• odium@programming.dev
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      6 hours ago

      They said, about a month ago, that their 8000 series GPUs won’t have a high end option, only low and mid tier.

      • Schmuppes@lemmy.today
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        3 hours ago

        But rumours also say that RDNA 4 will be somewhat of a half-assed generation and that they’re putting resources in something maybe called “UDNA” instead, which will compete at the top end.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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        4 hours ago

        That’s crazy! But cards are so fast these days it doesn’t seem like you need a high end model anyway. My machine with a 980 to can still run everything on Ultra, except for VR which it runs on medium.

        • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          2 hours ago

          A lot of newer AAA games rely on ray tracing and AI upscaling to even be able to properly render at 1080p . This is their way to make up for developer’s shit hardware optimization and insistence on investing in diminishing returns for graphical realism.