Ratio of performance gains of Raster vs RayTracing with the last three nVidia generations: Blackwell not only shows the smallest absolute perf gains, but also has not an extra advantage at RayTracing - which was very typical at previous nVidia generations.https://t.co/179MvxhQ3W pic.twitter.com/El70yuY4tt
— 3DCenter.org (@3DCenter_org) February 7, 2025
It's interesting that every generation, we saw Ray Tracing improvement outpace the Raster improvement as that has been Nvidia's forte until Blackwell where it's about the same % increase as Raster with 5080 even being slightly less.
NVIDIA releases Optix 9 with RTX Mega Geometry and Neural Texture Compression SDKs
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D reportedly listed at $699 and 9900X3D at $599 on Newegg, spotted by price comparison sites
FFmpeg receives AMD AMF decoder and FSR-base upscaling support
https://videocardz.com/newz/ffmpeg-receives-amd-amf-decoder-and-fsr-base-upscaling-support
AMD Medusa Point/Ridge/Halo and Range may share the same 12-core Zen6 CCD
If true, 12 Cores per CCD would be nuts, especially with X3D.
PlayStation Network Is Still Down After Over 14 Hours With No Official Communication
https://wccftech.com/playstation-network-down/
without Sony commenting, nobody knows why PSN has been down for 19 hours and counting. But Microsoft did block a “staggering” DDoS attack on Azure Xbox infrastructure over the Christmas holidays, so it’s possible Sony is dealing with something similar pic.twitter.com/0l3gJf04LJ
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) February 8, 2025
Now imagine if PSN was mandatory for single player games on PC. You wouldn't be able to play them during the outage lmao.
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
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