to my shock and awe AMD works now. Longtime PC gamers will remember a period of almost 5 years when their GPU drivers were a disaster. I've been gaming on it for 2 weeks now with zero crashes (knock on wood). The only downside is power consumption, it pulls about 80 watts more than a GTX 1060. But at $100 it's hard to complain.
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While there is contention among language professionals, "comprised of" is considered standard English usage by multiple well regarded sources. Further, it is commonplace in both writing and speech. As the general public is the intended audience, and not just language professionals, it would be more accurate for them to use it as they have.
WRONG!
There's some jackass going around trying to convince everyone of that, and he's dedicated his life to eradicating all instances of "comprised of" from Wikipedia, and the shitty "news" articles that covered his efforts are almost assuredly why you "know" this "fact".
But that jackass is WRONG! The usage of "comprised of" is perfectly valid, and has been in standard usage for ages. It comes from the Latin comprehendere, and basically means to bring shit together (com) before (pre) taking it (hendere). Comprise means to collectively make up, form, or constitute.
3 books that comprise a volume are the 3 books comprising that volume, and that volume is comprised of (or by) those 3 books.
The only thing you are even close to correct on is the idea that "com" may imply completeness, as in "complete". But you're still wrong because "complete" itself refers to the fucking groups of soldiers that absolutely did have things not included. When 10 guys die or are incapacitated you would complete your unit by adding more from your slaves / subjects that weren't initially included. Hell, a unit of soldiers is also known as a "complement". Complete doesn't mean everything is included, but that nothing necessary is missing. Thus a GPU "comprised of" 1408 CUDA cores is perfectly valid as long as they didn't sell it as a GPU that should have more CUDA cores. They have different SKUs for that.
The Oxford Dictionaries online dictionary regards the passive form "comprised of" as standard English usage
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
but it'll at least be a 7nm GPU.
I'll take irrelevant shit for $100 Jim!
I agree with waiting for Navi to see what the competition brings to a table and at what price. But there's few things I could give less shits about than the transistor gate size on the die itself. Tell me the performance, the price, and if it is possible to not sound like a vacuum cleaner and those are the only things that come into any buying decision.
Oh and if it had RGB lighting, because you know can't build a computer in 2018 that doesn't look like a 70s disco on the inside.
WRONG!
There's some jackass going around trying to convince everyone of that, and he's dedicated his life to eradicating all instances of "comprised of" from Wikipedia, and the shitty "news" articles that covered his efforts are almost assuredly why you "know" this "fact".
But that jackass is WRONG! The usage of "comprised of" is perfectly valid, and has been in standard usage for ages. It comes from the Latin comprehendere, and basically means to bring shit together (com) before (pre) taking it (hendere). Comprise means to collectively make up, form, or constitute.
3 books that comprise a volume are the 3 books comprising that volume, and that volume is comprised of (or by) those 3 books.
The thing I've discovered about pedants is that those who are most pedantic about something tend to be the ones who know the least about that subject. English language pedants doubly so. Over here a lot of people get hot under the collar if you say "can I get" despite it being perfectly cromulent. Same with using literally as hyperbole. Even the Oxford English Dictionary now literally lists the hyperbolic definition of literally.
People who actually know a lot about language (or other subjects) tend to be less pedantic about it because they're smart enough to know what you're on about.
So being a pedant just makes you look like an arse, to anyone who knows anything about the subject, it makes you look like dumb arse. Language pedants doubly so because languages are inherently irregular.
But take Hart Grammer Nazis, they're, there, their.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.