Is ray tracing really the next big thing or just a passing fad like PhysX?

Is ray tracing really the next big thing or just a passing fad like PhysX?

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It's not a fad like PhysX. However with RT, we'll have games with less sophisticated pre-baked lightning/shadows. Meaning that those that play games without RT might be downgrading themselves to levels below modern non-RT games.

Ray tracing has been the goal since the inception of real-time graphics. Everything we see in our games today are basically elaborate hacks and tricks to dupe you into accepting what you're looking at. Ray tracing forgoes all those hacks in favor for a more brute force-ish approach that is physically accurate. Because it is so brute force, it is insanely taxing. Even today with RTX cards, you STILL can't come close to fully ray traced rendering at an acceptable framerate and resolution. Look at Quake 2 RTX for an example of how hard it is to run even with basic barebones environments. Yes it is the next big thing, but it's not here yet.

>noko in 2020

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Much like PhysX, it's neat technology that costs way too much processing power to justify at the moment but could be cool in the future. Also like PhysX it'll be completely forgotten about once the hardware to actually support it is commonplace.

Nah. Unlike PhysX, consoles are pushing for RT aswell. MS in particular have invested considerably in SeX's RT capabilities with dedicated hardware. RT is here to stay.

fuck RTX, I want DLSS to hit the big time

All I care about is performance, if they can find a low impact solution for these extra features, great, if not its just going to be another thing I permanently disable.
I feel like they're really missing the mark with this "muh graphics" shit in the recent series of cards.

100% correct, dunno why you are still here arguing with these mongs

Unless Sony does it, it's irrelevant, just like Xbox and PC.

Wait, they made a Portugal The Man videogame?

PhysX was forgotten because Nvidia bought out the company, killed their product and basically consumed their tech in order to make it Nvidia exclusive

>passing fad like PhysX
>PhysX is integrated into more games than Havok these days

Well....you tried.

Not s fad with the 3090

name 3 games in the last year

Its a step towards the final gpu, like how sound cards got to a point where there's no more improvement to be made.

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Every game using Unreal Engine.

Good looking fake lighting and rasterization takes too much effort.

it was open sourced by nvidia almost all UE4 games use it

>just a passing fad like PhysX
PhysX is used everywhere, though.

companies realize that mediocrity like pubg will sell tons of copies, so why bother with all that fancy stuff?

No but with current hardware it's still a meme that's just cucking console kiddies out of finally getting real and stable 4k/60fps for a marginal visual improvement

Ray tracing is the next big thing. Not the current big thing.

You dumb cunt

You do realize PhysX is integrated into nvidia gpus now, just like RTX?

DLSS is the real gimmick here

DLSS is the future of gaming

it is literally built in to almost everything unreal engine now

Ray tracing would be the panacea you could apply to literally any 3D game ever to make it automatically look better, the problem is that actual real time ray tracing is way fucking off and RTX is a meme.

Light informs everything about our perception of the world and having realistically cast light and shadows would improve the depth and believability of even stylized or low fidelity games.

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Physx didn't pass, it's integrated into nvidia drivers retard. Games engine use their own physic engine
Just raytracing will. Even Fortnite has raytraced elements in it's rendering already, you don't need a special card for that

Its still not real raytracing.

DirectML proves you wrong again. And why the fuck would you give up on a tech that gives x2 the performances for even better image quality? Everyone is going to use it.
Really, Nvidia like to slap proprietary names to technologies that will inevitably happens anyway and their proprietary brands will eventually fade away, that doesn't mean say tech won't be used going forward.

>still no 3 games named
as expected from !v!