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Chazore on 04 December 2024
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Darc Requiem said:

The thing about Ray Tracing is that, below 80 class it becomes increasing worthless. Yes a 4060 has better RT than a 7600 but at that performance level RT isn't worth it in the first place. You don't have the performance headroom to take the huge penalty RT entails. DLSS still matters because it still doesn't well at 1440p. At 1080p though, upscaling is non factor. Even DLSS struggles upscaling to 1080p. A lot of the key features that Nvidia has lose impact in the budget range. Even if the hardware could get descent RT performance, you don't have a large enough VRAM buffer to take advantage of it.

Nvidia's tendency to include the bear minimum VRAM bites them in ass. I remember when HUB did a revisit on RX 6800 and RTX 3070. The 6800 was beating the 3070 in RT because games were going over 8GB of VRAM. Even though the hardware was far superior at RT, the lack of VRAM crippled it. This bore out when modders in Brazil managed to put 16GB of RAM on the 3070. Nvidia's forced obsolescence isn't even sublte.

Yeah, these past 3 Nvidia gens are basically telling me to either go 80 series or even 90 series, or just going home and not using RT features at all.

Also doesn't help that the past 3 Nvidia gens have seen Nvidia forcefully cutting down on VRAM, while also locking certain features to only one GPU line or two (DLSS/Frame Gen as examples). With them cutting corners like that, and forcing planned obsolescence, it's going to end up with the customer having to pay that Nvidia tax for each new gen, while also facing the same cuts, locked features and so on.

Nvidia needs to change this tactic, because it's not going to work forever, ppl will have a breaking point as the prices go up, corners getting cut, and GPU's just not cutting it every gen (Would not be surprised if they force it to a point where only the 90 series is truly viable for newer features/tech, making any other number below next to worthless). 

Also I play at 1440p myself, and I'm getting rather sick of some devs just resorting to "use DLSS and you're cool bro" tactic when it comes to game dev design, where they create their games entirely around the band-aid solution, and then when you don't use it, you just get outright punished for it, and that's not what should be happening at all in this modern age (It happened frequently in the old days, which was why we always had to buy the latest and greatest, but not today, not with what we have on offer). 



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