This seems to be Nvidia's baby if they have indeed been working on it for 10 years like they said in the presentation. I doubt they will let that kind of investment disappear into meaninglessness.
Because no game uses all 8GBs and the cost of GDDR6 is probably higher than the cost of GDDR5 especially if the rumoured reasoning for Turing being so late is true. The rumour being that they were waiting on very limited amounts of GDDR6 from Samsung.
They are talking about ray tracing performance when they mentioned the 6X figure. They haven't said anything about regular performance although we do know it has roughly 30% more CUDA cores than the 1080Ti.
Definitely wait for benchmarks and reviews.
Ray tracing does look amazing in the titles that support it but the list of games with support will be quite small for a while. I think a lot of gamers will be satisfied with the fake lighting tricks we currently use to get around the issues with rasterization if it means saving £300 - 400.
In a few generations though when the prices start to come down and more people get to experience it I think PC gamers will push hard for ray tracing. Hopefully the new consoles have...
@rainslacker by a few seconds you mean we're talking way past 30 (60 with my assumed seq read speed) seconds with everything being stored in one continuous block (best case) to fully saturate 8GB of memory? Assuming a middle of the road 120MBs sequential read speed. Or am I doing the maths wrong?
There's only so much you can do with compression and streaming, you can't get around the physical limit of a HDD being 5 to 10 times slower than SSDs. It's not really handled via amazingly clever solutions, it's handled via workarounds that bring in new problems like additional CPU / GPU overhead and texture pop in.
In the UK and EU pretty much any contract that restricts what a retailer can sell at is breaking the law. Minimum advertised pricing, RPM and pricing cartels fall under our competition law. With a few restrictions for introducing new products and short term brand level promotions.
https://www.gov.uk/governme...
Heh, it's kinda funny as I was telling you GAME was shady as hell in another comment the other day. I really don't like them and only buy stuff from them for convenience sometimes.
In the UK that is price fixing, MSRP is okay as it is suggested, but if it's contractual MAP pricing then you are breaking both UK and EU law and the fines are ridiculously heavy if you are caught.
@Rainslacker How is that any different to any other store? I'm talking about used games where all of the money goes to GAME or a store with a similar reputation.
Devs wouldn't choose to put their games on sale if they didn't think it would make them a lot of money and I've seen graphs of revenue for certain games on Steam and sales cause big spikes as you would expect.
GAME (our biggest game store) doesn't have a great reputation. On t...
We get super cheap games on sale and the money goes to the devs instead of just to shady game stores of which we have a pretty horrid one in the UK. It's a lot less hassle than getting a fair price on a used game.
Also there are some stores on PC that are being developed that will utilise blockchain to enable PC Gamers to sell used digital game licenses https://www.robotcache.com/
I play on PC and it's pretty good but everyone is so much better than me.
He never accused you of being racist, read what he said again. Just because you are okay with racial slurs everyone should have to be exposed to it when they just want to sit down, relax and have some fun online?
No this is news 4 gamers not news 4 readers :P
Is the usage of that word in an offensive sense more common than in a food sense?
I don't think I've heard people say it and not mean food but it might just not be common over here.
Well, it is more effort than the alternative he is suggesting and all of the other major providers already have.
Adding to wallet -> purchasing is not easier than purchasing.
Yer! let's add $5 minimum payments to everything. /s
He spoke publicly and defended her position. As he is also an Anet employee and Anet wanted to make it clear that this was not a position they supported, they fired both of them. Other employees defending the bad actions of someone can look worse than the bad actions in the first place as it could lead the community to believe it's the opinion of the company, not just the individual.
Damn, I missed pillars of eternity, I will set a reminder to claim Tyranny.
She's a major focus of the books, it's a bit weird that she only appeared in the third game.
Well the demo was originally running on that supercomputer. They weren't wrong that it wasn't possible with current consumer cards but yes I don't think anyone expected it to transition to consumer cards so quickly.