It’s a disgrace, and it’ll hopefully be over soon enough, but it’s also important, I think, to track what’s good on the marketplace and how worthwhile it is to set up price alerts and the like for these new cards. We all know right now that there’s a serious chip shortage worldwide, and scalper scum are hoovering up any GPUs they can get their hands on, while unscrupulous retailers are inflating prices or forcing people to get cards as part of a PC build.
I’ve spent the last few weeks toying around with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, the entry-level video card that supports all the latest features - and it costs just $330/£300. That, to me, was the next generation - but it was expensive.įinally, though, it feels like we’re getting there. A short time later it was available in video games, however - albeit in a less effective form, and only on the most powerful graphics cards. The first time I saw Nvidia’s real-time ray tracing demonstrations I was blown away, but assumed it was a workstation type demo that wouldn’t be implemented in real-time gaming for many years. The fact that ray tracing is ‘the future’, whatever that really means, isn’t really up for debate any longer, as far as I’m concerned. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Returning to ray-traced Minecraft on the Nvidia RTX 3060 reminds me that this technology is the real next generation.
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