New Ray Traced 3DMARK benchmark could release this September

[WYP]

A new benchmark with DXR support is coming!

Read more about UL Benchmark's planned Ray Traced 3DMARK benchmark.

 

[looz]

So is this just the ray tracing demo from March updated to have a scoring system?

 

[WYP]

So is this just the ray tracing demo from March updated to have a scoring system?

Hard to know. The new benchmark might use the same assets, but it will likely be different from the tech demo.

 

[Bartacus]

What's the point of a benchmark that is only valid for ONE series of cards?!?!?

 

[WYP]

What's the point of a benchmark that is only valid for ONE series of cards?!?!?

Same could have been said for their DX12 benchmark given Nvidia's lacklustre ASYNC compute capabilities.

MS has made a DirectX Ray Tracing API, which is technically supported by all DX12 graphics cards. Right now only Nvidia has hardware with dedicated Ray Tracing acceleration capabilities (their RT cores) but that will no doubt change in time.

UL Benchmarks/Futuremark have made benchmarks that seemed pointless in the past, with their API overhead test acting as a prime example. It's useless now, but it did provide some useful data for its time.

 

[Bagpuss]

What's the point of a benchmark that is only valid for ONE series of cards?!?!?

To let those people stupid enough to pay £1100 for a GPU to feel good about it, maybe

 

[SPS]

What's the point of a benchmark that is only valid for ONE series of cards?!?!?

Because it's the future of rendering.

 

[Wraith]

Because it's the future of rendering.

^^He's right you know.

I can't wait for Blender 2.90 to release and see just how good this is going to be, it's already mind blowing using the Beta on a 1080Ti.

 

[NeverBackDown]

^^He's right you know.

I can't wait for Blender 2.90 to release and see just how good this is going to be, it's already mind blowing using the Beta on a 1080Ti.

Is that in real time as well?

 

[Wraith]

Is that in real time as well?

Sure is fella, real time rendering with almost no wait time.

This is Blender 2.8 using the EEVEE real time render engine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxrwx7nmS5A

Can't wait to see what RT brings to the table.

EDIT: What you should take from this is that the artist is working in real time on the animations, textures and other effects. Ray tracing is going to speed this up so much and also rule out the need for fake light sources.