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We have all seen that the hynix gold p31 ssd has been a great 1TB deal for the last year or so, but everything I read says that the platinum p31 ssd was supposed to come out last year... but I can't find anything about it

Does anyone know anything?

Given that their 1TB ssd is so good, I was hoping they'd release a 2TB

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what are the implications of sampler feedback tier 0.9?

Posted: 04 Mar 2021 06:54 AM PST

hello people, i've been doing some research on new generation cards, and i noticed a thing

you as hardware folk probably heard of sampler feedback feature that comes with dx12_2 feature level set, and from the videos i've watched and the articles i've read, this feature mainly revolves around the idea of optimising vram related things and reduce vram usage in certain cases.

what i've noticed is, the Ampere cards seem to have "tier 0.9", while consoles, RDNA 2 and RX 6000 series, having "tier 1.0" support.

Since Ampere cards already have less vram compared to their counterparts, one would think they would at least rely on this feature to reduce potential vram issues in the future.

due to both the lack of vram, and the vram related feature set being a lower tier, it feels like nvidia is up to something here. it almost feels like they did not only skimepd on vram, but they also skimped on this feature set, and it seems like a bad mix.

what do you think of this? i have no business starting a fight or something, it's just that it's weird that a new generation nvidia card do not have this feature fully. i can understand turing not having it, but ampere?

this reminds me of pseudo async support of pascal cards, where it only acted as compability later and did not affect the performance as its supposed to do

maybe i give too much value to this feature, maybe i'm overreacting, but i'm always up for new thoughts and opinions

https://microsoft.github.io/DirectX-Specs/d3d/SamplerFeedback.html#feature-support

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_levels_in_Direct3D

(Support matrix table)

extra note:

0.9 to 1.0 might seem very close to each other, but for example, pascal cards only have dxr tier 1 support, while turing/ampere cards have tier 1.1. pascal card drops enormous frames while turing cards handle it much, much better (due to rt cores, of course). so from this example, i gathered that even a 0.1 of version difference can mean a huge change of things. maybe sampler feedback is a similar case where 0.9 is just a compability layer and 1.0 is the real deal. maybe ampere cards do not have what it takes to do actual sampler feedback on a hardware level and only does it on software based and it's not impactful enough so that it's de-tiered?

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DJI announces FPV - a first person hybrid drone

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EU Sets 2030 Target to Produce Cutting-Edge Semiconductors

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Supplying Demand: The Chip Shortage in Macro Context

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[Hardware Unboxed] - Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop vs Desktop Benchmarked, The Same GPU (But Not Really)

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