Turing Discussion Thread

[SteelCrysis]

https://www.techpowerup.com/254528/nvidi...e-gtx-gpus

NVIDIA today announced that it is extending DXR (DirectX Raytracing) support to several GeForce GTX graphics models beyond its GeForce RTX series. These include the GTX 1660 Ti, GTX 1660, GTX 1080 Ti, GTX 1080, GTX 1070 Ti, GTX 1070, and GTX 1060 6 GB. The GTX 1060 3 GB and lower "Pascal" models don't support DXR, nor do older generations of NVIDIA GPUs. NVIDIA has implemented real-time raytracing on GPUs without specialized components such as RT cores or tensor cores, by essentially implementing the rendering path through shaders, in this case, CUDA cores.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia...39043.html

It’s good to see that owners of older cards (plust the recent non-RTX GTX 1660 and 1660 Ti) will at least be able to try out some of these features and see them with their own eyes. Of course, if you can see ray tracing and like it, but the games don’t run smoothly, that works out in Nvidia’s favor. Because you’ll probably then want to upgrade to an RTX card to achieve better ray tracing results and higher frame rates.

And if you like gaming at high resolutions with ray tracing, you will probably need to upgrade. Note that all of Nvidia’s benchmark results below show Pascal and Turing cards running the existing games and demos at 1440p. And the frame rates for even the GTX 1080 Ti don’t look pretty.

Note that these tests were run at high game and high ray tracing/DXR settings. You’ll be able in many instances to dial down settings and see smoother results. To find out how smooth, we’ll have to spend some quality time dusting off some older Pascal cards and dropping them into our test rig to see what they can do with today’s cutting-edge game features.