The almost perfect crime fumbled by a bone headed mistake. I love it. You can’t make this shit up.

Hope he enjoys what comes next. Bubba won’t be so gentle.

HDMI 2.1 can do 4k240 with DSC. The fact is that there’s only ONE monitor even capable of 4k240, and there’s some issue preventing that specific monitor from doing it over HDMI. The only way that’s a Nvidia problem is if it’s not enabled at the driver level. Otherwise, that’s a Samsung problem.

If the 4090 doesn’t have the power to push 4k240 now, it sure as hell won’t going forward once games become even more demanding. HDMI 2.1 can handle everything the 4090 is capable of. Should it have had DP 2.1? Yes. But acting like it’s holding back the 4090 is ridiculous. People are acting like that one monitor thats having issues is representative of every 4k240 monitor going forward, and coming to the false conclusion that the 4090 isnt capable of it. Once the issue with that specific Samsung monitor gets fixed, this all becomes a non-issue.

Going back to the power issue, it can’t even do 4k240 without a shit ton of upscaling and Frame Gen except on older games anyway. The whole issue is ridiculously overblown IMO.

He’s right, though. Even the 4090 isn’t powerful enough for 4k120 without upscaling and Frame Gen. Why put out 4k240 monitors if the newest gen, essentially “Titan” class GPU, can’t even drive it? Just to say you did it first? It hardly seems like a good idea to sink all that capital just to be the first person to offer a halo product that relatively very few people will buy. There’s a significant risk to that strategy that could bite them in the end.

There’s a natural progression to technology, always has been. When the hardware becomes powerful enough, that’s when the next step forward will happen. Especially with how much money is involved in researching and implementing new technologies. As of now, IIRC only one monitor is capable of pushing 4k240 anyway, and it should work with the 4090 with DSC by HDMI 2.1’s specifications. So either Samsung screwed up, or Nvidia needs to enable it at the driver level. Either way, it’s a non issue, which I’m sure is why Nvidia didn’t put DP 2.1 on the 40 series. If they don’t have the power to drive the port now, they sure as hell won’t have it down the line.

Is that really its biggest flaw? I don’t have one, so idk, but it seems to me the games being rendered at a crazy low resolution due to the APU not being powerful enough is its biggest flaw.

That very well could be the case. Nvidia is well known to manipulate supply to artificially keep prices high. Look at how hard they fought to try and keep Covid pricing. It could happen, but I think it’s more likely that it’ll go down than not since there was a buying frenzy for blacklisted countries.

Most likely scenario is that everyone in a blacklisted country is buying them up as quickly as they can get them before the new export ban goes into place. Once that happens and essentially 25% of the buyers market goes away, I would be surprised if prices didn’t go back down.

And everyone in the AMD subs downvoted me en masses for saying Raptor Lake was actually pretty damn efficient when not chasing peak performance. My 13700k sips a mere 50w while playing a CPU intensive game at 4k120.

People just assume it’ll always use as much power as when it’s benchmarked and can’t be told otherwise, even when they don’t own one themselves. Still, these results are pretty amazing even to me. I’m curious what I can do with my 13700k now at 95w with an undervolt.

What the holy shit man. A 14900k does THAT good when severely power limited and undervolted? I wonder if my 13700k will be similar. I know if you power limit it to 200w it only costs a couple percent of performance. Wonder what happens if I go down to 125w? Or even 95w? This requires further testing…v

60 FPS WITH Frame Gen AND FSR balanced? God, that’s gonna be a horrible experience.

I really don’t like the direction we are heading.