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0·2 days agoAgain, I know I posted about PC/video cards because this is a PC gaming sub but this will affect so much more we use and buy and having a computer to self host is the least of your worries.
TV’s? Uses tons of semiconductors, 100% tariffs. Washing machine? Semiconductors, 100% tariffs. Car? So many semiconductors, 100% tariffs. That cordless impact drill? Semiconductors, 100% tariffs.
If it has any electronics your going to be paying more with this cockamamie grift.
TSMC has been complaining/level setting the AZ plant already. They’re saying they can’t find qualified employees, regulations on water, you know building a water intensive process in the middle of a damn desert that has a water shortage for a decade now, and things like sulfuric acid, but the biggest things is they pointed out that Taiwan has laws preventing advanced manufacturing purposes from being moved out of the country.
That is the biggest things that will prevent them from producing what Trump thinks will happen with these I’ll thought out tariffs and you may be right that it will piss them off enough to pull all the way out.
And you miss the whole point. So you think this only affects the 5090? You do realize that even the lowly B570, $219 MSRP, is manufactured by TSMC and would be hit by the moronic Republican 100% tariff.
Good luck average/budget gamers.
Very true, it’s not just processors, it’s also a lot of semiconductors used in every device ranging from your TV, to your washer, to your car.
Everything electronic will be hiked up astronomically.
And given what trump and Republicans who have control of everything and what they’ve already jammed through, I would bet on anyone standing up and stopping this or any other tariff he’s promised.
When it comes to the average American? Yes.
Maybe the future but I still content that ray tracing is not the present.
Ray tracing as it currently stands tanks frame rates into sub par gaming experience s unless your on a more expensive card and so many implementations of ray tracing adds so much more noise and artifacts that I just don’t think that ray tracing isn’t there just yet to make it mandatory.
I mean I recently just bought a 4070 super to finally see what ray tracing is all about and finally have a ‘mid range’ card that could actually do it right and I’ll be honest, I find ray tracing pretty underwhelming. I turned ray tracing off when playing ratchet and clank just recently because there was so much noise and artifacts that the visual quality was just too bad for me and wasn’t worth the big hit to frame rates and many other games suffer the same things I found.
Plus so many lower end graphics cards are still shipping with 8 GB of vram, which the 5060 will still be at, which has been proven that it’s not sufficient for Ray tracing without dropping visual quality was down.
So again, I simply don’t think that ray tracing is ready for being required in games yet.
0·4 days agoInteresting to hear that Linus is doing even more shady crap. The bit about sending the text message to a defunct phone that he knows was defunct is next level asshole behavior if true.
Cool. I guess I won’t be buying it then and will simply sail the seas when I finally feel like playing it after all the games I bought on steam and gog.
You know what, you’re right:
Let’s take a look at the number for the vaulted 4060.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 - 1080p - 54.3 average with 44.4 at 1% lows
Dragon’s Dogma 2 - 1440p - 39.5 average with 32.5 at 1% lows
CyberPunk 2027 - 1080p Medium - 38.9 with 24.4 at 1% lows
Let’s take a look at the 4060 with the mandatory ray tracing game Indian Jones.
Indian Jones and the Great Circle 1080p - 25.2 average with 18 at 1% lows.
Yeah, the 4060 is going to provide such a great ray tracing experience to the average gamer…
It’s cute you think a 4060 can handle ray tracing.
I grew up gaming on a 386 when the great divide was CGA, EGA, VGA, and SVGA, that was the first big graphics card war for me and the beginning of the whole, Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia moment, and then the gulf of floppy disks and hard drives, and then CD-Roms and then the the 3d accelerators games. PC gaming has always had point of contention between the whales and have nots but gaming studios had a good track record always made sure to provide plenty of support to those gamers who weren’t whales.
Forcing ray tracing when you have to have a 1000+ dollar video card to run ray tracing that doesn’t tank your frame rate into completely unplayable territory then ray tracing is not ready for prime time yet and complete shit move on the developers part to mandate it when it’s still untenable for most gamers.
Nope, this is just complete bullshit to me that’s forcing gamers to have a sub par experience and force them into buying more expensive hardware for no other reason than to satisfy a publisher’s ego to market their game “next gen”.
Edit: How sad is it that ray tracing was first released in 2018 and we still don’t have the hardware to run them on a rig with moderate hardware.
0·5 days agoI mean honestly, he’s just a giant douche canoe that accurately reflects the level of intelligence and emotional maturity that the most of his fucking deplorable Nazi base is. There’s nothing he’s here said that isn’t what his moronic base says on a daily basis and is more or less a accurate representation of America and Americans by large.
America is a nation of idiots.
This generation is all about the upsell and fake frames at least with Nvidia.
Shame that AMD sounded like they weren’t going to try to complete in the 5080 space given what we’ve been shown.