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NVIDIA have discontinued Quake II RTX
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I also didn't realize they had done anything to it in a while.
Buuuut this is still the first thing I fire up on new hardware to test RT performance AND it's still the best Id remake/reissue yet, and they've done a bunch recently.
It wouldn't sadden me in the least if video cards would stop shipping with RT cores. I would rather that go to more raster cores so every game can benefit from the performance boost.
Cool.
So, anyway...
(For the record, tensor cores don't just accelerate calculations for raytracing, as is obvious from the entire AI bubble built on the technology, and I have no idea what GPU "performance boost" you'd want from additional raster graphics when you have RT-less stuff running at stupid framerates on current hardware and being consistently CPU-limited, but the Internet gets the memetic obsessions it gets. I suppose online nerds will pay for a 1080p 1000Hz monitor with no self-awareness as long as the two popular Youtube tech channels keep repeating the same memes and testing the same four games forever)
You seem like a great guy to talk to.
Fyi, tensor cores and RT cores are not the same thing. But I suppose nerds online will just parrot whatever marketing bs the manufacturer says.
I'm trying to be generic here. For these purposes I don't particularly care about manufacturer customizations beyond "does it tensor math good and/or talk to DXR/Vulkan raytracing. I guess that accidentally includes actually useless CPU-baked NPUs, but I'll accept that as being potentially part of it if someone actually used them for something.
For the record, even if I was wrong about or unaware of your kinda pedantic distinction, it'd still be irrelevant to the point.