Thread 723071826

We've never needed ray tracing to enjoy good looking games before. Dunno why we need it now. Maybe I'm too poor to understand why people are willing to spend $1000+ for a single component just for lighting.

>>723071826 (OP)
I hope all games have ray tracing as a requirement to filter out the poorfag third worlders

>>723071826 (OP)
I was at a friends house some time ago, and he was bragging about his new at the time 4070. while he went to the bathroom, i disabled the raytracing in the game we were playing, and it took like 50 minutes for him to notice.
ray tracing is a meme

RTX 5080 is a terrible buy because its only 10% faster than 9070XT/5070Ti/FlashedNavi48 while being $300-400 more expensive on average.

>>723072298
and the 5080 doesnt even have more vram like the 7900XTX and still loses to it.

>>723072334
not to mention Nvidia Driver Issues on Windows 11 & Linux

>>723071826 (OP)
people did fake raytracing back then. half life 2 is the ultimate example. the devs spent hours baking the lights in raytraced mode and converted it to toaster friendly equivalents thats not raytraced but still retains the look of it.