Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips?
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week agoRay tracing? No no, I said Path Tracing.
Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips?
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week agoRay tracing? No no, I said Path Tracing.
lordbritishbusiness@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Hmm. I’ve decided I don’t like you.
It feels like you’re setting an artificially high goal purely to make challenging your assirtion impossible. I’m not even sure a 3090 can do path tracing. 40/5090, maybe they can.
Could an AMD card do it? Yes. RX 7900 possibly, a theoretical RX 9090 could if they bothered to release one.
But none of that matters really. Never has.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Yes, a 3090 can do Path Tracing, that’s why I’m asking for one. It’s not a artificially high goal - it’s how I play one of my favourite games of all time - CP2077.
Obviously both the 4090 and 5090 can do that too and better, but that’s essentially out of reach for mere mortals, and even if it weren’t it’s not enough of an upgrade to really justify the massive price tag.
Still, If I were to get a new GPU, I wouldn’t want a graphical downgrade, ideally an upgrade, and AMD can’t provide so they’re not a serious option.