Ray tracing

[D3addr0p]

Question, if all games now come with and look a million times better with raytracing only on Nvidia RTX cards, what will AMD do?

this is not a status update, it is a topic to spark conversation.

[DrMacintosh]

That is simply not the reality of what is going to happen. It will be many years before most games support ray tracing and even less will run well. Just because ray tracing hardware has been added to cards, doesnt mean that those cards will be able to use it in a your 4K AAA games at 60fps. 

 

Once the technology actually develops to the point of being "worth it," AMD will implement an open standard for their cards (of which Nvidia will disregard because they are all about proprietary technologies).

[MedievalMatt]

3 minutes ago, D3addr0p said:

Question, if all games now come with and look a million times better with raytracing only on Nvidia RTX cards, what will AMD do?

this is not a status update, it is a topic to spark conversation.

just because you have an excellent tool... does not mean it will be used excellently.

 

Garuntee you ray traced games will look like shit for a while.

 

And games already support multiple GPU featuresets.  DX11/12, OpenGL, Vulkan, Mantle (LOL).

 

So, i doubt it will impact anything.  The last thing you want as a developer is to alientate your potential consumers by using a proprietary technology that only one company sells hardware for.

 

Even games that used Phys-X worked with non Phys-X card PCs.

[D3addr0p]

All else aside, it's beautiful