Is this more 2022-like gloom-and-doom news?!
Anyone got more information on Battlemage?
Not reading doom and gloom at all.
Just because Nvidia wants to release >$1000,- segment cards for Geforce, doesn't mean they sell tons of them, nor that everyone needs to follow suit. The overwhelming, vast vast majority is buying way below that price point. This is have/have nots territory right here. The limit of wallets reached.
What we will see in GPU land is the consoles becoming (they already are and have been since early 2000, let's be crystal clear) the defining factor in game development.
Nvidia's RTX won't fly.
Upscale will happen everywhere.
AMD and Intel know they can't reach Nvidia's top end, so its a battle they won't pick, and in doing so, they define the PC market because their weight + IGPs + consoles is a far greater market share than Nvidia's enthusiast segment.
Economy defines all of this, you can't pay out of an empty wallet, its that simple, and Nvidia capitalizes on the niche it owns, in terms of gaming, that's just fools and money parted for GPUs that are overkill. You already see this in how they love to talk about Path traced graphics. Its lonely at the top. Good luck carrying that with your 3-5% market share.
Gsync > Freesync. Its happening to RT and mainstream GPU capability will define it. Not the unobtanium ones. Also, let's appreciate that fact that
even Nvidia has already calibrated to that reality. They release 12GB midrange and high end, while RT has a higher VRAM footprint. Implicitly they're also saying 'upscale or bust'.
