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Quo vadis Nvidia? And on which bandwagon amD and (later maybe Intel) are really jumping (with)? If Nvidia manages to get the game developers and Microsoft on board far enough, then the ray-tracing dream might even become a hype train. Maybe. If so, competitors are likely to warm up because of the technological advantage, because such functions cannot be implemented overnight.

If not, it will, in the worst case scenario, become an expensive, exotic feasibility study (which would be a great pity from a technological point of view). But then all the enthusiastic early adaptors, so beautifully chased up by the PR, would be the paymasters for a dream that could also fail terribly because of the toughness of the market and the convenience of the developers. You have to imagine the whole environment simply and without emotion as a huge, official authority, where as a "new" you can either pull everyone along, or brutally fail at the bored pension mentality of your colleagues.

But if Nvidia (this is to be assumed) takes enough money to convince the developers of its own idea and to provide all the participants with mental and monetary support, then it should already succeed. And if not today, then surely tomorrow. Steady dollar and polite pressure hollow the stone. But then you have to ask yourself again why you as an end user did not wait until everything is really mature and even more performant.

But it still remains, I reluctantly admit, the own instinct to play and the desire to try something new. The desire to be always and constantly the first and to belong to it and to miss nothing, one often pays nonchalantly over. Usually even without a bad conscience, even if you don't like to admit it.

Whether one of these pioneering statusisms the currently called entry sum is worth, everyone has to make up for it fairly and without emotion with himself. Only, what does it mean without emotion… Have, must have and a wife who thinks in the end probably much clearer than oneself. With a reddish "Just by it" you can't really get any further. Still buy? Somehow, but you really should be able or must afford it and wait for the benchmarks. At night all cats are grey, the theory unfortunately too.

My special thanks also go to my American "Blues Brother" Chris Angelini, who was also able to use the proximity to the developers to squeeze out a few more information from the Dev team with various questions to the Dev team and his technical analyses are indispensable for all of us. It is precisely this cooperation that is needed to be able to implement such comprehensive and long articles in the short time available.

Igor Wallossek is editor-in-chief at gotIT! Tech Media GmbH and co-shareholders. He runs the independent laboratory of gotIT! and tests almost all products, with a focus on GPU, CPU and audio. He also works as an independent tester in the OEM/ODM sector and also deals with quality management.