Will RTX graphics soon be useless? Nvidia allows ray tracing on older models GeForce – GIGA

Exclusive exclusivity. Anyone who thought, when buying his RTX card, that he could only use ray tracing with it, will now look stupid to the laundry. Nvidia has announced that even the oldest graphics cards could soon benefit from the new ray tracing technology.

Raytracing with Nvidia GeForce graphics cards: will the RTX series be superfluous?

In fact, almost everyone expects Nvidia to present its new amp architecture to the public for the first time at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC). A new generation of graphics cards was not there to see, but Nvidia still had another bomb exploded: In April, Raytracing's chip maker will also unlock older GTX graphics cards from the series via the update. pilot. The following graphics cards have DXR support:

Buyers of an RTX graphics card, such as the RTX 2080, may have already jumped on the hook. Finally, it was previously badumed that you can only use Raytracing for the moment with one of the newer RTX models. Did Nvidia rip off his clients?

No. Unlike GTX cards, Nvidia installs additional tensor and tensor cores on all RTX models, which not only speeds up ray tracing calculations considerably, but is also required for the use of DLSS. GTX users will have to continue without this technology.

The missing hardware acceleration is also reflected in the first results of Nvidia's tests:

Although the GTX 1080 Ti was then exchanged as a 4K card, it reached its limits when using ray tracing in most scenarios. Metro Exodus is falling into a notebook at less than 20 frames per second, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider also has serious performance issues, reaching more than 30 frames per second with effort and hardship.

It is only in Battlefield 5 that the former flagship of Pascal maps can be a real success. Here, the rate is 40 to 50 IPS when ray tracing is activated.

The ray tracing in Battlefield 5 – Dice uses the graphics technology of its current shooter for real-time mirroring:

Details on the selected DXR graphics and settings have not been defined. All games have been tested according to Nvidia with a resolution of 1440p. Owners of a GTX 1080 or a GTX 1080 Ti should therefore be able to rely on playable frame rates enough if they reduce the resolution in Full HD.

Raytracing for the mbades: it's behind Nvidia's smart gesture

Up to now, only two games support Raytracing and DLSS: Battlefield 5 and Metro Exodus. Many studios do not plan to waste valuable development resources to implement new graphics technology while only RTX graphics card owners can take advantage of the new ray tracing feature. Nvidia has recently announced that sales figures of RTX cards were well below its own expectations.

However, this situation changes with the next driver update. After that, many more PC gamers can use ray tricks – so developers are forced to move.

In addition, Nvidia can "feed" potential buyers of RTX. "See how Raytracing improves the look of your game. Too bad your graphics card is too old to allow really readable image rates. Have you ever thought about upgrading?"

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I would not be surprised if Nvidia has a slight increase in RTX card sales after the driver update. The first results of the GTX 1660 Ti and GTX 1660 with ratyracing are also interesting. Although the two new Nvidia graphics cards do not have either RT core or tensor, they are based on the new Turing architecture.

Nvidia wants to publish the driver update during the month of April. First, freesync support and now Raytracing activation for older graphics cards. Nvidia seems to take a new direction and want to put an end to its image of greedy society.

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G-Sync Compatible: These freesync monitors work well with Nvidia graphics cards.

However, its rival, the AMD, has yet to reveal any concrete plan for ray tracing support. But even owners of a current Radeon card can already use Raytracing with a little trick.