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They are the same thing. There are no game where ray tracing only works on an Nvidia card. Performance is a different story, but Portal RTX will definitely work on AMD cards. RTX is just Nvidia branding/logo and nothing more. If you see a game that is advertised as RTX, it probably means it has ray tracing and DLSS support, but it does not mean the ray tracing is only going to work on an RTX card. I doubt Valve would make this without some scaling options. I've been playing Ghostwire Tokyo recently which has RT and FRS2. Runs and looks surprisingly well for how heavy the RT reflections are in that game. Metro Exodus also works pretty well on AMD cards, even without FSR2. I suspect portal RTX will have some scaling options that will allow for it to run about as well as those other two games do on current AMD cards.

Im sure it will be playable, just a matter of if it will be worth it at the settings it will actually run at. Seriously doubt fsr2 will ever be added though with all the nvidia sponsorship.

These two benchmarks show what's going on here. Occasionally really great performance on newer titles, terrible on older ones. One thing this review missed is that Arc scales really well at higher resolutions and with RT. Digital Foundry covers that pretty well. I think they're starting to show promise. Still a long road ahead, but they'll get there eventually.

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Ahh yes, when always good to make sure the "snowflakes" are being teased on twitter. Maybe he never really wanted to buy it, maybe he still doesn't really want to. Given how this has gone so far, until he actually does buy twitter the deal still seems up in the air. Not that I really care either way. I'd actually prefer that he not buy it simply because he doesn't seem like the right kind of person that values value free speech, but we'll see I guess.

Elon Musk Agrees to Buy Twitter for $44 Billion, Averting Trial - IGN So tired of hearing about Musk. He's gone from tech entrepreneur to wannabe diva to international troll. I don't care about twitter, but it will be morbidly interesting to see what happens to one of the world's biggest social media platforms when it gets taken over by a guy who seem more and more like he's going through the origin story for a Marvel super-villain.

Samsung unveils 5-year roadmap for processors, reaching 1.4nm by 2027 WWW.TECHSPOT.COM Samsung has long been one of the leading developers of semiconductors and processors, including being the first foundry to produce 3nm chips for its mobile devices. The...

A good idea for reviews: games that launched in a poor state but have seen significant changes. Kinda like a BF2042 or BF4 type of situation.

Run into anything cool/unusual on your trip that you didn't expect?

If you can remove the fan blade from the pin it rests on you can try cleaning the pin. That would probably make a bigger difference than oil, but u could try adding a tiny bit of oil at that point if you want to.

Very cool. How long are you gonna be doing this? How long you been at it already?

Apparently, Google had a bunch of devs on the line with contacts that would pay once they released their games for Stadia, so now any devs that were working on Stadia games expecting to get paid will either be totally screwed on any dev time the put towards Stadia, or they'll have to release their games for a platform they know is about to be shut down. Google didn't tell any devs before-hand, they found out when we did, yet they kept letting them work on projects for Stadia regardless. Stadia was always such a terribly implemented service. Its swift death was basically guaranteed from day 1.

Doesn't specifically have to be an HQ file, just whatever pushes the speakers a bit more than your typical music.

A thread for stand out music that doesn't fit into a casual listening playlist but still stands out and sounds great; or posting about your audio setup!

Yea as pio said, condensation only happens when an object is much colder than the air around it. That would pretty much never happen with a computer, except LN2 extreme OCing and such.

I'm not sure that's accurate. Ray tracing is ray tracing, there's not an Nvidia version of it. They just call it RTX, but it's the same. I could be wrong, but that's how I understand it. AMD 6000 is fine in games that use RT for shadows or GI but it doesn't really hold up with well with reflections. Crysis remastered probably isn't a good example because it's the one and only game that doesn't need RT cores to do RT.

We haven't really seen any interesting leaks about AMDs next GPUs, who knows, maybe they will surprise us. It's not totally unfeasible that AMD could come out with really strong RT performance. IF AMD could match or beat RT performance and offer it at a lower price, they could box Nvidia into a corner where the only way Nvidia can meaningfully pull ahead would be with DLSS3. If AMD can just match non-DLSS3 numbers for a lower price, they will be in a really good position where people will have to say, Yea Nvidia can beat AMD but only with frame generation. I've said this already somewhere, but I really see no reason why AMD couldn't also do frame generation. We know AMDs next GPUs are going to focus a lot more on AI than previous ones, as long as they have AI headroom to generate frames, they should be able to do it too. It seems like a very simple concept that can be easily replicated so long as the GPU power is available. On pricing, it seems the prices are slotted in an almost linear way with the with the 3000 series, minus the 4090. The two new 4080 cards are priced as if they are supposed to be a higher end to the current GPUs rather than replacement GPUs. Obviously, they are doing this because there is still 3000 series overstock. Very frustrating that they wouldn't just drop the prices of the 3000 series if they wanted these cards to cost so much more than the older ones, but perhaps the silver lining could be that price drops will be substantial once 3000 series stock clears out, though I'm not holding my breath.

PlayStation®VR2 | The next generation of VR gaming on PS5 | PlayStation (US) Looks really cool. Makes me want to get a console. Sony revealing this today almost seems like shade towards Nvidia since most likely a PS5 and a PSVR2 kit will cost less than a 4080 16GB. Faster ray tracing for $1200 or a console and a high end VR headset?

The point is the same, which is that the price increase is way more than inflation would justify.

On a different note, DLSS 3 is impressive tech. Can't deny that even with the insane pricing. Nvidia DLSS 3 will provide up to four times more FPS, exclusive to RTX 40 series | TechSpot Seems to work basically how you'd expect when you hear the term "frame generation". The idea is so simple, I expect other smart upscalers will do the same thing eventually. Once you have enough AI cores to run DLSS 2 with a good amount of head room, why not just start generating more frames? On the surface it's similar to how TVs do it, but I bet it works a hell of a lot better coming from a much higher data set than you'd get from 2D video.

Inflation didn't go up 40% though. These prices are pure monopolistic/duopolistic greed. 3080 MSRP: $699 4080 12GB MSRP $899 (28.6% increase over 3080 MSRP) 4080 16GB MSRP: $1199 (71.4% increase over 3080 MSRP) Inflation in the US over the last two years combined is a little under 15%. If the price difference were just inflation, the 4080 should only be about $100 more expensive.

I doubt we'll see it on the 3000 series since DLSS 3 is actually generating new frames entirely. I suspect that takes more processing than the 3000 series would be able to handle.

$1600 for the 4090 isn't that crazy since it's about what the 3090 MSRP was at launch, but the prices on the two 4080 variants is just insulting. $1200 for a 4080 is completely ridiculous. What's a 4060 going to cost, $700? Prices like these make me want just buy a console. Not like any of these prices matter because a new gen of GPUs is probably going to start another mining frenzy anyway. Sad time for PC gamers with markets like this. What Nvidia is showing off is impressive but the cost is completely out of touch with reality for all but high end enthusiasts with money to burn. If they don't drop these prices significant after they clear out some 3000 overstock, I'll buy another AMD card next time I upgrade just out of spite, unless AMD does the same thing with prices. I can live without DLSS for the sake of not feeling like I'm being bent over by Nvidia.