when was halflife 3 released?

not sure correct place to ask or not...

does hdmi output from GPU, transmit 5.1 audio?

 

thanks for the highlight..

meaning can use HTIB?
hdmi from gpu plug in to htib receiver.. and streaming 5.1 sound...   yes? 

not gonna involve TV.
i still using my computer monitor for display.
objective; PC set + HTIB as sound output.

so... GPU <- hdmi -> monitor... monitor <- hdmi -> receiver's hdmi output.... possible? 

or... if using optical from MOBO direct to optical port on HTIB... workable? still produce 5.1 sound? 

noted for option 2.

now.. need to confirm the mobo and the htib, both can send and receive dts or not.... if not then    

*btw.. this is nvidia thread..... 

RTX 2070 seems reasonable price?

More powerful than GTX 1080 TI and cost less than 500 dollar.

This is how nVidia playing their cards. And IMHO is the beginning of the death of Radeon.

1) Instead of pushing the limit with usual methods like adding # of cores, die shrink and increasing the memory bandwidth, they play with the graphics quality this round, ray tracing.
2) But this ray tracing thing is not do-able with only brute force method. It has to come with the library and API. And nVidia had already begun the groundwork with game engines. This move, I believe is akin to the nVidia's move in GPGPU. It's like putting the first flag to claim a new land. Look at where AMD is today in GPGPU application, especially in deep learning. The hardware is there but the community support in terms of library is almost non existence. CUDA is so far ahead that no community is willing to start all over again with the OpenCL.
3) nVidia use the Gigarays as the new quantifiable benchmarking standard. Like it or not, soon a lot of demos will show the difference without RTX and the Radeon cards will fall in the "ugly" version of the games. If AMD were to follow suit and play the same game, it is definitely behind by at least one gen. If it does not play the same game, they can only sell to budget gamer.
4) The Radeon is doing great in the past two years due to cryptocurrency mining and also game consoles. All game consoles run on Radeon, except the Switch. While it remains to be seen Sony and MS will switch to RTX in next gen (remember nVidia's per-chip loyalty scheme in Xbox and PS3?), it definitely put pressure on them to switch once the PC master race starts to compare the graphics qualities.

So there you have it. Low margin, low volume (if lost the next gen console contract). How to fight?

already have benchmark for comparing turing and pascal on ray tracing performance. Thats why they kept touting 6x faster, that’s 6x in ray tracing speed lol

this rtx is the one that managed to fix the bane of game graphics engines = lighting

Any of you who fiddled with 3d modeling (3dsmax, maya, blender) sure know what I meant.

dude, did you tried how those eye candy lighting on the past games? Assassins Creed Syndicate has pretty lighting but enabling those ate 30-40% of my FPS.
These are even prettier by a huge mile.
Not to mention other applications will make use of it soon such as vrays. Imagine almost real time ray tracing in the preview window. Normally we need to wait like 10 seconds to see it roughly rendered

Y chu all not excited at some beautifoollll shadows?

Gorgeous shadows yo!