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Small, incremental improvements don't make shockwaves like the old massive tech leaps used to.
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this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2025
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Okay then why are they arbitrarily requiring new GPUs? It's not just about the diminishing returns of "next gen graphics".
That’s exactly why. Diminishing returns means exponentially more processing power for minimal visual improvement.
I think my real question is what point do we stop trying until researchers make another breakthrough?
Researchers can't make a breakthrough if they don't try ^^
AAA game designers don't need to be the researchers.
That's what game engines are for
Great, let the game engine people go wild. We don't need to try and build the next Far Cry with all of their beta tech though.
path tracing is a paradigm shift, a completely different way of showing a scene to that normally done, it's just a slow and expensive one (that has existed for many years but only started to become possible in real time recently due to advancing gpu hardware)
Yes, usually the improvement is minimal. That is because games are designed around rasterization and have path tracing as an afterthought. The quality of path tracing still isn't great because a bunch of tricks are currently needed to make it run faster.
You could say the same about EVs actually, they have existed since like the 1920s but only are becoming useful for actual driving because of advancing battery technology.
Then let the tech mature more so it's actually analogous with modern EVs and not EVs 30 years ago.
Yea, it's doing that. RT is getting cheaper, and PT is not really used outside of things like cyberpunk "rt overdrive" which are basically just for show.
Except it's being forced on us and we have to buy more and more powerful GPUs just to handle the minimums. And the new stuff isn't stable anyways. So we get the ability to see the peach fuzz on a character's face if we have a water-cooled $5,000 spaceship. But the guy rocking solid GPU tech from 2 years ago has to deal with stuttering and crashes.
This is insane, and we shouldn't be buying into this.