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    Direct3D feature levels discussion

    FSR 2 is widely supported because it is the most outdated one. Just something runs on a 10 years old GPU doesnt make it usefull for the future. Compute denoisers run on anything, too, and yet RayReconstruction is superior and has better optimiziation potential. Within 6 months RR has beaten...
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    Direct3D feature levels discussion

    Why do they need to ship something at all? And why must it be the worst one based on the most outdated approach?
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    Current Generation Games Analysis Technical Discussion [2024] [XBSX|S, PS5, PC]

    The pc port of Horizon Forbidden West is another example of how outdated rendering techniques can hold back modern GPUs: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/horizon-forbidden-west-performance-benchmark/5.html The 4090 is only 66% faster than a 6900XT in 4K. In Alan Wake 2 1080p is enough for the...
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    Speculation and Rumors: Nvidia Blackwell ...

    On the desktop with >100W CPUs this may be logical but in notebooks these CPUs are limited to 45W or less. It can make sense to let the GPU do the decompression because the CPU is limiting the performance.
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    Intel XeSS anti-aliasing discussion

    AutoHDR for example. Maybe we should look at it more as a Windows feature.
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    Unreal Engine 5, [UE5 Developer Availability 2022-04-05]

    And like UE5 the lighting systems is outdated in Avatar, too. Today it is easy to make games look good with a direct sun shinning on surfaces. But when there isnt one bright light source these games falling back to graphics from 10 years ago. Here is a prime example from Robocop from the first...
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    Digital Foundry Article Technical Discussion [2024]

    Right now there are only 20k players. Dragons Dogma 2 has 10x more. So i think doing just the minimum for a port is not enough after one year. Just 9 years ago Rise of the Tomb Raider was ported by Nixxes with VXAO. Six years ago Nixxes implemented RT shadows in Shadow of the Tomb Raider. The...
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    Digital Foundry Article Technical Discussion [2024]

    Have you seen Dragons Dogma 2? I dont think a "proper" port is necessary to sell your game...
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    Digital Foundry Article Technical Discussion [2024]

    This game doesnt run optimal on nVidia GPUs: https://www.computerbase.de/2024-03/horizon-forbidden-west-benchmark-test/2/#abschnitt_benchmarks_in_full_hd_mit_reduzierten_details I wouldnt use these PS first party games as a baseline how good different architecures perform. There is no reason...
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    Speculation and Rumors: Nvidia Blackwell ...

    https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2024-the-big-horizon-forbidden-west-pc-tech-interview So, i guess the decompression engine will be in gaming Blackwell, too.
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    Unreal Engine 5, [UE5 Developer Availability 2022-04-05]

    Nobody said something else. But geometry doesnt make a frame alone. Robocop is a great example how UE5 is unable to provide proper lighting information.
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    Unreal Engine 5, [UE5 Developer Availability 2022-04-05]

    Alan Wake 2 looks much better than Robocop. Even without Raytracing the lighting system is more stable. Sometimes a compromis is better than doing one thing fantastic while sacrificing everything else.
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    PS5 Pro *spawn

    This performance number doesnt even make any sense. Raytracing needs shading, too. So 4x would be maybe only tracing rays and doing triangle intersection tests. And without any kind of sorting efficiency will go down with every architecture. Even a 4090 isnt more than 4x faster than a 6900XT in...
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    Speculation and Rumors: Nvidia Blackwell ...

    https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-gb200-nvl72-delivers-trillion-parameter-llm-training-and-real-time-inference/ Maybe nVidia will update the decompression engine for DirectStorage.
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    Speculation and Rumors: Nvidia Blackwell ...

    Going by AMD's slide only three of the IODs can access the HBM from two others with full speed. 1/4 of MI300X is like the Grace-Hopper superchip - a memory expansion. That is totally different to Blackwell. One chip has access to all HBM memory at full speed and has twice as much L2 cache than...
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