We all know that Ray tracing is the ‘holy grail’ of future next-gen Graphics. Next-gen consoles are going to support ray tracing as well. Nvidia has already released their RTX-compatible GPUs starting with the “Turing” lineup of GPUs back in 2018.
Now, according to one recent AMD Job listing, as spotted by OC3D, one of the key responsibilities of AMD’s “Game Engineering team” role will be to “Integrate features into game titles with a focus on ray tracing”, which confirms AMD’s plans to help integrate ray tracing into future PC titles.
The AMD Game Engineering team works closely with external games software developers and publishers to build some of the best games in the world. They help them to fully exploit the technical capabilities of AMD’s hardware products. Their aim is to raise the standards for gaming graphics and performance.
The listing is for the post “Developer Technology Engineer”. The focus on ray tracing makes sense given AMD’s support for hardware-accelerated ray tracing with RDNA2, and the fact that their architecture will also be used in both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X next-gen consoles. These consoles are going to offer support for hardware-accelerated ray tracing. So it makes sense for AMD to focus on ray tracing for the future.
As the full job description reads:
The Person:
The ideal candidate is a highly skilled software designer and engineer, strong in 3D math, fluent in C and C++ and the efficient use of discrete GPUs, APUs, and CPUs. You are team-driven and motivated to do things others might find too difficult.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work with the external game development partners of AMD to enable them to produce their applications as efficiently as possible
- Optimize game and application performance for discrete GPUs, APUs and CPUs.
- Design and implement rendering effects using established APIs
- Integrate features into game titles with a focus on ray tracing.
Preferred Experience:
- Minimum 4 years of full-time (post grad) experience efficiently crafting C/C++ game code for Windows and knows all about data structures, design patterns, language features, standard libraries and writing easy-to-understand code
- Has practical hands-on experience with DirectX 12 and /or Vulkan development tools and techniques for Windows
- Has strong graphics code optimization skills, in particular shader code optimizations.
- Understands that requirements are rarely flawless and is willing to extract the spirit of the requirement to make the system or software better
- Has excellent written and verbal skills
- Is willing to travel domestically and internationally on a regular basis
- GCN / RDNA graphics architecture experience
- Experience with DirectX 12 and/or Vulkan graphics APIs
- Experience with ray tracing.
Academic Credentials:
Has a degree in computer science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent
Location:
San Diego, Santa Clara, Bellevue, Boxborough, Orlando, Markham.
Hello, my name is NICK Richardson. I’m an avid PC and tech fan since the good old days of RIVA TNT2, and 3DFX interactive “Voodoo” gaming cards. I love playing mostly First-person shooters, and I’m a die-hard fan of this FPS genre, since the good ‘old Doom and Wolfenstein days.
MUSIC has always been my passion/roots, but I started gaming “casually” when I was young on Nvidia’s GeForce3 series of cards. I’m by no means an avid or a hardcore gamer though, but I just love stuff related to the PC, Games, and technology in general. I’ve been involved with many indie Metal bands worldwide, and have helped them promote their albums in record labels. I’m a very broad-minded down to earth guy. MUSIC is my inner expression, and soul.
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Its nice to hear this, but I’m not much interested in RTX effects. Just want to play some solid games with a strong story line/gameplay, instead of staring at jaw dropping graphics. which we can’t even notice sometimes while gaming !
Though RTX is the future grail of graphics. I 100% agree on this part though
RT is hame developer issue. Not gamer. The game can look the same but it can be twice or even more harder to run. Gamer will curse the performance hit but game developer will want to use RT as much as they can if possible.
I’m not really interested in AMD playing catch up. I guess I’ll be waiting to see how much the 3000 series will cost my soul.
The way the title is composed someone might think they’ll only focus on ray-tracing AFTER they release the RDNA2 cards.
AMD isn’t planning to “focus on raytracing”(I’m assuming they already are but they aren’t the target of the job listing), AMD’s next employee is.
This is all misdirection, as much as I don’t give a rats Azz about Ray tracing, I get the feeling AMD is gonna pull a fast one on Nvidia. They’ve been doing it for the last year. Where they say one thing and then do another thing with the pricing or release a bios to update a card to something it never outlined. I wouldn’t be surprised if AMD enabled Raytracing through a bios/driver update on their newer cards. They’ve been tricky that way since of late.
Even their current card should be capable of using MS DXR/ Vulkan RT. they just need to enabled it on their drivers. Just like how nvidia enable it for their pascal cards. But AMD most likely will not going to support RT on any older cards than RDNA2.