When will nvidia release Ampere?

Of course you can fake lighting with a higher quality. The problem is, in modern games you have too many dynamic objects. So, you have to use cheap lighting imitations a lot. They don't look good. Overall ray tracing gives you a more complete image that doesn't fake anything, it's there for every single object if you want. Now, sure, you can go back to static one time of day bullshit with no movable anything except characters, but that doesn't look so much better that you'd want to sacrifice game world interactivity.

I have a Radeon vii and I'm waiting on that

That's pretty much my situation.

Sold my GTX1070 for $450 a month ago, waiting for Ampere XX80 (Ti)

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I never said it is going to be a ray tracing marketed card. I said
>is going to be ray trace capable (to some degree)

You'sa motherfuckin retard.

No, I got a 390X ;) XD

This is what I´m going to do, I´m tired of waiting for fair prices in RTX, a 1660Ti and get rid of my 760, then wait a couple of years for TRX 3xxx or 4xxx and see what happens, now is wasted money.

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This is what I did and I have no regrets.

With the 1660 ti you are getting all the sweet rasterization optimizations without overpaying for rtx that you will never use properly before the new gen of cards anyway.

Just a reminder, the whole real-time "ray-tracing" that Nvidia is trying to employ with its RTX cores is just a long-term gambit on making discrete GPUs revelent to the masses.

iGPUs are starting to become good enough for masses. RDNA's real form will come in next-generation of iGPUs soltuions. Intel will play catch-up. Nvidia is left in the dark due to a lack of a x86 license.

Discrete GPUs will undergo demand destruction and become an niche like other internal peripherals (NICs, HBAs, Audio cards) that used to be discrete only.

>he really believes this
Come back when APU have 4 channel memory at 14GT/s instead of anemic 2ch at 3.2-3.6GT/s

That's another 2-3 years at most. Once AMD can figure out the sweet spot with active interposers and GPU chiplets, we're set.

Intel is already going this route with Foveros. Nvidia's lack of x86 license is going to murder them in the future.