Nvidia plans to give away Watch Dogs Legion and a Geforce Now with RTX 30 series GPUs

Well this is what we wanted. Perhaps Nvidia feared a repeat of what AMD have done against Intel in the CPU market and didnt want to fall into that trap.

Competition = better value purchases. Of course, its still expensive, but imagine the offerings if there had not been a threat.
 
Well this is what we wanted. Perhaps Nvidia feared a repeat of what AMD have done against Intel in the CPU market and didnt want to fall into that trap.

Competition = better value purchases. Of course, its still expensive, but imagine the offerings if there had not been a threat.


The threat of AMD easily dropped a $100 from the starting price. This promotion is an added bonus. Nvidia wants to completely choke AMD. I realy hope AMD got a good deal for console hardware.
 
The threat of AMD easily dropped a $100 from the starting price. This promotion is an added bonus. Nvidia wants to completely choke AMD. I realy hope AMD got a good deal for console hardware.

well I think its worked regardless of Navi. Unless Navi is released before the end of the month, the hype (regardless of cost) is building rapidly for Nvidia.

However...


Something is odd. I suggest you read the report at Guru3D. He talks about the fact that no leaks occured for 30 series. that is because even manufacturers dont know how their cards perform.

https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/geforce-rtx-3080-and-3090-what-we-know,1.html


No benchmarks have leaked, how is that possible?
I'll let you in on that secret. The AIB partners have all been prepping their cards for months now. They have the products, engineering boards for a while. NVIDIA however, has not released a driver that works with anything other than the test software they supply. So get this, I am writing this article on September 1st, hours before the presentation, and still, the board partners have no idea what the performance is going to be like. We need to advance on that as the board partners even do not know the thermal capacity effect of their products. NVIDIA has provided them with test software that will work with the driver. Basically, these are DOS-like applications that run stress tests. No output is given other than PASS or FAIL. We know the names of these test applications: NVfulcrum test and NVUberstress test. For thermals, there is another unnamed stress test, but here again, the board partners can only see PASS or FAIL. Well, we assume they have tested with thermal probes. What this paragraph, well, to show you the secrecy that NVIDIA applied for this Ampere project.

I know there are numbers posted by the guy at Digital Foundry, but 1 source globally is odd for sure.
 
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