Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs

Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by modeless on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @05:32PM (#24347345)

True! I just watched this video [1] they put out with more details, and it sounds like they are working with monitor and mouse manufacturers to build true end-to-end latency measurement when using supported hardware. It would be easy for manufacturers to game these numbers, but hopefully Nvidia will provide some enforcement to prevent that. Maybe they could also add a microphone to measure audio latency because that is another huge problem with modern systems.

The video mentions that they get 15 ms end-to-end latency on a 360 Hz monitor in Fortnite. So that's what it takes for a modern system to finally beat the latency that you used to get on, say, an NES connected to a CRT. Still an order of magnitude above the limits of perception though [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cXg7GQogAE

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4

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Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by ksec on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @12:39AM (#24350030)

Yes! I watched that video many years ago. And then later I remember when media were hyping how "responsive" Apple Pencil was I was thinking what on earth are these people looking at. I thought to myself we would never get there because no one gives a damn about it. How the world has changed!

I often wonder at what cost, could we get it down to Sub Ms. Where everything from Input, Video and Audio are sync to the precision of 1ms. There used to be very little incentive to do so. Now that Gaming has taken over I hope it will develop some market perception and value so we could finally move into that direction.

The age of Instantaneous Computing.

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