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It seems like I've touched a nerve with a lot of people on here by saying "games don't need more powerful GPUs"... let me explain. My contention is not that it
by stephanst 4y ago
It seems like I've touched a nerve with a lot of people on here by saying "games don't need more powerful GPUs"... let me explain.
My contention is not that it's impossible to use more power in games, or that developers are not working on games that will be able to fill all that compute power... but that higher quality graphics are no longer pulling the gaming industry forward like what was going on 20 years, and also that improvements in graphics are more and more about AI enhancements to image quality and less and less about having the power to push more vertices around in real time.
The market for video games doesn't really care about the top 0.5% of PC gamers that can afford to buy the latest GPU from Nvidia every 2 years. The PS4 is still outselling the PS5, if graphics power was the main criterion for the actual market of video gaming that could not happen...