Looking at how Nvidia is "Ray Guessing" (Throw a handfull of rays, Neural net the noise away) with their hardware-software implementation, I would prefer AMD to not waste money on hardware implementations.
Nvidia's implementation is easily the most efficient we've seen to date.
And the whole idea of lowering the number of simulation runs and clever minimizing of the resulting noise is taken straight from scientific simulations.
Why do you think pushing twice as much rays and doing a simple average would be better is beyond me.
sony should consider 60fps gaming console, just make it happend then lets talk abt ray tracing..
60fps at 4K?
PS5 will be more than capable to do that if the rumored AMD-based specs are true.
Im not so sure AMD's ray tracing is going to be compatible with Nvidias proprietary tech personally, now that would be a dramma new Raytraced games RTX didn't work on.
Not a big deal. RT needs very little coding. Even if game studios were forced to write a separate implementation for each GPU maker (just 3 of them), it won't make their job harder than it is now.
The real cost of RT is in models and textures. And they're either universal or easily converted.
What this means for gamers is:
- despite proprietary coding being simple, game studios may decide to spend more time on Nvidia and Intel code than on AMD (simply based on market share),
- games will look differently on different GPU architectures (finally something other than fps),
- game installation may target a GPU, so everything may need to be updated after a GPU brand switch.
