IHV Biasses *spin-off*

It's an unfortunate escalation where people's feelings are misplaced, towards/against a vendor and against other posters with whom there's a history because of vendor alliance. This also leads to prejudice against opinions sided with a poster one has a disagreement with. So, someone very neutral like LB can come in and say he doesn't see much impressive in a particular RTX video, which can be subjective and as such he cannot be wrong, and the responses are very negative instead of exploring the whys and wherefores, which then generates frustration from those wanting to unemotionally critique the tech. It's assumed that his lack of excitement for what he's seeing comes from an anti-nVidia stance rather than just being him not being impressed.

There's a thread on this very topic...

Sadly, we live in a world where people trying to sell products do 'misrepresent' them. You'll often see 'before-and-after' promo shots where not only does the model have the product/service applied, but they have different hair, makeup, backgrounds, and a smiling face etc. When nVidia first showcased RTX, the 'RTX off' examples weren't representative of the best no raytracing could achieve. There's nothing wrong with people pointing that out to balance the marketing slant that, obviously, nVidia's materials are going to have. And there's nothing wrong with ongoing counterpoints, but as ever, these tend towards extremes. Some of the Metro shots really are dire, but that's quite true of lots of games. However, some of the counter-arguments to these worst-case shots aren't terribly useful - instead of presenting clear evidence to to contrary, you get responses like 'have you even played the game?' as if we all have RTX cards and just can't be arsed to play Metro ourselves, or complaints that the negative view is just biased.

And the same goes the other way. It's typical human discussion. By and large people seem to engage in discussion to prove themselves right/the other guy wrong, rather than to explore and learn. See Brexit shambles where there's a really serious situation and the people involved just spend their efforts slagging each other off instead of finding solid answers. eg. I was asking questions earlier. Iroboto, a very fair an reasonable poster just interested in the discussion, interpreted that as me criticising the tech, instead of just asking questions. The perception of posts is very clouded by expectations, emotions, and prejudices, and that escalates into complaints about prejudices instead of people being able to let go of it all and just talk in the faith that contributors opinions aren't coming from a particular agenda.

This is a good example of poor discussion. You link to a 27 minute saying how wrong Gamer Nexus is. I start playing the video and it seems a fair and balanced intro. Am I expected to watch the entire 27 minutes to find the bit where they're talking about deliberately undercooked graphics? Not going to happen. Either timecode the video to the relevant bit or mention it in your post.

And this is actually an important point. People are coming at this discussion with different amounts and qualities of evidence. Those of us following RTX from a distance can only from opinions from the data linked because we're not playing the game on RTX. What might be obvious to DavidGraham playing Metro won't be obvious to those of us not, who have to look at screenshots and video clips which depends on what people link to.

At the end of the day, I don't think it'll get any better than this. Actual devs will be discussing the pros and cons of RTX without constantly challenging every expressed opinion as being pro/anti nVidia. I think the only place ordinary, non-technical people manage to structure unprejudiced discussion is in a law court, where strong rules are applied to keep it on the facts. Even supposedly rational people like scientists will get highly polarised around certain topics.

 

For the most part I dont see anything antagonistic against RT. I see people willing to have open technical discussions.

Then I see certain people posting they feel that their views are being attacked. This is their own personal bias coloring their perception of reality.

 

The antagonism I see is no different to any product advertised and then failing to live up to its advertised promises. There was a video on DLSS where the guy stressed two games in 6 months and the result was rubbish - I think before a patch. nVidia sold very expensive GPUs on the promise of features that people are rightly 1) critical of - was it really worth the money, or did you pull the wool over my eyes, and 2) likely to talk about.

It's no different to something like Ouya, sold on promise and then with heavy criticism. RTX hasn't been mindblowingly awesome in the same way the reveal demos were, and DLSS hasn't been a revolutionary advance in efficient rendering. Maybe one day they will, but given the pricing and promotion from nVidia, the push-back is what I'd expect. It compares with push-back against Apple and Samsung and Sony etc. when they make promises they don't deliver on. Sony got plenty of justified flack for PS3, with the shonky promo CGIs followed by games that didn't deliver which people were very rightly going to speak loudly of.

 

There is a bias against hardware accelerated ray tracing from some posters here. That is very clear if you read the discussions across the forums.

It is disingenuous to dismiss it as "just asking questions".

 

Not just bias, it's outright Frank and clear despise, sometimes it takes the form of fantasizing about compute RT, sometimes the form of saying NVIDIA is scamming us through deceptive marketing (as if we haven't seen RT games in action), sometimes in the of form of downplaying the effect of RT in games .. etc.

 

And there's bias in favour of hardware accelerated ray tracing from some posters here, treating every open, honest enquiry about the tech as anti-nVidia.

As a result, those in the middle are unable to have a genuine discussion because everyone else is more interested in talking about bias...

 

Criticism is not a bad thing, it keeps people and companies sharp and edgy with their feet on the ground,

I like what Nvidia is doing, but in a critical way.

 

"But the other side is doing it too!"

Anti-nvidia stances are obviously going to be treated as anti-nvidia stances.

 

How do you tell which opinions are honest and which are prejudiced? How do you know when someone posts, "I think RTX isn't the best way," it's coming from an anti-nVidia position rather than just being a different POV? Or when someone says, "I can't see much difference," what's the giveaway that they're just dumping on nVidia rather than sharing an honest perspective?

 

It's really a

Are we getting personal? I'm an enthusiast who embraces Nvidia's approach to AI and Graphics and attempt not to criticize Nvidia or AMD.
If you have a problem they do have an ignore feature which is quite useful!

Have you accused anyone of being an AMD marketing puppet? "What! They don't exist in this forum!" That's what I thought ...
Try looking inside and see the negativity in your postings against Nvidia and tell me your are balanced in your criticisms since you like to criticize so much.

 

Pharma gave a good example. Here are a couple more:

https://forum.beyond3d.com/posts/2060908/
https://forum.beyond3d.com/posts/2060907/

NVIDIA turning on and off their DXR-RTX effects = NVIDIA scamming people.

Now, if you can provide examples of honest opinions/perspectives taken as anti-nvidia stances I'd like to see them.

 

In general any posts resorting to *colorful* language to describe something they disagree with tend to be prejudiced. Honest opinions are somewhat more leveled and sane.

 

Why is that prejudice? Because I (and many many others) didn't like an image of "Current Techniques" being a voodoo-era representation of what lighting looks like compared to the messiah of "RTX"? It was marketing bullshit (omg I used colorful language).

I'm not against the RTRT technology in general, I'm against everything other than the technology that Nvidia employs to push their product. The amount of Nvidia tech in my home speaks to that. I'm against blind promotion of everything Nvidia does without questioning.

 

Here's the RTX reveal:



It wasn't "current techniques" but "traditional graphics". He's comparing rasterization to ray tracing. He even says "we are a real time graphics company", "no probes, no light baking". He also mentions how you can use a lot of trickery to improve the rasterized image. So where's the bulshitting? The reality is that currently only ray tracing can achieve the effects he shows there and at that quality and performance. Even NVIDIA's VXGI 2.0 pales in comparison to DXR-RTX.

It's fine to question things but it's very important to get the facts right when you do it.

 

It starts at 37.00 mark.

He even took the audience on a small journey to show how that pure rasterization image can be enhanced through various techniques till reaching the point of full scene Ray Tracing. Then he proceeded to show that disliked comparison

That's why I kept asking what marketing bullshit? The conference obviously had no such thing, but it seems many people are out for NVIDIA’s blood over such trivial moments.

It seems some asshole took that picture out of context and then everyone jumped the gun on this without watching the conference, did anyone here even watch it himself to verify whether he said this or not, and in what context?

This isn’t a trial for Malo, I believe those posts were taken out of context as well, there are much worse examples from other members in that thread, I will refrain from pointing them out specifically, as this is not a personal war discussion. But the posts I am referring to were full of sarcasm and trolling.

 

Come on - those posts were clearly presented with satiric context, just for fun and a laugh. Nobody takes this so serious. I doubt the market leader will take damage.

 

Can you imagine people posting in this forum a leveled amount of "satiric content, fun and laugh" towards the non-market leader?

Not surprised a relatively newcomer like @Dictator noticed the trolling responses in this forum. It's not what people expect to find in a *neutrally moderated* forum.