The 4080 got criticized because it was 50% more expensive than the previous gen xx80 card, yet reviewers still recommended it and everyone still bought it.
It isn't, nvidia has nearly 90% market share so they control the market, AMD can sell for cheap and everyone will still ignore them because nvidia sells their cards as the premium brand. And yes nvidia buyers will buy another nvidia card, the 4060 8gb and 4070 are evidence of that. But thank god nvidia is here with with all the market share while forcing upscaling on everyone, as AAA game devs put graphics over everything else.
How usable is an rtx 20 series card 5 years later? The mentality of parading around for your favorite company doing it first is hilarious, it doesn't matter when the 20 series was terrible at running anything with RT when it was new.
As for AI, most consumers could care less about it.
No bets needed.
AMD Radeon engineers are spending newly allocated extra time on optimizing their upcoming FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4) technology—industry watchdogs believe that a finalized version will launch alongside the initial lineup of RDNA 4 graphics card, now scheduled for release in March...
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Why do you think we should move beyond traditional rasterization? Rasterization is still the base for games designed today, and its the reason why the 50 series isn't much of an upgrade from the 40 series, because nvidia hasn't really improved the raster hardware.
You don't understand that games are only getting more graphically demanding, more graphics power will still be needed and both Nvidia and AMD can't just sell you on fake frames.
I agree with
@Vayra86 that RT isn't everything the AAA game devs and the media wants to hype it up as, yet we're still getting forced to use it even though devs which put RT over everything else is hurting games quality.
I have more than enough of a backlog of games, so I can enjoy games worth playing rather than keep coming back to a handful of games the RT fans seem to only play for the shiny graphics and not much else.
Real frames are generated by the GPU, which changes based on user interaction playing the game.
Fake frames are generated using frame data from a previous frame.
And no I don't need to be "told" anything. I can have my own defenition on what frame gen is, because either way frame generation isn't real frames.