Ray tracing feature

[SomeonesDad]

What do you guys think about Ray-Tracing feature? seeing how next gen consoles will be using amd chips and how inaccessible the rtx cards, would it die just like how sli did or will nvidia will try to push it because i think with graphics like these days, there's really no more room to improve at graphics wise or it will looks to realistic and ended up not being a "game"

[schwellmo92]

The next gen consoles and next AMD graphics cards have ray tracing support.

[SomeonesDad]

Just now, schwellmo92 said:

The next gen consoles and next AMD graphics cards have ray tracing support.

It's basically like how amd launched crossfire when sli came out, right?

[gloop]

7 minutes ago, SomeonesDad said:

It's basically like how amd launched crossfire when sli came out, right?

IIRC they have had the option to 'enable' it for 5000 series cards since launch, but it would perform poorly and they wanted to develop it mroe.

[Eighjan]

22 minutes ago, SomeonesDad said:

It's basically like how amd launched crossfire when sli came out, right?

Nvidia just got it released first... that's all.

[Mick Naughty]

Don’t care much for it. Especially for such a large performance hit for real time. Seems more like a slow pace game feature. 

[Vishera]

22 minutes ago, SomeonesDad said:

would it die just like how sli did or will nvidia will try to push it

No,it won't die since people like better graphics even if the hardware can't run it smoothly (Crysis) and it's a great marketing point for game publishers to use ("We have ray tracing!")

Ray tracing will get wider support and major improvements in the future,i expect it further down the road to be the standard for graphics in video games.

 

29 minutes ago, SomeonesDad said:

seeing how next gen consoles will be using amd chips

AMDs Ray tracing solution is not out yet and who knows when it will happen.

[jones177]

The only game I have played that I consider it a necessity is Control.

On games like Metro Exodus and SOTTR I really don't care if it is off or on.

 

[Litbelb]

If the triple A titles have it, I think we’ll start seeing ray tracing slowly trickle into other games, but it just all depends on the developers. If they care enough to spend the time to implement it, heck, if they’re still even supporting the game.

[schwellmo92]

11 hours ago, Vishera said:

AMDs Ray tracing solution is not out yet and who knows when it will happen.

Possibly Q3 for graphics cards but definitely Q4 at the latest along with the consoles in Q4.