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Forums - PC Discussion - GeForce GTX '20' Series (Turing) Rumored For Summer 2018 Launch

Kristof81 on 07 March 2018
vivster said:
Kristof81 said:
Well, thanks to crypto minders, I'm not even remotely excited about it. Unless nVidia puts some kind of hardware restrictions, so they will be useless for the miners, but I seriously doubt it. At least current situation should slow graphical progress in gaming, as number of potential customers for the most demanding games will shrink dramatically. That means if you're 9 or 10 series owner, you still should be fine for the next few years.

The current generation is still way too weak to handle 4k properly. There is no such thing as "being fine" with GPUs, especially not for years. We can't even advance to the next step of imaging techniques because the GPUs aren't able to catch up.

You're right, but if the new mid-range cards start to cost around $1000, how many PC owners will be flocking to buy one? If this craze continues, devs would have to stick with current, optimised for majority of GPUs, engines, instead of moving forward. This could also have an affect on next gen consoles, which would be even more devastating for the progress in graphics quality. In that sense, whatever you have now, might not be as outdated in the near future as might think.

Last edited by Kristof81 - on 07 March 2018