Nvidia's CEO calls it "crazy" to buy a GPU without raytracing

Fair play on nvidia creating great GPU's but I think he is egging people on to purchase the RTX cards :)

I don't think ray tracing is mandatory ?
 
Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but it sounds like he's trying to get people to buy big Turing because of lacklustre sales and is hoping consumers will not actually 'keep their graphics card for four years' and will instead replace said 2080/2080Ti with a new and shiny one in 2020 or 2021.
 
You'd be crazy to invest in a proprietary, poorly supported, overpriced implementation of ray-tracing too. Given that both of the next consoles are all AMD and will support ray-tracing to some degree, the idea that people are going to be playing ray-traced games on their RTX 2070 four years from now is pretty funny.
 
I stopped listening to him when Turing launched, He over hypes something and then repeats certain key parts of sentences 3 times, Mixed with his crappy demeanour to other companies, I can't stand him.
 
To be fair, technically even the GTX1660 has functional DXR support with later optimisations(Even Exodus is playable), which is more than enough for some basic implementations of raytracing, with demand on hardware initially expected to drop for a little while, while things are optimised. It's currently almost valueless but they can still technically claim they have full DXR/raytracing/RTX functionality support across their full range of hardware, some of them are just much worse at it than others.
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From: Nvidia GTX ray tracing revisited: How much faster are the GTX 1660 and 1660 Ti?
 
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What a load of old bollocks, why would anyone go out of their way to buy a poorly implemented technology that tanks your performance by half and use DLSS which makes your image fuzzy, if it Just Works like he claimed then fair enough but it doesn't, so I'll wait for bigger Navi to come along at least AMD's image sharpening actually works.
 
I think it's crazy...

To be buying overpriced cards with a proprietary feature that is largely irrelevant from a company which has a proven anti-consumer track record!
 
jnemesh said:
To be buying overpriced cards with a proprietary feature that is largely irrelevant from a company which has a proven anti-consumer track record!
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And that is the issue, the price. Its not just costly to the gamer it's expensive on the dev if they want to develop on rtx hardware. I think next gen he could be talking sense but right now it's not that integrated and I'd be concerned on how well the current hardware will age. I think 4 years on a 2060 or 2070 is going to really be a push and you'll be struggling by that point.
 
Sometimes people say such a stupid thing that they bare stay alive.

I understand what he meant. RT will be the future of games, but his statement has some major flaws. Current RT hardware is not enough for today's games, let alone for games 2-3 years for now. 2080 Ti is on the borderline of playable. If he meant that it is "crazy" to buy AMD card that doesn't have RT... Well Jensen, if you are considering an AMD card the green alternatives (206s, 2070s) also effectively don't support RT.

I am shocked that someone at Nvidia didn't send him to a speech coach. He does them more harm than good with poor choice of words.
 
Marketing... Yea, It's also crazy right now to buy a £1000 2080ti to play at 1080p. He may have enough money to do that but 99% off the worlds population don't.
 
If value is a calculation for you then you should always avoid the first gen or 2. Look a physx. Those with agia cards were rendered useless within 2 years.
This could also be nvidia trying to pre strike big navi as there's likely to be a delayed reaction to it, especially on price.
 
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