A Passing train in the night (big and scary but very far away)

 https://www.tomshardware.com/features/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3070-vs-amd-radeon-rx-6700-xt#xenforo-comments-3696614

Links do not work in this thing unless you publish, and I haven't written anything yet.

But the train started with what AMD has to sell (*nothing*) 

Then, I must have googled a term or two.. I'll go look: 

https://news.google.com/topics/CAAqIAgKIhpDQkFTRFFvSEwyMHZNSG8yTkJJQ1pXNG9BQVAB

Disingenuous, that's a word, right? Tom's Hardware gets paid if you buy a product, gets the product free, calls the 3070 a "High-End" card.

More like High-priced card. Sell your soul at your peril, Tom.

If you insist upon believing the words on that site as though they were from a burning-bush in the Bible, I'd need to reinterpret the way I read it.

The best cards available, if they actually were available, and (something akin to Nvidia loving you so much, they sent their only Card to save your computer)

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what is raytracing, anyway??

 I swear I had it, and if it's shafts-of light, I could do without.

Raytracing, from Wiki

I've got a fouled-up card in my storage-closet that did raytracing, according to 3dmark, but it was too cheap, too insignificant, and of such a poor quality, that it had no "Backplate", which led to its sudden demise in February.

I don't do math

The other day, a car passed me, and on the stereo, some guy mumbled monotonal (Monotonally isn't a word. Fuck that)

He had a loud Bass blasting, so whatever he said was lost.

But I'll bet he's got Tons of $5000 shoes, prolly a raytracing card too.

yeahbutt... I cannot appreciate his style of music, his taste in tennis-shoes or the raytracing-capabilities of his card, I hope that's ok.

"Philistine" (I heard that.)

Yeah but I can just turn that particular feature off, right?

Run my game in 2K instead of four, ignore "Motion Blur".

So I don't ask for much, 13-14K-1080p -3Dmarks (14K is tons better, thank you)

(Rant) "Ray Tracing" and HDR are bogus features marketers use to get you to buy new stuff.

Consider for a second that the average Monitor is 27-32 inches and you sit possibly 24" away from it;

so why have it blasting eye-searing brightness?

Most of the last couple of monitors I've owned have had the brightness turned down to make them more eye-friendly.

"Ray Tracing" is a better example of a marketing-thing, average consumers don't really know what it is, but they'll rail in forums anyway about DLSS (another phantom feature).

If you're in one of those faith-based forums, uh, 240hz, DLSS, Raytracing, is the Only true monitor to buy.

(why?)

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/jk0bhl/dlss_and_nvidias_marketing_coup/

This picture (the price) should be in a museum you'll enjoy looking at next year
Was 2579, is only 2299 (so it's on sale) but it's out-of-stock, so...