The most interesting side of Nvidia's new RTX 50 series is not the GPUs themselves, not even close, it's DLSS 4 upscaling that steals the spotlight with...
Yeah, I really like DLSS/FSR/etc for letting newer games run on old systems. But I don’t feel like it should ever be necessary for modern hardware to run it well.
Ray tracing in general is a big culprit in this, it has such a high performance hit. That was fine back when Ray tracing was optional, but we’re increasingly seeing games with mandatory ray tracing now. Indiana Jones and the upcoming Doom The Dark Ages requiring it for lighting is a mistake imo, not something that computer hardware in general is really ready to be a default.
Ray Tracing is useless (unless it’s for animated movies or movies that use CGI), regular lighting is a lot better for performance, and it’s 80% as good as Ray Tracing, in comparison. I use a really bad laptop, yet it is possible to get 30 to 60 FPS, on decently optimized games.
Agreed, the industry has lots of tricks for doing authentic looking lighting and reflection, that can be done at a fraction of the performance impact. One day we’ll be at a point where hardware raytracing makes sense, but I don’t think we’re there yet.
Yeah, I really like DLSS/FSR/etc for letting newer games run on old systems. But I don’t feel like it should ever be necessary for modern hardware to run it well.
Ray tracing in general is a big culprit in this, it has such a high performance hit. That was fine back when Ray tracing was optional, but we’re increasingly seeing games with mandatory ray tracing now. Indiana Jones and the upcoming Doom The Dark Ages requiring it for lighting is a mistake imo, not something that computer hardware in general is really ready to be a default.
Ray Tracing is useless (unless it’s for animated movies or movies that use CGI), regular lighting is a lot better for performance, and it’s 80% as good as Ray Tracing, in comparison. I use a really bad laptop, yet it is possible to get 30 to 60 FPS, on decently optimized games.
Agreed, the industry has lots of tricks for doing authentic looking lighting and reflection, that can be done at a fraction of the performance impact. One day we’ll be at a point where hardware raytracing makes sense, but I don’t think we’re there yet.
I’m not even sure that we’ll ever get to that point. Plus, it’s not compatible with most hardware yet.