Nvidia Is Giving Away a GeForce RTX 4080 With a Diablo IV Backplate
Ironically this game does not need an RTX 4080 to play well
Nvidia is giving gamers another chance to win one of the best graphics cards in the Ada Lovelace RTX 40-series lineup. This time, the green team is giving away two GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition graphics cards featuring a custom Diablo IV GPU backplate to commemorate the game's release. You can see how the game runs on a bunch of GPUs in our Diablo IV PC benchmarks.
To enter, you must follow at least one of Nvidia's social media channels, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or Tiktok, and follow any instructions Nvidia gives out. To physically enter, you need to like, comment, tag, and share any of Nvidia's social media posts it publishes according to Nvidia's prompts.
Both GPUs will feature a customized Diablo IV backplate that sits on top of the RTX 4080 Founders Edition's stock backplate/cover. The backplate shows off a large Diablo IV logo to the left with a graphic to the right.
Diablo IV is the latest installment in the Diablo series, released today, June 6th, for all gamers. The game comes with Nvidia's full suite of gaming features, including Nvidia's latency-enhancing Reflex technology, DLSS 2 upscaling, and DLSS 3 frame generation. (Ray tracing is planned for a future update.) The game will easily run on all RTX 30- and RTX 40-series GPU, and a lot of older GPUs as well.
For perspective, Nvidia also provided some benchmarks. Its lowest-end RTX 40-series mobile GPU, the RTX 4050, can run Diablo IV at 1080p maximum settings at nearly 70FPS without frame generation. As a result, basically any modern GPU can run this game, especially if you don't feel the need to run at maxed out settings.
Again, for more details, check out our full Diablo IV GPU performance analysis, featuring 36 Nvidia, Intel, and AMD cards. The main takeaway is that you'll need at least 3GB of VRAM to run the medium preset well, 4GB for the high preset, and 6GB for the ultra preset. Of course, all of that will change once ray tracing arrives, but right now there's plenty of spare frames to go around.
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JarredWaltonGPU
Yeah, our price widget people don't know how to restrict URL parsing to just the Nvidia store, apparently. I've used Tiny.url links in place of the original (munged) links now.Metal Messiah. said:Once again, none of the Nvidia links work. It says, "bad merchant" as always. -
Giroro So this is a part of Nvidia's confusing and impossible-to-enter summer of RTX sweepstakes?Reply
The rules are contradictory, but I'm pretty sure you need to be a big influencer to be selected to win.
Nvidia still hasn't gotten back to me on who is eligible nor how to enter. The vague rules are written as if the "follow instructions" is more of a nomination process for picking which influencer wins, and doing the valuable work of promoting their brand through social media does not necessarily earn you your (maximum of one for the entire summer-long contest) entry.
This sweepstakes contest is tricky, and really rubs me the wrong way. -
blacknemesist
See points 3 and 4.Giroro said:So this is a part of Nvidia's confusing and impossible-to-enter summer of RTX sweepstakes?
The rules are contradictory, but I'm pretty sure you need to be a big influencer to be selected to win.
Nvidia still hasn't gotten back to me on who is eligible nor how to enter. The vague rules are written as if the "follow instructions" is more of a nomination process for picking which influencer wins, and doing the valuable work of promoting their brand through social media does not necessarily earn you your (maximum of one for the entire summer-long contest) entry.
This sweepstakes contest is tricky, and really rubs me the wrong way. -
JTWrenn Does it play well without a 4080? Wondering as someone who has not managed to play for more than an hour without a server crash. 3 hour queue earlier today. Maybe the 4080 has a queue optimizer?Reply -
pixelpusher220
Of the terms and conditions? linked towards the bottom of the page?Giroro said:points 3 and 4 on what?
3. To enter this promotion, you must:
Follow our social channels on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/TikTok for key prompts and instructions
Like/comment/tag/share posts across social according to prompts All entries, whether online or by mail, must be received no later than between 6:00 AM on June 6th, 2023, Pacific Daylight Time and 5:00 PM on June 20th, 2023, Pacific Daylight Time.
This is a new take on the normal 'sweepstakes' concept. Instead of registering and doing certain things to explicitly 'enter', they are making you follow them and wait for instructions on 'how' to actually enter. Clearly they want to drive more engagement than simply people writing a snail mail entry w/o interacting with them. Is that tricky? I wouldn't say so, but yes it rubs me the wrong way as well.
The kicker is that even if you win, if you don't respond 'by email' within 2 days of being notified...you forfeit your prize! -
bigdragon Does anyone actually know someone who has won one of these social promotions?Reply
Tons of companies have done the like, follow, share/retweet thing. I don't know of a single person who has ever won one of these big giveaways though. It feels like free advertising to me. That isn't a big deal when your socials have small followings, but after the numbers climb the idea of spamming followers with ads for free becomes unappealing.