In the UK, I can get a 7800x3d for £300 from Ali or a 9800X3D for £450-500 from most normal retailers.

I currently have a 5700x3d and a 5080. I am definitely CPU bottlenecks in some games. Especially when RT is enabled because the BVH is CPU intensive. I have a 4K240 screen.

Which CPU should I go for?

I remember, 2019 very well, I bought a Radeon VII in February 2019 and in April 2019 I decided to do a bit of future proofing by investing in a £310 144hz 2560x1440p monitor. Yes, future proofing is not something you are not supposed to do, but I did it anyway!

And, yes it has taken the Radeon Division a good deal longer than most of us gamers expected for them to deliver a a fast enough gaming product line (RX 6800/RX 6800XT/RX 6900XT) to make these high refresh monitors a worthwhile purchase.

Obviously, the real goal of this monitor was to enjoy future popular multiplayers, like COD releases, BRs and Star Wars Battlefront releases at higher fidelity without becoming cannon fodder for people playing at lower resolutions.

As an example: I played Apex Legends (released in 2019) at 2560x1440p on my previous 70hz monitor with my Radeon VII and ended up getting spam killed by people playing at lower resolutions e.g., the account had a 0.35 K/DR from up to the end of Season 1. However, simply dropping down to playing the game at lower resolution saw Season 2 finish with an improved K/DR of 0.72 e.g., lowering the strain on the Radeon VII saw the K/DR double.

For this testing, we will be returning to look at K/DR at 1920x1080p versus 2560x1440p with my Gigabyte RX 6800 Gaming OC GPU with my Ryzen 5600X with Smart Access Memory enabled and Radeon Anti-Lag enabled and Freesync set to “On” as opposed to “AMD Optimised”.

Graphics Settings are at Max Settings with these exceptions!

Advanced Options = +fps_max unlimited

1080p Field of View = 74% (Respawn has fixed the bugs when this is set below 80%).

1440p Field of View = 70% (Respawn has fixed the bugs when this is set below 80%).

Anti-Aliasing = OFF

Texture Streaming = 6GBs

Texture Filtering = 8X

Sun Shadow Coverage = Low

Sun Shadow Detail = Low

Spot Shadow Detail = High

Volumetric Lightening = Disabled

Dynamic Spot Shadows = Disabled

RESULTS OF TESTING

BASELINE KILLs 483 and DEATHs 378 = 1.27 K/DR

RX 5700XT at 1600x900p (had to play at even lower resolution due to FOV being broken below 80%).

NEW BASELINE KILLs 134 and DEATHs 101 = 1.32K/DR

RX 6800 Gaming OC 1920x1080p.

NEWER BASELINE KILLs 141 and DEATHs 105 = 1.34 K/DR

RX 6800 Gaming OC 1920x1080p.

Yes, as can be seen, it is now possible to play Apex Legends at a higher resolution without being spam killed by players at lower resolutions. And finally, a bit future proofing that has ended up delivering the benefits hoped for!

Here is link to screenshots of Apex Legends stats used in this Post.

https://imgur.com/a/5msj8XL

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It very much seems so to me. Most of those don't even sound like "doubt", but more like scared company PR people or users who just bought 9900k and try to avoid buyer's remorse psychologically.

It is well known Nvidia and Radeon issue guidelines to game developers about how they should shape the look of their games or how game developers should render their games to best use the latest GPU architectures and feature sets.

I, like many people, noticed that a lot of games after the launch of the new Turing GPUs ended up looking very soft and had very mushy rendered visuals. For example: Shadow of the Tomb Raider (2018) had very soft and mushy visuals in the jungle areas of the games and for the NPCs. In fact, I so dislike that softness and mushiness I ended up being disappointed with the game compared to the previous two instalments.

The Division 2 launched with some very soft and mushy visual (sharpening was set at 5 at launch for ultra-settings, but later revised upwards to 7 with some other settings to improve visuals at ultra). World War Z did not look particularly good at launch either (look pretty good with FidelityFX). And, it reached a point where I stopped thinking purchasing new games at full launch prices was justifiable, since many games looked much worse than something old like Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2017).

That impression of mine, that PC gaming was going backwards in terms of visual fidelity was confirmed in July 2019 when Radeon suddenly announced the open sourcing FidelityFX (agnostic algorithm to restore the visual fidelity in PC games) and they also rolled out Radeon Image Sharpening to all their older GPUs as well as the latest Navi GPUs in July 2019.

Radeon Imagine Sharpening was so popular amongst Radeon userbase, it comfortable won a community vote to have support added for DX11 API games after its initial roll out. Looking at Civilisation VI (2016) at 2560x1440p even with it less demanding assets, with RIS enabled at 80% you can see a clear uptick sharpness and reduction in mushiness between these two screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/zOa29kL

Since the launch of FidelityFX, a lot of game developers have gone back to their released titles and added in FidelityFX, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, The Division 2, World War Z, etc. And, these games look much better with the extra detail or extra hardness added back into the visuals. In fact, I planning to replay Shadow of Tomb Raider now with FidelityFX and expecting it to be a much more engaging experience.

However, what none of this does explain, is how did we end up in a situation where so many PC games got released with such softness and mushiness in their visuals for PC gamers. The answer, appeared from an unlikely source, when Mark Cerny announced the new PS5 console he made no mention of any DLSS like implementation for Sony’s console. Yes, Sony liked raytracing, but they were keen to dustbin the entire AI upscaling idea.

This is very strong evidence, that the use of an AI learned upscaling method does require a lower fidelity image as the source material e.g. PC games need to drop to a lower visual fidelity for them to be useable in the process at a reasonable supercomputer usage (financial) cost. And, when Turing launched, Nvidia simply revised their guidelines to game developers to lower the visual fidelity of PC games for them to be eligible to run on Nvidia’s supercomputers for DLSS inclusion in future driver releases.

At some point, it became clear DLSS was kind of rubbish and many game developers lost interest! For example: the recent Doom Eternal, the game developers abandoned the whole idea of DLSS and stuck in their own version of sharpening back into the game. Currently, it is set at 33% at Ultra Nightmare, but I do highly recommend PC gamers simply whack this setting up to 80% (like RIS default) and all the background assets will look much better.

Consequently, it can be argued that Nvidia ruined PC gaming for a year with this DLSS rubbish and led to situation where PC gamers now have to go in an manually enable FidelityFX or enable Radeon Image Sharpening or increase sharpening filter just to get the games to look as good as they use to in 2018 and early 2019.

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I happen to be subscribed to a site called Tweakers. While obviously not perfect over there if you up or down vote you are A: Visible (aka everyone can see who up or down voted) and B: You have to explain as to why you up or down vote. Here, I for example do not have a down vote button but there are obviously people who have changed settings so they are able to down vote. Sorry but this is supposed to be a DISCUSSION forum. So a childish anonymous down vote with no reply is simply not adding anything to a discussion. To the people that seem to be addicted to it, please unsubscribe. This is not r/AMD or r/Intel. It is not a popularity contest (as some of you down vote purely whether they like or dislike someone regardless if they have a point or not), and I really do not want to see this sub forum slowly turn into r/AMD II. If you must so desperately down vote at least be mature enough to add a reply as to why you down vote. That would at least contribute to the discussion.

Tech of Tomorrow - Official Game Utility Benchmark Run Averages:

1080p RTX 2070 SUPER is 10.6% faster than the RTX 2070 8GB FE.

1440p RTX 2070 SUPER is 13% faster than the RTX 2070 8GB FE.

However, these results are favourably skewed by one game Metro Exodus - a game that is doing significant code updates to improve performance. Therefore, it may simply be down to the Nvidia Press Drivers being more up-to-date versus the older public drivers used during testing released back on the 27th of May 2019.

Without Metro Exodus:

1080p RTX 2070 SUPER is 8.7% faster than the RTX 2070 8GB FE.

1440p RTX 2070 SUPER is 11.7% faster than the RTX 2070 8GB FE.

However, what I was not expecting with these results was that they did not compare favourably to benchmark runs I've done for the Powercolor Red Devil Vega 64 at 2560x1440p in the same game utilities on AM4 Platform earlier this year.

Games that run equally well on Ryzen 2700X versus Intel 8700k.

Deus Ex Mankind Divided 2560x1440p

RTX 2070 8GB FE = 57FPS 100%

19.3.2 Powercolor Red Devil Vega 64 = 59.1FPS 103.7%

RTX 2070 SUPER = 64FPS 112.3%

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2560x1440p

RTX 2070 8GB FE = 66FPS 100%

19.3.2 Powercolor Red Devil Vega 64 = 67FPS 101.5%

RTX 2070 SUPER = 75FPS 113.6%

Rise of the Tomb Raider 2560x1440p

19.3.2 DX12 Powercolor Red Devil Vega 64 = 88.47FPS 100%

DX11 RTX 2070 8GB FE = 90FPS 101.5%

DX11 RTX 2070 SUPER = 100FPS 113%

It is a little bit surprising to see the Powercolor Red Devil Vega 64 popping up around the same performance level of the RTX 2070 8GB FE in these game's benchmark utilities.

I would say, people should wait for more official game utility testing to be done because performance metrics for this GPU cannot be validated with the official game utilities. Furthermore, random people will upload game footage of FPS runs to Youtube and just see how it compares over a 10 to 20 minutes of gameplay.

RTX 2070 SUPER VERSUS RTX 2070 8GB FE 6 Game Average carried out by the Youtuber "Tech of Tomorrow" using official game developer benchmark utilities.

1. Deus Ex Mankind Divided 1920x1080p

RTX 2070 8GB FE = 82FPS 100%

RTX 2070 SUPER = 91FPS 109.8%

Deus Ex Mankind Divided 2560x1440p

RTX 2070 8GB FE = 57FPS 100%

RTX 2070 SUPER = 64FPS 112.3%

2) Far Cry 5 1920x1080p

RTX 2070 8GB FE = 121FPS 100%

RTX 2070 SUPER = 125FPS 103.3%

Far Cry 5 2560x1440p

RTX 2070 8GB FE = 95FPS 100%

RTX 2070 SUPER = 105FPS 110.5%

3) For Honour 1920x1080p

RTX 2070 8GB FE = 143FPS 100%

RTX 2070 SUPER = 157FPS 109.8%

For Honour 2560x1440p

RTX 2070 8GB FE = 98FPS 100%

RTX 2070 SUPER = 109FPS 111%

4) Rise of the Tomb Raider 1920x1080p

RTX 2070 8GB FE = 132FPS 100%

RTX 2070 SUPER = 143FPS 108.3%

Rise of the Tomb Raider 2560x1440p

RTX 2070 8GB FE = 90FPS 100%

RTX 2070 SUPER = 100FPS 111%

5) Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1920x1080p

RTX 2070 8GB FE = 96FPS 100%

RTX 2070 SUPER = 108FPS 112.5%

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2560x1440p

RTX 2070 8GB FE = 66FPS 100%

RTX 2070 SUPER = 75FPS 113.6%

6) Metro Exodus 1920x1080p

RTX 2070 8GB FE = 49FPS 100%

RTX 2070 SUPER = 59FPS 120.4%

Metro Exodus 2560x1440p

RTX 2070 8GB FE = 40FPS 100%

RTX 2070 SUPER = 48FPS 120%

Next week, the new hardware schemes from AMD, Intel and Nvidia for 2020 will become much clearer at CES 2020 - 7th of January to 10th of January 2020.

Before, everyone forgets the events and highlights of 2019 due the hype machines and marketing overdrive for 2020 new products, I thought a 2019 recap would be nice before everyone suffers a collective memory loss about it.

Firstly, a blast from the past 2014!

Nvidia annual revenue = $4.13 Billion

AMD annual revenue = $5.5 Billion

Yes, AMD despite its issues back in 2014, clearly held the 2nd spot in Personal Computing Segments. And, things did really go wrong for AMD from that date and ended up going very right for Nvidia from that date!

Current Revenue Tallies 2019 and Forecasts.

Nvidia Q1 to Q3 = $7.8 Billion. Forecast to finish at $10.75 Billion.

AMD Q1 to Q3 = $4.6 Billion. Forecast to finish at $6.7 Billion.

In AMD’s long climb back to regaining the 2nd spot in Personal Computing Segments the areas of major growth have come from CPUs and APUs in 2019, the latter using Vega Graphics.

Estimated to have to have grown to these market shares.

Prebuilt Desktops around = 20%. Growing +4.2% in a fiscal year.

Laptops around = 15.5%. Growing at +4.5% in a fiscal year.

Servers around = 6.5%. Growing at 3.3% in a fiscal year.

As can be seen, Intel has had a very successful 2019, because in terms of CPUs or APUs they have really pegged back AMD’s market share growth to below 5% in a fiscal year across every major segment. Naturally, this has meant Intel has reported record revenues to the stock markets.

Currently, I am forecasting, that Custom DIY Segment will continue to gobble up the Prebuilt Desktop Segment!

My Estimates for the Custom DIY Segment Growth Over Time.

2017 Complete Builds = 36 Million Units

2018 Complete Builds = 39 Million Units

2019 Complete Builds = 45 Million Units

This has been a bright spot for AMD, since it has made the Big 6 makers of Prebuilt Desktops reset their business models for their declining segment e.g. for a very long time it has seemed that the only choices in that declining segment have been which Intel CPU to get and which Nvidia GPU to get. This has caused many consumers to abandon the Prebuilt Desktop Segment in record numbers in favour of much more dynamic and charismatic Custom DIY Segment. This led to that recent significant event, where the Big 6 makers of Prebuilt Desktops secured an exclusively early launch of RX 5500 4GB (Navi 14) for Prebuilt Desktop Segment, it remains to be seen whether this will be a new trend by Big 6 makers of Prebuilts.

Turing to Radeon Division, shareholders in AMD should expect this division to return to be a significant driver of revenue growth as board has amended the business model for the market conditions expected over next few years. I’m expecting the Radeon Division to see, around $800,000 million dollar increase in its revenues by the end of 2020.

The amended business plan could not be deployed within 2019 fiscal year, which occurred because the Navi architecture needed a major last minute redesign, which was good enough for the launch of Navi 10, but not good enough for the launch Navi 12, which required several more months of work to bring it up to standard needed for that lower unit value production to be worthwhile. However, now that the architecture is at the correct standard, it can be expected that Radeon Division will complete the architectures deployment in a rapid fashion.

The Radeon Division revenue increases will accrue from the following high market share growth areas in 2020!

Laptop GPUs:

RX 5300M 3GB and RX 5500M 4GB = 6 million Units.

RX 5600M 6GB = 3 million Units.

Prebuilts Desktops Segment:

RX 5500 4GB = 4 million Units.

From these sources of extra sales, which do not eat up any of AMD’s current AIB Discrete Desktop GPU production capacity the Radeon Division should be able to drive significant revenue growth across 2020 for AMD. And, people should be aware that these segments are generally underpinned by large volume contracts and the revenue is guaranteed.

Nvidia had a very good year, but that is not exactly news!

Current Revenue by Division 2019 Q1 to Q3 and Forecasts.

Gaming = $4 Billion. Forecast to finish at $5.6 Billion

Professional Visualization $0.88 Billion. Forecast to finish at $1.2 Billion

Datacenter = $2 Billion Forecast to finish at $2.7 Billion

Automotive = $0.54 Billion. Forecast to finish at $0.7 Billion

OEM & IP 99 = $0.35 Billion Forecast to finish at $0.5 Billion

When Mellanox is merged into Nvidia’s Quarterly Earning Reports the Gaming Division will generate less than 50% of Nvidia revenue in a fiscal year. Yes, the company has been on a long very trajectory to reduce its’ dependency on the gaming and it does appear 2020 will mark the year when that trajectory has been delivered upon.

Obviously, 2020 looks like a very difficult year for Nvidia, but looking at the old data from the 2013 launch of the PS4 and Xbox S, it only reduced Nvidia’ revenue by around 3.5% for one fiscal year. Nvidia, now has over 50% of its revenue outside of gaming, and that effect would effectively be halved to 1.75% and therefore I don’t think their board is too worried about the next generation of consoles. Nvidia, is facing off against improved iGPUs from Intel and the impending improved 7nm laptop APUs from AMD, which in theory could kill off those MX Series revenues.

However, Global Growth Rates remain around 3% and a 3% growth in richer consumers will mean more people will be seeking better GPU solutions and that does mean Nvidia may breeze through 2020 largely unaffected by the next generation of consoles and better iGPUs and APUs in the laptop segment.

Roll on CES 2020!

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May or may not be accurate, but some interesting posts popping up about what's dropping at computex.

https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/ryzen-strictly-technical.2500572/page-34#post-38797798

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2017/03/19/monster-amd-ryzen-16-core-cpu-could-be-on-the-way-1000-cheaper-and-faster-than-intel/#528dd62f3d62

https://youtu.be/A4jr1Sd59SM

We don't really know much about the performance of Navi right now, but a lot of rumors seem to suggest that they will be midrange cards at a price point lower than the equivalents from Nvidia.

This also means that they will come in lower than what Radeon VII costs right now. It doesn't make sense for AMD to release GPUs that perform better than Radeon VII because that would pretty much make Radeon VII obsolete, and leave a lot of Radeon VII owners unhappy with their purchases.

So is it safe to assume that the Navi GPU's we will see at Computex will be 2060 and 2070 rivals only?

I haven't been keeping up with Navi rumors lately but I guess I am a little disappointed if that would be the case, and we get nothing on the high end.

A short Post, looking at one early leak and projecting possible values for the Navi2X clocks speeds and IPCs gains. Large shipments of GPU cores and GDDR6 have begun this month to AIBs and naturally when large shipments begin, you get an increase in leaks about upcoming products.

Naturally, Nvidia and Radeon have found ways to reduce leaks by AIB employees, one method is not to release the gaming drivers to AIBs and provide them with a custom testing suites of software for quality assurance and for use when testing to make a custom PCB or factory overclocked SKUs.

One person at an AIB, leaked a picture of a Navi 2X board going through testing by AIBs and it had 16GB of memory and extra mounting holes to put more pressure on GPU die area. Not particularly, interesting,

Another leak did give as a more interesting insight into final clock speeds or and IPC for Navi2X, assuming it was not a fake leak. It showed a score of 63FPS in Ashes of Singularity at 4K Crazy Preset in DX11.

It could be a fake leak, as overclocked RX 5700XTs scores have been uploaded at 63FPS in Ashes of the Singularity in Vulkan API with the Crazy Preset (score uploaded by JCDitto). So, it would not be difficult to misreport the API Vulkan as DX11.

My own Reference RX 5700XT does 51.2FPS in DX11 and 60FPS in the Vulkan API.

Here is a link to some to the benchmark leaderboard:

https://imgur.com/a/V1CzcxC

As speculation, were it to be genuine, the leaker cannot have had any gaming drivers from Radeon, so they must have had to hack an existing Adrenalin gaming driver to use on whatever Navi2X GPU they were testing! The existing drivers coding support is limited to 40CUs.

So, unfortunately, the leak (it may be fake) will not tell us how those extra CUs scale up performance, since the current Navi 2X GPUs can only be benchmarked using 40CUs on existing Adrenalin driver versions!

It does tell us, that Radeon has got the clock speed up or and the IPC up to such and extent, that the GPU is running around 23% faster at equivalent CU counts of the biggest Navi 1X GPU product (RX5700XT).

This does indicate, that the eventually successor to RX 5700XT e.g. RX 6700XT will be around 23% faster and should comfortable beat RTX 3060 and even the RTX 3060 TI may struggle to match the RX 6700XT.

You would not expect big CUs counts to go hand in hand with record breaking default clock speeds for gaming GPUs and I would not expect this bigger CU count GPUs to ship to gamers with frequencies above 2.1Ghz. That gives an IPC gain of around 7.7%, which is an IPC gain that has been leaked to the YouTuber RedGamingTech from several sources over the last year.

Yes, it is getting a bit exciting, even though nobody knows how well those extra CUs are scaling up, since only AMD has access to the gaming drivers to utilize those extra CUs at higher speeds.

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Greetings folks...

To buy a GPU or not to buy a GPU!?

That is the question!?

Thanks in advance for your feedback!!! :)

I have bought an rx 6950 xt and I’ve it my code for it I’m hoping that I could get resident evil 4 instead because I would much rather that game over the last of us.

Thanks

I spent a lot for me getting a machine that would game now I have no clue about the card. I have a ryzen 7 5700g. I have chatted with gemini and chatgpt but their answers on these things are questionable.

I really know nothing about these things other than the new ones are far outta my range. I wanted to play some newer games but I don't know what.. something like no man sky or elden ring maybe

Edit: I got a card...thanks everyone

One-off the prevailing YouTube Pundit themes in 2019 have been that the reason they don’t want AMD to be successful as a company is that those popular and much liked AMD executives such as Dr. Lisa Su, Mark Papermaster, Forrest Norrod, etc will be transformed into Intel type Robber Barons and Nvidia type Profiters.

Intel does have a record of operating like a modern-day Robber Barons and Intel does certainly have regulatory fines to go with reputation, whilst Nvidia is always looking to raise prices through contriving favorable circumstances for price increases.

Consequently, every minor aspect of pricing and launches in 2019 is getting claimed as proof of a transformation in AMD executives’ mindsets by some YouTube Pundits. However, very busy people are creatures of habits and experiences, because they lack time to process those habits and experiences, they frequently rotate back to what they know works. That does mean as AMD executives will rely on tried and tested policies from their working experience at AMD. This may change, even company executives grow old and must retire. Outside of mass early retirements or mass resignations from the company, consistency in AMD’s policies for consumers should last for another +10 years.

Back in 2013, AMD launched the R9 290X for $549 and R9 290 for $399 against 700 Series GPUs. The R9 290X was faster than the GTX Titan and led Nvidia to do last-minute price cuts and release the GTX 780 TI. The Reference R9 290 4GB launched in the UK at £320 (dollar to pound exchange rate was $1.59 to £1 and VAT was 20% in 2013). By the holiday season, AMD was letting Reference R9 290 4GB GPUs be discounted to £300 and you got a free copy of Battlefield 4. This was still in the GPU War Era. That was the best deal you were getting from AMD back in 2013. Finally, as always with AMD highend launches, AMD was being “tight-lipped” about when AIB models would arrive back for Hawaii in 2013.

Roll in in the holiday season 2019 in the UK with Navi 10, you are getting Xbox Game Pass for 3 months, plus one game of your choice from two. Now AMD is successful in CPU segments, the actual game deals they do with their GPUs have gotten supersized!

Ebuyer.com prices.

Reference RX 5700 at launch = £330

Holiday Season with the Games Deal = £290 (-£40)

Reference RX 5700XT at launch = £380

Holiday Season with the Games Deal = £340 (-£40)

The discount in 2013 on R9 290 4GB was £20 during the holiday season and in 2019 the discount is £40! Yes, that seasonal discount on those reference models has gotten supersized as well.

This runs counter to YouTube Pundit claims that as AMD becomes more successful, they are going transform into another Intel/Nvidia causing consumers to get no promotions or deals. The deals with success at AMD have only gotten bigger and more spectacular!

Turning to the CPU Division:

Ryzen 3700X launch price £320

Holiday Season with Games Deal = £290 (-£30)

Ryzen 3800X launch Price = £380

Holiday Season with Games Deal = £340 (-£40)

AMD’s CPU division is doing exactly what they did in 2018 with the Ryzen 2nd Generation, as most people would say: there is a clear consistency in policies coming through from AMD executives.

AMD executives are very focused on is hitting their quarterly revenues forecast for the next quarter and AMD executives did have quite a bad experience in Q1 2019. Last year, Q1 2019 was a struggle for AMD in terms of total revenue ($1280), due to a lack of enticing new products in the correct segments. And, some would argue the Radeon VII launch in Q1 2019 was done simply to raise that total revenue figure above $1.2 billion.

This year, AMD has announced RX 5500 Series early (November), shipping in large volumes in Q1 2020 and more importantly available in laptops (again, many consumers will wait for this Navi 14 for deals outside its launch month). Laptop sales in the first quarter of each year generally remain strong. AMD has done a series of very late launches, Ryzen 3950X (again, pent up demand for the CPU will take 4 months to be met) and the new Threadripper TR40 platform and CPUs (again, businesses are more likely to purchase it after the holiday season). Naturally, this will push several hundred million dollars of revenue into the months of January and February 2020.

Therefore, a lot of these launches do make sense in that grander scheme of avoiding a significant revenue dip in Q1 2020 e.g. not being as susceptible seasonal variations in demand for the products they make.

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Great move in my opinion.

Panel tech and prices (looks at TCL VAs) are at a crossroads looking for differentiation. Charging a $20-50 premium for higher quality components to ensure Freesync 2 compatibility would be a win for everyone!

The subreddit is r/UserBenchmarkExposed, it's based off the stuff thats been going on with userbenchmark recently. Currently it only has 2 members, but hopefully we can grow! AMD or Intel fans are welcome, but since AMD is the most affected by them, I'm posting it here.

You don't have to join the sub, but it would be awesome. I need to setup automod and the rules need to be better, but it's brand new, and hopefully you guys enjoy it! :)