We’ve been covering 4K gaming a lot lately and as we’ve showcased, a single NVIDIA GeForce RTX2080Ti is unable to run some games in 4K/Ultra settings with 60fps. However, and if you are super rich, you can already play games with more than 60fps in 4K/Ultra settings and with real-time ray tracing effects enabled.
First things first. There are currently three games that support real-time ray tracing effects and these are: Metro Exodus, Battlefield 5 and Shadow of the Tomb Raider. And while Metro Exodus and Battlefield 5 do not support SLI when the real-time ray tracing effects are enabled, Shadow of the Tomb Raider does.
YouTube’s ‘Thirty IR‘ has shared a video showing two NVIDIA RTX Titan graphics cards in SLI running the built-in benchmark tool for Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Nixxes has done an amazing job with its multi-GPU support and both of these GPUs were used to their fullest in DX12, even when the real-time ray tracing effects were enabled.
These two powerful graphics cards were able to run the benchmark with more than 60fps (though there was a small drop to 55fps during the second scene). Still, we are talking about more than 60fps with real-time ray tracing in native 4K and on Ultra settings on hardware that already exists.
Now the reason I said that this is possible only for the super rich is because a single NVIDIA Titan RTX costs around $2500 (so we are basically looking at a system that will cost more than $5000). Still, and from what we’ve seen, an SLI system with two NVIDIA RTX2080Ti GPUs could, theoretically, also offer a 60fps experience in Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Two NVIDIA RTX2080Ti’s will cost you around $2000 so that would, again theoretically, be the perfect system for someone that wants to play PC games with ray tracing effects in 4K.
Now while this sounds cool, there is a big BUT and that’s the mGPU support. From what we’ve seen so far, most developers do not bother adding SLI/Crossfire support in their games. In other words, the only game that can actually take advantage of such a thing right now is Shadow of the Tomb Raider. So yeah, while it is possible to get a 4K/60fps experience on the PC with ray tracing effects – and without DLSS – when SLI is enabled, most games do not sadly support it. NVIDIA is already pushing its DLSS tech so I’m pretty sure that the green team won’t help developers implement SLI in their ray traced DX12 games, and that’s sad because SLI had been constantly giving us a glimpse at the future.
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Fortnite is running 60fps at 8K ……
No one give a F
4K /3D / 8K / gaytracing / dlss / hdr all this is usless and wont make the game better …….
But hey mark my word
The next gen consoles will be selling as RAYTRACING gaming machines ….. ..
Don’t like an article, then simply don’t click on it and scroll on past it, it’s not hard.
I think the nextgen consoles will be labeled as ray tracing capable as well but it’s an almost meaningless term right now. If a console can do even a slight amount of ray tracing then it can be labeled as ray tracing capable.
It’s like when a GPU company releases a slide that says “up to 2X the performance over the last generation”. 99% of the games can be benched at a lot less than 2X faster but 1 game does bench at 2X faster and they didn’t misrepresent their GPU. Marketing terms have gotten very slippery. Technically they didn’t lie but in the real world it’s just meaningless.
Useless option
get lost…spam bot..
Wonder how many years it takes to 4k be mainstream yet all news sites only talk about it when it’s less used than chickens teeth during rituals. PC side ofc, not talking about upscaled console versions
this has been a running meme for way too long
these pointless articles stopped being funny long ago
What are you talking about?
this will be done when RTX 3080ti releases and will cost around 1000. I
will be buying it but will keep my 1440p 24” monitor DELLP2416D that i
have now.!
Paying 1300€ for 60fps lol, I guess Huang forgot PCMR likes framerates?
You mean ~4500 euros?!! Bcoz this was running on Titan RTX SLI!
Enough of these similar and monotonous articles, john…your website is kind of getting way too boring and linear…no offense intended though..
reduce the amount of such similar articles, highlighting the power of the RTX flagship cards, RTX can/cannot do 4K/60, unreal 4 fan remakes, nude mods,,,,,just to name a few…it’s getting kind of repetitive.
yes, I know even if we can’t afford such a luxury setup, there is no harm in watching videos about it, but this is getting kind of repetitive to an extent..
‘metal Messiah’ had suggested some pretty decent high quality articles before, and those were really worth of giving a read, at least we get to know some new info on PC technology…..this guy should work for your website, if u ask me.
quality is important, not quantity. Thirty IR is just doing all this to get some clicks/views on his channel, nothing else…
Why is it so hard for you(and most other dso whiners) to simply scroll past the articles that don’t interest you? And not click on them and whinge about them.
You speak like your the authority on what dsogaming posts, and that you think everyone else agrees with your opinions.
Well this might be news to you, but there is a lot of people(including myself), that enjoys these type of articles that you so much despise.
So take some advice, take your depressingly annoying whinging elsewhere, and ignore the articles you don’t like, simply don’t click on them and f#ck off!
Why is it so hard for you to scroll past comments you don’t like, and not reply and spam a wall of BS?
Haha, Got ”Eeeeemmm”.
People can post whatever they want. This isnt communist China.
LOL, stop getting triggered so much for no reason, and STFU kid…
He can put anything he wants on his website. Me, and most of people who are here are interested in this type of articles, and yes, mods, especially nude mods.
Also, remember that the implementation of RT is very limited in scope in this game. It’s basically just the shadows.
youtube(dot)com/watch?v=ywDdjKIEzfQ
A huge performance hit for an often barely noticeable visual upgrade.
Not basically, it is the shadows alone.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider is the best PC port of the year.
this will be done when RTX 3080ti releases and will cost around 1000. I will be buying it but will keep my 1440p 24” monitor DELLP2416D that i have now.
UE4 is said to support Multi-GPU RayTracing with upcoming releases. this feature was presented as “Not yet supported in 4.22” among some other RT features being worked on.
Um this article is BS.
Even SotTR doesn’t support SLI, or even Crossfire. It only supports DX12 mGPU.