When do the next generation GPUs drop?

rei · 2018-03-16T21:43:15.591Z

SLI and Crossfire are still a bad idea.

stusser · 2018-03-16T21:51:56.169Z

Yeah, SLI/crossfire don’t scale well. DX12 and vulkan are supposed to help with that, but so far not a lot of progress.

Woolen_Horde · 2018-03-19T15:32:22.288Z

Used Vega 56 is down to $650 BUY-IT-NOW on eBay! Almost there.

stusser · 2018-03-19T15:33:39.909Z

Used for coin mining, yeah. I wouldn’t touch that for over $200 max.

Woolen_Horde · 2018-03-19T15:34:26.173Z

Still a sign that demand is dropping.

AquaMafia · 2018-03-19T17:57:41.171Z

https://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/nvidia-rtx-technology-realizes-dream-of-realtime-cinematic-rendering-20180319-00901
Lot’s of mentions of Volta and gaming, announcement soon for release date?

arrendek · 2018-03-19T18:09:01.383Z

J_Thomas · 2018-03-19T21:09:34.955Z

That demo looks awesome, but this isn’t the first time real-time ray tracing has been hyped. I’ll temper my enthusiasm until I see it in an actual game.

GTC is next week. We’ll see how accurate the rumors have been.

KallDrexx · 2018-03-19T21:58:03.721Z

Wonder where the sudden hype today for Ray tracing is coming from.

MS just had a raytracing announcement themselves:

DirectX Developer Blog

Announcing Microsoft DirectX Raytracing!

If you just want to see what DirectX Raytracing can do for gaming, check out the videos from Epic, Futuremark and EA, SEED. To learn about the magic behind the curtain, keep reading. 3D Graphics is a Lie For the last thirty years, almost all games...

Edit Oh I just noticed the Nvidia description says it’s with the DX api.

arrendek · 2018-03-19T22:33:53.320Z

The demo is by Remedy Entertainment if the logos are to be believed so that’s a promising sign.

Profanicus · 2018-03-19T23:16:25.555Z

J_Thomas:

I’ll temper my enthusiasm until I see it in an actual game.

The DirectX Raytracing API is being supported by both Unreal Engine and Unity, so my guess is you won’t have to wait toooo long to be able to see some poorly performing noisy scenes in-game. ;)

*in fact the GDC Unity keynote is in a couple hours, would be surprised if Raytracing wasn’t featured.

YakAttack · 2018-03-20T01:10:40.587Z

Sadly, POV-Ray will never utilize your GPU.

arrendek · 2018-03-20T01:22:36.811Z

I remember trying out Pov Ray like 20 years ago

YakAttack · 2018-03-20T01:49:27.259Z

Here’s a thread that discusses GPUs:

http://news.povray.org/povray.general/thread/<web.568aea3fed87f78dadb2e4f80%40news.povray.org>/

I guess that today it is more of an issue of rewriting the code from the ground up than any technical limitations of GPUs like it was in the past.

I am experimenting with Blender, but am facing several issues. 1) I started converting a model to Blender format at 3:45 am yesterday, and the converter is not done yet at 10:00 pm the next day. 2) I am accustomed to a text interface, not a GUI, and the Blender GUI seems much more sensitive to clicking the wrong things by mistake. If Blender had a text interface or (more importantly) a text-based scene language, it wouldn’t be so bad.

arrendek · 2018-03-20T01:55:43.448Z

Wow that website is like going back in time. Is that just a forum representation of a news group?

YakAttack · 2018-03-20T01:57:00.114Z

Yes. I use Thunderbird normally.

Woolen_Horde · 2018-03-21T19:20:25.576Z

So how long until today’s $150,000 GPU becomes affordable?

Ars Technica

Unreal Engine + $60,000 GPU = Amazing, real-time raytraced Star Wars [Updated]

See how an entire scene bounces off Captain Phasma's armor at 24 frames per second.

Oghier · 2018-03-21T20:06:40.504Z

Woolen_Horde:

So how long until today’s $150,000 GPU becomes affordable?

Somewhere out there, there’s already a dude wondering about these in an SLI configuration ;)

vyshka · 2018-03-21T20:08:19.974Z

A fucking miner is going to buy it

John_Reynolds · 2018-03-21T21:40:56.768Z

Hopefully the day before the entire cryptocurrency market collapses.