These are very curious questions, and I wonder if Nvidia isn’t setting themselves up to abandon RTX as-needed by maintaining the GTX branding alongside (well, below) the new card designation.
This would be an easy way out if ray tracing flops in the real world.
I often don’t feel smart enough to contribute to non-lounge threads because I literally have no idea what any of the shit does, I just know it makes my games go.
BUT I would like to remind people of the Ryzen launch when we had multiple threads churning leak rumours and it was honestly not that helpful or informative to read, so I would advise anyone who feels like posting what that one dude on Twitter heard from a bathroom stall next to the cousin of the secretary who knows the mail guy at Nvidia who got drunk that one time and said _____
please try not to. We really just are interested in credible sources.
I would theororize it’s going to be identical in scale to games that are gameworks titles. No game maker is going to go out of their way to support this stuff without Nvidia just giving it to them.
This generation screams we need a new way to grab excessive amounts of money because the titan move isn’t working well enough for a monopoly like us. The presentation lacked any real substance it’s all here look how special these are at doing random off the wall shit no real solid across the board improvements but we will have to wait to see that in the wild. The naming scheme indicates they’re meant for high end guys such as myself but the presentation couldn’t have left me feel more alienated as a high end gamer. It’s technological fluff aimed at not gaming.
When you think supercomputer, does your imagination wander to featureless black monoliths labelled with a few small blue letters, or does it immediately go to a cyan and purple mess of pipes and oversaturated lighting?