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[YeulEmeralda]

It's a gimmick. Very few games have convincing effects and the impact on performance is still high. It's worth remembering that this has been pushed to players since 2018, even though the hardware wasn't ready yet.

Obviously Cerny is putting his faith in this, because he is already thinking about the PS6 and there, RT performance will be increased and become an industry standard.

We are in a transitional period, so obviously, it is not 100% worth it. It's like the transition from 2D to 3D, the PS1/Saturn games were very rudimentary. Vast games with satisfying 3D, only from the PS2 generation onwards.

Nvidia was ready for ray tracing the consoles were not.

 

[SolidQ]

Under a 7900XT (raster?) and high end prices.

yeah, let's just w8 final driver and gaming perfomance

 

[AFBT88]

Performance estimates from Allthewatts is dissapointing. Under a 7900XT (raster?) and high end prices.

AMD never misses and opputunity to drop the ball when it comes to GPU launches.

I guess they might catch up in some capacity in RT and Ai upscaling *shrugs*

What opportunity?

 

[hinch7]

What opportunity?

To completely take the mid-range market. Like Intel is doing right now in the lower end/entry level with the B580.

If this performs similarly to the 5070 and priced as such, people will just default to Nvidia.

 

[SpokkX]

Yeah i sure hope so if they want to stay in the gpu market

The consoles these last gens are so shitty because they are based on amd gpu:s. They need a reboot

 

[sendit]

Yeah i sure hope so if they want to stay in the gpu market

The consoles these last gens are so shitty because they are based on amd gpu:s. They need a reboot

Zero sense. The consoles the previous gen were also based on AMD. It's called having a budget and power draw constraint. Do you think a NVIDIA could design a exponentially greater GPU/CPU combo given the budget of a 500 dollar box? If you want top of the line graphics, get a PC $3000+ PC.

 

[twilo99]

Yeah i sure hope so if they want to stay in the gpu market

The consoles these last gens are so shitty because they are based on anemic Zen 2 CPUs. They need a reboot

main issue

 

[evanft]

The biggest elements that contribute towards the "video game look" are a lack of shadows on smaller objects in a scene, light leakage leading to areas looking unnaturally bright, and a lack of reflections on objects, or reflections missing elements that are out of camera. All of that can be solved by ray tracing, and you can run at 60 FPS even on mid-range GPUs.

So yes, if game scenes looking realistic is a gimmick, then ray tracing is a gimmick.

If AMD releases a series of cards that match nVidia in RT, the discourse on RT will change overnight and we'll never hear about it being a gimmick again. Just like when everyone was up in arms about the TDP of the 4000 series GPUs until they came out and ended up being incredibly efficient. Haven't heard "MUH POWER BILL" or "MUH SEPARATE PSU FOR GPU" since then.