norcalsc :
I appreciate that nVida has the best performing cards hands down, but they really did a number on everybody with this RTX launch. What a catastrophe for consumers
I guess we agree to disagree.
PC gamers talk about the superiority of PC vs console in part because there's flexibility to experiment more. So NVidia shakes things up by adding a far superior HARDWARE solution that needs the software to catch up.
People should frankly be praising NVidia for their willingness to push things forward. Same for GSYNC.
I'm not unaware that business decisions motivate this but if you guys want things to progress this is what it takes. I do also dislike walled gardens but that's also an unavoidable consequence in the short term when companies need to justify their investment (thankfully GSync is starting to work with some Freesync monitors. Yay... I was hoping to get a 4K HDTV 120Hz Freesync at some point for both PC gaming via NVidia and a PS5 game console).
The alternative was to keep the same architecture however traditional RASTERIZATION hacks are increasingly difficult to implement.
DX12/Vulkan have similar growing pains. The future quite frankly is VULKAN with games using a combination of Rasterization and RTRT (with DLSS for scaling and other solutions that the new processing units allow. Perhaps better AI, collision detection and whatnot).
I think too many people, understandably so due to lack of technological understanding, just focus on pure FPS for dollar. Ideas like RTX are confusing.