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Intel Arc Finally Works on SteamOS (And It's Amazing) – ETA Prime YouTube video (youtu.be)
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[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Raytracing has never been worth the performance penalty imo.

[–] ghen@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It creates beautiful videos in satisfactory and other slow games. If AI never happened i bet cards would have been cheap enough for most games to afford ray tracing by default but alas

[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 1 points 23 hours ago

Regardless of cost, not even the mightiest gpu can play a 1440p game with path tracing for example at high refresh rates, without dlss. So no, the cost isn't the only issue.

This is a minor cosmetic feature used to entice fools to depart with their money.

[–] sonalder@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

In a very limited list of games on a very few expensive GPU it is worth. 90% of time on 90% of the hardware it is not worth indeed.