Nvidia's next-generation GPU is rumoured to be called the RTX 2080
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AngryGoldfish
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Makes sense to me. They need to offer something new to the consumers. If it's only going to be Pascal shrunk down to 12nm with a clock speed increase at a high price, only hardcore fans or those passionate enough to insist on the best will jump on board. I think for Nvidia to receive widespread appeal they need to offer something reviewers and people can talk about. Ryzen had the Infinity Fabric, Pascal had the high clock speeds, Fiji had HBM, and so on.
This could also mean the divide between Radeon-branded games and Geforce-branded will become even bigger. Which I think is probably what Nvidia wants since they have more sway in that field and will control the market even more. They want to distance themselves from AMD, right? So even in the titles that favour Radeon, Nivdia won't care too much since distance is what they seemingly want, even at the compromise of performance.
This could also mean the divide between Radeon-branded games and Geforce-branded will become even bigger. Which I think is probably what Nvidia wants since they have more sway in that field and will control the market even more. They want to distance themselves from AMD, right? So even in the titles that favour Radeon, Nivdia won't care too much since distance is what they seemingly want, even at the compromise of performance.
looz
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I wonder if Nvidia will try and force feed ray tracing down devs' throat.
If so, I wonder if a significant portion of devs actually comply.
If so, I wonder if it's optional or will the game either look like arse without RTX or straight up require it.
If so, I wonder if AMD's current or future hardware can cope with raytracing, or will it be Hairworks 2 the electric boogaloo.
Because Nvidia isn't anything if not anti-consumer.
If so, I wonder if a significant portion of devs actually comply.
If so, I wonder if it's optional or will the game either look like arse without RTX or straight up require it.
If so, I wonder if AMD's current or future hardware can cope with raytracing, or will it be Hairworks 2 the electric boogaloo.
Because Nvidia isn't anything if not anti-consumer.
Kaapstad
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I would not take anything in the video seriously.
They tell us what the performance, launch date and price of the next Titan will be but can not even say what memory or chip it uses.
demonking
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Ours as well I expect.
I wouldn't think this will take off too much until AMD start pushing it. How many devs are going to include this PC only tech into their engines for the overhead it will cost. Once consoles can start using it then we might see a bit more adoption in gaming.
AngryGoldfish
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AdoredTV, as much as I appreciate his work, has become a bit of a sensationalist.
As soon as I heard his voice I stopped watching.
If they are named RTX(1/20xx) that's fine by me, it's up to them what they call there card's.
If they have got Ray Tracing ability then what's the issue? Yeah AMD might not have it and might have no intention to use it, but I cannot see it becoming anything more than a tool used for Benchmark Applications or 3D Image/Video Rendering.
Consoles will not use it if AMD cards are not any good at it, which means that most games are not going to use it, which means that the games ported to the PC are not going to use it or if they do they are will add it after, and mess up the performance on all cards since it's my understanding that to use something like this, it will be need to coded in to the Engine at the start not a add on but I am not a developer so not 100% sure on that.
One thing that I would like to see is stuff like this which can actually make games look a lot better, be Open Source rather than stuck to one hardware manufacturer where it potentially gimps the performance of other cards.
I am sure though that there will be loads of people kick off about Ray Tracing if it is used in games and AMD suffer because of it, regardless of the reason why but that will be good for AdoredTV as it will give him another video to rant about nVidia.
If they are named RTX(1/20xx) that's fine by me, it's up to them what they call there card's.
If they have got Ray Tracing ability then what's the issue? Yeah AMD might not have it and might have no intention to use it, but I cannot see it becoming anything more than a tool used for Benchmark Applications or 3D Image/Video Rendering.
Consoles will not use it if AMD cards are not any good at it, which means that most games are not going to use it, which means that the games ported to the PC are not going to use it or if they do they are will add it after, and mess up the performance on all cards since it's my understanding that to use something like this, it will be need to coded in to the Engine at the start not a add on but I am not a developer so not 100% sure on that.
One thing that I would like to see is stuff like this which can actually make games look a lot better, be Open Source rather than stuck to one hardware manufacturer where it potentially gimps the performance of other cards.
I am sure though that there will be loads of people kick off about Ray Tracing if it is used in games and AMD suffer because of it, regardless of the reason why but that will be good for AdoredTV as it will give him another video to rant about nVidia.
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KingNosser
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I might be wrong but I thought the whole new lighting and rendering tech was based around the new M$'s DXR meaning it's not an Nvidia only tech so I feel pretty sure AMD will have there own variant of DXR tools, thou it wouldn't surprise me if Nvidia had some gameworks stuff added into the mix of it's own.
But I'm not sold on the new cards as I think Metro Exodus is the first game to use DXR for lighting and reflections which isn't out until next year and the 2nd game + many more Idk if we will see any for a while after. It's all just a bit too new and early to want to buy newer cards but maybe in a few years it'll be more widely used but ask yourself how many games are using DX12 and that kinda sums up the use DXR will have in the short term in my view point.
I'm all for new tech but in order for me to want to buy it then it at least needs to be more than a tech demo and I think my 970's in SLI are fine for a few years, if not then Nvida dev out there can send me a Titan XP DXR card if I so sorely need it
But I'm not sold on the new cards as I think Metro Exodus is the first game to use DXR for lighting and reflections which isn't out until next year and the 2nd game + many more Idk if we will see any for a while after. It's all just a bit too new and early to want to buy newer cards but maybe in a few years it'll be more widely used but ask yourself how many games are using DX12 and that kinda sums up the use DXR will have in the short term in my view point.
I'm all for new tech but in order for me to want to buy it then it at least needs to be more than a tech demo and I think my 970's in SLI are fine for a few years, if not then Nvida dev out there can send me a Titan XP DXR card if I so sorely need it
They could change it up.
GTX = mainstream
RTX = high end aka Titan series
so we may still get an 1180Ti GTX but now we get 1180 RTX
