Usain Bolt running
what was thought
to be an impossible
time for a human.
come before the question of how fast
it can or is being done.
This applies to just about every
scientific or technological pursuit. It
applies to the natural world (natural
philosophy) as well.
One can and should I think,
separate this from the performance
side of the RTX GPUs in today’s
workloads or titles. From a
consumer perspective and
specifically within the gaming
context, the RTX GPUs may or may
not be offering what was expected.
How those expectations came about,
is not something I can't answer or
even attempt to answer. That
conversation is worth having for any
number of reason, but not to the
exclusion of the larger conversation
which is the computing milestone
that is the Turing processors. At a
personal level I have no expectation
of how much ‘faster’ any one product
can be over its predecessor.
Especially if the predecessor was the
‘fastest’ as it were. What I can say
however is; if every successive GPU
generation’s contribution is to be
determined purely by linear
performance gain to the exclusion of
the technological and in this case
computation abilities, that
conversation will be a short one. We
are at a stage where is inside your
machine is essentially similar silicon
to what's in the world's most
powerful super computer. The failure
(if there is such a thing in scientific
exploration) is not on the silicon side,
but in our inability to imagine what all
that computing power allows us to do
and what it means and the questions
it allows us to ask.
Turing GPUs are truly astonishing
computing devices. There’s nothing
else that delivers this combination
of present day performance and
RTRT ability. The computing
landscape as a whole or at least
computer generated imagery has
progressed in leaps and bounds and
it’s not something which can be
captured with an fps counter alone.
More often than not, technological
merit, is conflated and discussed
along with performance and of
course pricing with little to no
nuance of how all these inputs
culminate into the final product.
Pricing deals almost exclusively with
just the ‘product’ and its perceived
or material value to potential
customers. That particular
discussion needs it's own set of data
and question which deal with market
dynamics, and the business case for
such a product. All markets impose
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