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Faiakes So I'll ask again, will these GPUs be available to gamers or only to Ai farms and movie studios? Reply
coolitic I don't think their very large numbers has quite the "wow" impact these days, so much as it does the "inviting ridicule" one. Reply
usertests coolitic said: I don't think their very large numbers has quite the "wow" impact these days, so much as it does the "inviting ridicule" one. It would take some interesting math to get 100x from Blackwell within the next 2 years. They're already at 6x frame gen, does that count? Reply
Kindaian Not really if one counts the too high prices of hardware nowadays. So yes, they may be able to get new hardware to do amazing things, but nope, nobody but the 1% of the gamer universe will be able to afford it (if that much). Reply
moon2 Less breathless regurgitation of nonsense. More analysis. 10,000x is a garbage comparison. 1,000,000x is a garbage target. If you're baselining on decade old hardware which had no hardware support for path ray tracing and saying things got 10,000x better all you're actually saying is "we added hardware support for this new technique". If you're predicting a further 100x increase in performance and also changing the implementation from accurate to heuristic, then it's also jank. This is why I read anandtech by preference. Reply
DS426 1) May be a decent technical achievement in an obscure way but it's marketing B.S. 3) Comparing to hardware that doesn't have comparable circuitry (tensor cores) is apples to oranges, so why do it? *slow clap* 2) Won't be able to get GPU's soon Reply
bit_user moon2 said: Less breathless regurgitation of nonsense. More analysis. 10,000x is a garbage comparison. 1,000,000x is a garbage target. It's coming from the same company that always feeds us outrageous numbers! It's a good thing they actually have the best hardware, or else the ridicule would be merciless! They even coined the term "Huang's Law" to tout their progress on AI computing: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-outlines-jensen-huangs-law-of-computing Reply
CelicaGT moon2 said: Less breathless regurgitation of nonsense. More analysis. 10,000x is a garbage comparison. 1,000,000x is a garbage target. If you're baselining on decade old hardware which had no hardware support for path ray tracing and saying things got 10,000x better all you're actually saying is "we added hardware support for this new technique". If you're predicting a further 100x increase in performance and also changing the implementation from accurate to heuristic, then it's also jank. This is why I read anandtech by preference. NVIDIAs slides are as bad as Apples now. Unfortunately the venn diagram for PC gamers vs. PC enthusiasts intersects far less than one might think. Most PC gamers lap this garbage up, not knowing any better. The enthusiasts are in here shaking their heads in disappointment. Knowledge is power, most consumers are clueless. Jensen et al know this. Reply
DingusDog A million times sounds pretty silly but after upgrading from Ampere to Blackwell recently and seeing the increase in RT core performance and efficiency, I guess it's kind of believable. One example is VSR, my Ampere card used to chug watts and get pretty warm while the Blackwell card does it without breaking a sweat. Reply
JTWrenn The only interesting parts in the videos to me are that they really have put efforts into managing memory usage better. It sucks they will use that to try to justify cards with too little memory but that is where we are at. All the performance numbers are made up edge case silliness, but at least they recognize the mempocalypse…that they have been a big part in causing. Reply
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