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This level of graphical fidelity + performance at native(!) 4K on a last gen GPU is borderline witchcraft. Forget the RT, I can't get over how good that water looked. I wonder how Nvidia or Intel hardware will handle this game.

I think we'll have to wait for another game to really see what this new PSSR is capable of on account of the hefty chromatic aberration, film grain and lens distortion.
It's clear they were aiming for that found footage look with the game. Which absolutely suits the atmosphere but I'm guessing it's also undoing/masking some of the good PSSR is doing.

For my next life, I'd like a universe where every console has Nvidia hardware and both UE5 and FSR are just an urban legend.

I'm hearing reports that the path tracing implementation on PC is hit and miss. Looking forward to a DF dive into that one

Ah well, UE5 just doing it's thing I guess. Ubisoft selling the rights to use their amazing Snowdrop engine to interested parties could help both them and the industry at large.

Man, so bummed about that Fallout 4 version. I was excited to hear they were bringing it to Switch 2. Since it's an older title it really had a chance to shine on the hardware. I'm going to hold off on an early purchase to see what effort will be made to improve it.

Very nice, but starting at a price of 64GB DDR5 that's a bit steep, I only make around 256GB a month

Did a fictional build yesterday and ended up at EUR. 2,000
for a B780 mobo, 12700K, 32GB DDR4 3600, custom cooler and quality PSU. I opted for the 16GB version of the 5060Ti (only 1 brand was still available since they're unofficially on their way out too). I honestly feel that's the least anyone should aim for building in 2026. 32GB system ram isn't a luxury these days and the 16GB on the gpu is needed to comfortably use frame gen.

Great video! The MSI Claw 8 AI+ is comparable in power to the ROG Xbox Ally X but is an all Intel machine, would be interesting to see how that fares in comparison to it's AMD powered rival. 🤔

@MattGPT I guess taste can't be argued but I never really got the brightness issue people have with OLED. My C1 tops out at around 800 actual nits and even that's taxing on the eyes after an hours long gaming session. I don't get why anyone would go for a 3000 nits screen like the one Oliver mentioned in the CES report. Dude I have a tactical flashlight laying around that's 1500 nits and there's no way I'm directly looking into that thing lol.

I like the car analogy, I've used that one too in de frame gen argument. There used to be a time when people only wanted big engines in cars because turbos were considered "fake" HP much like frame generation is viewed today as "fake" fps. I remember the Jaguar XJ220 (which was considered a supercar back in the day) saw a lot of pre orders cancelled when the news landed it would have a V6 Turbo instead of the typical supercar V12. People literally didn't buy that.

Each person's situation is unique of course but in my case I have my main system set up in the living room where I game at 4K on an LG C1 OLED. That panel has a 120Hz upper limit meaning my modest 14600K at stock clocks is more than capable of supporting my 5080. My point being that my panel, not my PC is the limiting factor there and I can only imagine that goes for the vast majority of gamers out there unless you're e-sports oriented and need blistering fps on an extreme refresh rate 1080p panel. So I wonder if a faster version of the 9800X3D is even needed at this point in time?

@MattUK "Frame gen is good at higher frame rates"

Agreed, for now at least. The future is all about finding software solutions to hardware limitations. They'll get the latency thing sorted in time.

At some point in the future the image quality of games on a screen will probably be so pristine and run at such blistering Hz it will look like your watching them happen through a window.

If humanity's tech accomplishments were an RPG character all it's stats would be between 8 and 9 except for the energy storage stat, that would be a 5. So sadly, power hungry devices like this will always feel compromised.

@Pitcher-T "Sounds like they just took off vsync to fix the lag and called it a day"
I was going to post just that, I would bet good money that's what happened.

I'm getting old, if you had told me back in the day that somewhere in the future Half Life 3 would be far less anticipated than Fable or a Resident Evil game, I'd have laughed in your face.

On a sidenote, I could be mistaken but Intel seems a bit quiet on their upscale/FG progress? I have an MSi Claw 8 with an ARC 140V GPU and the games that natively support XeSS like AC Mirage and Hogwarts look and run absolutely amazing. That said, there aren't that many B570 and B580 offerings at retailers. 🤔

Man, I hope unaware people who got the game see a patch coming soon, but Bethesda doesn't exactly have a good track record there. It could be a very long time before things improve.

"The most impressive Assassin's Creed game since 2014's AC Unity" I still feel AC Unity is the most visually striking videogame of all time relative to the time in which it was released. It baffles the mind, that game still hasn't been remastered.

It's hard out there for a GPU, first they got snatched up by bitcoin miners, and now they're getting hit with this AI crap.

If performance per Watt doubles over the next 2 years, which I doubt, Than at the expected 15W tdp you're looking at MSI Claw 8 level (37W max) performance. That's very nice performance today but I honestly don't see it running even 1:1 PS5 level games.

I have the Pro, an often overlooked factor is that a lot of PS5 games are done with dynamic resolution. The Pro offers some nice results there (obviously). Cyberpunk 2077 is a good example. That game looks noticeably cleaner on Pro, especially on larger 4K screens.