Khronos Group Adds Vulkan Ray Tracing

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#5770375
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Now that's some awesome news.
#5770385
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its basically a copy paste and batch rename of nvidia's extension design, with a few welcome extras.
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Astyanax:

its basically a copy paste and batch rename of nvidia's extension design, with a few welcome extras.
Well and it is a standard that AMD, Nvidia and Intel can use. Anyhow it's good news.
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Now we only need a game made in this API that utilizes this and an AMD GPU to see where we stand.
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Astyanax:

its basically a copy paste and batch rename of nvidia's extension design, with a few welcome extras.
Yes, it is, and that is a VERY good thing!!! As noted in the article, "The overall architecture of Vulkan Ray Tracing will be familiar to users of existing proprietary ray tracing APIs, which enables straightforward porting of existing ray traced content, but this framework also introduces new functionality and implementation flexibility."
#5770435
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Hopefully new doom later on can have this patched in. I have yet to see any racing game with ray tracing. Which is the only about it that gets me excited.
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Poor game developers... 😎
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Give me benchmarks, k pls thx.
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mbk1969:

Poor game developers... 😎
Not really. They don't have to support multiple APIs. If they want their game on consoles they have to do that anyway. Vulkan is making a very good case for being THE API to support since it is multi-platform, especially if the consoles are among the supported platforms. Many of them use middleware that provides multi-platform support.
#5770563
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Alright then let's get this ray tracing ball rolling!
#5770616
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Nvidia released drivers even for open standard, AMD and Intel are just talking. Here we can state that Nvidia is best.. other interesting thing would be how performance would you get with standard gpus.. in comparision with Nvidias with dedicated Ray-Tracing HW.. I dont thing that Nvidia would release open standard drivers, without good knowledge about their performance..
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Khronos once again proves that Vulkan is a worthy alternative to DirectX.
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Khronos groups still needs to add free sale of antipsychotics in bundle of its toilet-paper docs.