- Aug 8, 2004
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I've been a long time gamer and hobby builder who has always loved to have the latest or at least close to the latest gear as possible.
The last few years have been very disappointing to me though. The prices have climbed faster than I can ever remember them doing in the past and the performance gains have all but stopped. It used to be a $300-$500 card would net you around a 50% performance bump at least. Now its $1200 and the gains are far lower.
Is it lack of competition? Or are we just finally starting to hit the same walls that CPUs hit a few years back?
Ray tracing is a cool concept, but to me it seems to be too little and too costly to get any real traction. Kind of like when PhysX first started making add in cards. It was a really great feature and in my opinion criminally underutilized but it was so expensive for a single visual effect.
The last few years have been very disappointing to me though. The prices have climbed faster than I can ever remember them doing in the past and the performance gains have all but stopped. It used to be a $300-$500 card would net you around a 50% performance bump at least. Now its $1200 and the gains are far lower.
Is it lack of competition? Or are we just finally starting to hit the same walls that CPUs hit a few years back?
Ray tracing is a cool concept, but to me it seems to be too little and too costly to get any real traction. Kind of like when PhysX first started making add in cards. It was a really great feature and in my opinion criminally underutilized but it was so expensive for a single visual effect.