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Poll: Ray Tracing - Do we care?

Ray Tracing - Do you care?


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Not particularly interest in it currently. Since performance is a (convenient) unknown it could very well be a checkbox feature that will need a few years and obviously newer generations of cards to get decent performance out of the odd game that has it.

I was always told never go for first generation.
 
Here's another fun fact Ray Tracing is old tech.
The people who know about ray tracing are the ones advocating it.
Is the people who don't have a clue that are comparing it to gameworks and sounding quite stupid in the process.

Not sold on yesterday's cards though. They had to show some 10 series comparisons to justify the price and didn't. I'm not investing in first gen RT at those costs.
 
The people who know about ray tracing are the ones advocating it.
Is the people who don't have a clue that are comparing it to gameworks and sounding quite stupid in the process.

Not sold on yesterday's cards though. They had to show some 10 series comparisons to justify the price and didn't. I'm not investing in first gen RT at those costs.

The thing is though that all the new Ray Tracing tech from nvidia is part of the gameworks library. I haven't seen the other comments about gameworks but just from a quick glance at your comment i would say its perfectly valid to bring in gameworks to the conversation.

"Ray tracing acceleration is leveraged by developers through NVIDIA OptiX, Microsoft DXR enhanced with NVIDIA ray tracing libraries, and the upcoming Vulkan ray tracing API."

https://developer.nvidia.com/rtx
https://developer.nvidia.com/what-is-gameworks
 
The thing is though that all the new Ray Tracing tech from nvidia is part of the gameworks library. I haven't seen the other comments about gameworks but just from a quick glance at your comment i would say its perfectly valid to bring in gameworks to the conversation.
They're mutually exclusive.
 
To quote what I've said elsewhere:

BFV I think is terrible example. A game that should be a gritty, dirty, dark war shown as all clean and shiny.... lol

This is what i fear will happen. You'll find everything is clean and shiny just for the sake of using RT.

And so I only care about RT in a negative way. It just looks to be a way to try and justify the hilarious pricing. I need a lot to be convinced of RT at this point.
 
Yes most people wouldn't of seen much difference because there watching on a stream but as a PC gamer from before 3d cards we have always been pushing the graphics side, the one thing nvidia showed was there not sitting still most company's without real competition normally don't try and push.

I hate to think what graphics will look like it another 10 years its going to be fun !
 
I think real time ray tracing will be hugely impactful.... in a couple of years. The demos Nvidia showed were all very simple scenes. The geometry was fairly basic, there weren't many objects, the view distance was low and there generally wasn't much going on. Yet the cards could only achieve a woefully low framerate. I feel like Nvidia is hyping up RTX so hard not because it will actually make a meaningful difference today, but because they are trying to distract from Turing not being much faster than Pascal.
 
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