… Now, on higher-end cards with plenty of VRAM , this overhead proves to be rather negligible. On older cards, however, it can quietly eat into your available memory in a very real way. …
… With the right balance of settings, a five-year-old card can still feel sensible rather than completely outdated. Trimmed-down ray tracing and upscaling, along with carefully-tweaked settings, can deliver visuals that look genuinely impressive. …
… From the Titan onward, Nvidia stopped trading blows with Radeon cards, and started operating a full tier above them. …
… Today, we've got cards like the RX 6800 XT and the RX 6900 XT delivering great native 1440p performance, but they're still stuck on FSR 3 officially , all while newer Radeon cards moved ahead, making them comparatively obsolete. …
… Even lower in-game settings could fetch better-looking results Let the Tensor Cores do the heavy lifting There's a slightly absurd, but real possibility that with DLSS 5, turning settings down could make games look better. …
… The in-built automatic tuner gave my GPU core clock a small 82Mhz tune-up, setting it to 2835 Mhz. …
… Sure, modern titles are pushing back against cards with lower VRAM, but NTC could flip that on its head. I can almost hear CEO Jensen Huang saying they've made memory "smarter instead of larger" at the next conference as they reveal the next generation of RTX 60 series cards with 8GB VRAM. …
… Before I knew it, I was back in the game settings, turning on ray tracing once again, and ramping up the visuals to High and Ultra presets. …