[HN Gopher] Nvidia Is Full of Shit
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Nvidia Is Full of Shit
Author : todsacerdoti
Score : 38 points
Date : 2025-07-04 21:58 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| d00mB0t wrote:
| Sounds about right :D
| leakycap wrote:
| This article goes much deeper than I expected, and is a nice
| recap of the last few years of "green" gpu drama.
|
| Liars or not, the performance has not been there for me in any of
| my usecases, from personal to professional.
|
| A system from 2017/2018 with an 8700K and an 8GB 2080 performs so
| closely to the top end, expensive systems today that it makes
| almost no sense to upgrade at MSRP+markup unless your system is
| older than this.
|
| Unless you need specific features only on more recent cards,
| there are very few use cases I can think of needing more than a
| 30 series card right now.
| pixl97 wrote:
| I mean, most people probably won't directly upgrade. Their old
| card will die, or eventually nvidia will stop making drivers
| for it. Unless you're looking around for used cards, the price
| difference between something low end like a 3060 isn't that
| much less in price for the length of support you're going to
| get.
|
| Unless nvidia's money printing machine breaks soon, expect the
| same to continue for the next 3+ years. Crappy expensive cards
| with a premium on memory with almost no actual video rendering
| performance increase.
| ryao wrote:
| > The RTX 50 series are the second generation of NVIDIA cards to
| use the 12VHPWR connector.
|
| This is wrong. The 50 series uses 12V-2x6, not 12VHPWR. The 30
| series was the first to use 12VHPR. The 40 series was the second
| to use 12VHPWR and first to use 12V-2x6. The 50 series was the
| second to use 12V-2x6. The female connectors are what changed in
| 12V-2x6. The male connectors are identical between 12V-2x6 and
| 12VHPWR.
| ohdeargodno wrote:
| Nitpicking it doesn't change the fact that the 12v2x6 connector
| _also_ burns down.
| bigyabai wrote:
| > Pretty much all upscalers force TAA for anti-aliasing and it
| makes the entire image on the screen look blurry as fuck the
| lower the resolution is.
|
| I feel like this is a misunderstanding, though I admit I'm
| splitting hairs here. DLSS _is_ a form of TAA, and so is FSR and
| most other modern upscalers. You generally don 't need an extra
| antialiasing pipeline if you're getting an artificially
| supersampled image.
|
| We've seen this technique variably developed across the lifespan
| of realtime raster graphics; first with checkerboard rendering,
| then TAA, then now DLSS/frame generation. It has upsides and
| downsides, and some TAA implementations were actually really good
| for the time.
| cherioo wrote:
| High end GPU has over the last 5 years slowly turning from an
| enthusiast product into a luxury product.
|
| 5 or maybe 10 years ago, high-end GPU are needed to run games at
| reasonably eye candy setting. In 2025, $500 mid-range GPUs are
| more than enough. Folks all over can barely tell between High and
| Ultra settings, DLSS vs FSR, or DLSS FG and Lossless Scaling.
| There's just no point to compete at $500 price point any more,
| that Nvidia has largely given up and relegating to the AMD-built
| Consoles, and integrated graphics like AMD APU, that offer good
| value in low-end, medium-end, and high-end.
|
| Maybe the rumored Nvidia PC, or the Switch 2, can bring some
| resurgence.
| ionwake wrote:
| I don't want to jump on nvidia but I found it super weird when
| they clearly remote a Disney bot onto the stage and claimed it
| was all using real time AI which was clearly impossible due to no
| latency and weirdly the bot verifying correct stage position in
| relation to the presenter. It was obviously the Disney bot just
| being controlled by someone off stage.
|
| I found it super alarming because why would they fake something
| on stage to the extent of just lying.i know Steve jobs had backup
| phones but jsut claiming a robot is autonomous when it isn't I
| just feel it was scammy.
|
| It reminded me of when Tesla had remote controlled Optimus bots.
| I mean I think that's awesome like super cool but clearly the
| users thought the robots were autonomous during that dinner
| party.
|
| I have no idea why I seem to be the only person bothered by
| "stage lies" to this level. Tbh even the Tesla bots weren't
| claimed to be autonomous so actually I should never have
| mentioned them but it explains the "not real" vibe.
|
| Not meaning to disparage just explaining my perception as a
| European maybe it's just me though!
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