With tablets and other mobile devices becoming ever more powerful, is the age of PC gaming desktops and notebooks coming to an end?
NVIDIA’s RTX 50 “Blackwell” architecture has been a bit of a bore for us gamers. Apart from Multi Frame Generation, which has limited use-case scenarios, there isn’t much to be excited about. It is achieved using GPU-side Flip Metering. The optical field data is generated using AI models in the Tensor cores.
Between the price, performance and power draw, with the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti, NVIDIA nailed the mainstream formula.
Nvidia writes:
The Nintendo Switch 2 takes performance to the next level, powered by a custom NVIDIA processor featuring an NVIDIA GPU with dedicated RT Cores and Tensor Cores for stunning visuals and AI-driven enhancements.
The raytracing probably doesn't even equal a low end PC GPU, even if it did it would probably be mostly useless. They'll probably force it in some game now that will run like shit maybe 30fps at best, just because "it can do it"
A lot of gamers don’t realize that ray tracing isn’t really about making games look better. It’s mainly there to make development easier and cheaper, since it lets devs skip a bunch of old-school tricks to fake reflections and lighting. The visual upgrade is just a nice bonus, but that’s not the main reason the tech exists.
So you can be 100% sure that developers will try to implement it every chance they get.
Agree with Vits .... but also to add, if devs and designers just implement RT to a game world then it won't always work as expected. RT is not just reflections but also lighting and illumination as well. For example, If you just create a room with minimal windows, then it will look dark af, if RTGI is enabled. Devs and designers needs to sort out the game world design accordingly as well.
DF's Metro Exodus RT upgrade is an amazing reference video to go through, if anybody's interested.
Some PS5 and SX games run at 30fps with RT...just like those systems, if you don't like it, turn it off.
I only say this to say, you make it seem like a problem exclusive to the Switch 2.
sour grapes much?
"It probably doesn't do it well because it's Nintendo and they suck". That's how your comment reads. Why don't you just wait and see before making these ridiculous statements?
Please. I'd like to play my switch games on my 4k tv without it looking all doodoo.
Nvidia could have said this months ago and cut the bullshit. Anyway the rumors were true.
TBH I don't think Nvidia would have cared if they broke the NDA. A little fine they pay, and they go back to their AI shit. They don't even care about GPU's anymore. I myself would like them to leave the PC and console market.
This story was written half a decade ago when the world knew Nvidia would provide the chip for Switch 2 and DLSS was taking off.
Yeah but similar thing happened a long time ago when 3dfx announced they were working with Sega when they took the company public Sega pulled out of the contract for the Dreamcast GPU.
In response Sega terminated the contract and went to a ultimately weaker chipset.
So there's a precedent but that Nintendo would have much Of an option its AMD, NVIDIA or Intel
I'm not expecting of anything from ray tracing but dlss will be the thing that sees the unit get some impossible ports.
Correct. All I'm seeing online is it'll never run FF7 Rebirth. If it can run cyberpunk it'll run it. The DLSS will help. Obviously only 30 fps but a lot don't care
Exactly right when I buy a game on switch I know what I'm getting into I'm buying a game for its portability and I'm willing to sacrifice fidelity and performance to play on a train or comfortably from a hotel room when I travel for work.
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no.
Just like powerful consoles did right?
Me and my missis got my daughter a tablet for Xmas, to hell with gaming on one of those things, I "tried" playing Minecraft on it, it was terrible, awful slow moving controls, the screen gets covered in fingerprints etc
And it's just uncomfortable to hold for long periods of time
Solving a problem no one had... that is what tablet gaming is.
Absolutely "NO" (not "not", just "NO")
A gaming PC absolute minimum performance for higher end rigs is over 1 TFLOP. Tablets are just now getting GPU performance that reaches 1 TFLOP at completely unsustainable clocks and heat for a tablet. On top of that a constant charge would need to be provided to allow games to run on a tablet with a 1TFLOP since either the battery source would be drained within the hour of current tablets or your hands would have 1st or 2nd degree burns from holding all that heat.
A true safe and consumer friendly gaming tablet operates at a safe 500 GFLOPS of performance, and even then battery life is still a problem, with lesser tablets (100 - 200 GFLOPS range) struggling to play most android games for more than 5 hours, and here we think a 500 TFLOP tablet is going to play PC games at lowest settings for that long, Not.
Desktops are about top performance (2 - 5+ TFLOPS), and laptops are about top mobile performance (1 - 3+ TFLOPS). Tablets just don't have the battery life, the heat spread / heat reduction, and size factor to house a full gaming experience for core gamers who game on PC / laptops.
Tablet gaming is a secondary option, and one that's coming into it's own rapidly. The GPU and CPU capabilities are pretty much there, it's the battery power, the heating issues, and the form factor (prevents high degrees of cooling and larger Power Supplies from being used), that will hold tablet gaming back.
However, tablet gaming is a replacement for handhelds which is one reason that the Vita is slowly dying. A tablet can do everything the Vita can do and better, except for Remote Play (which is making it's way to more devices), and exclusive gaming (which is a dying breed on the Vita). The 3DS has Japan and it's exclusives to really carry it, but in the US and EU sales have dropped for Nintendo's handheld in comparison to the previous DS, with both US and UK 3DS numbers averaging 14m, while the DS numbers averaged 19m during the same period.
Nintendo has 1 more gen of traditional handheld sales possibly left in them, but for Sony it's time to call it quits unless they specifically make a PSTablet running Android.