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Discussion Nvidia Blackwell in Q1-2025

Just call it the 3060 Super 12.
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- Post #4,287
- Yesterday at 3:48 PM
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Discussion Nvidia Blackwell in Q1-2025

The mind boggles. Well, at least the reviewers/creators will have something to talk about. Does it beat a 4060 being the most interesting question. Faster memory but less cuda cores.
- Ranulf
- Post #4,278
- Yesterday at 12:21 PM
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Question Eight core cpu required for Borderlands 4

I don't trust Intel saying the problems are fixed on anything K model raptor lake and at $200, the better deal is the am5 chips, the 9600 or 7600 at sub $200 usually. I'd get a 5600x/5700x over a 12600k probably too.
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- Post #24
- Friday at 1:45 PM
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Question Eight core cpu required for Borderlands 4

That is hardly a great deal for a cpu with known problems. The best intel deal is a $150 12600k.
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- Post #19
- Friday at 12:00 PM
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Question Eight core cpu required for Borderlands 4

Doom Dark Ages requires a 10th gen or Zen2 (3700x) 8core cpu as the minimum. I've seen many test it with a 5600X and it ran just fine. Daniel Owen I think had a video on it. So I don't think 6 core chips are in trouble just yet. Certainly not Zen3 or later stuff. These requirements and price...
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- Post #6
- Thursday at 6:41 AM
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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8GB VRAM not enough (and 10 / 12)

Eh, for $100 it is iffy to me. Maybe if prices drop to msrp and/or stock availability goes up in the next few months. When it comes to Ebay, I'm highly skeptical I could get $250-270.
- Ranulf
- Post #3,967
- Jun 17, 2025
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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8GB VRAM not enough (and 10 / 12)

Interesting comparison. My 6700xt is 2 years old, was $300 with a free copy of Starfield (meh). Two years later and if you're lucky you get the 16Gb 9060 for under $400 is not much of an upgrade incentive. If buying new vs used, it might be worth getting the 9060 instead.
- Ranulf
- Post #3,965
- Jun 17, 2025
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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8GB VRAM not enough (and 10 / 12)

Yeah, I noticed with my nvidia card that the benchmark would say "good" with dlss on but with fsr and framegen it said "playable". This despite the fps being over double on the fsr/fg version.
- Ranulf
- Post #3,953
- Jun 14, 2025
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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8GB VRAM not enough (and 10 / 12)

I don't get why they have such peformance issues in Outlaws. Snowdrop engine runs quite well on older hardware in Division 1 and 2.
- Ranulf
- Post #3,949
- Jun 13, 2025
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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8GB VRAM not enough (and 10 / 12)

Steve gave a shout out to the people noting the vram thing over the past few years in the pci-e video. I don't envy reviewers with a lot of this stuff, especially now where you really need to do more in depth looks at performance then basic benchmarks.
- Ranulf
- Post #3,943
- Jun 12, 2025
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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8GB VRAM not enough (and 10 / 12)

Thanks, that is where I went, beta version5 or whatever. I don't know why frametimes didn't show up, thought I put them in OSD but here are a few shots. It seemed to hover at 7.5GB vram usage most of the time, mostly 6.5Gb to 7.5GB. I saw it hit 8GB briefly on a scene transition. Edit to add...
- Ranulf
- Post #3,930
- Jun 11, 2025
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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8GB VRAM not enough (and 10 / 12)

What version of Afterburner is best to use these days?
- Ranulf
- Post #3,927
- Jun 11, 2025
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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8GB VRAM not enough (and 10 / 12)

Ok, with Rigg's settings aka Ultra but High textures, no upscaling etc.. Game definately looked better. I instantly got a warning about high memory usage. Est usage is 6.04GB as in first screenshot. Lows were much like the dlss version, maybe a bit lower at 17 or so. Playable at 36.78fps...
- Ranulf
- Post #3,926
- Jun 11, 2025
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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8GB VRAM not enough (and 10 / 12)

You're in luck, I already have a couple of shots from the FSR run I can post. One is at a similar point.
- Ranulf
- Post #3,924
- Jun 11, 2025
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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8GB VRAM not enough (and 10 / 12)

DLSS instead of FSR and thus no frame gen available. Lows hit 18-20fps that I saw during the run, though I was afk for the first minute or so. Much of the run the low was 28-35fps. Note that the benchmark says this is "Good" vs playable for fsr + frame gen. There was less pixelization and...
- Ranulf
- Post #3,923
- Jun 11, 2025
- Forum: Graphics Cards

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