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Title: Nvidia expanding Raytracing to many current chipsets.
Post by: Wraith_TMS on March 19, 2019, 12:31:40 PM

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. (https://gizmodo.com/ray-tracing-is-coming-to-a-whole-lot-of-gpus-1833389222)

FWIW,

Title: Re: Nvidia expanding Raytracing to many current chipsets.
Post by: Ack-Ack on March 19, 2019, 10:46:06 PM

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

Title: Re: Nvidia expanding Raytracing to many current chipsets.
Post by: Denniss on March 20, 2019, 03:32:35 AM

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.

Title: Re: Nvidia expanding Raytracing to many current chipsets.
Post by: Ack-Ack on April 12, 2019, 10:25:02 PM

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.

Title: Re: Nvidia expanding Raytracing to many current chipsets.
Post by: Chalenge on April 12, 2019, 11:49:40 PM

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.

Title: Re: Nvidia expanding Raytracing to many current chipsets.
Post by: Bizman on April 13, 2019, 08:43:58 AM

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

Title: Re: Nvidia expanding Raytracing to many current chipsets.
Post by: Chalenge on April 13, 2019, 02:05:57 PM

Three at the moment.

Title: Re: Nvidia expanding Raytracing to many current chipsets.
Post by: 100Coogn on April 13, 2019, 02:25:23 PM

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.  :old:

Coogan

Title: Re: Nvidia expanding Raytracing to many current chipsets.
Post by: Chalenge on April 13, 2019, 02:43:28 PM

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

Title: Re: Nvidia expanding Raytracing to many current chipsets.
Post by: 100Coogn on April 13, 2019, 11:38:12 PM

Quote from: Chalenge on April 13, 2019, 02:43:28 PM

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