LouNeko

@LouNeko@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only press who previewed the RTX 5060 under Nvidia’s test conditions are getting review drivers, reports claim⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to play little off topic devils advocate here.

  I’ve recently had to choose between a 5070 TI and a 9070 XT for my new setup.

  If I were to listen to any reviews - the general consensus would be that Nvdias 50XX Series is a steaming pile of dogshit that will burn your house down and kill you dog.

  Every single of those reviews boils down to: AMD slightly faster but actually worse at everything. But because price lower number, AMD better. PS: Nvidia bad.

  The RTX series is primarily a gaming card and gaming performance is all that matters, not all that additional fluff that reviewers dish out to make a 7 min video into a 20 min video.

  Nvidia has the clear R&D advantage for new technologies, older titles barely matter in this discussion because everything pre DLSS era is going to run at 200+ FPS at 4K anyway (with the exception of 32bit PhysX titles, dick move Nvidia).
  Newer titles on the other hand, are an absolute wildcard of performance because nobody cares about optimization anymore. I’ve used a 1080 Ti for 8 years and even some of the newest titles still ran at around 60 FPS maxed out. But here’s the catch, the discrepancy between highest and lowest setting has gotten miniscule, to the point where you’d get 60 FPS on lowest and 50 FPS on max settings with a 1080 TI. My personal reason for an upgrade tho, was Raytracing and Generative AI Performance, both at wich AMD sucks.

  “Don’t blame the Card, blame the Game.”

  Nowadays performance is more about the rendering technique rather than the visual settings. And when it comes to technique Nvidia is clearly the winner. Now that I have a reference between DLSS and FSR, I can confidently say that AMD will be in 2 years where Nvidia is now.

  Let’s talk about price. People are still living in the fantasy that GPUs are going to cost 400€ again like it’s 2014 (which they didn’t even do back then). 800€ is the new baseline for a midrange GPU - that’s just how it is now. I’ve paid around 900€ for a 1080 8 years ago, now I paid around 900€ for a 5070 TI and get about triple the performance. So what’s the problem?
  I think there’s a small but obnoxiously loud minority of “must have the newest thing” babies that didn’t get the memo when we reached the technical limitation of the Moore’s Law about 10 years ago. You won’t get double the performance in 2 years for the same price. No reason to whine about it. Want to get your moneys worth, keep you old GPU for another 2 years, there problem solved.

  Also, what not a single reviewer ever has mentioned is the significant increase in power draw that AMD has over Nvidia.

  Let’s do a simple calculation:

  Price for a 9070 XT: ~800€
  Price for a 5070 Ti: ~900€
  Difference in favor of AMD: 100€

  Power draw 9070 XT: 300W
  Power draw 5070 TI: 250W
  Difference in favor of Nvidia: 50W
  (Based on tests of the same games with equal settings)

  My regional price per 1kWh is ~0,40€
  100€ / 0.40€ per kWh = 250 kWh
  250 kWh / 50 W = 5000 hours

  My average game time per day is maybe 2-3 hours, make it 2.5 h.

  5000 h / 2.5 h per day = 2000 days ≈ 5.5 years

  Since electricity prices are constantly on the rise, and I intend to keep my current setup for maybe another 8 years, the price difference between Nvidia and AMD doesn’t really matter in the long run.

  The funny thing is I paid about 2200€ in 2017 for a high-end build that could play everything I throw at it, and now I paid 2000€ for another high end build that can play everything I throw at it. People forget to mention that while GPU prices have gone up. Everything else has gone down. RAM and HDD/SSDs, are dirty cheap nowadays.

  While yes, Nvidia is a greedy and shitty company, let’s not pretend like their product doesn’t do what’s advertised - that is playing games really well. And AMD is not a saint either, their GPUs aren’t exactly cheap either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mr. Deepfakes, Largest deepfake porn site shuts down forever due to critical service provider terminating their service permanently.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Advice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “I also think my sister is hoter than me.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon critiques humanity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  >developes precise eyes
  >doesn’t know where to put the blood vessels
  >“fuck it, we’ll put them in front of the receptors”
  >blood vessels always visible
  >“we’ll fix it in post”
  >actually works out
  >MFW they have to add a blind spot for vessel/nerve management

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How magnets could change our fridges and ACs forever⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What does that mean “refrigeration tech […] energy hungry”? The technical appilcation of the Carnot-Cycle is as close to maximum mathematical efficiency as we can get. Sure, it’s far from 100% efficient but we’re actively going against entropy here. In the end it all comes down to thermal isolation and losses. Even cheap fridges from the past 20 years take like 100 Watts once they’ve reached their target temperature. That’s only a bit more than a laptop and a bit less than a desktop computer on idle. AC-Units take a lot more but we already have a 100% efficency solution, it called “not bitching about the heat”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happens every time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  >Puts Iron-56 in a box.
  >checks at the heat death if the universe
  >still Iron-56
  >mfw box also Iron-56

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What movie was this for you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ready Player One

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Physicists vs Normal People⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Physicians: “It’s all vector addition and differatials?”
  Mathematicians: “Always has been.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roll tide!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Baseball, huh?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crossbow killer Kyle Clifford was 'fuelled' by Andrew Tate videos before rape and murders, court told⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Andrew Tate is the actual guy, while Eminen was just a character. Marshall Matters was a guy who was trying to raise a daughter and give her a normal childhood, all while her mother and himself were fighting severe drug addiction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon envies the boomers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exception to Rule 1: Be Conan Fucking O’Brian

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How was your valentines day weekend?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The girl got hammered and drilled too on that day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the tallest pyramid we'd be able to build? Can we reach space?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not really the limiting factor for pyramids. If you were to build a shape of equal height, say a cube, then yes this would be the main issue.

  What are the failure modes for a pyramid?

  • A 45° pyramid can’t tip over since it’s center of mass is always sufficiently far enough from the bottom edge. So tipping isn’t one.
  • I’d say bending through cross winds is also not an issue for a pyramid unless you make it out of jello. So that’s also not a failure mode.
  • Crumbling of the bottom layers because of the weight of the top layers is definetly one.
  • Uneven foundation strength can cause the supporting area to be weaker in some spots more than in others, so that’s another failure mode.

  I’d say the crumbling and Foundation issues are heavily mitigated by 2 main factors.

  1st:

  The outer edge is always of height zero. As the pyramid grows in height it also gets wider, but the only point that is at risk of imminent collapse is the very center of the pyramid, since it is the only point that will reach a critical supporting mass first.
  Let’s say the pyramid reaches a height and the furthes block at the bottom in the center crumbles (let’s assume it actually turns into straight up dust). The clumbled block will still support some pressure but will also transfer it laterally into the adjacent blocks (essentialy like a liquid). Now the main question is “How many adjacent blocks does it need to support one crumbled block?”. If the answer is ≤1, than you have no problem, because with each new block in height, the pyramid also gets 1 block wider at each side. Similar to water pressure, the lateral force the blocks exhibit will increase linearly with height therefore never outpassing the increase in pyramid width. If it’s >1 than you will reach a point where the outer walls of the pyramid will start to collapse from inside pressure, and that will be your limiting factor for height.

  2nd:

  The blocks can be cemeted together, so whatever forces are being transfered laterally will not only be supported by the adjacent blocks, but also blocks adjacent to them and so on, and so on…
  Same thing goes for uneven foundation strength. The local decrease in support will be spread over a wider area because the blocks are merged together. Also Pyramids are usually not build block on block, but with a 50% offset, which will further aid to stabilize the structure.

  Usually, If you look at mathematical calculations for things like sky elevators the form to support the structure looks like a symmetric reciprocal function. This function actually requires way less material to support the weight of the center piece of the structure than a pyramid. So not only could a pyramid essentialy support itself until earths centrifugal forces take over, it would also be way too overkill in doing that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's so negative. He's so weird.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially on your chin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is acceptable amount of microplastics you would allow into your brain?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  9mm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My help button is grayed out⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m cultured. I say “C’esta vie.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My help button is grayed out⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you press “Help” they put you in a room with push handles, polished metal mirrors and take away you shoe laces.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨emotional regulation hub?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Give me ASMR of a guy taking you to the woods, making you dig your own grave putting a gun to your head but hesitating pulling the trigger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's laundry day!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In this economy? Hell no!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's laundry day!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love sending shit like this to my friends without context just to ruin their good mood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨yes god⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m afraid to find out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're falling apart at only 27 you're in real trouble⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What about weakness exercise?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a metaphor you like in your language?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  C’est la vie. Because it is what it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ocan't⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jumping of a roof will turn you from physics to forensics real quick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Guy didn’t do the Age / 2 + 7 rule.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Try walking a mile in these shoes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Me when I lie

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon signs up for a 5k⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A: People who never experienced it fear loneliness more than they fear death.

  B: People change over time, the person you married might not be the same person in 10 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hope they're into basements ***alot***.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they mean somebody who realizes about them self that their inability to reliably put food on the table is probably not looked favorably upon in terms of a partner. The reason for that can be purely environmental or psychological but mostly a bit of both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no, they're hot!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can fix her.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boss Mode⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And it is remarkably consistent at doing that.