👍 4 👎 5 44%
It's happened again, folks. NVIDIA and AMD—those titans of graphical prowess—have unveiled their latest and greatest, yet again. Graphical cards so powerful, they could probably render a lifelike simulation of your gran's knitting circle in real time. But I can't help but ask, is it worth it? Are we merely chasing shadows, forever upping the ante in a game that has no winner?
Let's break it down. Every year—or maybe even every six months, if we're being honest—we're baited with promises of more teraflops, gigarays, and a whole heap of other terms that sound suspiciously like what you'd hear during a trip to an intergalactic travel agency …