Is ray tracing a meme?

The glass is reflecting

this is your brain on nuvidia

ray tracing is not
rtx is a meme

It's an inherently more realistic method of achieving lighting, so no it's not a meme. But that doesn't mean it's worth paying for in 2020.

I can barely tell the difference

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Did they take screenshots with low settings? That character model and lighting looks terrible, who cares about reflections at that point.

Charge your phone faggot

no
in its current implementation it is a meme since it tanks performance for tiny effects you won't notice, but once the hardware is mostly RT cores or equivalent and AI upscaling is no longer needed for some semblance of performance then it will stop being a meme. minecraft RTX is an example of ray tracing almost not being a meme, but it lacks correct textures and isn't performant enough to use for everyday playing. If the 3000 series rumors are true (and they appear to be) then it will get a 2-4x performance gain or so and will stop being a meme for that particular game.

With 7nm ampere cards turing rtx seems like what it really was, a stepping stone to the real deal.
It gave devs like remedy opportunity to test it out, give people a glimpse of what it can offer and 2021 is the real first year of rtx.

Shutup faggot i still have seven percent

Cope

This is you being poor.

Yes

ndrones out in full force today

Yes it is, now fuck me off.

>being dishonest and removing the light from the window in the left pic
>the fucking glitched pipe on the right pic

Yeah, raytracing is a meme

AMD don't make high end gpus. I don't understand why gaymads don't realize this. People buy nvidia when they want the best. People buy AMD when they can't afford Nvidia.

retarded phoneposter

You haven't even played a game with rtx enabled lmao, do you even know what it does?
Check out rtx minecraft, metro exodus or bf5.

i didnt know raytracing opened windows in your games
>graphic card can open windows

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>Raytracing
>NVIDIA will ram there version of it into games through gameworks tier partnerships like they did with Tessellation.
>NVIDIA will keep everything software proprietary and generally cause a headache for everyone they partner with, Like they did with tessellation in gameworks.
>NVIDIA's Proprietary software will cause performance issues for competitor cards. like it did with Tessellation.
>AMD or whoever else is competing will eventually catch up to them in raytracing like they did with tessellation.
>It will at that point become standard and not have the same buzz around it like tessellation and shaders do now.
>By then Nvidia will cook up some next new big thing that moves the graphics goalpost enough for people to care.
>People will throw money at Nvidia again because "wowee graphics"
There saved you the trouble of having to pay attention to the 8 years of Computer graphics.

Just get the card you think is the best buy for your targeted resolutions and framerate.

that bottom one is with night vision, right?

No, but the current RTX GPUs are only powerful enough to do some very basic raytraced reflections and shadows. The majority of lighting is still rasterized.

next gen consoles both seem to support some sort of hardware raytracing, so devs will probably start supporting it enough now for it to stop being a meme.