Nvidia are bringing DirectX ray tracing to GTX graphics cards

[FreedomEclipse]

Nvidia are bringing DirectX ray tracing to GTX graphics cards, starting with the 6GB GTX 1060

PCWorld Article

Gamers Nexus Article/Video


Not sure if this is an early April Fools joke so take it with an iceberg of salt.

Im not saying its an April Fools joke but I think its an April Fools joke.

 

[Fluffmeister]

If Vega can do it, so can a toaster, scam!

 

[xkm1948]

Can or cannot was a never a question. When you render at 30 second per frame you will understand why specific acceleration asic is needed.

 

[Fluffmeister]

Can or cannot was a never a question. When you render at 30 second per frame you will understand why specific acceleration asic is needed.

Nailed it, plenty of big name engines are getting DXR support now, the reality is Turing.... and especially big daddy Turing will offer the best performance:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/1410...n-pascal-gpus-dxr-support-in-unity-and-unreal

 

[15th Warlock]

In this example, NVIDIA showed a representative frame of Metro Exodus using DXR for global illumination. The top graph shows a Pascal GPU, with only FP32 compute, having a long render time in the middle for the effects. The middle bar, shwoing an RTX 2080 but could equally be a GTX 1660 Ti, shows FP32 and INT32 compute working together during the RT portion of the workload and speeding the process up. The final bar shows the effect of adding RT cores to the mix, and tensor cores at the end.

Back on topic, this is excellent news! Maybe now we’ll finally see more games take advantage of this technology, and it also opens up the possibility of using ray tracing for millions more people, effectively increasing the installed base exponentially, so game developers finally have an excuse to add support for it in their games!

 

[wolf]

First enabling freesync to work, and now ray tracing? I think my GTX1080 has some of this fine wine going on!

 

[MrGenius]

Any DX12 capable card can use DXR. AMD or Nvidia. Don't tag this as a low quality post because it's true. You need to do better than that.

 

[GamerGuy]

Pretty happy I'd decided to keep my one and only nVida card, good old trusty LeadTek GTX1080!

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Nailed it, plenty of big name engines are getting DXR support now, the reality is Turing.... and especially big daddy Turing will offer the best performance:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/1410...n-pascal-gpus-dxr-support-in-unity-and-unreal

When put in a graphic it actually doesn't look so big a gap, makes purecain i think with his titanV in for a shout officially though it's also important to remember they're not the same teir of Raytracing and global illumination for example won't be supported.

 

[Caring1]

This makes the already excellent value GTX 1660 better still.

 

[overvolted]

Back on topic, this is excellent news! Maybe now we’ll finally see more games take advantage of this technology, and it also opens up the possibility of using ray tracing for millions more people, effectively increasing the installed base exponentially, so game developers finally have an excuse to add support for it in their games!

Not only that, but the tech will be better optimized where it will run faster and be less of a performance penalty.
It's new and developers are only just learning how to use it.

 

[R-T-B]

Don't tag this as a low quality post because it's true.

Except, you know, the part where ray tracing is an extension not core element, so it's not. Good luck running Ray Tracing on Fermi as a prime example.

 

[phanbuey]

yay the only ray traced game i wanted to replay was quake 2 lmao...

 

[phill]

I wonder if this has anything to do with AMD being able to do something without the 'RTX'...

I look forward to seeing what comes of this

 

[londiste]

Any DX12 capable card can use DXR. AMD or Nvidia. Don't tag this as a low quality post because it's true. You need to do better than that.

*If DXR part of API is implemented in drivers.
So far this exists for Volta and RTX Turing. Now Pascal midrage and up and non-RTX Turings get it.

 

[Hardcore Games]

check this out, using a Vega 56 card

http://www.hardcoregames.biz/crytek-neon-noir-rtx-demo/

 

[Fluffmeister]

When put in a graphic it actually doesn't look so big a gap, makes purecain i think with his titanV in for a shout officially though it's also important to remember they're not the same teir of Raytracing and global illumination for example won't be supported.

At the end of the day it will great to see how other cards ie- non RTX cards perform, it's great Nv are bringing support to Pascal, lets hope AMD drop a driver for their cards too, then we can finally judge if the RT cores gives a real benefit and by how much.

 

[SoNic67]

A GPU feature doesn't bring money until it is used in consoles. Sure, there are niche examples, but those are free add-ons on existing paid games. Right now people don't buy the game especially for Ray-Tracing, so devs won't program games with RT in mind.
Nividia, including more cards in the equation, hopes to convince devs to dedicate more time to this. And, on long run, to convince the console guys to buy nvidia chips for the next gen.
I assume also that AMD, with the Crytek show of RT on the Vega 56, is aware of all this fight for the next gen consoles.

 

[Vayra86]

This is the tease we need, don't we...

This also puts RTX in a different perspective than it did at launch. The USP for getting one has been damaged further. Now its not a unique new feature, but just a faster one; without content to show for it.

7nm where art thou

 

[londiste]

Nividia, including more cards in the equation, hopes to convince devs to dedicate more time to this.

Nvidia efforts are much more towards devs than gamers at this point.