Ray tracing isn't necessarily about creating "realistic" scenes. It's about creating a realistic model for the behavior of light. It doesn't preclude color grading or any other stylistic flair you want to inject into a final render. Fortnite is a cartoony game that looks pretty great with raytracing. Epic's Matrix demo adopts the same "cold blue" aesthetic from the films. Disney/Pixar use path tracing in their 3D works but nobody would say "Up" or "Frozen" look "realistic", you know?

Does anyone else find that games today are just too good and the nostalgia wears off pretty quickly when playing old arcade games at a bar or wherever?

I think ray tracing is fantastic but I also think that realistic doesnt always mean better in this context. Like if I was trying to sell my home and took pictures for the ad with a really good camera the pictures would be very realistic but someone could make my home look much better in photoshop by tweaking the colors and contrast. One is realistic, one is what people like.

7900xtx matches or sometimes is better at rez performance than the 4080 while being 200$ cheaper, however it's rtx performance is 2 years old, about matching the 3090ti rtx performance.

I mean that just depends. For singleplayer games i turn it on if i can still stay above 60 fps because RT does look amazing. For multiplayer its off and most settings are medium or low for max fps.

awww

This is really cool. I love seeing good news like this in my feed.

No.

But I think much more gamers can just afford it as we are grown up and work.

I wouldn't bother but Im a software engineer and wanna play around with rtx.

Right so this is British. I only know they call casts plasters because my kids watch peppa pig.

Your's only complicates the explanation

They're not that small though. My daughter has one and it's around the same size as my aftermarket switch controller. Or maybe I'm just misremembering. I need to remember to check this when I get home.

Kinda wish this was around 20 years ago.

Sure, it has been also at top. But they definitely put on a good markup for their name and you have to look what else one pays money for to be part of apple.

Looking alone for the crazy way of handling repairing.

…but Apple’s performance has consistently been top tier.

Yes hurts like hell... I was told by my friend... The other stuff is Surgery and they knock them out... told by the doctor....

lol you should see comments on any other sub or tech site, the gpu is doa trash

I am both a game developer and a gamer now and I'd say at least for now I'd happily put on some more work to optimize our game for a wider audience and more range of devices, simply for the profits.

However I too hope one day RT can become a standard feature on mid-range card and above with hardware advancements that make it cost less performance than now (around 20-30% fps instead of 60-80%).

30-80% fps, based on title and GPU you use.

Anyone YTers got any good benches with a 2080 Ti @ 1440p?

I run an ultra wide 3440x1440p @ 100Hz. My Freesync range is 48-100Hz.

DLSS and ray tracing at 60fps or better is pretty much doable on any game at this res. I can push 4K/30/60 pretty well too if I need to.

People hate on the 2080 Ti cost but I had a top GPU for the lockdown, and most every piece of software has been updated to work better on my card. I still beat a 3070 in most benches and for my money, I’ve been happy with it. Go into settings, put it on ultra and play. If that means DLSS quality, then fine it does.

This is Nvidia fine wine lol. In 2 years, maybe new titles will require DLSS performance. In 4 years, I’ll buy a 4090 used. I’m cool.

OK, but Rudeism has beaten Dark Souls using a bunch of bananas as a controller (or something like that), so no surprises there.

I will give it time, but I've decided that it's not worth my money until it's acceptable. Also I usually turn off anti aliasing because it also hurts frames and takes hardware resources that could ironically be used to prevent aliasing.

A time or two.

To date, haven’t cause one (knock on wood) but there’s always tomorrow.

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Hahahaha spot on

Ah fuck