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Raytracing has been taking the gaming industry by storm recently; from creating buzz around GPUs that support it, to using it in old games, to console implementation, it\u2019s no secret that raytracing is big and is by far the biggest advancement in graphical fidelity for video games in a long time. But there\u2019s been a significant gap in the market that AMD has yet to fill when their next generation graphics cards are released later this year.<\/p>\n
Nvidia managed to get a headstart when they released their RTX cards back in 2018, and since then AMD have been trying desperately to catch up with their fanbase eagerly anticipating AMD\u2019s launch of the Big Navi cards. Now, AMD have released their own demo showcasing the raytracing capabilities of their RDNA2 structure:<\/p>\n
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I can imagine your first thought was \u201cman, people really like mirrors in the future\u201d, which certainly seems to be the case in the demo as almost every surface is reflective. Granted it\u2019s kind of the point of the demo, as all those reflections were being rendered in real-time. Smudges would be a real pain though, I’d feel like I would constantly have to wipe each surface with a lens cloth, no wonder everyone\u2019s a robot in this world.<\/p>\n
<\/ins><\/p>\n But what strikes me as odd is the framerate, we all saw it, in fact we all felt<\/em> it I\u2019m sure. The video itself seems to be running at ~30fps, clearly raytracing is taxing on performance, but why AMD didn\u2019t tone it down to keep it running at a higher framerate is strange to me. One argument could be that they\u2019re showing off the worst case scenario, and that most games won\u2019t have nearly as many reflective surfaces. But judging by how many people have already commented on it, I\u2019m not sure this is reflecting well on AMD\u2019s attempt at their raytracing performance\u2026<\/p>\n What do you think of the demo? Does the future look bright (and shiny) for AMD? Or have you lost hope in AMD? Let us know yout thoughts!<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Comments Raytracing has been taking the gaming industry by storm recently; from creating buzz around…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[242,464,705,911,505],"class_list":["post-4348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-news","tag-amd","tag-demo","tag-raytracing","tag-showcases","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348","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=4348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}