I don't get why they put DRM on games that harms paying customers and makes the pirated version the better version :/
@dolfa Yes games currently use a mix of ray tracing and rasterization to generate an image but the article is clearly talking about the ray tracing side of that equation.
No you can call this ray tracing as that is exactly what it is, it's just much slower when done via compute.
It will be and is much much worse, you need a lot of additional compute performance to match the power of the specialised hardware and the die size of these RTX GPUs is already massive. The result will be a very very expensive piece of silicon to reach the same performance as the specialised hardware.
Here is a DXR benchmark of the flagship AMD GPU vs the flagship Nvidia GPU.
Radeon VII: 10 fps
RTX 2080 Ti: 324 fps
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Yes, publishers are obviously subsidising the PC market with the money they make from consoles as they are all very nostalgic and charitable /s
The logo looks like a wankel rotary engine
I'm much more comfortable with that, I've bought all of the Witcher games on GoG as they make a bigger cut from the sales there and GoG is a really consumer friendly store / platform depending on if you want the launcher or not.
I doubt they will bother adding all of the extra compute power or dedicated hardware for this, it's too expensive, maybe if they release low and high end consoles at the same time or maybe with the pro versions of the new consoles in 5 years or so.
Not today, maybe for a future line of GPUs. It will require either dedicated hardware or a ton of extra compute power.
There is no closed tech here, the RTX cores are really simple bits of hardware and they just use hardware accelerated DXR which is a Direct X standard. DXR can and will fallback to regular compute but the performance is much much worse.
In fact RTX cores are just a gamer version of the names of the same cores in the workstation products.
I understand attacking things like GSync for being closed and proprietary but this is just Direct X plus some specialis...
They are talking about the PC ray traced lighting version.
I think this article summed it up at the end. Steam caters to consumers and Epic cater to developers. Why should the consumer like that they are getting less so that the developer can get more.
vote based GOTY awards are just popularity contests and this game sold a ridiculous number of copies.
This card excels at 4K and above, that's when it starts to compete with the 2080 (albeit still slower). But at 1440p this card is 5% slower than the 2 year old 1080 Ti and launches at the same price it did. It's a 7nm card vs a 16nm card but manages to be slower, louder, more power hungry and priced the same as the 2080 / 1080 Ti which makes it a hard card to recommend.
I know that they are just selling off failed instinct chips with some disabled workstation featur...
Why do people keep testing this GPU with old CPUs. Surely if you want to test what the GPU is capable you would pair it with a CPU that definitely wont be a bottleneck.
It does kind of make sense when public healthcare is paid for via taxes. Other bad health decisions like alcohol and smoking are already heavily taxed. The idea is to make more money off the tax than you spend on the associated preventable illnesses.
@rainslacker
They are removing consumer choice and giving us less features. They tell us that they will pass on the savings to the consumer and then only do so in the US with it costing more than it did on Steam in a lot of other regions due to the lack of regional pricing.
They then give us a game on a platform that doesn't have cloud saves, troubleshooting forums or developer news feeds, user reviews, family sharing, mod browsers / hosting or TV str...
They can collect anonymous operational data, according to this that would then no longer fall under the scope of GDPR https://www.ucl.ac.uk/legal... but I am not a lawyer so I don't know.
@DragoonUS It's not competition if you can only buy something in one store. It's the complete opposite, I don't understand how people champion exclusivity as competition. I'd rather they don't limit which stores I buy my games on.
If they can't compete by providing a compelling alternative experience to steam and have to do so by forcing exclusivity deals then I shall not support them.
I personally buy from Humble Bundle, GOG and ...
I bought an Xbone and this a while back to play through the original trilogy on the couch with friends. It was awesome replaying them again and I think it aged pretty well.