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State of RT today. Is it usuable?

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So now that we do have a few RT games out and there are still loads coming, are the current line-up of cards even capable?

Lets have an honest discussion of what is possible with the current generation of cards.

If someone buys a 2070 super or a 2080 what sort of RT effects can they enable and still have playable frame rates?
 
Panos said:
Nope, if you do not plan to spend over £1000 for a GPU.

Also were you saw "loads coming" games? Atm there are about a handful only new ones this year, including Wolfenstein and Stay In Light.

If you talk in general about the future, with the new consoles, we do not know how Turing or NVidia's next gen, will deal with AMD hybrid Ray Tracing.
Because I doubt software companies will do the job twice, so console games will directly come to PC with AMD optimized Ray Tracing.
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You've got Control coming too as well as the big Cyberpunk.

Is the new Wolfenstein gonna have RT? Didn't know that.
 
Panos said:
Yet these are 2 games not "loads". As for the new Wolfenstein, apparently it was said that would have however haven't followed it, and the game comes out this week.
The rest of 2018 games like Asseto Corsa, the developers are dead silent on that matter a year later.
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Watch Dogs Legion as well as the new Call of Duty.

So there are some big beefy games supporting the tech.
 
Either which way I really need to and want to hold on for the 3000 series. but it gets harder and harder to do so.

Is my 1080 struggling? Not really. After I turned off all the extras in Metro Exodus it managed the game at Ultra 1440p. Same with Assassins Creed Odyssey. Ultra 1440p. But I imagine it's Gsync which is helping the game feel good as I can see I get dips in fps down to 30 minimums. But it still feels great.
 
That's the thing I don't see Nvidia RTX as a gimmick at all. There are big AAA titles supporting or going to support the tech. It's in a different league to say AMD's HBCC which they made a big thing of with Vega supported in 1 or 2 games (Wolfenstein & FarCry5) and now since then it's not seen any light of day in any more games.

Even the cards since like Navi don't even have HBCC right?
 
Marine-RX179 said:
Buying 20 seres cards for RT pretty much would be like buying the 1st gen SSD back in the days- cost lots of money, and don't perform near as well as a gen or two later down the line while costing less.

There's not enough application/software truly benefit from it yet because of the huge performance trade-of, so might as wait wait till at least Nvidia move from 12nm to 7nm, where the cards will be able to fit much more transistors and RT cores etc onto the GPU.
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Yup
 
Rroff said:
Would depend a lot on the game and settings. There isn't really a yes/no answer to that - but a next gen game that used it in the manner of Quake 2 where it does all the lighting I doubt would be playable much above 720p on a 2070 super.
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Ouch. Even if you set medium RT?

Based on this evidence I see zero point in buying these cards for their RT ability.
 
I want to get in o the RT action too, but my 1080 is just fine and I want to wait for the next gen before I stump up over £500 for a new card. Fingers crossed next gen on 7nm will be something special.
 
I think the TLDR is this.....

RTX it's self or rather DXR is awesome and will be awesome in the future.

HOWEVER we are taking about DXR. RTX its's self will probably disappear as a moniker when the industry is ready (AMD, Consoles, Microsoft etc) to go all in on the technology and it becomes mainstream.
 
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