And the GPU makers were already hitting a plateau around the first RTX cards.
Node shrinks have dried up. Games got use to those handing them major leaps.
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ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoAI did a number to gaming, but truthfully, gaming technology was probably about to stand still anyway. Barely any studios can afford to make a game that’s so technologically advanced that it pushes our current hardware to its limits.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Gaming isn‘t standing still though, it‘s reverting. You can‘t get the same hardware you got 5 years ago for the same price anymore. Hardware ALWAYS got cheaper until recently. This is truly unprecedented.
binarytobis@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh please, plenty of games push my top tier hardware to its limits!
It’s just that they do it by not bothering to optimize their software.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The handful of companies that can afford to spend $100M+? Sure. There are only so many of those, and plenty of them go bankrupt after spending that much.
PhAzE@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Yet AI will actually be good at optimizing software, and might help push devs to do so. Both stifling and assisting.