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washclothrepairman — 9 years ago(December 25, 2016 02:15 PM)
20fps Tomb Raider on medium with no AA.
So when will this be a real thing? 10 years? More? We're still 3 or more years away from 4K being realistic and affordable. It's expensive, takes a monsterous amount of horsepower and even then is handicapped and stuck at 60fps with TN panels. Until a single card can run an IPS 100hz 4K monitor, I'm really not interested.
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washclothrepairman — 9 years ago(December 25, 2016 03:38 PM)
I suppose this will be the next invisible upgrade to sell GPUs and screens and serves no actual purpose
Maybe on a monitor but on a large TV it would definitely be noticeable.
4K is certainly not invisible. It really does look amazing, but it's still too early for the reasons I already explained (price and framerate, mostly). There's also the benefit of being able to turn down (or off) AA since it's completely unneeded at those resolutions (AA makes images slightly blurry).
And obviously that's where we're going to go eventually. Remember when a 720p plasma TV cost $8,000, had huge bezels and like 4 inches depth? It's Moore's Law. Sooner or later there will be tablets carrying the equivalent of a GTX Titan X. And the Microsoft and Sony platforms will still be trailing well behind the Master Race.
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It's not sustainable, though. Barring some Star Trek crystal-based quantum computer bullsh!t there is a limit to how far we can push the microprocessor. Eventually we'll get to a point where they can't get any smaller/faster.
Never trust a black man named "Chip."