Quake II RTX released back in 2019, with NVIDIA using it to show off more ray tracing effects for their RTX GPUs but now they're done with it.
  • jedibob5@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I didn’t even realize they even had any active development on Q2RTX up to this point… Six years is a long time to support what’s basically a novelty tech demo.

    • MudMan@fedia.io
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      1 month ago

      I also didn’t realize they had done anything to it in a while.

      Buuuut this is still the first thing I fire up on new hardware to test RT performance AND it’s still the best Id remake/reissue yet, and they’ve done a bunch recently.

      • RamRabbit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 month ago

        It wouldn’t sadden me in the least if video cards would stop shipping with RT cores. I would rather that go to more raster cores so every game can benefit from the performance boost.

        • MudMan@fedia.io
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          1 month ago

          Cool.

          So, anyway…

          (For the record, tensor cores don’t just accelerate calculations for raytracing, as is obvious from the entire AI bubble built on the technology, and I have no idea what GPU “performance boost” you’d want from additional raster graphics when you have RT-less stuff running at stupid framerates on current hardware and being consistently CPU-limited, but the Internet gets the memetic obsessions it gets. I suppose online nerds will pay for a 1080p 1000Hz monitor with no self-awareness as long as the two popular Youtube tech channels keep repeating the same memes and testing the same four games forever)

          • Orygin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            1 month ago

            You seem like a great guy to talk to.

            Fyi, tensor cores and RT cores are not the same thing. But I suppose nerds online will just parrot whatever marketing bs the manufacturer says.

            • MudMan@fedia.io
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              1 month ago

              I’m trying to be generic here. For these purposes I don’t particularly care about manufacturer customizations beyond "does it tensor math good and/or talk to DXR/Vulkan raytracing. I guess that accidentally includes actually useless CPU-baked NPUs, but I’ll accept that as being potentially part of it if someone actually used them for something.

              For the record, even if I was wrong about or unaware of your kinda pedantic distinction, it’d still be irrelevant to the point.