Nvidia expanding Raytracing to many current chipsets.

[Wraith_TMS]

Just an FYI item--If memory serves, HTC has no plans to support ray-tracing yet--but its reported (probably from the GDC event this week) that Nvidia will release new drivers next month that allow many current 10XX series cards to run ray-tracing. I have one of those cards, so I'll be interested to see it in action in other games.  Currently, ray-tracing is only supported on their late model 20XX series cards (very pricey).

Here's the article.

FWIW,

[Ack-Ack]

The only problem is the cards will use low ray tracing settings.

[Denniss]

Even AMD will support raytracing via DXR (Direct X Ray Tracing). Although AMD has no dedicated RT Hardware in its GPUs (yet) it plans to use their large array of compute cores for acceleration.

[Ack-Ack]

Ray tracing on the older 1000 series is very bad, even at low settings.  At low settings, even a 1080Ti card struggles to get anything close to playable frame rates.

[Chalenge]

Ray tracing in real time is coming, but not yet ready for primetime. Companies like Unreal Engine and Quixel are helping, but it's still off in the future. I think it's still 3-6 years in the future.

[Bizman]

How many games actually support ray tracing at the moment? The last article I read about it the number was one.

[Chalenge]

Three at the moment.

[100Coogn]

Between the Windows 10 April/May big update and Nvidia not being able to fix their memory leak on the 430.25 Drivers, the next month should prove interesting. 

Coogan

[Chalenge]

Remember we never get video drivers from Windows Update? This is why.

[100Coogn]

Remember we never get video drivers from Windows Update? This is why.

Oh trust me, I didn't install that crap.  Just reading the GeForce forums is all.

Coogan