I'm not much of a tech person and I have no idea if my observations are worth anything, but from where I'm sitting it seems computer technology isn't advancing anywhere near as quickly as it was from the 80s to the early 2010s.
The original Moore's law is dead and has been for a very long time, but the less specific trend of rapidly increasing computational power doesn't seem to hold much water anymore either. The laptop I have now doesn't feel like much of an improvement on the laptop I had four years ago at a similar price point. And the laptop I had six years ago is really only marginally worse.
So for those in the know on the relevant industry, how are things looking in general? What is the expected roadmap for the next 10 to 20 years? Will we ever get to the point where a cheap notebook is capable of running today's most demanding games at the highest settings, 144fps, and 4k resolution? Sort of like how today's notebooks can run the most intensive games of the 90s/early 2000s.
The most recent talk is that 8gb is no longer enough GPU VRAM to run the most modern games and I believe that, the AAA industry is drunk on the mega texture nonsense, they took those Skyrim HD mods from 10 years ago as a cheap way to make their games look better.
If you want to look ahead quite soon(<24 months) 2018 cards will simply not run 2025 games, not because of bad performance but just straight up crashing due to memory.
Can't wait for 1 kW graphic cards and even larger power supply units, making modern g*ming PCs more power intensive than your average local FM radio station transmitter 😌
The hobbyist shortwave radio station Channel 292 from the Bavarian town of Rohrbach an der Ilm broadcasts with 8 kW and with this they can reach the entirety of Central Europe - meanwhile your average g*mer uses a big chunk of that power to have a Skyrim with modded 8K HD textures run at 120 fps in 2160p.
Yeah the cards are powerful but consoles this generation have like 16gb of memory. My RTX 3070 is not holding up as well as I had hoped.