RTX for games

Suyash Kerkar · September 14, 2020

Does RTX in games stand just for Ray Tracing, or Ray Tracing and DLSS both?

The_russian · September 14, 2020

It is just ray tracing, DLSS is a separate technology that offsets the performance hit you get when enabling ray tracing.

zeusthemoose · September 14, 2020

Technically rtx doesn’t stand for either. It stands for Ray Tracing Texel eXtreme. Ray tracing is a rendering technique that is used to generate the life like lighting effects. DLSS and DLSS 2.0 are ai that is used to generate more frames by not needing to do as much and relying on the ai to estimate some of the calculations. (At least that is my understanding of DLSS but it might not be 100% correct)

RTX is part of the naming used on Nvidia cards that have extra hardware specifically for ray tracing. At first, only rtx cards could do it but now the 16 series and I think some 10 series cards can also do it in some games. Just with very low FPS. AMD does not currently have a card that supports it but RDNA2 GPUs should.