You mean someone is delusional.
Seems RTX features will not be coming to Assetto Corsa Competizione
You could’ve not posted about this and I never would’ve been disappointed. Now I am!
FYI for anyone wanting to go Red: various AIB Radeon 5700 / 5700 XT boards have been hitting the market. They feature various custom cooler options. Supply has been limited but there’s been enough for them to become best sellers at various online retailers.
Cliff notes:
- Custom coolers are mostly useful for lowering temperatures to some extent or another and reducing fan noise to some extent or another.
- Prices so far range from an extra ten bucks to fifty, most in between.
- Game performance barely nudges from reference cards.
- Therefore: noise + temps is main reason for them.
Custom boards overclock better than reference but usually <10% with in game fps improvements of 1 - 8% depending on specific card and game title. I don’t see that as a problem considering the 5700 series is already faster than equal priced nVidia offerings and even competes with 2700S - which costs an extra hundred if you can find the cheapest versions.
If I were buying 5700 XT right now it’d probably be the Sapphire Pulse:
- practically same price as reference ($410 = $10 higher) – woot!
- dramatically less noise than reference – woot!
- about 1-2% faster fps than reference – meh
- faster than 2600s which costs $400 – woot!
- competitive framerates with 2700s which costs $500 – woot!
Unless you’re an RTX ray tracing zealot there really aren’t compelling reasons to buy nVidia cards inside the $300 - $700 price range.
GPU Integer Scaling: Sharper Upscaling for Retro and Pixel Art Games
Retro and Pixel Art games like FTL, Hotline Miami, and Terarria are loved by many in our GeForce community. When played on higher-resolution displays, though, many pixel art games have to scale to fit the display, resulting in a blurry image. To address this, our community requested an image scaling mode called Integer Scaling, which preserves detail on pixel-art games when the resolution is increased.
Well, we’ve heard the call, and thanks to a hardware-accelerated programmable scaling filter available in Turing, GPU Integer Scaling is finally possible!
When enabled in retro games, emulators and pixel-art titles that lack resolution-scaling filters, the difference in clarity and fidelity is dramatic:
Since people have talked about integer scaling previously in this thread.
Tim_N
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It sounds like it’s only for 2000-level cards, dat sux.
None of their other cards are obviously strong enough to do the heavy lifting 2d pixel scaling requires.
mono
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So awesome. In maaaybe a year, I can reap the benefits of RTX ray-tracing with Minecraft! GPU money well spent.
stusser
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Or maybe not, remember they were supposed to improve all the minecraft graphics a year or two back? They canceled that.
Well, to do it properly you have to ray trace a projection of the smaller image onto a plane, preferably thru a few lenses and mirrors.
mono
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I noticed. That’s why I used so many a’s in my maaaybe. :)
Hey guys, sorry to be mister “tell me things so I don’t have to do the research myself” over here, but could you tell me some things so I don’t have to do the research myself?
I’m replacing at least the guts of my build (aka not case or PSU) or possibly buying a prebuilt Microcenter house brand machine, plus upgrading my monitor situation, before the end of the year (side hustle means I can credibly deduct as a business expense).
Looking at something like a $1k monitor, which gets me a 35" curved ultrawide freesync 4K monster. Oh man.
Probably a Ryzen 3600, since that seems to be the consensus CPU of the moment? I do enough CPU things that I do care about speed. This will be a dev box as well (probably dual-booting some flavor of Linux at least until WSL2 actually delivers on its promise).
Probably a 2060 Super, seems like that’s the clear winner vs the 5700XT for the moment at the price point, and I want something that isn’t going to choke on 4K but the most graphically demanding stuff I play is like Age of Wonders.
All the other SSD/RAM/blah blah blah I can navigate easily enough. I’m just hoping for a temperature check on the cpu/gpu and whether I should consider waiting a couple months.
I suppose if nothing else I could delay until Black Friday deals at this point. Couple months won’t kill me.
Yeah I’d stick with the 2060 super, with the intent of getting a next gen card late next year for vastly better 4k performance. :)
Sounds good. Do you need to be careful your 2060S can provide Freesynch?
My understanding is that it’s more on the monitor side than the GPU side. Like all the Nvidia GPUs will do the adaptive sync thing, but if the monitor hasn’t been certified by Nvidia it’s kinda on you. Reviews for the LG monster make it sound like it works fine?
Well there you go. Make with the credit card.
Is there anything interesting to run that can show off raytracing with that works on a RTX 2060? I just got a new laptop with a shiny RTX 2060 in it (does not appear to be max-q) and I’d like to see any shiny that’s available.
Start by downloading some of the tech demos?
As well as the link above, there were some new demos released the other week from the DXR Indie Spotlight.
