Specifically, Nvidia has pushed for paradigm shifts in computer graphics exactly like this before, and we’re better off because of it. In 1999, the company launched its GeForce 256 card with hardware transform-and-lighting (T&L). That’s a technology for rendering 3D scenes onto a 2D display. At the time, critics considered that an unnecessary technology especially since almost no games supported the hardware implementation. And if you had a fast enough CPU, older video cards would perform equal or better than the more expensive GeForce 256. The drivers were inefficient and broken.
But hardware T&L won out, and it was the technology that left competitors like 3DFX behind. ATI was able to compete because it put hardware T&L in its cards, and suddenly you could only buy a GPU with hardware T&L.
The RTX launch is a mess, but you wanna know a secret? I love it. RTX cards don’t make a lot of sense at the moment. And I think Nvidia knows that. It is pushing them out into a world that is not ready for them. This is a company that understands that you have to force the world to get ready for you.
In the meantime, Huang and Nvidia are going to have to fake it until they make it.
Yeah, so buy RTX cards once games start to use it and when the prices aren't retarded anymore. >pay2betatest Dumbass
Bentley Evans
>this wall of text justifying $9000 flagships when 10 years ago they were $250 And people say there arent shills here
Austin Lee
nvidia's only mistake is trying to market it at all, IMO. Devs understand the implications just fine, gamers never will because they're unironically 12-16 years old
David Anderson
Kek. Le black turtleneck (((media))) presentation day is obligatory now. "It's amazing"
Brandon Ross
Then you should be thanking those who are buying them up right now. Instead, like a true brainless, you are calling them dumbasses.
Henry Mitchell
>$9000 Go to bed, Timmy. It's a school night.
Owen Richardson
By 2022 some 64GB HBM3 2TB/s will run smoothly raytrace games.
But today renderfarms will buy RTX GPU
Thomas Watson
What is there to like about the RTXs exactly?
Isaac Anderson
the glorious nvidia marketing team miscalculation?
Nathan Brooks
Not much, really. It's a stepback from Pascal, at least from a goymer's perspective.
Gabriel Campbell
This is pretty much beta stage release. Next gen is probably the real release. And they are charging higher than premium prices
Cameron Rogers
Sure, T&L took over, WHEN it was significantly faster than the CPU doing it. Those people who bought the early GeForces got fucked over. 3dfx died because they competed on NOTHING. No 24/32bit colour, no shaders, no T&L, no fancy features whatsoever. They thought they could just bump the raster speed forever and sell millions.
Kevin Moore
fully unlocked nvidia silicon is only found the tesla V100, which is $9000, shill
Josiah Carter
every one is hating on RTX because they just got 1080ti's and don't want to admit that call of duty in 2020 will require raytracing to even boot just like blackops1 did in 2009 when the top performing ATI gpus from just 18months before couldn't even boot the game.
people don't want to admit their 1080ti will only last them 18months and then be obsolete and they will have to buy a 2070 that will be slower but at least actually start up the game and not come up with a error.
we haven't had a game requiring a new feature set since 2011. so people forgot they exist... they exist and buying a 1080ti was a bad choice.
Xavier Smith
blackops1 required shadermode3.0 to even run if any one wondering. the top GPU from the year and a half before didn't have it.
Jason Price
Raytracing being the future isn't anything new, it always has been the goal.
Isaac Myers
I'd like a cheap 1080ti if people start selling them en mass. I bought my GPU in 2010.
Anthony Morales
>playing cod >in 2020
Lucas Morgan
Sorry, but "ray-tracing" will not be a requirement for nearly a decade at least not until gayming consoles start using it.
Making a game requiring RTX would be fiscal suicide for any developer shop at this time.
Mason Perez
HW T&L was immediately good in any capacity level it was sold, including
Wyatt Gonzalez
They are dumbasses. Let's face it, it's an incredibly shitty card for everyone who isn't a dumbass corporate asslicker
