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So many brainless idiots in this topic it's actually cringe-worthy. They have absolutely no clue as to what ray tracing is, how it works, why rtx is essential for it, and why this news means you can try it on RTX-less cards but you won't really be able to enjoy it. Also DXR is a D3D12 extension...

For some reasons the game looks worse than the original. I cannot explain why. As if the Snowdrop engine has been downgraded even further.

That power efficiency - NVIDIA has outdone themselves. I shudder to think what NVIDIA will do to AMD once they release Turing on 7nm - those cards will literally fly. And I wouldn't call the lack of RTX/DLSS a disadvantage. There are just two games utilizing RTX (where it's hardly visible) and...

A decent card for hardcore AMD fans who want to get top performance. TDP for such cards doesn't really matter since you're better served with water cooling anyways. The only issue is that NVIDIA has leeway in regard to lowering prices (NVIDIA doesn't use super expensive HBM2) and releasing...

There's no source in English, the original post was in Russian. Mind that I translated it earlier and WCCFTech translation looks like to be loosely based on mine - they even copied my round brackets verbatim, lol.

As a native Russian speaker I have to disagree with this loose interpretation of his words. Here's his full post (© 2019 Artem S. Tashkinov):

Dark times only for stupid investors seeking for a quick buck - NVIDIA is doing fine. Also, as their customer I couldn't care less what their stock price is. Also, lower stock price means cheaper stock buyback. In short, only NVIDIA haters will cheer on this news. The others don't need to apply.

Nowadays CEOs are let go with a golden parachute. The larger the devastation to the company the larger the parachute.

A very nice review, @W1zzard, I especially liked this part in the conclusion: Yes, the RTX 2060 is expensive to be a truly midrange card but it's not in the same class/league as the GeForce 1060 was/is. Still, I'm gonna skip this entire generation because it looks like a stopgap before NVIDIA...

Nothing to see here - most likely it's gonna be the same as the GeForce 8xx series (a rebadged 7xx series) which was created only to appease laptop vendors who needed a refresh of their laptops' specs.

Much to the chagrin of the NVIDIA haters DXR has turned not to be a dud/failure it was portrayed to be. Also, just also, real time ray tracing has been a pipe dream up to this moment however for some reasons people fail to appreciate the monumental work that NVIDIA has poured into the technology...

NVIDIA haters: NVIDIA sucks. NVIDIA is ripping everyone off. NVIDIA is a monopoly. DXR sucks. DXR performance sucks. RTX buyers are alpha testers for DXR/Vulkan RT. Except, DXR is brand new; currently used in just one game; it's the first implementation ever; we're already seeing impressive...

Right now it points to http://steamcommunity.com/id/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/ and it should link to https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Will this anti-NVIDIA whining ever stop? NVIDIA doesn't force you to buy any of their GPUs ever. You don't like their pricing? Don't buy NVIDIA then. Ever since AMD has stopped being competitive at the top, everyone has suddenly become (price)sensitive and NVIDIA has become a monster...

@W1zzard I'm tired of hearing that. DXR is now official with Vulkan 1.1.91 which works on Windows 7. It's not NVIDIA's fault that most game engines default to D3D - some companies have actually the guts to use Vulkan like id Software. Also, quite a lot of modern engines have Vulkan backends...