At GDC 2018, NVIDIA showcased its brand new real-time ray tracing tech, RTX. NVIDIA RTX consists of a highly scalable ray-tracing technology running on NVIDIA Volta architecture GPUs and it was officially announced for DX12, although it is architected to support ray tracing through a variety of interfaces. Thankfully, NVIDIA is looking into bringing RTX to the Vulkan API.
According to reports, NVIDIA is already working on a new Ray Tracing extension for the Vulkan API under the name of VK_NV_raytracing. The green team claimed that it is willing to work with Khronos to create a multiplatform standard, though the main challenge right now will be to get both the DirectX 12 Ray Tracing and the Vulkan Ray Tracing to work in the most similar way possible.
In related news, Epic Games – who was one of the first to showcase the benefits of real-time ray tracing – is encouraging developers to actively use RTX for their games. As Sweeney told MCVUK, in 10 years developers may find only ray tracing solutions in Unreal Engine. For its GDC 2018 tech demo, Epic Games used a hybrid model that blends some aspects of ray tracing and rasterization together.
Sweeney also said that in two years, high-end GPUs will be powerful enough to run games with NVIDIA’s RTX ray tracing enabled. However, we already know that the first game supporting NVIDIA’s RTX tech will be released later this year, and this game is no other than Metro Exodus.
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I can’t remember what that real time raytracing game was running on. I think it was either 4 Volta Titans or 4 Quadros but I don’t think it’s realistic to expect the next generation on GPUs to be even twice as fast as what we have now but even assuming they are then it’s still going to take 2 high end GPUs. So probably at least $2,000 for the GPUs and that may be way off if some of the rumors turn out to be true. I have seen some estimates that Nvidia is going to charge a lot more for high end than they have in the past.
So with almost no market for games that run real time raytracing then why would a Developer make a game using that? Additionally Developers are trying to get away from supporting SLI anyway. Less work for them.
I think for quite a few years we will only get some very basic raytracing features added in a little at a time.
Nice going, casual racist.
Lol are you really that dumb? It’s the lizard people that are holding back this technology.
Apparently Lizard People are running the US government as well. There are actually websites dedicated to how to spot Lizard People. Taken from one of them:
“predominance of green or hazel eyes that change color like a chameleon, but also blue eyes”
“piercing eyes”
“true red or reddish hair”
“a sense of not belonging to the human race”
“low blood pressure”
“deep compassion for fate of mankind”
“keen sight or hearing”
“psychic abilities”
“ESP”
“unexplained scars on body”
“UFO connections”
“capability to disrupt electrical appliances”
“love of space and science”
“alien contacts”
Apparently Barak Obama was one of them because he could change his eye color at will and he loved science. lol
All positions of power are controlled by thr lizard people.
Sadly jews arent casual in anything… even racism.
trash trash trash trash works
Buy a computer that can run it. I did. #GitGud
YOU are doing it wrong.
You can also turn them off and play game anyway. So what is your problem? Just hate NV?
but the damage was done
What damage? If you turn GW features off, you are not influence by it. You have choice. What is wrong about it?
OMG, how your bishop Durante? Is he saying we need to buy computers that can run raytracing and Denuvo at the same time?
“cryptocurrency craze coming to an end”
Thank goodness.
I have seen the prices of cards dropping some but not to the pre-mining craze prices. From what I’ve seen people who mine say is that it’s just barely worth mining still to do it.
I hate cryptocurrecy,i love games, i love video cards, i love nipples.
I love lamp. I LOVE LAMP.
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The craze isn’t over until a 1060 (6G, not the crippled version) is available under 200 bucks. Price right now? 350 € and up. A mere 50% reduction and we can start talking about sane prices.
I may never even buy another GPU anyways. I don’t play pancake games anymore, only VR and my next VR headset will likely be a all-in-one, standalone, wireless unit that utilized eye-tracking and foveated rendering to allow for powerful mobile(not desktop) GPUs to render stereoscopic images, in 4K or greater, for VR.
This is similar to what NV did in the initial stages of PHYSX.
This is still in early development stage, call in WIP, because they have submitted their design to KHRONOS.
But this new implementation seems to be a “Software Integration”, so it might not require a VERY powerful GPU, or a lot of graphics processing power ( e.g. 3 Volta GPUs), as per my speculation
Also depends on how much they adopt this feature in any Game’s ENGINE, but this feature should be less demanding.
By the way, VK_NV_raytracing is just an “extension” that has support for the Vulkan API, as evident here.
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I hope you’re right about the GPU load being reduced but really even if it could be run in real time on a single high end GPU there still wouldn’t be much market for a game that required that kind of power. Most people run an entry level to midrange card from what I’ve seen and until that tech can be made available to the masses then there’s not really a market for a game running full real time raytracing.
Based on previous generations upgrades in performance over the last generation then I would guess we may be 3 generations away from that point but it’s just a guess and I don’t know enough about programming software to even have an idea what can be done with that.
I’m not even sure that we could get 3 more die shrinks on silicon either.
This whole “real-time ray tracing” technique is still in early stage, to become a mainstream technology, so that every Gamer can easily enjoy this feature, regardless of his/her rig, IMO.
The developers might, or rather should, make this is optional, provided how much they actually “adopt” this feature inside any Game’s engine, despite the HW/SW limitations imposed.
That’s true a lot Gamers actually have an entry level to mid-range GPU.
But, it looks “VK_NV_raytracing” actually behaves in a slight different manner. Though, it has a similar code-structure to MS’s DXR.
As a side note, Nvidia has actually made much improvements with the OptiX API for CUDA-based ray-tracing, with this application framework, but only Volta architecture benefits the most, unlike Kepler/Maxwell/Pascal GPUs.
We still need to see how far they are going to push the above RTX, through Vulkan API support though.
It seems they are “extending” Vulkan to suit ray-tracing use-cases.
We’re about 10 years away from mainstream use in games, but it’s good to see the tech being pushed this early by the heavy hitters of the industry. On consoles, it would mean crippling yet another generation with the next XBOX and PS5, sacrificing any hope for HDR 4K/60 fps standard, which should be the goal for next gen hardware.
Maybe I’m being too optimistic about the next generation of consoles but I would imagine they could handle 4K well but maybe not 60 FPS but they don’t seem to really care about targeting an average of 60 FPS.
Na, I would think maybe 5 years.
Did durante tell you that?
4K 60 fps isn’t going to be the standard. 4K is the standard for new TVs last I heard, so they’ll try to hit that but end up upscaling like every gen. And 30 fps gameplay as always.
I have seen the prices of cards dropping some but not to the pre-mining craze prices. From what I’ve seen people who mine say is that it’s just barely worth mining still to do it.
I wish I had said that.
yeah! no wonder why xD they got payed for
Ray tracing is casual rendering technique.
Oh the irony There are far more jews at amd…they even have facilities in Israel while Nvidia have no presence at all in the Jewish country…
Well i guess racism=ignorance
Talking about ignorance, said “more jews at amd”…
Yeah devs use a technology available only for a bunch on graphic cards with chips made by X company, that would make me buying your games.
Epic said NVidia is gut? That means everybody gonna stop playing Fortnite
As long as the visuals don’t justify the performance drop it’s not going to be used in shipped games (unless nvidia and MS pay for it). That Metro demo said it all.