@geotherma @vmiki88 @JRD1912: eye-candy is goofy angles where you can't see them when installed and that ugly ass fluorescent green on grey Nvidia uses? still just a rectangle when looking in on one.
i'd much rather have a simplistic black design like this than any flashy colors and/or angles. if these reference 400s had an RGB logo i would say it's even better than most 3rd party designs. there is a sleeker Galax 1080 & a ASUS 1080 Turbo version that i'd really like to have though.
@sladakrobot: but my comment is better than yours because it runs bigger fonts and at faster speeds! even though every letter cost me a million dollars more to type it will be worth it in the long run when it runs in 24K sentences.
and the same goes for frame rate differences. some may be used to good graphics at 30fps and decent graphics at 60fps on their consoles and not think much of it. but even going from 60 to 75fps is a big difference, and going from 60 to 120fps is an unbelievably huge difference in smoothness. also considering you're getting this large frame rate improvement along with much better post processing, lighting/shading, and much higher anti-aliasing the difference is a very large one visually.
and today's enthusiast cards(GTX 1080 / R9 390X for example) are 9TFLOPs & 8.6TFLOPS. a 5TFLOP card is more of a low-budget choice these days.
@spartanx169x: if you are arguing for the Scoprio's ability to play games at 4K with higher settings & frame rates you are incorrect.
the GTX 1080 has 9TFLOPS and the 390X has 8.6TFLOPS. neither of these cards can do 4K with very high settings and get even a steady 60fps. and this is when paired with high end 4+ core i7s, 16+GB DDR4 RAM, and SSDs. for the Scorpio to have this type of hardware it would need to sell at >$1000.
a 6TFLOP GPU with other low-medium tiered hardware will never be able to do it unless the games have very low detail and effects with minimum textures and polygon counts.
@Yams1980: a 390X or a GTX 1080 can do 60fps @ 2160p pretty easily at the settings the XboxOne uses for most games. my 8GB 290X can even do ~45fps @ 2160 on Witcher 3 with a mix of low-medium settings, no AA, and minimal post processing.
but i'm sure the Scorpio will be holding them back at 30fps and very low settings for that resolution. pretty much the same as the current gen is for 1080.
@Runeweaver: considering Microsoft doesn't manufacture PCs themselves, later Xbox iterations could be a good way to start offering their own Windows systems to basic home users and gamers.
@beepbep: yeah, i remember running 720p content upscaled to 1080i and that looked quite a bit worse than the original 720p format. going from the 900-1080p that XboxOne currently uses all the way up to 2160i would look much worse in comparison.
having played and loved the 3 originals when they released and been playing Lost Alpha on and off again over the passed year or so and also loving it, I am really dying for an upgraded S.T.AL.K.E.R. environment that uses today's tech. i can't believe no developer has stepped in to take over the legacy.
too many simplistic shooters out there and medieval fantasy focused RPGs. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. was the perfect mix. while Fallout is fun and a great series, it just doesn't have the adult/horror/sci-fi aspect that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. has always had.
@drachmaserus: sorry, didn't know agreeing with someone was bad internet taste. next time i'll be sure to call you a childish name and make fun of something you said.
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