That's the thing though, it's a new technology. Of course right now it'll have only a few practical applications, but don't tell me that the second up coming generation isn't going to have flagship cards that will be equivalent to 2x Tesla V100's or better

I'm fine with my GTX 960 2GB so eh, i really dont care much

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The point is, if in 4 years roughly we get to have ray tracing for all consumers at a very fair price, it changes the look and feel of games entirely. There is no advancement in gaming filters more drastically detrimental than Ray Tracing will be

It mimics photons to supply realistic lighting. Between Nvidia developing it further on the hardware end, and software developers taking advantage of the RT properties and modelling with more realistic surface to reflect from, then games as a general may be able to adopt it. Don't get me wrong, I hope AMD invests in it as well to speed up the process.

each year the physics in games get shittier and shittier, i really dont care about shadows

surface level fidelity > actual details and real life feel

story telling in RPGs gets crappier too

But personally, I agree with you, I'm fine with my GTX 1070 and my 1440p 165Hz Gsync panel. I'm not even planning on getting these new cards. I myself am waiting for Nvidia to get their overhead for these new cards, then release the next series and make most of their overhead so I can then bust in and get what I'm ultimately looking for.

And you're right, games are getting shitty, but you missed one thing about surface fidelity

Lots of game developing is cheating, copy and paste. They can just use an engine or method to apply properties to a material rather than get specific on the surface's actual fidelity; in turn still producing great lighting effects

But maybe I give the devs too much credit.

great example

^ Mount and Blade II: Bannerlord Gamescon 2018 Gameplay Demo

For Honor is now free, claim copy and keep it forever

@Wayne

I’ll watch that once I get home from work. I look forward to it.

>benchmark performance PREDICTIONS

yeah i'll pass on your tech prophecies

@SchloppyDoggo said he will buy me a 2080ti

only if i get a good deal on wholesale and only if they are good for mining

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Anyone have poco f1? It seems like a fine phone for 360€
8gb ram
Snapdragon 845
256gb memory

any time you mention sergey nazarov playing online games, you get swarmed with people saying “it was just a troll”. i played him in halo 2 online (about 7 months ago), he started using wallhacks, and microsoft banned my xbox live account when I reported him. i also ran into sergey in a minecraft server. in fact, it was my minecraft server, i left it online overnight and he went on and griefed all my buildings and put obsidian blocks everywhere. i blacklisted his IP and three hours later some big mcdonald looking guys knocked on my door and told me I should be careful who I block. I had to whitelist him and now he just uses it like it was his own server.

OOF

anyone know of a good computer science course thats free

?avatar @chattitude

*yep*

Thats going in the cringe comp

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finally getting around to cleaning all the dust out of my rig

so someone has deployed a contract that relies soley on the chainlink network to be mainnet, and it converts and enables anyone to buy any crypto with straight up Fiat and convert any crypto into fiat. very bigly news for crypto
the tech is called FiatRelay

i am diamonds right now

https://youtu.be/wlZQePM21k4

yeah they cut it wrong

they left some of the bottom on