Radeon VII vs. GeForce RTX 2080 at 3,440x1,440 (WQHD)

[Tarinder]

Nvidia are satisfying their "day one" bs by basically saying the driver is capable. But the DLSS is only as good as the training set which is dictated by the dev/Nvidia. So that means DLSS only comes to a select few and sadly, Hoonigan, you just don't cut it apparently!

But obviously a reviewer can't say that...

Yup, I can say that, and was going to respond to the original comment.

DLSS is, at the moment, a half-baked solution, and that is why I am looking at it in a separate article.

[Hoonigan]

DLSS is, at the moment, a half-baked solution, and that is why I am looking at it in a separate article.

I'll look forward to seeing someone else's opinion on the matter. Frankly, I feel like they've cut me a new one, twice, in the space of a month.

Firstly bought the monitor, which wasn't cheap, then the following week they announce that FreeSync will be supported on NVIDIA GPUs, then a month later they only set up DLSS for the three "main" resolutions.

I'm sitting with my fingers crossed that they'll introduce support for UW resolutions. Praying.

[Corky34]

It would be interesting to hear Nvidia's or the Dev's response to people who are in Hoonigan's situation, to me (s)he's totally justified in being a little miffed, I'd be apoplectic if I'd bought into the Nvidia ecosystem at a considerable expense only for a question mark to be hanging over whether i could use one of the key features.

[fmq203]

The thing is, almost all Radeon cards get better as the time goes by, so this is base performance for the Radeon VII

[Lord Midas]

So glad I got my Asus 2080 Turbo when I did in December. I was £660 then. Now the same card is £750.

Jesus!!

[Usernamist]

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[Usernamist]

A bit disappointing, but wholly expected. If I had any interest in content creation I'd buy this in a heartbeat, but for gaming alone I couldn't justify it over the 2080.

I wonder which market is more profitable, the high-end gamers or the budget conscious content creators?

[Strawb77]

From Wikipedia: "QHD (Quad HD), WQHD (Wide Quad HD),[8] or 1440p,[9] is a display resolution of 2560 × 1440 pixels in a 16:9 aspect ratio. The name QHD reflects the fact that it has four times as many pixels as HD (720p). It is also commonly called WQHD, to emphasize it being a wide resolution, although that is technically unnecessary, since the HD resolutions are all wide. One advantage of using "WQHD" is avoiding confusion with qHD with a small q (960 × 540)."

WQHD refers to any 1440p resolution and not just the wider ones. Pedantic I know.

acer refer to my xr341ck, 3440 * 1440 as uwqhd. samsung have the crg9 which is `dual QHD resolution (5120×1440)`, which is still 1440p- but i don`t know how many `k` either of those are counted as.
but as even the manufacturers don`t all agree as to what 4k actually is, i`ll let that slide i think.

[Hoonigan]

It would be interesting to hear Nvidia's or the Dev's response to people who are in Hoonigan's situation, to me (s)he's totally justified in being a little miffed, I'd be apoplectic if I'd bought into the Nvidia ecosystem at a considerable expense only for a question mark to be hanging over whether i could use one of the key features.

So, been looking about for information, asking people in the industry, looking for other people's experiences and came across this from Andrew Edelsten, Technical Director of Deep Learning at NVIDIA.

NVIDIA DLSS: Your Questions, Answered

For Battlefield V, we think DLSS delivers a big improvement in 4K and 2560x1440 performance -- up to 40% -- for the corresponding quality, but also hear the community. For the next push, we are focusing our testing and training to improve the image quality at 1920x1080 and also for ultrawide monitors (e.g. 3440x1440). The current experience at these resolutions is not where we want them.

So that's it, in black and white, that they are supporting ultrawide resolutions, they've just got work to do on the training. I'm happy with that, just to know they're working on it.

[Iota]

So that's it, in black and white, that they are supporting ultrawide resolutions, they've just got work to do on the training. I'm happy with that, just to know they're working on it.

Seems a bit odd they've not really given the resources for one of the key features they've sold the RTX series of cards on, especially considering the broad range of RTX card capabilities at different "best match" resolutions. Seems like they haven't really thought this through properly.