Navi Dicussion Thread

[SteelCrysis]

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amds-d...since-july

It appears that AMD has had ray tracing code in its drivers since the Adrenalin Edition 19.7.2 driver that debuted in July. But while the code has been there, it hasn’t been activated.
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Given that Nvidia has had its RTX products on the market for over a year, it’d make sense for AMD to incorporate it into their upcoming GPUs in order to be competitive. We doubt it will be introduced with the RX 5800 graphics cards, but it’s also been rumored next-generation AMD GPUs with the new RDNA 2.0 architecture will arrive in 2020. Given that the AMD Radeon RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT only hit the market in July, we don’t expect to see RDNA 2.0-based cards until the end of 2020. Therefore, it may take a while before we see AMD’s hardware-level ray tracing implementation.

We can, however, hope that AMD will enable DirectX ray tracing on its existing GPUs. But that’s doubtful too, since we’ve found that ray tracing on graphics cards without hardware-level support comes with drawbacks, like less smooth framerates.