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NVIDIA does $5 million deal with Ubisoft
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BurnOutBrighter
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4k is the future regardless of whether you want it or not.
Can you imagine Retina-quality displays on today's 1080p monitor sizes? Hell yes.
Can you imagine Retina-quality displays on today's 1080p monitor sizes? Hell yes.
I hate gpu vendor moneyhats as much as console moneyhats.
And considering performance in AC3 with a 7870 I doubt that I'd play in 4K anytime soon. My 23" 1080 monitor looks really sharp, too. Higher DPI is better, of course, my brother has a laptop with a glossy 1080p @ 17" screen that is just beautiful to look at with properly AAed games, but mine is still good enough, more than good when I sit back onstead of hunched close. And I couldn't place a much bigger screen on my desk, anyway.
So at least moneyhat smoother min fps and micro stutter/frame latency and juicy max percormance and AA that doesn't shave off a metric ton of performance over super super hig-res textures. Better overall performance>enormous res, IMO.
And considering performance in AC3 with a 7870 I doubt that I'd play in 4K anytime soon. My 23" 1080 monitor looks really sharp, too. Higher DPI is better, of course, my brother has a laptop with a glossy 1080p @ 17" screen that is just beautiful to look at with properly AAed games, but mine is still good enough, more than good when I sit back onstead of hunched close. And I couldn't place a much bigger screen on my desk, anyway.
So at least moneyhat smoother min fps and micro stutter/frame latency and juicy max percormance and AA that doesn't shave off a metric ton of performance over super super hig-res textures. Better overall performance>enormous res, IMO.
That doesn't make any sense. This isn't console optimization we're talking about, why would they sacrifice work in those areas you mentioned to push 4K? If you don't wanna game in 4K, don't. Unless I'm missing something here.
Seems it's about 4K textures, I'd say my point still stands.
DemonCleaner
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4k textures != 4k panel
gaf sometimes you're really stupid
gaf sometimes you're really stupid
ambar_hitman
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This confirms that Ubisoft games will run like shit on AMD.
It's scary how many GAFfers know virtually nothing about the GPU market or its history. These deals are nothing new. Nvidia, AMD, 3dfx, etc. have all been doing this for decades. Even further the people worrying about needing two computers or one of each brand card are worried about nothing. There are already games that run better on certain hardware, and it has always been that way. If you haven't been using separate machines all of these years why would need to suddenly do so now?
Yeah!
Only a moron (the writer of this article) would think that some textures having 4K (4096x4096) res has anything to a display having a res of 3840×2160!
This is clearly just click bait from some dumb hack!
It should be feasible to run multiple graphics cards from a single computer; there's rarely that much demand for it (for obvious reasons!) but I don't see a fundamental reason that it should be impossible. That said, it'd need an external control to switch cards, because there's no way you'd be able to *power* full-power graphical setups without your own Mr. Fusion unit.
I get why it's used, but the term "enthusiast" always kinda bothers me in this context. I've played games for years, I have a collection in the thousands. I have a deep and intense passion for gaming. In short: I am a huge gaming enthusiast.
That's why I'm playing an RPG from 1986 at the moment.
Dv8thwonder
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TJP
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Spot on comment. Both AMD and Nvidia are as bad as each other when it comes to games optimised for specific brand.