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@SebinNyshkim
It's pretty much the new "nobody can see more than 30 FPS anyway" thing. And the "propagandist crowd" (read streamers) happily hype this trash up because moneys.
Damn it, we need another TB; someone who's going to relentlessly push back against this until they manage to build up the "critical mass". They don't even need to be the same kind of unapologetic like TB was.
But since you mentioned Intel ... even the giants can fall when their adversaries ryze (

) from the ashes.

Sebin Nyshkim

@rawenwolf who or what is TB?

Zee

Jul 3

@SebinNyshkim @rawenwolf Totalbiscuit, he was a youtuber.

@JigglyWyvern @SebinNyshkim
yup, Zee was quicker
He died of cancer in 2015 iirc and he was very vocal critic of bad business practices. Quite unapologetic and sometimes a bit abrasive too (though J. S. Sterling is harsher) yet he was able to look into the mirror and back down when he realised he went too far.

@rawenwolf @JigglyWyvern Sterling is a bit abrasive at points for me, even if the points made are 100% valid.

Steve from GamersNexus also is pretty done with NVIDIA at this point and I feel like the rest of the sphere is, too.

@SebinNyshkim @JigglyWyvern
Not surprising. Like, it's not that NV makes necessarily bad tech but they're cutting far too many corners. Hell, Intel would be completely dead in the water if they did this. Not that their "4 cores for masses, more only for the 'chosen elite' " was that far off.

@rawenwolf @JigglyWyvern If anything, the only thing left to make NVIDIA eat a big piece of humble pie is gonna be the "AI" bubble popping and dealing with otherworldly losses because nobody needs their GPU-shaped shovels anymore. Longing for that day…

@SebinNyshkim @JigglyWyvern
I feel like they'll need a much bigger slap than that. Like, when the crypto gold rush simmered down they got through just fine.
NV needs a massive kick in the nuts for them to wake up. Think of an entire generation of cards having so many issues that it'd make them impossible to sell, especially in the "pro" segment.

@rawenwolf @JigglyWyvern they only got through the transition fine like they did because the "AI" scam goes by the exact same playbook as the crypto scam, and both needed gratuitous amounts of GPU compute to sustain. They keep selling us on a future that's never gonna come.

And it checks out for NVIDIA: Ray tracing even after 7 years is not the runaway success NVIDIA made it out to be. Most people avoid it for the immense drop in FPS for visual fidelity that's barely noticable if you don't crank it up to max, by which point anything below high end is out of the question.

@SebinNyshkim @JigglyWyvern
I vaguely remember toying with RT back when I got my 2070 and being like "It looks neat but it's too early."
And yes, almost a decade later, very little progress was done and many various RT mods look like someone was trying to "polish dog's nuts" (saying in my language).
Oh well, at least Win11 pushing me back into penguin land has me in the market for a team red GPU. Now if only they got into a more tolerable price range.

@rawenwolf @JigglyWyvern all the RT mods so far look like garbage and show a complete disregard for the creative vision of the original work. The Portal RT mod looks especially bad and I'd much rather play it as it was originally intended. Hell, even Doom 2016 still looks and runs amazing and it doesn't use RT at all, so the selling point of RT in and of itself just evaporates for me.