Recent content by arthur_tuxedo

Funnily enough, I gamed on a GeForce 3 Ti200 for years until a good deal on a 9800 Pro came along. This goes back to the split market I was talking about in an earlier post. Some people don’t see the point of cards being any faster because they can already max out their displays with room to...

Yes, as you point out, the hardware will be catching up for a long time as it’s a moving target. Upscaling, frame gen, and eye tracking are each good for about a 30% effective performance improvement before they start to noticeably degrade image quality if developers have the time and resources...

I do get where you’re coming from, and I’m sure there are plenty of people who use and appreciate RT in 2024. In my post I was talking mainly about RT in 2019 when the 2x00 series was on the market. By AI extensions I meant something similar to CUDA where NVIDIA cards accelerate local AI with...

You hit the nail on the head with “a couple of gens.” That’s AMD’s problem in a nutshell. They’ve never knocked it out of the park twice in a row so they’ve never stolen durable mindshare from NVIDIA. Even when they’re on a roll, there’s always some bonehead move like the $900 7900 XT vs $1,000...

There's a lot of doom and gloom around GPU pricing, and not without reason, but at the end of the day NVIDIA's objective is to turn a profit, and the $1,200 RTX 4080 didn't do that because few people bought one. They had to reintroduce the same card under a new name so they could cut the price...

The first “3D accelerators” that I remember were the S3 Virge, Rendition Verite, PowerVR (?), and a little later the 3dfx Voodoo. I was big into Mechwarrior 2, and the Verite was the one I dreamed about at the time. I would have wanted the Voodoo, but my PC didn’t have an add-in video card, so I...

Sold! EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti SC Ultra GAMING, bought from EVGA B-stock earlier this year and ran at stock frequencies and voltage, no mining. Looking for a last-generation RX card. Will add cash depending on which card is being offered, up to $150 for 5700 XT. I have 2 confirmed trades on...

Turns out price-gouging for useless features and strong-arming the gaming media isn't a good business strategy. Who knew?

The negative cost of cycling mostly has to do with reducing traffic congestion and healthier people who will not need as much health care. If someone rode for recreation on the weekends, they would be healthier but would not reduce congestion so they would have to ride a lot to offset weekday...

Sorry, I meant $1.20 was roughly the total cost to society, not a direct taxpayer subsidy. Should have written that sentence more carefully. I used the 2012 Seattle study's $1.82 / mile total cost of driving and backed out the IRS re-imbursement rate (rounded up to $0.62 to make the numbers...

Why stop there? Let's also use the catapult launchers to get cars around really fast! After all, it works on an aircraft carrier, right?

Don't get me wrong, I'm as green as Kermit the Frog and Jill Stein's secret love-child, I just realize that the environmentalist movement's 4 decade-long attempt at shaming people into action has been a miserable failure and touting a solution's green credentials doesn't sell. Musk proved that...

It's a bit complicated to assign blame in this case. When planners design routes that are indirect, a certain percentage of people will ignore them. You almost never see auto infrastructure designed for anything but the straightest, most direct route, yet planners will often design bicycle and...

The things you are claiming to be impossible are things that people do all the time. You also must not have read my link because the winter myth is your post almost verbatim. One of the most bike friendly cities in North America with a high percentage of cyclists is Minneapolis, and they...

These are 2 of the common reasons people always trot out that it's supposedly impossible to get around by bike. Winter cycling is very possible, but even if everyone used cars all winter cities and their citizens would save massive amounts of money if more trips were taken by bike in other...