Calling all low and mid GPU owners - shall we swap RT for more performance or lower prices?

Onasi · Dec 29, 2023

Was there also a 230-250-ish RX 7600 on the shelf next to it, just to drive home how much of a bargain that 16-series was?

Vario · Dec 29, 2023

I've never ever used the ray tracing on my 3060.

Dr. Dro · Dec 29, 2023

AusWolf said:
Solar Bay is a mobile focused benchmark adapted for the PC. Not exactly the same kind of workload as an AAA game.

Yes and I brought that up before. But if any eventual game offers a "lite" RT load, it's feasible on said cards. Moreover, you're able to develop RT software on them. Not so much the case for RDNA. It was more of a big deal at the time that hardware that supported RT was expensive (and pretty much vendor exclusive, since only Turing did it). Nowadays it doesn't really matter.

lexluthermiester · Dec 30, 2023

Denver said:
- Would you be open to sacrificing the capability to run Ray Tracing on mid and low-end(under U$500) GPUs in exchange for either a 30% boost in performance or a 30% reduction in price, while maintaining the same level of performance as the current lineup?

Hell no! IMO Turning off a few other high compute effects is preferable to to turning off RTX. AA(of any type) is completely unneeded these days.

MSDOS Retro · Dec 30, 2023

I dont even know if my GTX1060 3GB have RT, and i also dont care about it.
I also dont care about FreeSynch or G-Synch.

I bought that 1060 around 4 months ago. The last dedicated card before that was an AMD 7850 2GB

I can live without RT.

Launcestonian · Dec 30, 2023

I've never experienced ray tracing, still enjoying modded creation engine games from a decade ago... :laugh:

Beginner Macro Device · Dec 30, 2023

MSDOS Retro said:
I dont even know if my GTX1060 3GB have RT, and i also dont care about it.
I also dont care about FreeSynch or G-Synch.

Your GPU supports everything listed by you but RT support is very limited and you can't reasonably play RT games on your GPU. It's too slow for that.

MSDOS Retro said:
I can live without RT.

True but RT is better than raster. It's just way more expensive hardware-wise.

lexluthermiester · Dec 30, 2023

MSDOS Retro said:
I dont even know if my GTX1060 3GB have RT

They do not. Only the RTX Geforce models have RT.

Beginner Macro Device · Dec 30, 2023

lexluthermiester said:
They do not. Only the RTX Geforce models have RT.

GTX 1000 and 1600 series support limited software RT. Back in 2020, when Cyberpunk just launched, it was possible to enable RT on such GPUs (yet it was nonsensical as even the 1080 Ti wasn't doing better than a dozen FPS).

lexluthermiester · Dec 30, 2023

Beginner Micro Device said:
GTX 1000 and 1600 series support limited software RT.

While that is true, the performance is so lackluster that it's not worth discussion. On a GTX 1060 3GB, forget about it. Not going to be playable on any level.

Beginner Micro Device said:
(yet it was nonsensical as even the 1080 Ti wasn't doing better than a dozen FPS)

Exactly. Not worth it.. Even the lowest end RTX2060 would be preferable.

AusWolf · Dec 30, 2023

lexluthermiester said:
While that is true, the performance is so lackluster that it's not worth discussion. On a GTX 1060 3GB, forget about it. Not going to be playable on any level.

I'm not even sure if Nvidia enabled RT on it, to be fair. I think it's only 1060 6 GB and up for Pascal, or 1660 and up for non-RT Turing.

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Calling all low and mid GPU owners - shall we swap RT for more performance or lower prices?

Would you be open to sacrificing the capability to run Ray Tracing ?

Yes, for 30% lower price.

Yes, for 30% more performance.

No, I love RT even with low performance.

Onasi

Vario

Dr. Dro

lexluthermiester

MSDOS Retro

Launcestonian

Beginner Macro Device

lexluthermiester

Beginner Macro Device

lexluthermiester

AusWolf

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