Digital Foundry Article Technical Discussion [2024]

[IQandHDR]

It's why I'm looking forward to the 5000 series launch. Nvidia doesn't let off the gas. I expect a decent amount of info around their progression of current and any net new ML based technologies.

One of the benefits of having a founder at the helm, Appe did quite well when Jobs was at the helm there too and not some beancounting board.

 

[raytracingfan]

I mean, where else can they go? At least they are getting AMD to take it seriously.

I'm surprised, if anything, by AMD waiting so long to do anything about their GPU's inadequacy. What was stopping them?

I wouldn't be surprised if some C-suite didn't want to admit that not investing earlier in ML and ray tracing was the wrong choice, and was opposing any investments.

AMD's marketing team may have downplayed the importance of ML and ray tracing but that doesn't mean their architecture design team did the same. The decision to unify RDNA and CDNA into UDNA was probably made years ago, before RDNA3 released. With RDNA3 the big focus was chiplets, but it still had improvements to RT and ML. RDNA4 is just a stopgap for UDNA, but it also has improvements to RT and ML as well. And UDNA should finally bring dedicated matrix cores to AMD's gaming GPUs.

 

[RobertR1]

Yes, i'm hopeful for UDNA. And hopefully intel stays in the dGPU game now.

 

[Charlietus]

AMD's marketing team may have downplayed the importance of ML and ray tracing but that doesn't mean their architecture design team did the same. The decision to unify RDNA and CDNA into UDNA was probably made years ago, before RDNA3 released. With RDNA3 the big focus was chiplets, but it still had improvements to RT and ML. RDNA4 is just a stopgap for UDNA, but it also has improvements to RT and ML as well. And UDNA should finally bring dedicated matrix cores to AMD's gaming GPUs.

Nevermind. Playing helldivers and getting distracted /:

 

[Karamazov]

sadly no 40fps mode.

 

[Charlietus]

sadly no 40fps mode.

Remember DF talking about PSSR having the option of being applied without upgrading to a newer SDK? What if that's the reason of some games having worse IQ than FSR 2?

If it is then that was probably a mistake.

The implementations quality have been all over the place, no consistency at all.