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Ray Tracing: Has it Been A Success for PC Gaming?

Ray Tracing: Has it Been A Success for PC Gaming?

Update: 2024-11-29
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Episode 54: YouTube turned us Spanish! Also, we do a full recap on the state of ray tracing for PC gaming right now, looking back to the original RTX 20 series GPUs to how things are going now. Has Nvidia simply used ray tracing to upsell you on a more expensive graphics card?


CHAPTERS

00:00 - Intro

00:40 - YouTube Turned us Spanish

13:50 - Ray Tracing, Where Does it Stand Right Now?

34:20 - Ray Tracing vs High Refresh Rate

42:27 - Ray Tracing is About the Upsell

53:41 - We Expected Ray Tracing to be Better By Now

58:09 - The Chicken and the Egg

1:03:44 - The Future of Ray Tracing

1:24:23 - Updates From Our Boring Lives


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Ray Tracing: Has it Been A Success for PC Gaming?

Ray Tracing: Has it Been A Success for PC Gaming?