Hopefully someone creates a wrapper soon. I hate an anxiety attack waiting to pounce on me at the thought of some old TWIMTBP game I want to enjoy on RTX 13060 and having the PhysX effects unavailable.
When I get a card, I want it to work with my entire library of games, not just the latest titles. But as I said hardware physx doesn't work properly as it is in a lot of those old games. I replayed Cryostasis a few years ago and just turned it off. Awesome game btw, very eurojanky but has a multi-layered story full of allegories that you have to think about carefully to fully understand. It's like a Russian folk tale turned into a game.So does anyone actually care about this then? Does anyone actually care if a batman cape goes stiff on a 15 year old game?
I've been curious for years now what people's limits are. For the first time ever, I've started seeing some Titan/90 class buyers finally declaring that they've had enough and aren't willing to pay $3000+ for a GPU. To be fair, only a few of those people seem to be out there while the rest of those buyers are still eager to spend whatever is asked of them. I think for 50% of the 90 class buyers to finally get priced out, the cards would have to be over $5000 and start approaching $10,000 honestly.More permanent harm to the graphics card pricing? The window keeps shifting.
I'll speak for myself only. I'm at the point where I'm priced out, but it's largely due to the lack of performance. If nVidia wants $3000 for a 5090, it needs to be nearly twice as fast as my 4090 because I paid $1600 for it. Now, as far as absolutely pricing me out, I'd say around $1000 max out of pocket when I sell my previous card, and even that's pushing it. And again, the performance uplift (defined as pure raster performance) needs to be AT LEAST equal to the extra money spent; ideally it would be much greater.I've been curious for years now what people's limits are. For the first time ever, I've started seeing some Titan/90 class buyers finally declaring that they've had enough and aren't willing to pay $3000+ for a GPU. To be fair, only a few of those people seem to be out there while the rest of those buyers are still eager to spend whatever is asked of them. I think for 50% of the 90 class buyers to finally get priced out, the cards would have to be over $5000 and start approaching $10,000 honestly.
I'll speak for myself only. I'm at the point where I'm priced out, but it's largely due to the lack of performance. If nVidia wants $3000 for a 5090, it needs to be nearly twice as fast as my 4090 because I paid $1600 for it. Now, as far as absolutely pricing me out, I'd say around $1000 max out of pocket when I sell my previous card, and even that's pushing it. And again, the performance uplift (defined as pure raster performance) needs to be AT LEAST equal to the extra money spent; ideally it would be much greater.
P.S. And I do get it, halo cards aren't all about best performance per dollar for a lot of folks. I personally can't justify buying a terrible value card every two years though.
Well, at least 5 people can afford the 5090 in the KC Metro area, but that's all they shipped to our local Micro Center. Maybe 25 if you combine this with all the Best Buys around the area.Yeah I understand this. I'm just curious what the price has to be before these things stop selling.
Also add Inno 3D. So basically everyoneSome RTX 5090s are shipping with missing ROP units, leading to less gaming performance: Updated
5-8% slower than other 5090 models.www.tomshardware.com
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Now the plot twist I'm dying for to come true is that the harder you game, the more ROPs you lose with time until it's half the ROPs left
they already said they won't do it
10+ min video with blatant clickbait title, top pinned comment says "Support the Independent Journalism", ending with - "now to be clear I have no information from any sources that this is what AMD is going to do, and I have no idea if they do such a thing".
So does anyone actually care about this then? Does anyone actually care if a batman cape goes stiff on a 15 year old game?
Borderlands 2 (a classic game) is also affected, most importantly it's a very slippery slope - it's completely implausible that newer hardware can't run it at least as fast as before - forever.Does anyone actually care if a batman cape goes stiff on a 15 year old game?
Ray tracing is part of DirectX, it's not going.Can we expect Nvidia to ditch ray tracing support down the road like they did PhysX? Wasn't PhysX supposed to be the future of realistic gaming where it only got better as time went on? I think ray tracing is just a gimmick to sell Nvidia cards and give themselves an unfair advantage, just like PhysX was.
isn't this based on Tensor cores now? not the optical flow accelerator.the DLSS 3-based frame generation, because it uses non-standard blackbox fixed function hardware that Nvidia might one day choose to remove from new GPUs
Exactly, that kinda tells you the optical flow accelerator could get deprecated, then dropped.isn't this based on Tensor cores now? not the optical flow accelerator.
Yeah I understand this. I'm just curious what the price has to be before these things stop selling.
Exactly, that kinda tells you the optical flow accelerator could get deprecated, then dropped.
It's a question if the game's implementations of DLSS 3 will get updated - IIRC it should be possible, so perhaps this could be "bridged" over. Other stuff possibly not. The PhysX thing is kind of weird because it seems to be a purely software driven feature removal. They are unwilling to port some libraries or add a wrapper. I guess the problem is that the 32code is not in their drivers/DLLs, but in the games, so it is not just recompiling (and fixing, since it is old code) something they got code for.