{"id":16523,"date":"2026-07-02T10:37:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16523"},"modified":"2026-06-17T19:19:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T02:19:29","slug":"people-arent-buying-5090s-for-game-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16523","title":{"rendered":"People aren&#8217;t buying 5090&#8217;s for game features"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After 18 months, graphics features like multi-frame generation are working really well, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/the-nvidia-rtx-50-series-multi-frame-generation-is-still-useless-in-2026\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/the-nvidia-rtx-50-series-multi-frame-generation-is-still-useless-in-2026\/\">only a handful of games support path tracing to use it<\/a>. How few? 7 titles. Even worse, the Steam list of top 100 most anticipated titles &#8211; only 1 has path tracing that allows multi-frame generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And yet, the price of 5090&#8217;s continues to remain sky high and selling better than ever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s no wonder when AI chips sell for 10-100x and are driving all the sales. Graphics has taken a back seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 18 months, graphics features like multi-frame generation are working really well, but only a handful of games support path tracing to use it. How few? 7 titles. Even worse, the Steam list of top 100 most anticipated titles &#8211; only 1 has path tracing that allows multi-frame generation. And yet, the price of 5090&#8217;s continues to remain sky high and selling better than ever. It&#8217;s no wonder when AI chips sell for 10-100x and are driving all the sales&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16523\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4iv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16534,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16523\/revisions\/16534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}