Yup, I'm right in assuming that you've never played a competitive FPS.
A liar flaunting strawmans. Too bad, was hoping for a decent discussion. Telling other people what they've done in their life when you don't know them- pretty ignorant.
Absolutely not. Not only is it crazy to say that someone's shadow is more noticeable as they run down a hill than, you know, a person running down a hill, but the light source is casting a shadow in the opposite direction than what would be required for the opponent to "see him coming".
When he lands the shadows are being cast in front of him. He didn't inspect where the sun was positioned, but based on that- in every single one of the shots I mentioned, the light source is behind him. Further, have you never played paintball with hills? Yeah, seeing someone's shadow crest a hill is actually extremely noticeable- if they jumped with that angle of light down the hill surrounded by snow their shadow would be like a beacon.
I'd love to hear the story of a soldier taking down an enemy combatant that starts, "So first, I pinpointed his position through the reflection of the door of the car parked on the corner."
As opposed to using the marker floating over the players head, enemy soldiers use that in real life all the time.......
This is a hybrid approach with a "cut down" version of ray tracing because even with the dedicated hardware, there's still not enough compute power to do proper RT.
You could make the argument until we get radiosity why bother, this is a monster step though. Actual real time global illumination.
If Nvidia priced these cards the same as the 10xx line or maybe a tiny bit more expensive, then I think almost everyone would be excited about the potential.
How much faster is Vega going to be than the 2070?
Let's look at it from an ever so slightly different angle if people don't like that. Threadripper 2950x is $899 and smaller than the 2070, the 2990wx is slightly bigger than the 2080Ti for $1800- and neither one of those come with their own PCB and 8/11GB of GDDR6 RAM, so what's the deal with that?
We know for a fact thanks to SEC filings that nVidia spent more on R&D then AMD did, they are offering roughly comparable die sizes with a healthy amount of very high tech RAM and a PCB for quite a bit less than what AMD is offering.
1200 bucks for slightly better shadows and reflections?
$500 for real time global illumination is another way to say it. Biggest breakthrough we have had in real time 3D since the Voodoo 1. Wait until you try it out man, trust me you are going to love it and won't want to play without it.
Just like with intel before Ryzen, nvidia has gotten lazy and decided to offer less of an increase and charge more because they are the only high-end game in town.
Not to pick on you Dave, but this sentence is the epitome of the stupidity in this thread.
Seriously, ooooh, 21.264% more of the *EXACT SAME THING* vs fundamental game changing new tech, and everyone is pissed they didn't get more of the same. It's really frustrating for people who actually like to see advancement.
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