Hardware Discussion Thread

[ExtremeDude2]

I thought about that, but decided on window

[Garteal]

NVIDIA's conference with three new announcements ended today.

They revealed:
1. Gamestreaming: Streaming games from your PC to the NVIDIA Shield connected to your TV wirelessly.
2. ShadowPlay: Every Kepler GPU supports the feature; it records up to 20 minutes with a very small performance hit
3. G-Sync: The concept is to dynamically alter your monitor refresh rate to the frame rate you're getting. This requires either a new (pre-modded) monitor, or a DIY kit that's compatible with your monitor.




Hopefully some more interesting info gets revealed on the 21st in their Super Secret livestream.

[NaturalViolence]

Nvidia never ceases to impress me. Yet more features that will take AMD years to copy (and by copy I mean either halfass it or wait for an open solution to take over and do the work for them). G-Sync is particularly impressive. I wonder why shadowplay is limited to 20 minutes though. That's a bummer. I've been waiting for something like that to exist for a long time since software encoding is often too slow for me to use unless I do rawcap which severely limits image quality and produces massive files. But 20 minutes is too short to capture nearly any full game before editing whether it be fps, rts, rpg level, etc. Can I keep starting/stopping it every 15 minutes while the game is still running? That wouldn't be ideal but at least it would work.

[Garteal]

I'm actually getting very solid performance with Dxtory using the Lagarith Lossless Codec. If I had a better GPU and harddrive I'm recording to, I'm sure I could easily record Battlefield 3 at (over) 60FPS.

That's the functionality of Shadow mode. Depending on how many minutes you set it, it'll always have the last 20 mins (max I think) recorded for you which you can save with a hotkey.
If you enable manual mode, you can record for how long you want.
Source: Geforce: GeForce ShadowPlay Beta Launching October 28th

I've also seen that NVIDIA silently released the 760Ti for OEM. It has the same amount of unified shaders as the 670, but it still (sadly) has 2GB of VRAM.
I'd definitely go for a 760Ti if it had at least 3GB... Looks like I'll probably get a R9 280x or 7970GHz, whichever is cheaper at the time eventually.

[DatKid20]

(10-19-2013, 07:28 AM)Garteal Wrote: I'm actually getting very solid performance with Dxtory using the Lagarith Lossless Codec. If I had a better GPU and harddrive I'm recording to, I'm sure I could easily record Battlefield 3 at (over) 60FPS.

That's the functionality of Shadow mode. Depending on how many minutes you set it, it'll always have the last 20 mins (max I think) recorded for you which you can save with a hotkey.
If you enable manual mode, you can record for how long you want.
Source: Geforce: GeForce ShadowPlay Beta Launching October 28th

I've also seen that NVIDIA silently released the 760Ti for OEM. It has the same amount of unified shaders as the 670, but it still (sadly) has 2GB of VRAM.
I'd definitely go for a 760Ti if it had at least 3GB... Looks like I'll probably get a R9 280x or 7970GHz, whichever is cheaper at the time eventually.

It's just the 670 rebranded.

[Garteal]

Yeah. Though the consumer version should be higher clocked etc, though that depends on the GPU brands. Hopefully one of them makes a 3GB option available.

[Link_to_the_past]

(10-19-2013, 05:10 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: Nvidia never ceases to impress me. Yet more features that will take AMD years to copy (and by copy I mean either halfass it or wait for an open solution to take over and do the work for them). G-Sync is particularly impressive. I wonder why shadowplay is limited to 20 minutes though. That's a bummer. I've been waiting for something like that to exist for a long time since software encoding is often too slow for me to use unless I do rawcap which severely limits image quality and produces massive files. But 20 minutes is too short to capture nearly any full game before editing whether it be fps, rts, rpg level, etc. Can I keep starting/stopping it every 15 minutes while the game is still running? That wouldn't be ideal but at least it would work.

Well unless shadowplay constantly writes stuff to the hard drive i guess such a restriction would be due to ram.

[admin89]

GeForce GTX780Ti ...another expensive toy from Nvidia . I bet this card will beat the titan

[Garteal]

The CEO kept shouting "Our best card", "Powerful and low power efficient" it might actually beat the Titan at a lower price point. It's stupid to release something in between since they're already so close in performance. It needs a good price though.

The R9 290X already destroys the Titan in its quiet state. I wonder how much better it is in all its glory.

[NaturalViolence]

So apparently shadowplay only has the 20 minute restriction (10 minutes in the case of win 7/vista) when running in "shadow mode". Which is an always on feature (if you turn it on in the drivers) that continuously records the last 20 minutes of gameplay in a rolling buffer. Allowing you to save the last 20 minutes of gameplay at any time. The other mode allows unlimited recording to HDD but does not have a rolling buffer. Like fraps or dxtory.

They will probably allow shadow mode to be turned on/off in the individual game profiles in the driver. With a shortcut for saving (which also restarts the buffer from 0 since it has to be dumped). And then another shortcut for regular recording. They even added built in twitch streaming with up to 60 fps 1080p so I'm sold.