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HoloDust said:

Speaking of hardware - startup called Bolt Graphics announced Zeus GPU line, which they claim will be 10x as fast as 5090 (in its beefiest version)...in one very specific area, which is ray/path tracing.
It's all still in "on the paper" phase and they seem to be oriented toward professional, but they mention gaming as well.

If this turns out to be the case, I'm wondering will nVidia and AMD maybe have their own add-on RT cards that will work in tandem with GPUs...at least until GPUs don't become mostly RT hardware themselves.

As a consumer a product if it was priced well that brings you up to 5090 or more RT performance would be a good thing but for vendors they still need to sell high margin GPU's so it's probably in in their interest to not separate them unless they are the only one selling them at high prices, One thing I would like to see AMD/Nvidia do since they see frame generation as the future is let you offload it to a second GPU much like Lossless Scaling already allows you to do so you can have no performance loss on your primary GPU whilst your 2nd GPU with a heavy undervolt working away at 50-70W generating and displaying the frames to you allowing your render gpu to run full speed there is also other benefits like the display GPU using the 1.5-2GB vram you need for general use freeing up the full vram of the render card for textures it would also encourage you to keep your old gpu and weaken the used market so they cans ell more new cards hah