Allen
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AMD response to Nvidia DXR ray tracing on RTX 2000 series cards.
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AMD’s David Wang: We Won’t Implement DirectX RayTracing (DXR) Until Its Offered In All Product Ranges
[According to AMD] ..the company does not have plans to support DXR at the point in time until it becomes available across their entire product line – from the low end to the high end.
So far, one needs a $1000 (and up) Nvidia card to get a decent partial implementation of ray tracing at 1080p. Except for special ray tracing demos, partial ray tracing offers little visible improvement in graphics and only applies to a few games. So, AMD is saying they will wait until ray tracing really matters and can be done well before they spend the money to implement it (AMD can't afford to add hardware features merely for the advertising benefits).