Ray Tracing Coming to Non-RTX GPUs

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What a surprise after that Crytek ray tracing demo running on a Vega card.

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Also, Microsoft ported D3D12 runtime for Windows 7 that allows it to run DirectX12.

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I guess basic RT is better than none.

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I guess basic @Artem is better than none too

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Wat8

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When I read this suddenly a GTX 1070 or 1660 Ti became more feasable lol

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I don’t even know what ray tracing is. :man_shrugging:

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Hey good my 1080ti is still worth it… oh wait, why do I care about Ray tracing again? Oh yeah… I don’t. :slight_smile:

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It makes light, reflection and shadow look more realistic. It lines up the light source with the surfaces it touches. It’s pretty when it’s the real kind. It is the same tech they use to make CGI in film look more realistic. The basic kind is probably an improvement but it definitely causes a fairly large performance hit.

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It renders PRETTY in real time.

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The new driver is out, ray tracing is available on the gtx 1060 and above

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Nice, under 10 fps!

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Want to test ray tracing without a rtx card? Go ahead.