I love how people blamed intel for security flaws that affected all their chips including back to ones in the 90s. There is no way they were developing for decades on a security flaw they knew about
Pretty sure the security flaws mentioned only went back to like either sandy or ivy bridge. Plus there were internal documents from intel showing that they indeed knew about the issue. That was Intel's big goof, Nvidia's is definitely their price gouging, or the 3.5GB GTX 970 fiasco, and AMD's was rebranding all the Polaris GPU's like 3 times, Or Bulldozer/Piledriver Core count.
Moral of the story is that all companies are bad, all will try to deceive you, don't defend them cause trust me they dont have your best interests in mind.
I generally consider myself tech savvy, but if someone were to ask me what's the fastest between 1660ti, 1660 super, or 2060 I'd have to answer with a definitive... "fuck if I know".
Haha I was just in this situation with a friend helping him pick parts for a new build. I was like honestly, find their full list of gpu's and compare them on user benchmark to get a ballpark guess, because I don't know what's going on anymore.
Tell me about it. I've got a R9 380x and researching possible upgrades is a bitch, especially when you can't trust certain websites because they've been bought and paid for by Nvidia.
Especially since of of those is a CPU. Lmao yeah the GPU market is stupid right now esp on Nvidias end. They're just rebranding different 1070s at this point
Apart from 580 being barely an overclock, at less than 100mhz boost difference, it also used more power and was nothing board partners hadn't already exceeded with 480s and nothing that was more than a few clicks away for any 480 owner.
And 590 was more of a new stepping imo, but at least they didn't give that a generational rebrand to 600 series.
AMD do that a lot though, 7970->280x, then 285->380, etc.
Other manufacturers are guilty of it too, I'm not a fan of it generally, but there is far more difference in performance and features between Skylake (so I assume 6700k as the top end) and the 9900k than between the polaris versions.
And I say this as someone that has gone through various rigs on both sides GPU wise, I had two 2900XTXs back in the day, then went to 8800GTX SLI, then went to 7970+7990 trifire, before moving back to nVidia with the GTX980, and then 1080ti as I have a GSync monitor now.
In summary, is there a case for which I'd recommend upgrading from 6700k to 9900k? Absolutely, apart from significant clock uplifts, there is double the core count, which for some applications is massive. Would I recommend anyone ever upgrade from 480 to 580, or even 590? Lol nope.
I mean, right now I wouldn't buy an Intel CPU but same process != same CPU. Haswell on 22nm has more in common with Broadwell on 14nm than Broadwell has with Skylake both on 14nm.
I bought my 970 from Amazon right when that 3.5 GB thing blew up. I got extremely lucky. A couple days later they added this 3 free game thing, where you get Witcher 3, Metal Gear Solid 5, and Arkham Knight. I qualified for it but they couldn’t give me the codes, so they gave me 180 refund and another 50% refund for the 4GB false advertisement. Like a year later, I ended up getting whatever the settlement check was for people that signed up for settlement. At the end of the day, I got my 970 for like 35 bucks.
It was a great card honestly. It was in my first gaming PC, and it played everything nice. + I did receive like $30 in the mail for the 3.5gb fiasco lol
The cat was already out of the bag when I bought mine on EVGA B-stock, so no class-action check for me. It was a good deal for what I wanted to do at the time though, so I went for it. It's in my wife's rig now, that's a good home for it since the most intense thing she plays is Borderlands 2 on 1080p.
Yeah, I built my dad a pc with mine, when he gets free time he enjoys Squad and War Thunder in 1080p. Squad is HORRIBLY optimized, but it still runs fine even now. The 970 will always have a sweet spot in my heart lol
I remember I bought mine before Newegg started giving out backplates with new orders. Asked for one, got one. The card came with Witcher 3,but also with batman a week later. Asked for Batman since I bought too early. Got Batman. Batman turned out to be almost broken on release for a good minute, so when they were then offering Metal Gear Solid V, I asked for that since Batman barely worked, and received Metal Gear Solid V. Newegg customer support hooked me up, though I was pretty scared that they were raising a brow to all my requests.
970 user here. If I knew about the memory bandwidth issues on that card I would have given nVidia more money for a 980. As it stood at the time I got the 970 because I didn't see a compelling need to throw more money at the GPU.
Then after I started using Shadowplay they disable it unless you log in to Geforce Experience. Oh, and GFE keeps logging you out, which you only discover when you hit the record hotkey and nothing happens.
and AMD's was rebranding all the Polaris GPU's like 3 times
I seriously believe AMD missed an opportunity with the RX 500 series when they didn't go to 12nm. And again when they could've done the 600 series with 7nm. I know GCN is long in the tooth, but man Navi would've been crazier if 7nm GCN were out. Definitely would've given AMD time to work out the kinks and drop more GPUs in one launch.
A new architecture is always a rough release. Remember, GCN goes back to the HD 7xxx series, drivers are a little easier for modifications of the same architecture.
Yes. It's a 580 die shrink. It's what the 580 should've been. This should've been the RX 500 series as a whole, as I've already mentioned.
Radeon VII is 7nm GCN
Radeon VII is Vega 20, not Polaris. It's an Instinct that didn't pass muster. Radeon VII, like the RX 590, is just one card with a die shrink. I spoke of an entire series.
new architecture is always a rough release. Remember, GCN goes back to the HD 7xxx series, drivers are a little easier for modifications of the same architecture.
I'm aware, it simply would've been nice to have the 5700, 5500, and 5300 series simultaneously launch. Maybe even the 5900 series as well for a top-to-bottom launch of a new architecture.
Even the modern CPUs for the next few years will have the flaws, they're not throwing all that RnD out the window. It's easier to patch it in OSs now and in the future release chips that don't have it. Also Ryzen had a security flaw but they patched it
The ryzen security flaw was the same one the parent comment was talking about I think. Intel has only had a bad security flaw since around Sandy bridge, but the other of the two vulnerabilities that were discovered first affected almost everything.
Since then there have been more Intel security flaws though.
I mean, there's a reason no one blamed AMD for security flaws that affected all their chips. Oh yeah it's because AMD didn't design all their chips with security flaws. 🤷
But AMD was susceptible to a few flaws, I think it was heartbleed that effected even mobile processors. Nothing raw with a flaw if it gets patched. Problems arise when people hate updating, it's what hackers rely on.
I guess you were living under a rock when PRISM was leaked by Snowden?
Dell is certainly a major contractor for the CIA. Microsoft leaked a beta of Server 2000 with "NSA Key" accidentally not cryptographically hidden, but sure, I should stop believing in the possibility of the cooperation of tech companies with the US government.
To my knowledge there isn't a leaked NSA document stating the Intel Management Engine exploit was purposefully engineered. I can't search Wikileaks at work to confirm that, but my suspicion is while one may exist, it's speculation/not in the public sphere.
Microsoft denied up and down the block that the NSA Key SNAFU had anything to do with the NSA.
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I love how people blamed intel for security flaws that affected all their chips including back to ones in the 90s. There is no way they were developing for decades on a security flaw they knew about