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RDNA 3 rumours Q3/4 2022
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Ray traced sound is arguably more important than light - no more hearing people through walls, you can actually get realistic audio in a game. Such a HUGE part of human perception and its absolutely garbage in all games to date.Ray traced sounds..wtf am i reading here? Ray tracing is to do with light and how the rays bounce and illuminate as they go last i looked.
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Ray traced audio concerns me as different types of objects have different types of audio reflection - I'd argue its more subtle than light. If you think about the first iteration of Ray tracing, puddles and mirrors were insane. Imagine that with sound!
Done badly, it could be awful and really stunt this avenue which would be a shame - I think I've posted before about the importance of sound, but the limitations due to everyone not only having different levels of sound hardware, but als o types (stereo, surround, headphones).
It needs work, and could be brilliant, but clumsily marketing it under a Ray tracing banner doesn't fill me with confidence.
Done badly, it could be awful and really stunt this avenue which would be a shame - I think I've posted before about the importance of sound, but the limitations due to everyone not only having different levels of sound hardware, but als o types (stereo, surround, headphones).
It needs work, and could be brilliant, but clumsily marketing it under a Ray tracing banner doesn't fill me with confidence.
Are you guys really arguing the semantics on whether or not people can find the term “ray tracing” being applied to sound confusing? AMD really needs to leak something you guys are clearly too bored
Hardly arguing, just seems a dumb terminology given green jacket man went on stage a few years back and spent the better part of 2 hours rubbing his rhubarb about ray tracing and as far as i can recall not once was audio mentioned. Ever since that thats what most people associate ray tracing with, lighting, not sound,.
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Running his rhubarb! Love it!
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I even manged to type it incorrectly!
Are you guys really arguing the semantics on whether or not people can find the term “ray tracing” being applied to sound confusing? AMD really needs to leak something you guys are clearly too bored
They will soon. 3080 performance for £600. Humbug will applaud them if this comes true, especially if it has 16GB vram
If you want to be really pedantic: Light exhibits wave-particle duality.
That brings back memories! But only of the theme tune. I can't remember anything at all about the program other than that it was extraordinarily badly animated, but I remember the theme tune clearly.
Why would you not be able to hear people through a wall?
Maybe they are all sound proofed... sounds the least needed improvement in gaming, RT sound will probably make all games sound the same
Nvidia notoriously are awful to work with and don't like custom work. Xbox og was where Microsoft realised this, and the switch is using ancient off the shelf tegra x1 soc.
That's why they use amd.
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You hear very little through walls, and if you do there is heavy filtering of higher frequencies. Most of the sound you hear from other rooms has bounced around corners, down corridors. Raytraced audio lets you do that accurately.
Your brain uses audible cues with a really high weighting, it's super important for immersive gameplay. The thing is, very few people are concious of it, and a game just feels a bit flat when the audio isn't right.
It is amazingly powerful in VR titles for this reason.
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Do we have any thoughts on its VR performance? I'm tempted to upgrade my 3080Ti but if I'm throwing down some serious £££s it needs to be one hell of an upgrade, and I don't mean another 10fps
AMD Radeon RX 7900 graphics card has been pictured, two 8-pin power connectors confirmed - VideoCardz.com
AMD Radeon 7900 pictured The pictures were posted by @9550pro who claims to have them from a closed QQ chat group. The card is clearly a prototype, with a red board design and voltage contact points in some places. What is clear though is that this design matches what AMD has been teasing in...
videocardz.com
Don't think 2 are pictured think it's being compared to the 6000
Say hello to the 7900XTX and 7900XT.
The bigger one is the XTX.
Both cards launching in early December.
Looks like AMD copying Nvidia, launching top of the line models first and cheaper models to come next year.
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ok so daft question. How do we go about buying these? I ask, because I was watching the 4090 and every site had a "coming soon" button rather than a buy one. Then all of a sudden people were posting that they had them? What's the trick?
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