A few weeks ago, CD Projekt RED announced that only NVIDIA GPUs would be able to run Cyberpunk 2077’s Ray Tracing effects at launch. Of course, that was before announcing the latest delay for this highly anticipated title. Therefore, and since AMD has released its new RX 6000 GPUs, we are happy to report that those GPUs will be also able to run them.
As Brian Burke, NVIDIA PR Gaming Technology, Esports & Consumer VR, told WCCFTech, Cyberpunk 2077 will be using DXR and will work on all DXR-compatible GPUs.
“Cyberpunk 2077 uses the industry standard DirectX Ray Tracing API. It will work on any DXR-compatible GPU. Nothing related to Cyberpunk 2077 ray tracing is proprietary to NVIDIA.”
So there you have it everyone. Cyberpunk 2077 Ray Tracing will also work on AMD’s GPUs. This falls in line with what AMD claimed a couple of days ago. As we reported earlier this month, AMD has confirmed that the RX 6000-series RDNA 2 ‘Big Navi’ GPU lineup will support Ray Tracing in existing titles.
According to Burke, most current Ray Tracing games use DXR. However, there are three exceptions that use NVIDIA’s Ray Tracing extension for Vulkan. These exceptions are Quake II RTX, Wolfenstein: Youngblood, and JX3. Crysis Remastered is also using NVIDIA’s VKRay Vulkan extension for RTX GPUs. However, Crytek used this extension only so that it could improve the RT performance on RTX GPUs. Thus, Crysis Remastered’s Ray Tracing effects run on both AMD’s and NVIDIA’s GPUs.
And that is that. Both AMD and NVIDIA DXR-compatible GPUs will be able to run the Ray Tracing effects of Cyberpunk 2077 when it launches next month!
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Great! Now ray-tracing is like PhysX.
How? that makes no sense.
Physx(and other libraries like it) is now integrated into games and you don’t even notice it, just take it for granted.
Great! Now ray-tracing is like PhysX.
can they confirm that the game will come out?
Well, they confirmed and re-confirmed that it would be released this month before delaying it anyway, so I don’t think that any confirmation from CDPR can be trusted at this point anyway.
why? are you interested? I thought you said it’s sjw or whatever. why do you bother? are you lying to us because you just like to complain or what?
” I thought you said it’s sjw or whatever.”
i did not
you did. you cried about tr4nnies and black women in the game.
no i did not
Correct me if I’m wrong cyberpunk will use industry standard ray tracing it will not use nvidia rt core so what the point in rt core if some dev will no utilize it
It will use RT cores.
Turing has better RT performance than RDNA 2, so I would expect the raytracing in these games to run better on Nvidia cards
Based on all leaks, Navi2 has better RT performance than Ampere*. We’ll still have to wait to actual benchmarks though.
Based on Nvidia leaks we were supposed to get an average of 180% performance increase over 2080ti across all games, instead its closr to 130%.
The leaks really dont mean much.
But RDNA 2 benchamrk says otherwise cause ray tracing run better on amd card maybe because they are not using rt core idk man i need to wait and see some reviewers talking about this
AMD have different way of implementing RT but they also have their own RT core called RA (Ray tracing accelerator). About performance we will see how well it is when they were officially being benchmark by third party outlets.
Nvidia RTX is fully compliant with MS DXR since the very beginning.
Yes!! 6900 XT here I come, bye bye Nvidia!
I wish you good luck, youll need it with all the terrible drivers and lackluster support they have.
Hello darkness my old friend
Ah, that old nvidia meme that people who never actually used an AMD card say.
I used and drivers were indeed horrible. This was 7-10 years ago. Can’t say how they are now but back then they drove me to Nvidia
That was a long long time ago. They’re rather great these days.
I’ve been on the 5700 since launch and haven’t had a single problem. Never had any issues with my older 580 either.
I had 5870. Great card but lots of hair pulling with the drivers.
It was actually solely my first gpu?
7 friends bought 5000 series GPUs
4 had constant crashes. This has now been fixed but should never have happened. They have all since migrated to a RTX 2000 series card. They did not experience any problem with their RTX card.
2 still have issues like occasional black screens and crashes.
Only 1 did not experience any problem
Sorry but I just cannot believe that.
I work with the cards all the time (IT) and we don’t see these issues.
The issues are likely coming from something else and being blamed on the card/driver (just my experience). I know several third party software that crash when used with the cards, but it is the software not the driver. Perhaps that.
go away pathetic AMD cultist
Ditto.
Lots of butthurt fanboys downvoting. Guess facts hurt feelings
Wut. That was why I switched to Nvidia after being a huge AMD fanboy. Guess you’re still a fanboy.
To be fair, both companies over the long haul (decades) have had their bad runs of releases. But that’s why I dont jump into anything right away and read reviews. I have a R9 390x and want to upgrade it and dont know what to do or which mfg to go with this time. Just have to wait and see how the prices vs performance works out mid next year (lol)…..and yeah, drivers.
Never spent more than $350 on a vid card (R9 390x) in my life, and then about 3 years ago they all just went through the ceiling.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/405163/geforce-45709-game-ready-driver-feedback-thread-re/
you think about these shiny drivers? or these before these one? 😀
been on Nvidia for 14 years, never had any issue with the drivers, nor anything else.
well? who cares? i see lot of issues written on that forum. We can believe some Patient zero? No. you are one with shiny experience with envidia. congratulation. But, stop butthurt with something you dont have experience. You didnt have radeons and you write bullsh…
don’t forget to close the door behind you.
I’ll be sure to lleave the door open for the rest to follow.
No thanks, we don’t like power-hungry, overheating knock-off products with no innovation, horrbile software department, notorious compatibilty issues for 20 dollars less.
Every time a new game gets released the forums fill up with AMD users complaining of various issues. I’ve been watching this for 15 years and I would burn my rig before getting any dogsh*t AMD product
LMAO, indeed Ampere is very energy efficient? Would you like more vRAM with your fries?
You do know that the RX 6000 series uses less power then their Nvidia counterparts right?
it wasn’t even tested properly my AMD cultist friend
Amd cultist lol ok as a person who owns a G-sync monitor with the hardware module and a 1080.
I’m probably going with the 6700 XT when it eventually comes, but no double they’ll all be great. I really don’t need anything as fast at the 6900XT.
You know the 3000 series supply is really bad when Nvidia is admitting this…
IF * it launches next month
It already went gold. Just last gen copies are holding it back.
First time ever that a game got delayed after “going gold”. It basically defeats the purpose of the existence of the expression in the first place. If you go gold and then delay again it just loses its meaning
If you want the best gaming experience in your life, get the Series X!
shut the F up, console pleb.
the real best experience is sitting on your chair jerking off to me boning your dirty sand rat mother.
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I mean, if you’ve only played on an XB1 that is true.
If you want the best gaming experience in your life dont buy anything, play old games
Good info. Something new and interesting. Nvidiots in suicide watch after reading this.
honestly i don’t see anything new here. We know DXR is MS standard. RTX is nvidia implementation of DXR. so any game that use DXR will work on any gpu that support DXR. So far what i have seen is some people refuse to believe nvidia RTX is fully compliant with MS DXR.
why? there is nothing new stated here….
RTX can be used without DXR using Vulkan – but it work only on Nvidia hardware because Vulkan RT is created as proprietary NV extensions which can’t be used by AMD or Intel
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“These exceptions are Quake II RTX, Wolfenstein: Youngblood, and JX3”
All RT games using DirtectX DXR works on Nvidia, AMD and future Intel
All RT games using Vulkan works only on Nvidia
But two of those Vulkan games (Quake and Woolfenstein) will soon be moved to DirectX because MS just acquired Bethesda with ID Software and MachineGames in package. So problem with RT games working only on Nvidia soon will be solved
AMD has nothing equivalent to DLSS, so DXR games will run like crap.
amd already told that is working on it
You mean to tell me that DXR makes games run like crap? No way! Really?
Funnily enough RX6000 performs 20% better on RT at native 4K without DLSS, also as mentioned DLSS or similar upscaling technology will eventually make it into the drivers for RDNA2.
It says it will work . . . but will it work well in both?
Any game can run on any DXR GPU, RTX was just the magic of NVIDIA marketing.
and AMD does not use marketing brands for their tech?
Sure, infarct they tackle that by calling their cards RX.
All games using DirectX DXR works on any hardware but those 3 games like Wolfenstein or Quake used Vulkan. RT games using Vulkan works only on Nvidia
But this problem will be solved because MS acquired Bethesda with ID Software, Machine Games and can replace Vulkan with DX12 DXR in those games. This should be easy because ID Tech engine already support DX12 on Xbox. Changing PC version from Vulkan to DX12 should be simple update. This will allow AMD to run those games in RT
All games using DirectX DXR works on any hardware but those 3 games like Wolfenstein or Quake used Vulkan. RT games using Vulkan works only on Nvidia
But this problem will be solved because MS acquired Bethesda with ID Software, Machine Games and can replace Vulkan with DX12 DXR in those games. This should be easy because ID Tech engine already support DX12 on Xbox. Changing PC version from Vulkan to DX12 should be simple update. This should allow AMD to run those games in RT
Doubt about Crysis RT acceleration, given Vulkan still doesn’t have OEM agnostic RT extensions at the moment. Maybe they’ll patch their implementation, but doubt.
Crysis RT didn’t using RT acceleration. It was all software.
It will run on anything.
Crysis Remastered has RT effects hardware accelerated through Vulkan extensions on RTX GPUs.
It can yes, but still has the software version. So it should be available to anyone was the point.
Will cyberpunk 2077 look just as good on an rx 6800xt, rx6900 tx? Nvidia’s RTX 3000 series cards seem to work very well but scalpers and cryptocurrency “miners” bought them all up using bots. “Mining” is such a euphemism. They are not finding or earning these currencies but are just generating them without exchange of anything else of value. Was adding support for AMD RDNA2 ray tracing the reason for this new month long delay? If so should I try get an AMD rx6900xt to replace my RTX 2080 super OC card? Is AMDs RDNA2 better than Nvidia’s first generation RTX from last year?
I think the last delay was partially to AMD RDNA2. CDPR saw the “paper launch” of the RTX 3000 series Nvidia cards, realized it could slow down or blunt the momentum of Cyberpunk 2077’s release. What’s the sense of a consumer buying a game which features mirror like reflections and dynamic shadows when no one can get a card to enjoy those features. If this turns out to be entirely true, then I’ll stop my futile exercise in frustration of trying to get an RTX 3080 or 3090. I already have an RTX 2080 Super so the RTX 3070 is of no interest to me. Hopefully, I’ll still keep my eye open, maybe they will become cheaper and more plentiful in the spring and summer of 2021. But, I will also give the AMD rx 6900 xtx a serious look when that is released.
Girl scouts selling out nPIGIA fan boi’s. Are there feelings already hurt by AMD putting intels teeth to the curb. Maybe… I’m happy that AMD has brought some well needed improvements to the CPU space. So, why can’t they shine some Ray Tracing Rays on the GPU scene. I just bought a 55in LG C9 4K120Hz OLED with G-SYNC/Freesync and now VRR (fixed) thanks to LG putting out another firmware update. Walked out of Micro Center with the 55in C9 for $800 and a eVGA 2080ti FTW3 Ultra for $700 to go with It. Once the 3080’s get in stock my rep. said i could bring back the 2080ti for an even exchange. Though, a 10GB 3080 is looking pretty lame to even a 16GB 6800 let alone the 6900/XT. I also collect Special and Limited Edition Sapphire GPU’s and have aquired quite the collection from the Gunmetal Grey and Sapphire Blue RX580/590 to the Limited Edition Sapphire Nitro+ VEGA56 and 64LE with the Vapor Chambers and 3 8pin power connectors to the Nitro+ RX5700XT Special Edition 2.2GHz 1440p monster. I also claimed a RADEON VII with 16GB of HBM2 at a ridiculous $325. I like my texture mods and 3D applications so that Gem was a godsend. I even have the Sapphire 7970 GHz Toxic 6GB card which is the most rarest to find. But, what really started the collection was the Sapphire Nitro+ RX480 8GB (1342MHz) OC. That little GPU from early 2016 can still run any game at 1080p 60-90fps at Ultra/High settings. With the 8Gbps Samsung IC’s easily overclocking to 9Gbps and the core going up to 1425MHz this little beast has kept my nephew gaming happy since i let him use it until i found him a replacement. All because of the 8GB’s of V-ram. I can already see myself slapping myself for not buying the new 16GB Nitro+ RX68/6900XT (Toxic…plz). I can already see those very special titles where they just cripple the green teams offering. GTX 1060 6GB vs the RX480/580 8GB anyone. I lost count how many games the 8GB RX480/580 has gained at least a 20% lead or 20fps uplift when compared to the 1060. The new Resident Evil series, COD 2019+ along with RDR2 and many others just to remind those that forgot. All Vulkan/DX12 titles were a lost cause but, nVIDIA has fixed this with there new dual FP16,32/int16,32 compute units but, V-ram is a determining factor. Don’t get me wrong. I love nVIDIA products too. Just gotta shut those untrue fangirls the hell up. I use both AMD, nVIDIA and intel products. I love having the best of everything. Heck i still love to test older and entry level GPU’s to see what good optimizations can do. Lets say you want to play the Metro Exodus series and DLC’s. Well, all you need is an ASUS GTX 1050ti dual without any auxiliary power connectors and clock it to 2GHz. You’ll be able to run Metro Exodus and all the DLC’s at 1080p60 locked at high settings. Pretty impressive if you ask me. But, those sponsored titles are getting easier to match with the other vendors GPUs. I’m all for Vulkan/DX12 titles with Ray Tracing or not. Great optimised games let even the most novice PC builder get a taste of the PCMR. No offence consoliers, but, i lost my interest with the Dreamcast and RE CV. My loyalty remains there. Yeah, the new PS5/XBOX had the highest end hardware for techies but, rightfully so, PC hardware has regained the custom graphics options and true enthusiast Crown. Can’t wait for Big Navi and my 3080. I’ll be playing both sides like a double agent. Just cause i can. I’m not a fangirl. Just one who like price to performance ratio’s and don’t mind waiting a year to get a piece of hardware for half or more than 70% less the retail price. I actually built a $3000 all open box monster PC for $2000 and used the money i saved to buy the GPU. Can’t go wrong with a custom built PC built by you. Anyway that’s my 2million cents.
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