The accelerometer is actually sensitive enough to give a lot more data than you think. It can tell some medical info and whether you're sober or drunk when your phone is in your pocket by picking up signals in the way you walk, and some accelerometers are sensitive enough to pick up the sound vibrations of spoken conversations and discern words. This was all in a cyber security research paper and these things were actually done and proven possible. Getting permission from your phone to use this data vs microphone or camera or something more conspicuous is way easier too.

Yeah I mean I'm sitting here playing F.T.L. I think I'll get by.

It was much more of a meme than an actual bar that people were competing for. No one said "Can it run Crysis at max settings?". It was pretty much "Can it run Crysis?". My shitty ass computer could run Crysis just fine. Hell a lot of youtubers who run benchmarks still use CS-GO as a benchmark.

Yay, more Linus videos about this.

It gets tedious after a while and bloody irritating too, vacuum sucked to your head like a divers mask 😉 I hardly use mine now.

Probably not. But the reverse is also true. People will buy whatever is the fastest for their price range at the time. I’d be pretty happy to get a 4080 for the same price as a 3080 a few months ago, and not have to upgrade for an extra couple years…

That said I don’t even really want a 4K monitor, let alone have one already. And I have no interest in 200Hz gaming, 120Hz is more than enough for me. I think the truly functional real time ray tracing and high end VR support is the only reason I’d consider it now. But it’s irrelevant for me since I just overpaid for an (MSRP, still) 3080 earlier this year. Oh well.

Honestly though I do get your point - IMO the big problem isn’t necessarily that there is no use for faster cards, it’s that the market is so saturated with SKUs no one can figure out what the fuck they should get any more… I feel like a lot of “last gen” cards are either going to get very cheap and/or lose OEMs a bunch of money…

I’ve got 1080ti and it’s spot on for almost everything. Yeah I don’t get 120fps at 4K but who actually cares.

Facebook meta whatever you want to call it have been breaching our privacy since it popped out of Zuckerbergs big head.

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Omg they'll know I winked that one time! Think of the ads!

Every time you put it on, you’re just plugging into a monetized data collector. You’ve paid $1500 to become a product.

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Yah but do you hear anyone referring to cyberpunk in that way?

Do you remember when crysis came out. Building a computer that could run that game became such a cultural phenomenon within the enthusiast community it is still used as a trope today. 1 game is all it takes to keep things rolling.

Yeah, I’m more likely to make the jump to the new 7000 series Ryzen9 and DDR5 ram then get a 4090 this year or next. My 3090Ti will last awhile with the current top games

They want more scarcity so people who have been waiting will buy the 4090 instead of continuing to wait for the cheaper cards. The name change is just an excuse.

Decent chance they engineered the seemingly nonsensical product naming so they'd have this excuse. There was no good explanation for why they named things that way, but it makes sense if they wanted to keep this escape hatch open for themselves.

I can only imagine how pissed off their partners must be with these last-second changes, especially after they were already so hard to work with that they drove EVGA away.

I have never seen as many people I know looking to upgrade as I have this generation, and they were all waiting on the 4000s. Nearly all of them have only ever owned Nvidia cards. And now not a single one of them plans to buy Nvidia. They're all waiting for AMD. Crazy how badly Nvidia is tanking its reputation.

I'm just going to sit on my 3090 TI until the 5000 series because this generation is a mess.

Price is also fucking insane. Not gonna spend that much on a product that is more likely than not selling my data for a profit anyway.

What a clickbait article.

Here’s the cliff notes: the data lives on the device for the purpose of the application and doesn’t leave the device.

Yah but like 1 game? Plus is seems like the vast majority are playing e sports games that still run on my rx580. I’m ready to upgrade and it’s so overwhelming now lol

Raytraced games can be taxing. Look at Cyberpunk

I dunno but if you don’t like the developers catch up with using the horsepower then what’s the point?

Like if Ti cards were coming out this year and 40 series next year would anyone actually care?

I’m guessing it could be used at some point to see what product placements someone might look at etc.. could still be used for targeted advertising.

Technology matches on… should they just tell all of their engineers to take a year off? ;)

Obviously.