GPU boost was the biggest hoax of the century, and that was 128% more Tflops BTW, don't twist the maths here. On PS4 Pro without boost modes games were having a paltry 7% to 30% better performance depending of the bottleneck to be compared vs 7% to 40% better perf and 70% better resolution on PS5 Pro and without patches. Most games had about zero improvements on PS4 Pro because of the 30fps cap and lack of DRS anyways. For instance Bloodborne on PS4 Pro? barely any improvements to be compared with Elden Ring noticeable improvements on PS5 Pro (up to 40% higher fps in graphics mode and much higher resolution in performance mode).
I don't know what world you live in but $700 is not a lot of money at all especially in the electronics sector. Covid inflation + AI inflation + slowing down of Moore's law means the price is logical and expected. They're making a smaller margin on this than any of the big electronic producers like Apple, Nvidia, etc. That I'm sure of.
You mean the PS4 Pro that took us from 1080p on the ps4 to 1440p-1600p? So it's not a real 225% uplift. We had to wait for the XB1X to give us true 4k. One must also consider the state of AMD in 2016. Zen 1 wasn't even out yet and AMD was in a much worse financial condition that they are today. Their margins were slim and that meant you could get a way better deal.
Ray tracing in general is not impactful barring a handful of games and I'd argue that ray tracing benefits developers more than it benefits the end user. The only reason this ray tracing push is occurring is due to the increase in man hours and cost when developing games nowadays. While the desired fidelity has increased, a strong argument could be made that this spike in dev time is caused by lack of developer restraint. A game with baked GI, good SSR, accurate cube maps and good shadow maps is sufficient for the average user. The issue is that these things don't grow linearly as the scope of the game increases. As a result developers are making bigger games for an audience who didn't ask for them and an audience who barely finishes the games. All while doing this, they're driving the cost of hardware up in the name of RT to speed up development times. The annoying part is they hoard the savings to themselves and don't pass it onto customers.
Most people are living in a world with a cost of living crisis and the least disposable income of a generation. Mid-gen console value should be considered in relation to how much spare cash people had at the time. Was it one month's total disposable cash, or 6 months of saving? Are you bracketing consumers by income and ignoring a certain subset when evaluating value?
Yea, I recognize that. You didn’t have enough test data to really know pre-launch. They gave you access to titles that had the best versions of PSSR.
That video is awful. But the response from Ubi is also really confusing. "Have you tried the other modes?" Like, did they not experience this in testing?
Yea some of these are also older titles getting boosted. These aren’t just PSSR titles necessarily. The issue can be removed if you turn off the boost settings.
That's certainly a better boost than no resolution upgrade at all, which is the most common result thus far.
To be fair we could easly see resolution boost if devs didnt decide to impelemnt costly pssr (and didnt bother to check if its good decision for their game/engine
)“Could have” is fine for discussion, but only "what is" matters for comparison WRT context of the post I quoted.To be fair we could easly see resolution boost if devs didnt decide to impelemnt costly pssr (and didnt bother to check if its good decision for their game/engine
