Some people seem to dislike the Unity engine and think of it as a "lesser engine" so without further ado, here are 7 games that are somewhat popular and made in Unity.
Digital Foundry tests the GeForce RTX 5090. The Founders Edition delivers exceptional performance in an impossibly small form factor.
Does anyone really care at this point? NVIDIA has managed to completely suck the life out of PC and gaming. They are not the only one sucking the life out of the PC mind you, Microsoft with Windows has their fair share of the blame. Everything seems to be getting more expensive and worse for the user to the point the only way to win is to not participate and find a cheaper hobby.
Dramatics aside. You know you aren't required to have the highest end thing every time to keep up with modern gaming right? Especially in an age with upscaling technology. It's why I went with a 4070ti super, it'll get me through the next five years or more, and after credit and selling my previous GPU I only spent $430 on it. Handles every game I throw at it with ease. As for Windows, Linux has become a viable option in many cases even better for titles older than I am. The hobby is only as expensive as you're willing to let it be, how you handle your money and options is up to you.
NVIDIA's "flagship" GeForce RTX 5090 Blackwell GPU has finally been officially unboxed, revealing new packaging and details about the model.
The eco-friendly packaging is really going to offset the amount of juice I'll be using when running my 5090... I think I might need to plant a few trees.
You would think 4090 prices would have dropped since we’re just a few days away from the 5090 but nope. I’ll be camped out at Best Buy’s going for mines.
Never going to happen, Nvidia cut production way earlier, no one is getting a cheap 40 series card, I've already seen some out of stock, and some have increased in price. My co-worker just gave up and plonked down the cash for a 4080 Super since it was clear the pricing wasn't going to improve.
Your best is the second hand market like Ebay for example, with a little bit of luck, but you'll find it hard to get a good deal. I'm thinking I might just pull the trigger and get a 5080 Super when they make one, to replace my 1080ti (I've been holding out for a long time for prices to become more reasonable).
Yeah I know wishful thinking on my part but if I can’t get a 5090 then I’m going to just go for a 4090. I have a 4070 so for me that will be a big enough improvement. The lowest I found was a 4090 for 2300 so that might end up being my only option. Guess I’ll see in a few days.
Hot and loud.. I imagine, it's got a smaller cooler, even the cheaper AIB cards will be better I imagine, maybe not the Ventus (going from past reviews) but most would generally be better, cooler and quieter (but bigger, potentially not as sleek) VS the FE cards.
Two non-DLSS 4 games show just a 15% uplift for the RTX 5080 versus the RTX 4080
Seriously has me rethinking wanting to upgrade from my 4080.
The rasterized performance wouldn't be such of an issue for me if MFG didn't come with input lag, and that's the big problem, fakes frames are all well and good but if the latency is high what's even the point.
Reflex 2 should help with this but how many games will use it.
We’ll see eventually with independent testing, but from the numbers they showed, from regular to 4X frame gen there was barely any difference in latency.
And from no frame gen to curren frame gen the increase is negligible for the most part (assuming you were starting from a good fps baseline).
So yeah, while its only really improving smoothness and not responsiveness, I wouldn’t really say latency is a particular concern.
They technically also improved frame delivery as well, so frame pacing should be better too.
What is a concern to me is how much are the new models and AI Optical Flow dealing with artifacts better, as those would definitely be worse if you now have 3 frames with artifacts between normals frames as opposed to just a single frame.
That said, unless you have money to spare on getting anything you want, I don’t really see the point of upgrading from a 40 series to a 50. I for one don’t plan to change my 4090 until the 60 series comes along
Yea what little testing there is only shows about 8ms increase which on the face of it doesnt sound to bad but that on top of the ms already there, if the trend continues and they don't find a way to get frames and latency to match it won't be long before we're in the 100ms.
Just seems underwhelming and disingenious that one thing is telling me 250 plus frames but then it feels like I'm playing a switch game.
I'm being hyperbolic there but u know what I mean
Same. Sensible thinking. A few years away and gives more time to improve the AI to remove said artefacts to make Ai as attractive an option as running native without the current concessions.
Hell. I'm running a 3080 and don't feel the need to upgrade. I'm still getting very, very good performance at 1440p.
On Reflex 2- it's using controller input AFTER the frame has been rendered to warp the frame based on the new movement vector. So there's really no new information provided in the frame - it just gives you the sense of lower input latency. Kinda smoke and mirrors imo
Big kid with 4090 here .... I use my GPU for gaming and productive work (AI, Machine learning, Video and 3D productions), I never use frame generation when I am gaming, tried maybe once just to see the difference, not a big fan of it to be honest. Just a big surprised that NVidia is focusing his message around DLLS 4 for the added value that these cards will bring to the table .... hinestly I am a bit concerned with the trend and direction this industry is taking.
The 4080 is perfectly fine for the next few years. Why do people with top of line graphics cards feel the need to upgrade to another top of line graphics cards every new graphics gen?
Reminds of the people always purchasing a new iPhone every year...
Damn! I'm poor.
well to be honest, its not a need, its a want. im a bit of a tech nerd and for a few things not everything i usually want the latest and greatest.
Also my rtx 4080 is more like a 4070 ti as its a laptop GPU, so its not the equivalent of a desktop 4080. in saying that its an absolute power house of a laptop, and i connect to the TV and run most games at 4k max settings, there only a handful of games if that such as alan wake 2 where i defs need to take things down a fair bit.
so was thinking of selling the laptop and going full desktop but fake frames, latency, and the fact its not like you can really push graphical settings more than you really could on the previous cards as you still need to start from a good baseline to begin with.
alan wake 2 for example i would still need to turn the settings down for it to work.
PS. still rocking my galaxy s20 ultra so ive defs learned my sessons on phones for a while now, and seeing as these new cards dont offer in my eyes anyway a real big upgrade i think im sitting this 50 series out and waiting for the 60. also im new to the PC space, ive always been a console player
There is absolutely no reason to upgrade from 40-series unless you are going up a tier or two. The 50-series is a complete dud and Nvidia tacked on the MFG due to lack of real improvements. They maxed out the die with more cuda, rt and tensor cores, and needed to up the power to have any gains. 50-series is on the same node as 40-series so there are no real improvements they can offer. You need to wait for the 3nm node to receive another 50-70% improvement over the 40-series.
Plus the MFG is not usable for displays under 144hz because you need a base fps between 60-75 to make it worth it (so you just need the 2x = normal FG from 40-series to hit your 120h-144hz display).
If you have VRR you can have a very smooth experience with anything between 60-144hz and you probably won't even notice the drops, or if you do, you really won't care.
The 50-series is for high refresh monitor users who game at 1440p resolution (or 4K if you go for the 5090) and aim at 240hz or more. For single player games, that is pretty much useless.
One thing you can do this gen, and it totally is not necessary but at least makes some more sense, is to upgrade from AM4 if you are still on that platform. Am planning to go to AM5 and 9800X3D and DDR5 and then again in two years upgrade to RTX6090. The reality is though, that I don't really need a new CPU, but generally the 9800X3D is a better pairing with 4090 vs the 5800X3D I currently have.
Seems wild you would want to upgrade from a 4080 tbh. Rarely worth it gen on gen, although maybe it is if you are selling off your old one each time to fund it. Perhaps the economics works better keeping on top of the latest, I'm not too sure. I'm thinking about upgrading from a 3080, but that's mainly because the of the paltry 10GB of RAM being such a bottleneck now.
well to be honest, its not a need, its a want. im a bit of a tech nerd and for a few things not everything i usually want the latest and greatest.
Also my rtx 4080 is more like a 4070 ti as its a laptop GPU, so its not the equivalent of a desktop 4080. in saying that its an absolute power house of a laptop, and i connect to the TV and run most games at 4k max settings, there only a handful of games if that such as alan wake 2 where i defs need to take things down a fair bit.
so was thinking of selling the laptop and going full desktop but fake frames, latency, and the fact its not like you can really push graphical settings more than you really could on the previous cards as you still need to start from a good baseline to begin with.
alan wake 2 for example i would still need to turn the settings down for it to work.
@Flawlessmic
If you don't need the laptop, what you could do is to sell the laptop and go rtx 5080 desktop and buy yourself Rog Ally X and put Bazzite on it. Certainly covers all your gaming bases for years to come both on the go and at home. Separately buy a small and cheap laptop for work if required. Another way is to keep the laptop for on the go gaming and simply build a new desktop with 5080 and 9800x3d in it.
Basically unless the games you play exclusively use DLSS 4 to generate that higher frame rate, it’s not worth upgrading for the vast majority of titles that don’t. I’ll be sticking with my 4090 for a good while longer.
Unfortunately upcoming and future titles will be pushed to use DLSS 4 from the rate of how things are going.
Good thing the series 50 is cheap. According to some, we can just go pick one of these up at your local car boot sale.
Maybe it’s time to start looking at AMD cards again.
I’m going to skip this gen, but my next card just might be an AMD card.
I haven't looked much into it beyond standard specs, but apparently the cards use the same node as previous gen, which would explain a not so big uplift..
The next cards might be on a new better node, so I guess try to snatch a bargain 4000 series or go 5070Ti, or even see how the mid range 9070/XT shape up from AMD.
That seems to be the case, remember how the 20 series was barely an improvement over the 10 series? we had big jumps with the 30 and 40 series, so I guess it's time for another slow iteration of cards.