Not at all.
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I think itās not good for most things - making some RPGs (and maybe fighting games that already have awful-feeling floaty controls) look smooth but feel like your character weighs several tons and that you have to anticipate things rather than react to things is about it.
So basically making AAA titles like Wukong and Alan Wake seem like they run better than they do. Nothing for VR, flight sims in general (maybe MSFS with heavies?) or shooters, Iād say.
Recommended for comical value:
Marketing lessons to be learned!
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Nvidia: designs new 2 slot cooler design that looks awesome and is possible to fit in cases without covering all your other expansion slots
Partners: ālets slap the old 300kg seventeen slot cooler on itā 
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Yeah, I really want to see how it performs. The thought of a two slot card is extremely appealing and I will try to get my hands on one. 575W in that small a form factor is a bit crazy.
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Just imagine a cheap hair dryer, the kind used for traveling. They have like 600 Watts, too. And probably similar airflow. 
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I couldnt belive the size of the partners 5090 ā¦ no way thats fitting in my caseā¦(even if the wife agreed to A: the 2k+Ā£ or B: the small nuclear generator that you need to power it 
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I intend to build a PC late this summer. I hope the 5090 will be available by then, because thatās the one Iām aiming for baby!
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Even for people who habitually yearn to be on the bleeding edge of tech, this might dampen the urge (somewhat) to immediately jump on the bandwagonā¦
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Havenāt dug deep on this but, so far, the whole frame generation thingā¦
makes me go, hmm?
Itās as if what we defined as a āframeā up until yesterday has somehow beenā¦re-defined?
Weāll replace it with new jargon, āfpsā will become less relevant and āinput lagā or whatever we call it will be the thing weāre interested in.
I have heard that DLSS4 will be coming to the 4 series cards (and maybe earlier cards?), but I doubt that will include the DLSS4 Frame Generation with its ridiculous number of made-up frames - theyāve got to keep the product generations differentiated after all 
Exactly this. And this is why their marketing does not work. It feels like they focus on the wrong thing, or want to score an easy win with huge numbers. Not that anybody ever was honest in CES slidesā¦ still meh.
Antilag 2, or whatever itās called, will be interesting. Will it really help?
Also driver support for Linux, wether you like it or not. This is where games and AI stuff will get more commonly hosted. I bet.
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Iām personally excited for anti-lag, assuming it works something like motion reprojection in VR headsets.
But itās still not going to help with fast paced shooters or fighting gamesā¦
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Thatās what I was thinking too. My āperceptionā might be massaged depending on the genre:
- For 1-G scenery explorer-like things, like MSFT FS - itāll make things appear more āblendedā together perhaps
- Combat flight sims, where you roll/pitch/yaw rapidly - not so helpful, but a little
- Twitch-game shooters - not good at all. Iād imagine it is akin to motion blur (I donāt play these so just a guess - I think those that do will not be that happy)
I watched some of Mr. nVIidiaās presentation. Did he really rationalize the prices with (paraphrasing), āā¦You have a $10,000 PC [yes, he said 10K]ā¦what is a measly $2-2,500 to thatā¦?ā. Does he think the buying public are stupid? No wait, donāt answer that.
Or is it me thatās out of touch (likely): do a lot of people spend that much on a PC? Enough people anyway (the only thing noticeably cheaper to me over the last 50+ years is airfare - Iām amazed how airlines survivedā¦I digress).
This has all felt like, viewed from way outside the window, like the tech has reached a point where they canāt squeeze anymore out of it āphysicallyā. So they are introducing cheap tricks. Or making it bigger; using more power; generating more heat - replacing that V-6 by cramming a V-12 engine under the hood. Same chassis. Same physics though. Oh, and adding a turbo to it too. I dislike the turbo-lag on my wifeās car. But it is pretty, and has a lot of bells & whistles.
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This just shows to us that we, as gamers, are no longer Nvidias target audience. This is clearly directed at people running threadripper CPUs with insane amounts of RAM. If viewed from that perspective then yes, a $2000 GPU is quite cheap.
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Mining?
No, workstations for LLMs etc. I have the feeling we are in some kind of AI bubble atm, everything is about AI and I donāt think itās sustainable. There are certainly areas where it is amazing, for example translating texts, but to give a counter example, out of curiosity I tried Google Gemini a few weeks ago and itās far less useful than the old Google assistant, worse than Google search and just a waste of time for the most part (imho).
Thatās how I feel about many of the consumer level applications of LLMs that I have tried so far 
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I almost completely replaced Web search (DuckDuckGo and Google Search) by perplexity AI since a couple of weeks.
Itās like delegating a search job to an intern, and you can still open the source web pages if required to confirm the result.
Huge time saver. Less Ads. Try it with one of the 3 offers out there.
Occasionally a web search is still useful, for example to look up an exchange rate real quick. Stuff you know will get a hit when āfeeling luckyā.
Tldr; if you donāt get why AI stuff is useful, start using it by making it a habit. Use it while itās free!
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No such thing as free AI.
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Ok heavily promoted AI.
Of course they want to have your soul.
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