AMD confirms RDNA 3 has "rearchitected compute units" that "enhance ray tracing"

[WYP]

AMD confirms RDNA 3 has "rearchitected compute units" that "enhance ray tracing"

Expect a ray tracing boost from RDNA 3.



Read more about AMD's planned Ray tracing boosts for RDNA 3.

 

[Dicehunter]

Don't care about RT at all, Looks nice in reflections but after 5 minutes the "ooooh" factor wears off. Now a 6900XT/6950XT using 50% less power, Now that would be a nice buy considering the rising prices of energy.

 

[Bagpuss]

Well, if AMD want me to even consider them for my money & next GPU, it won't happen until their RT performance is (at least) on par with Nvidia's.

Don't care about RT at all, Looks nice in reflections but after 5 minutes the "ooooh" factor wears off. Now a 6900XT/6950XT using 50% less power, Now that would be a nice buy considering the rising prices of energy.

RT reflections are nice but not the real reason why Ray Tracing is such a game changer, its real time Global Illumination that can transform a game world and is the reason why its the most expensive feature to have running in ray tracing and still only being implemented in limited amounts on current gen RT cards.

 

[meuvoy]

RT reflections are nice but not the real reason why Ray Tracing is such a game changer, its real time Global Illumination that can transform a game world and is the reason why its the most expensive feature to have running in ray tracing and still only being implemented in limited amounts on current gen RT cards.

The biggest improvemnt is refelction, GI can be had with raster, just look how good UE5's Lumen is. We already had a few games with great GI before Raytracing, the real benefit is in the time it saves developers setting up the lighting, it's jsut sooooo much easier, (word from a 3D artist, not game developer but still 3D artist with years of experience with V-Ray's Raytracing and a couple years or so of experience with both UE4 and UE5 raster and Raytracing).

Point is when raster ilumination is well made, even if you are not employing GI, it's hard to differentiate from Raytracing, that's another story entirelly if we talk about reflections, and also refractions and especially refraction shadows and caustics, but with raytracing you can have this all up and running incredibly quickly, literally no set-up required and that's the game changer, allows developers to launch games quicker or to better polish their games.