NVIDIA Ray-Tracing coming to the Vulkan API

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#5544691
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It was always a goal of Nvidia's to make real-time RT a reality in games. For me, it's no coincidence that they'd be the company to lead the way. It's amazing to think that RT will be just another menu option in games in years to come.
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A bit off topic but i wish all developers will start making use of vulkan rather than directx as it's much better and support for many more operating systems including linux etc
#5544701
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vulkan cover just the graphic, directX offer them a better all around support for everything ( audio, inputs, whatever else ).
#5544705
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Nice to see an apparently open and positive move by NVidia for a change in releasing it through Vulkan 🙂
#5544708
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Oh, suddenly nVidia cares abour open source when it suits them? Well, too late, AMD already have an open source Vulkan ray tracing solution.
#5544709
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a little late for an April joke
#5544710
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Humanoid_1:

Nice to see an apparently open and positive move by NVidia for a change in releasing it through Vulkan 🙂
Not so apparent. It may be just RTX extensions working with already present multi-vendor Vulkan raytracing.
#5544711
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Those comments... it's good that they feed Vulkan, better than place more and more stuff on dx12 only.
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By 2030, we will might have enough power for 720p 30 fps (20 in unreal 😉 ). AMD is not capable to upgrade GPUs, nVidia will not do it unless it is necessary, and there is not much die-shrinking left.
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Crazy Serb:

By 2030, we will might have enough power for 720p 30 fps (20 in unreal 😉 ). AMD is not capable to upgrade GPUs, nVidia will not do it unless it is necessary, and there is not much die-shrinking left.
Navi. RT 1080p 2020.
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Crazy Serb:

By 2030, we will might have enough power for 720p 30 fps (20 in unreal 😉 ). AMD is not capable to upgrade GPUs, nVidia will not do it unless it is necessary, and there is not much die-shrinking left.
Hehhe. That's why these upcoming implementations are a lower quality version of global illumination. If it was "full-fat" GI, then, we'd never be able to use it real-time. Certainly not on consumer rigs.
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msotirov:

Oh, suddenly nVidia cares abour open source when it suits them? Well, too late, AMD already have an open source Vulkan ray tracing solution.
Suddenly? Nvidia has been putting work into OpenGL/CL/Vulkan for decades. The president of Khronos Group is an Nvidia employee..
#5544774
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msotirov:

Oh, suddenly nVidia cares abour open source when it suits them? Well, too late, AMD already have an open source Vulkan ray tracing solution.
Nvidia has been open sourcing their GameWorks stuff for a while plus Nvidia is a khronos promoter member. Seems like you're just a uniformed amd fanboy
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Great. This could be a game changer like hardware transform and lighting back in the day. Fingers crossed it won't a flop like Ageia PhysX (obtained and killed later by Nvidia).
#5544907
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I'm sure MS is sitting there like "b-but... what about us? Didn't we have something great with DXR and RTX?"
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You can usually tell the age of a forum member by their posts, one wasn't even old enough to remember the complete lack of ATI aka AMD drivers for Linux distros
#5544953
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fOrTy_7:

Great. This could be a game changer like hardware transform and lighting back in the day. Fingers crossed it won't a flop like Ageia PhysX (obtained and killed later by Nvidia).
While indeed nvidia keeping physix hardware acceleration only for their cards harmed it's adoption from games to be fair physics was going to fail anyway . Or you believe the gamers would have lined up to buy ppu's also?
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maikai:

You can usually tell the age of a forum member by their posts, one wasn't even old enough to remember the complete lack of ATI aka AMD drivers for Linux distros
That has more to do with most gamers never even having considered using anything else than Windows for gaming
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Yxskaft:

That has more to do with most gamers never even having considered using anything else than Windows for gaming
Although that may be true, if someone is going to discuss open source, then Linux has to be taken in to the equation
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Meanwhile still waiting for Volta to actually be released. I don't count the Titan V as its extremely expensive and performs in games roughly the same as my 1080ti.

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