Some of the tacked on use of effects isn't that great and as much as they pushed the boat out with some areas of the graphics in RDR2 it pales compared to what can be done even now with a decent ray tracing implementation.
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Did AMD just kill off RTX
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Some of the tacked on use of effects isn't that great and as much as they pushed the boat out with some areas of the graphics in RDR2 it pales compared to what can be done even now with a decent ray tracing implementation.
I see no reason not too when other company's seems be able to get away with having very high prices like apple, Samsung, Nvidia etc
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RTX in it's it's current form only handles reflections and certain aspects of lighting/shadows. Graphical fidelity is dependent on far more than that. That does not make them instantly the best looking games, as it would mean Quake RTX which implements raytracing the most would be the best looking game.
In fact I would argue art style ,art design and overall technical implementation is far more important than special effects.Look at a games such as Crisis or Crysis 3 - they looked better than many later games which technically used later more advanced techniques.
Probably still cheaper than an equivalent PC with the latest overpriced milking device....sorry graphics card.
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This would be interesting to watch to see if the console crowd bolsters upheaval on the price if they tried. I'm just curious to see what kind of resolve the console crowd has for MS/Sony.
2080ti gets way more than 25 fps in Quake 2 RTX depending a bit on resolution. One of the things with older games is that often their lighting/effects are fairly simple to strip out and replace with a path tracing implementation - with newer games all kinds of cheats and workarounds, etc. are used to create advanced effects that aren't trivial to remove without potentially breaking other things plus a lot of older games have the full source released so can be updated without lots of messy licensing issues.
I would take some time to browse through the latest updated Quake 2 RTX screenshots here for instance and try and extrapolate how those lighting effects would enhance a game that had more geometric detail, etc. than Quake 2 does... https://steamcommunity.com/app/1089130/screenshots/