WYP
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Ray Tracing/RTX support confirmed?
Read more about Galax' reported confirmation of Nvidia Next-Gen graphics cards.
Read more about Galax' reported confirmation of Nvidia Next-Gen graphics cards.
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Reported Galax interview spills the beans on Nvidia's next-gen graphics cards
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Dicehunter
Resident Newb
Ray tracing in games won't be good for another few years yet, this is just a tick on a marketing checklist.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
Even basic Ray Tracing looks amazing. So won't bother me at all. Imagine games like Witcher 3 getting remastered for Ray Tracing. Holy moly would that be glorious.
ImprovizoR
New member
I doubt that Ray Tracing will matter in games until next-gen consoles are released.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
Not that far away. Getting it into consumers hands now just means more people will have it when it becomes more popular and then it won't be a dying technology kinda like how 3D ended up.
Avet
Banned
I don't think so. Current consoles are based on AMD hardware, and AMD doesn't have viable Ray Tracing technology. Nvidia has the power to "motivate" developers to make Ray Tracing games. And since AMD is out of the picture atm, it would be another hard blow to already crumbling AMD GPU division. We could see Ray Tracing games in the near future. Sooner that most expect.
AlienALX
Active member
ProRender is supposed to be their take on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQcvi35eVko
And it uses Vulkan apparently.
Avet
Banned
Yes. But that is mere software emulation. How much resources do you think you can squeeze out of Vega chip for Ray Tracing? The reason why we didn't have Ray Tracing until now is raw power that is required for real time rendering. Nvidia is adding Tensor cores for that sole purpose. Vega 64 is struggling with games as they are now. All this looks like PhysX from old times.
It is all speculation at this moment. Don't get me wrong. I like that AMD is doing good. AMD gave us new Intel CPUs. Good competition is good for consumer. I fear that AMD is not going to be competitive in GPU market for some time.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
It's not that AMD cannot handle games now it's more of the fact that it is a compute architecture first and games do not use as much compute as they do graphic tasks. That's why hardly any games uses Rapid Packed Math. It's a compute API and games just really would rather have raw graphics power.
It's also why when GCN first launched a simple 7970 would destroy a titan in pretty much any compute task software. On the other hand it would get destroyed in OpenGL as that is not compute focused.
Just the wrong architecture for the job. They mispredicted the future in multiple areas. Nvidia did not and therefore are in the lead.
TheF34RChannel
New member
There won't be a next generation of consoles; it's going to be a streaming service next - haven't you heard from the Sony boss?
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
If that's true then Sony are going to lose out big time, For decent streaming you need good internet which most people don't have and even with good internet the graphics are fuzzy and input latency is higher than having something local and no tech can get around that.
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NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
If you read what he said correctly it was that streaming services will be a much bigger part of the next generation. Not replace it. He also said disks are not going anyway as people keep buying them. Besides that we already have a PS streaming service. It will just get improved on the next generation of consoles.
BigDaddyKong
New member
It probably will once Nvidia pays UL to add it to 3dMark. Otherwise Crytec or another engine would have been trying to push a demo of something to drum up demand.
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