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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The price is comparable to a 5060, the domestic design is the neat part.
nvidia's 50 series is the ai bullshit ones anyway right? i probably wouldn't take one if it was free
My 1060 6GB yearns for retirement but I'm gonna keep playing modern games on it until it kills itself given the average cost of any upgrade
yeah but how does that 1080Ti run if you smoke a lot of weed near it? checkmate, liberal 
Nah, I paint an American flag on my PC, keeps gay thoughts out of my hard drive, should work for weed too.
As I said, pretty well.
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
Correct. It's my other core components that are usually the issue at this point. That doesn't mean I am not looking at things for the future lol.
I'm running a 1070Ti. I play BG3, Bioshock, and couple of others and it's been great for me.
"despite RTX 3060-level performance" my GPU is 7 years old lmao I wouldn't mind that.
i felt like the 3060 was 7 years old but I guess i got a 2070 super with the trump bux during covid so idk. what is time
"Despite" RTX3060 performance is impressive. It wasn't so long ago that their GPUs sucked ass. That's actually great?
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
Performance aside, it would be good to have hardware not touched by American corporations and the implications that come with that.
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
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
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?
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.
You just have to match the specs of the current gen consoles
I wonder if they're going to have open source Linux drivers eventually like AMD and Intel. Otherwise what the hell is the point?
at least you'd imagine they'd be neighborly and write drivers for whatever the current version of red star is
yeah hopefully, I guess people could reverse engineer drivers too, but definitely would be nice to have official ones
The point is China #1
But what about the first edible gaming GPU?
Matcha labubu flavour
wtf i have a 730m in my ancient dual xeon workstation. i want 3060-level performance
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.
yeah I think we just have to wait a bit, once Chinese companies ramp up production the price is going to drop fast
Yup! Hopefully they'll do the same with RAM.
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
Well, yes, mobile cards are far less powerful, I know... That makes my point stronger, though, not weaker.