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Instead of running a magnetic tape over the cassette player's sensor, you put an electromagnet on it powered by the headphone jack. The cassette player just reads the magnetic field and doesn't know any difference.
Fake resolution has it's place, the problem is when Nvidia pressures reviewers to put its cards running a fake resolution against other cards running native resolution on benchmark charts.
It generates an answer that looks correct. Actual correctness is accidental. That's how you wind up with documents with references that don't exist, it just knows what references look like.
against two weaker GPUs (the 3060 and 2060 Super) where the new card would be sure to win.
IIRC they also insisted multi-frame generation be used, which the 3060 and 2060 Super don't support. That's why the 4060 isn't allowed, it does support MFG and it'd sink the plan to inflate 5060 benchmark results with fake frames.
The specific games using specific settings at 1080p bit is because in 2025 they have to carefully choose scenarios that won't overflow the tiny VRAM of the cards and tank performance to below the level of the 3060 12GB.
If you have an 8GB GPU that's a few years old, it's probably doing okay-ish. It probably doesn't have the performance to really suffer from VRAM limits and you don't game with things like raytracing or ultra detail settings turned on because the GPU isn't fast enough for those things anyway.
My Vega 64 had 8GB VRAM and that was fine.
If you buy one of the new GPUs with 8GB though, the VRAM is a huge problem. You have the GPU power to have all the features turned on, but you're going to see real performance crippled because it overflows VRAM.
Longevity is the other issue - when games released in 2025 run like ass on your 8GB GPU from 2017, you won't be surprised. Bad performance from an 8GB GPU that released in 2025 for $500, that's a problem.
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chances are, it will have a table of context and generally low quality writing
Don't forget repeating the question over and over again. If my question gets rephrased four times in the first four sentences, it's a good sign that I'm reading AI slop and there's no actual answer in the pages and pages of text.
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