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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > YOSPOS > the new nvidia cards
 
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Coffee Jones
Jul 4, 2004

16 bit? Back when we was kids we only got a single bit on Christmas, as a treat
And we had to share it!

Condiv posted:

sooo...

you're saying nvidia tricked people into paying massive markups for hardware that will never be able to be used for what it was designed for and is only slightly better than last gen hardware for current tasks?

that’s one way of looking at it, sure. There’s different ways of slicing and dicing the same data
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html
https://www.anandtech.com/bench/GPU18/2304
extremely overkill vs extremely overkill and then some


Red Dead on consoles is locked to 30FPS so an example of a next gen task would be a PC port with an unlocked frame rate and higher resolutions.


Re: Raytracing -
Any new tech is going to have a chicken and egg problem, Nvidia has to introduce the hardware and they paid to incorporate RT into a new high profile game, maybe Unreal Engine will have support in an upcoming version?

Coffee Jones fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Nov 6, 2018

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