I really like PCIE x4 making this GPU unsuitable as an upgrade for older computers. And the fact most manufacturers decided to slap 3 huge Fans on it to make it look like serious card.
One fan and 250W TDP is crazy. Even 170W GTX760 with same reference cooling was a hot loud mess. But here we are talking less power dissipation than 2007 GeForce 8800. Those even came in single slot thin fan configurations, with afaik not a single manufacturer going for more than two slot one fan.
I don't know how much cost and parts (especially what in shortage) reduced by reducing PCIe lanes to x4, but it's acceptable if it's reasonable. Adding unnecessary cooling component definitely adds cost and parts, it's totally not reasonable.
I have a GTX 1060 6GB before, and 1080p performance was barely enough, especially for games like PUBG, I have to set everything to Low graphics settings to get a decent 60fps. Strangely enough for Fortnite it can run Ultra for 100fps most of the time (90% of the time outside battle). Maybe at the end of the day, it depends on optimizarion I guess?
I have no idea about the games you mentioned specifically, but there's no reason you couldn't have a 1080p scene rendered at 60fps with way less resources than this, given proper optimization.
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[ 4.1 ms ] story [ 47.8 ms ] threadJust the bandwidth and ram that’s crap
Though I guess removing this marketing statement completely avoids publicly stating that it is a compromise directly.