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China's first credible gaming GPU sells 30,000 units in 48 hours, despite RTX 3060-level performance (www.techspot.com)
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[–] 54 points 4 months ago (9 children)

I can literally run most modern games still on a 1080Ti, if you are getting 3060 levels of performance at a much better price, sign me the fuck up.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    yeah but how does that 1080Ti run if you smoke a lot of weed near it? checkmate, liberal smuglord

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    i don't pay attention to the industry anymore but if you're running 1080p 60hz you'll probably be good on an old card for a while and the main benefits to more power are high res or refresh rate

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    • [–] 39 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    "despite RTX 3060-level performance" my GPU is 7 years old lmao I wouldn't mind that.

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    • [–] 32 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    "Despite" RTX3060 performance is impressive. It wasn't so long ago that their GPUs sucked ass. That's actually great?

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    I think driver quality was always the bigger problem. Moore Threads cards already performed pretty well but they couldn't run direct3d 11 applications properly

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    The 3060 perf is only in synthetics. Real world performance isn't quite as rosy unfortunately

    Still impressive but a driver stack is such a monumental undertaking—bringing that up to par will take a long time

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Intel had the bonus of always having mature graphics implementations and they still had issues with Arc, but I don't think it can compare if CPC gets involved in some form

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    I'm not sure if I see them getting involved to the necessary level to really accelerate things. Maaaybe following a future AI crash where they've got a bunch of comp sci geeks sitting around with nothing to do?

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    • [–] 27 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Turns out the redditors insisting you need a NASA supercomputer to play games were just full of shit, and what people actually want is an affordable model.

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    • [–] 24 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I wonder if they're going to have open source Linux drivers eventually like AMD and Intel. Otherwise what the hell is the point?

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    • [–] 20 points 4 months ago*

    wtf i have a 730m in my ancient dual xeon workstation. i want 3060-level performance

    xi-plz

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    [–] 18 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    But what about the first edible gaming GPU?

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    • [–] 15 points 4 months ago* (4 children)

    My laptop has the mobile version of the 3060 and I haven't found a game I want to play that it couldn't run. So yeah, if this 3060-equivalent is reasonably priced it sounds great.

    Edit: okay, it's not reasonably priced. It is however a very early effort that hopefully signals better things to come.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    FYI mobile versions of cards are not equivalent to the desktop versions. No use in comparing a mobile 3060 to a real 3060. They're world's apart.

    https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-3060-Laptop-vs-Nvidia-RTX-3060/m1452971vs4105

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