This week’s Digital Foundry Direct comes straight from Las Vegas, where Oliver Mackenzie and Alex Battaglia share their impressions on the technologies revealed on the showfloor – kicking off with an overview of the Nvidia RTX 50-series reveal keynote. It’s a claim in that presentation that I’m going to tackle in this week’s blog. Is the upcoming RTX 5070 really offering RTX 4090 series ‘performance’? Based on established parlance, the answer is – of course – no, but the reasons behind the claim are straightforward enough and prescient of the era to follow: big leaps in frame-rate via hardware are diminishing and, like it or not, the future is biased more towards software, with machine learning taking a leading role.
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Source: Eurogamer.net
