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dustofdeath t1_ivuj9dl wrote

Reply to comment by helpusdrzaius in Micro Center Prices RTX 4080 Close to RTX 4090's MSRP | Want to buy an RTX 4080? Prepare your bank account. by chrisdh79

It's that or nothing. This is what happens if you have essentially no competition. Two companies is not a competition - it's a mutual jackoff.

The wafer/chip is likely 1/5th of the GPU final price.

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beefcat_ t1_ivvo2yk wrote

> It's that or nothing.

What are you talking about? There are lots of GPUs in prices ranging from $200 all the way up to those obnoxious prices.

There have always been obnoxiously overpriced options for those looking to stroke their e-peen. It used to be SLI builds, then Titan cards, now xx90.

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ackillesBAC t1_ivvl8gw wrote

Hey Intel is trying don't count them out. Honestly though I just seen a review saying the Intel gpus have almost no slowdown when Ray tracing

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routerg0d t1_ivvo7w8 wrote

I’ve seen people do ray traces on 386s in high school. Took overnight to generate, but the point is. Intel has a lot of data on this process over those years. GPU makers have just only delved into ray tracing. This is the 3rd generation and frankly both have again made incremental improvements rather than producing a breakthrough product. Perhaps to keep selling GPUs.

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ackillesBAC t1_ivvxo9w wrote

Path tracing is the new holly grail. Abit different then ray tracing, alot more complex, and physically accurate.

The big push now for dlss and other ai based upscaling I think is silly, why fake a high res picture when you could use ai to accelerate path tracing and other raw features and render at true high res and high performance.

Dlss reminds me of 3d tv's, and 200 Hz tv's, just a sales gimmick. Which is what Ray tracing currently is to.

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jnemesh t1_ivyi4g9 wrote

upscaling lets you render at much lower resolutions and still maintain most of the quality of rendering native. I am NOT on board with DLSS 3's frame generation BS, though. But the ability for a mid range card to render in "4k" with raytracing is a huge benefit!

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ackillesBAC t1_ivynah7 wrote

Ya it's good for low end I agree with that, but should be avoided for high end. If I spend 1000+ on a video card I want high performance and true high quality.

You don't see photographers asking for upscaling, you do see photographers asking for higher resolution, less compression, hdr, and ai for auto focus and other things.

I think highend photography and highend graphics have alot in common and the graphics is guided by photography

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