The arrival of dedicated 3D graphics acceleration hardware in the late 90s sped things up significantly. The upcoming iPhone 12 release will likely bring that level of performance to pocketable phones.Īs early as the 1980s, with the arrival of wireframe games like the original Elite, the community’s simultaneously praised advances in real-time graphics and bemoaned just how far away they are from real life. The mobile GPU in 2018’s iPad Pro offers comparable graphics performance to the Xbox One.

Remember that when the eighth console generation began in 2013, it was considered a big deal that the PS4 had 1.84 TFlops of compute power. While that’s still a luxury setup, well out of reach of most people, it indicates that mainstream consumer parts might hit 40 TFlops points sooner rather than later, perhaps as early as the end of the coming decade. A couple years ago, Tim Sweeney was quoted saying that dynamic, photo-realistic environments would take need about 40 TFlops of compute power to render in realtime.Ī pair of overclocked RTX 2080 Ti’s in SLI can approach 30 TFlops of compute. Will we ever cross over to the other side of the Uncanny Valley? This has been a problem bothering gamers and developers alike since the arrival of the very first 3D games.

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