The 7900 xtx still kicks the 4070ti ass in with raytracing and ties rasterization with the 4080.

But the real elephant in the room is the price of components these days? This is like a timewarp 20 years ago to 2003. The console is a much better value again due to greed. Motherboards that used to cost $70 are now starting at $300 and this does not count CPU or GPU pricing which are orders of multitude more expensive because of RGB lighting according to marketing folks

You do know there is a difference between a PC and an xbox right?

Also have you seen the prices for GPU's in the past 2 years?

I have which is why I won't buy a PS5.

Be careful. You say non unforceable but what you do not see behind the scenes in HR checking a secret database or website or Taleo HR onboarding (God I hate that ###) blacklisting you without you even knowing. You may apply for other jobs but you won't ever hear anything back after a screening interview and you won't ever know why.

Since this is all hush hush most IT workers are ignorant about the issue even if it is not enforcable your employer or another one will still check out of goodwill on a secret handshake that the competitors do the same.

That market manipulation such as price fixing is illegal and certainly unethical.

I refuse to sign NDA's at this stage in my career I can. When I was young in my 20s I had no choice.

I am in favor of NDA's

While the US just bends over backwards to appease corporate overloads and rich people compared to every other country in the world, I do think some corporations do have rights as well. Protecting their expensive IP investments should be one of them. Especially if investor money was used.

This solution will give workers the rights to leave if they are treated unfairly but leave corporations the right to protect their investments. Both parties win.

NDA is rarely ever used as a reason not to hire someone.

Lol

The xbox is much faster in terms of CPU and graphics and also has pause and on demand play and xbox game pass over the Playstation

A PlayStation will perform much better than that card. THis is so opposite of 2016 and crazy to even type this. That GPU isn't bad for entry level games and business graphics but is painful as a long time PC enthusiast.

AMD really needs to get their act together and stop locking in step with Nvidia with the prices. If their crappy 7900 xtx was a 7800 and the 7900 xt was a 7700 and cost $499 and $599 respectively I would say that would be a positive start.

I think TSMC is simply tipple charging because they have a monopoly. What AMD and Nvidia need to do is make their high end models only use 5 nm technology and use the cheaper 8 to 10 nm for midrange cards and maybe still use the under utilized 14 nm for their low end gpus. That way they can charge less.

Moores law is hitting it's limits which is why costs are also going up as it gets harder and harder and more expensive to produce.

All the guys I know who do this stuff just rent on AWS or Azure. PC is too expensive and Nvidia has crippled things like double precision on CUDA for their non data center GPUs which are consumer grade.

At that point you might as well buy a console.

This saddens me as I saw the PC rise from a rich kids elitist thing where all the real exclusives were consoles because of DRM and price to where the PC outdid it and Steam brought games to the masses.

Now it is going backwards and if I was born 20 years later I would be buying an xbox and ignore the PC. Motherboard makers and case makers too are making expensive products that are outdo the pace of inflation now as it feels like a boat or high end sports car modding for the rich.

Game developers are noticing and weakening their graphics again and making more detail in the consoles. The opposite was true 10 years ago as the settings were lowered on console ports. If this doesn't change in another 3 to 5 years developers will ignore the PC altogether as supporting low end integrated graphics and 1 million different combos of GPUs costs too much over just writing once for Playstation and once for Xbox and calling it a day.

Nvidia then will loose the money as gaming on PC will be like gaming on a Mac. Niche and not existent.

Bro if you ever own a 140hz or 165hz panel with vsync turned on or at least have adaptive refresh rates you will experience a smoothness and motion that is like no other.

I got that on a 144 hz panel in 2015 and can't go back similiar to an SSD. Yes your eyes can see it when you spin or turn after you hit 120 fps with 120 hz perfectly in sync with no 1% lows. Most people still have 60 hz panels or have shitty gpus that only do 70 fps so they never experience it.

I got 1440p over 4K just for this effect. My god do prices for this luxry go up very quickly after 1080p. A 4090 is a bare minimum and even that is now powerful enough at 50 Teraflops to get 144 fps/144 hz

Meet Cyperpunk 2077. Put on Raytracing and connect a 1440P or 4K monitor and get back to me if you still think the 2080ti is awesome.

Hell I own a 3080TI and it melts and has coil whine at 1440P when I put on raytracing on max settings

FreeBSD had signed UEFI kernels for years and no one said anything. There is some misconfusion this is a DRM scheme invented by Microsoft as a way to kill all open source and turn pcs into Tivios or ATMs all locked down to enforce payment plans etc.

All this is is to prevent rootkits (root ... that sounds like Unix) from being loaded and turning the host into a virtual machine where the malware can't be removed or detected.

In UEFI you can add and sign your own bootloaders and kernels. At work we do this with our Ubuntu Server vm's and have our own keys (not signed by Microsoft). This is a feature in 2022 I am in favor of and is essential right up there with disk encryption if any critical data is going to be stored or processed.

2 quarters of negative GDP growth is a recession. Hirings and firings are always lagging indicators. When the Great Recession ended it took years after it ended for unemployment to return to previous levels.

What is happening now is pent up demand from supply chain issues messed up supply and demand and workers never were hired back fully. Now they are catching up but it is a recession as the supply chain is now overfilled. Next year jobs will follow but since they under hired it won't be quite so negative.

As far as I am concerned I stand Micron needs to lower prices and to do this and still make a profit it needs to cut staff as demand is too low for the current prices. Hence, when other companies follow inflation will end and employee demand will be more balanced again.

Well if a recession is here and people want affordable memory then a smaller company can make it cheaper so people can buy it. The best way to do this is to reduce staff so they can cut prices.

This was the intended solution the Federal Reserve and Banks around the world are hoping for by raising interest rates. When companies who over hired and have had waste and inefficiencies start to tighten then inflation will go away.

Finally cheap GPU prices .... right?!