I don't doubt SLI had problems or obstacles to overcome. I do doubt that overcoming those obstacles would benefit Nvidia's ability to sell cards.
These aren't 'obstacles that can be overcome.' These are fundamental problems of physics. Transferring data across copper is not instantaneous and having to traverse a free-standing copper interconnect introduces significant latency and constraints wrt power. Even at its shortest, the lead-time between GPUs connected together in an external bus is far too long for real-time rendering at the speeds GPUs currently run at.
I don't know what you're trying to say here. Maybe we're arguing passed one another and something is lost in translation.
I'm not talking about user-upgradable parts. I'm talking about multiple smaller dies (which are cheaper to manufacture than one large die) being connected together using advanced semiconductor packaging technology. This isn't something the user can do, it's something that'll be done by robots at a factory.
I'm still mad that that the iphone 3GS and the ipod touch 3rd gen were technically capable of running iOS 7 officially, and all it took was a jailbreak to demonstrate that
And even after finding out, faggots still supported Apple.
How can you fuck up a remaster this way?! Aren't remasters just better textures and improved resolution usually? Why remaster it in the first place, feels like it came out yesterday. And why do they insist on pushing Horizon? I never, ever heard anyone IRL even talk about those games, same for online apart from screenshots posted in the RetardEra community thread. I've seen the sold numbers and still don't get it, 95% of that must come from console bundles. Snoy's incompetency on full display again with this shit.
I know this is the Sony hate thread but i'm interested in this so i ask here: Are there any open-source equivalents to DLSS out yet or are there any in the works? Even if AMD and Nvidia stop supporting/working on it i would assume some nerds will continue to build on the existing system/code.
It's actually Nvidia's new drivers that are being open-sourced on Linux. The older cards are the ones you have to use with the proprietary stack.
DLSS is open-source. XeSS is source-available but I think Intel's license doesn't technically fit the bill. FSR4 will probably be open-sourced.
it's less about that an nvidia wanting to do shit the way it's meant to be played (amd had less issues under the same circumstances), and open source advocates generally having issues with big proprietary blobs.
It's a thing in DX12, you can even mix and match GPUs, it works better than SLI. The blue bar is an AMD + Nvidia card working together, the green is 2xNvidia. It's just that no one is doing it because it is pointless.
You can still provide an out-of-tree kernel module (think of it as a shared library but that runs on kernel space) and then skip the version check when loading it.
See this article for a more detailed report but in short: NVIDIA has targeted GPUs for compute scenarios, not gaming so if you use for example a 1080, you still need to use the closed source kernel module.
Translation: "SOS, Hermen's holding me hostage making me put woke shit into our games!"
It actually matters quite a bit, Nishino-san, as the recent failure of Concord should've told you.
Five years. Five fucking years to create an overly-expensive product that has marginal-at-best improvements over the OG PS5.
"We've laid off some people, but who gives a shit about them, our company is still YUGE". Tone-deaf to the nth degree.
For the PS5 Pro thing, that is actually pretty smart. Given the success of "Pro" models last gen, and marginal improvements in the gen immediately before it, it made sense to think that they'd be doing one for PS5 and to plan for it right from the start for ease of expandability. And hey, its better than laying off the tech team, give them something to do in the meanwhile.
A very "all take and no give" relationship they have there.
It does not matter until there is the need to blame some for the failure of the uber-expensive game. Then we are given names and addresses.
It worked for the PS4 because that one released under different circumstances.
"The bigger they are, the harder they fall." Also, no one is to big to fail.
To be fair, they had to wait for AMD on the thing. And five years would line up with what AMD has said about the development of RDNA 4 and RDNA 5. The console makers are AMD's biggest customer so it'd also make sense that they'd be regularly working with Sony to figure out what the capabilities of their next-gen GPUs should be.
Hulst is a fucking scumbag. He had fuck all to do with the pro, it was Cerny and Jim Ryan who orchestrated it.
