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For now, real-time ray tracing technology is the expensive heritage carrot on a stick which Nvidia is using to hopefully force its GeForce RTX\u00a0 graphics cards into gaming PCs around the world. It looks fantastic, it carries a hideous performance cost with its feature set still a long way from being comprehensive.<\/p>\n
Still, Nvidia\u2019s Morgan McGuire doesn\u2019t think it\u2019ll be long until we\u2019re all using GPUs which can support ray-tracing. In fact, he thinks it\u2019s only four years until AAA games will demand you have a ray-tracing GPU in order to even run it. This would put a shelf life on any graphics card sold which can\u2019t feature ray-tracing.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI predict that the first AAA game to REQUIRE a ray tracing GPU to run will ship in 2023, and every gaming platform will offer accelerated ray tracing by that year,\u201d<\/em> wrote Nvidia\u2019s McGuire on Twitter.<\/p>\n He believes ray-tracing will become increasingly pervasive over the next four years, something it\u2019s difficult to argue with, culminating in it becoming a literal minimum requirement for some AAA titles by 2023.<\/p>\n <\/ins><\/p>\n Both ray-tracing and traditional rasterisation will continue to co-exist for the next four or so years. Rasters will handle primary rays, SSAO, DOF, shadow maps, while ray-tracing will enhance the fidelity with real-time ray-traced reflections, hard shadows, adaptive sampling, and refraction transparency.\u00a0<\/p>\n Then, from 2023 onwards, McGuire anticipates we\u2019ll move to exclusively ray-tracing for our lighting needs, eventually culminating in the ultimate solution 2035 – Path Tracing. Once we\u2019re there, we\u2019re well and truly in the realm of photorealism.<\/p>\n A long way to go then, but we’re already treading down that path. Ray tracing is the future of gaming graphics tech, it’s just a matter of when rather than ‘if’ you’re going to need a GPU with ray-tracing capabilities. For now, it’s not such a pressing need, but expect it all to change as the years roll by.<\/p>\n Source<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Comments For now, real-time ray tracing technology is the expensive heritage carrot on a stick…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[380,103,272,379,273],"class_list":["post-2365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-news","tag-aaa","tag-game","tag-ray","tag-require","tag-tracing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/pic.obilesky.com\/game\/2916\/45xzofbqlnx.jpg\" "\\"Nvidia")
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