• mad_lentil@lemmy.ca
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    13 hours ago

    Gee I wonder why people stopped being able to upgrade their hardware. So weird…

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    2 days ago

    Some previously unknown Chinese manufacturere will see this opportunity and rush to deliver something. The first generation will be weak, but subsequent iterations will improve drastically, to the point where the market share will never come back to a US company.

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      They already are. The writing is one the wall as AMD and Nvidia prepare to forget about games.

      China has a home grown gfx in the low end Intel has a mid range card. China will iterate fast as we know. We just need Intel to stay the course and continue and not drop out but it seems likely they will drop out, which is a shame as the Arc B580 I have is amazing

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    2 days ago

    Motherfucker.

    Hang on to your hardware, PC folks. It’s gonna be a long ride back to reality.

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      14 hours ago

      I bit the bullet this summer and built brand new. I’ve checked the same parts several times since and all but the CPU have gone up.

      This rig better last me a long time!

      9800X3D and 9070XT for reference. Only 32 GB RAM. 800€ was painful enough….

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    Godamnit. I had been hoping that as Nvidia reels from the inevitable AI collapse, AMD would be poised to become the leader in the gaming space.

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      2 days ago

      If this is even half as performant as they promise, it will be a game changer.

      However, I’m old enough to remember what happened to 3DFX. I really don’t want Nvidia to eat this company.

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      I wouldn’t be too optimistic about startups these days, either. As soon as they become any threat to the incumbents, they’ll either get priced-out, or bought-out. And thats not taking into account the software/driver support for gaming technologies (ask early adopters of Intel Arc). I’m sure Bolt have some really nice technology, but essentially that could just boil down to a portfolio of useful patents.

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      2 days ago

      this does not inspire confidence.

      Introducing the Fastest Graphics Processor Ever

      We built a completely new graphics processor to enable faster renderings and simulations for users in the creative, gaming, and research industries.

      GPU where?

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        2 days ago

        I thought the same thing. There was a graph for ray tracing but nothing else about the GPUs. This looks to be selling an idea, not an actual product.

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          That’s because they’re not doing shading IIRC. It’ll be purely path traced games ONLY. I suspect you’d have to run other games on your IGP.

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        I’m not sure what you’re asking. Graphics processor and Graphics Processing Unit are synonyms, no?

    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      I just wonder if we need 2000€ GPUs anymore to render games…

      Maybe we’re at the dawn of a new gaming era? Like if you make a game fun, it doesn’t have to have like perfectly rendered ears of a whole population and such.

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        We do not. There’s no such thing as a 2000€ GPU. It’s an 800€ GPU that was artificially inflated to 2000€ to begin with and is now 10000€ because AI.

        The xx90 line of GPUs is actually the continuation of xx80 ti.

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      They abandoned consumers in general. I wonder who will be able to use all that magnificent data centers powers in few years when there will be no more consumer computers or there.

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      Already trying to rebrand them as “compute campuses”, like that’s going to work lol

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        Nobody wanted aeroplanes. But as soon as they become jet liners…yeah also most people don’t want to ride them. Something about the inusual 600ph into the ground has everyone terrified.

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            Oh, its the pollution. As soon as you get close to a plane, the pollution get tough to agree with.

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          Getting from A to B is a universal problem, be it a hundred years ago or a bundred years from now. There is a want for not havin to sit on a ship for many days if your plane can cross the Atlantic in one day.

          But prop planes could fit 10-30 passengers. Flying was very much a luxory even with the advent of jets.

          So no, it wasn’t a branding problem of calling it aeroplanes, but tickets being prohibitivly expensive.

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        Keep an eye on China and all the “newcomers” to the graphics side of things. Moore threads and Lisuan tech come to mind.

        It’s actually very vibrant once you start looking outside the “big three” of graphics.

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            Same as “mining” cards back in the day. With a few clever software tricks, you can absolutely make them output image through the motherboard HDMI

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              Ah that would be sweet, I’d love me a 288 GB card for gaming. I’m not sure they’d perform well though?

              At least I could use the card to vibe code its own graphics drivers lmao

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      Once gfx got hw ray tracing there isn’t anything else besides more memory or faster clock. Most peoples gfx cards are good enough for everything except 4k Ultra so people stop needing to upgrade….gaming sales decline.

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    My stubbornness is immaculate. There are more old games out there that I can play for several lifetimes before caving to high prices or renting a gaming cloud service monthly. I can get used hardware in many ways.