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by lowbloodsugar 3362 days ago
Actually the difference between a top consumer graphics card and a professional card is just the drivers. A few years ago the president of nVidia went as far as to say that we was running a software company that monetized their software with "dongles" (the card). It used to be the case that cutting or adding a link would turn a $500 consumer card into a $2000 pro card: the link would be detected by the driver to enable pro features.

Also, aren't Disney movies raytraced?

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> Also, aren't Disney movies raytraced?

Yes.