I’m not comparing a movie to a video card, read it again, I used film making as another example (along with engineering a video card) to use sketches to design something.
Other fields in which sketching is important for initial design work includes (but is in now way limited to) Fashion, Animation, Tattoos, Illustrators, Architecture, Landscape Design. Please note I am not comparing video cards to Fashion, Animation, Tattoos, Illustrators, Architecture, or Landscape Design.
@Misguided I haven’t been in the engineering game in a long time, so I may just be out of the loop. What’s the replacement to sketching things out?
Wait, am I being punked?
stusser
5033
There is none, he’s just wrong. Every designer sketches out designs. Some use paper, some a tablet and stylus, some a tool like skitch or sketch or figma, but it’s the same deal.
Oh, maybe? If so I missed the sarcasm.
We need more rumors to get this back on the tracks.
It seems like Qt3 is more keyed into this rumor cycle than any other, doesn’t it? Usually people here mostly ignore rumors until there’s actual formal announcements.
KevinC
5036
I think there’s a lot of anticipation because the 20xx series was so disappointing from a price/performance perspective. Or maybe I’m just projecting. In any case, I wanted to upgrade my 1080 to something 4K capable when the 20xx series came out but between the cost and the small performance jump at the time of release it just wasn’t worth it. The Supers still weren’t worth it either, for me. So I’ve been waiting a long time for this cycle, which has me chomping at the bit more than usual this time around.
I’m going to be a little annoyed if I have to sit out another year for the 3080ti and 7nm to get the boost I’m looking for.
Does anyone who games in 4k think it’s worth the effort? Seems to me it was more of a curse than a blessing, but I’ve never actually used a 4k display. It’s like we lost a whole generation or two just trying to push the extra pixels and work out checkerboard type approaches, when we could have spent the effort on oohh, ray tracing or something.
vyshka
5038
I ended up switching to a 144hz 1440p gsync compatible monitor. I don’t think the 4k was worth it. It is nice to use when I’m looking at code, but it wasn’t quite there yet for gaming.
I’ve got a lot of anticipation, because I’m probably overhauling my desktop in the next year, but I’m basically ignoring the rumours.
vyshka
5040
My desktop upgrade appears to be pushed back to next year now, so I will probably be upgrading my 2080 then.
I love the hype of new hardware, the rumors, the mystery , the intrigue.
I am all like cool-aid man busting through the wall, at every drip of information, real or not. ;)
I’ve seen 4K TVs, but never monitors, so I don’t know. I’ve never actually seen anything higher than a 1080p monitor, so I’m not sure exactly what I’m missing. Even 4K TVs though, don’t seem that impressive to me yet, because all I’ve seen on them in 4K has been special 4K videos of a honey bee, or some other demos. Those demos were really impressive, don’t get me wrong, but I wish Ultra Blu-rays were cheaper and easier to get a hold of so I could finally see a proper movie in 4K to see if I can see the difference.
Netflix and Amazon have a fair amount of streaming content in 4K. It’s not going to look quite as good as a Blu-Ray because of the compression, but it’s still a noticeable difference. I remember being really confused when I first started watching Star Trek Discovery (on Netflix here), as it was the only show at that point that had been in HDR but not 4K. It took me a while to figure out why it looked wrong.
I did the same and I have zero regrets about it!
Yeah, 4K streaming hasn’t impressed me much on my parents’ TV. That’s why I was referencing Ultra Blu-ray, because 1080 streaming back in the day didn’t impress me much either until I started getting the actual blu-ray discs from Netflix. And those really blew me away. And then I saw sports broadcasts in HD, and those blew me away as well. But I don’t know how far away sports broadcasts in 4K are.
A 4x on a 4k screen is pretty amazing. I played quite a few hours of endless legend and civ 6 in glorious 4k.
KevinC
5047
1440p is usually “good enough” for me, but I would like to have the option of decent framerates at 4K because it is sharper. And for some things (like the 4X games @lordkosc) mentions the extra sharpness can be noticeable. It might be less so in an action game where things are moving very quickly.
I’ve game on 1080p (duh), 4K, and 1440p and 1440p is the sweet spot for me. It looks amazing no matter the task (non-gaming or gaming), to me.
stusser
5049
That’s my sitch for sure. I’ve got the money ready to spend, and I’m really not particularly cost-sensitive, but I don’t like to feel like a sucker.
4K 144Hz IPS monitors are ridiculously priced for a while. But one thing I intend to do is do the internal scaling in-game for a lot of games. So they’re technically at 1440p, but the game is rendering at, say, 25% higher resolution then downscaling. It makes for a much sharper image, but it takes A LOT more GPU to do it.
schurem
5051
I have a reverb G2 high resolution VR headset on preorder. My 1070 is not going to be happy pushing DCS, MSFS2020 or Il-2BoX into it. I need to upgrade this cycle, even if waiting a year more would yield more bang for my buck.
