Maybe I and other RX5700 owners will have some Ray Tracing this year.

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Rumor : AMD Bringing Ray Tracing Support to Navi in December

Ray Tracing Code Spotted in AMD Drivers

while specialized hardware can help accelerate ray tracing it is not a requirement to support Microsoft's DirectX Ray Tracing feature.

The company is allegedly targeting its big December driver release to introduce ray tracing support for its Radeon RX 5000 series graphics cards. In fact, ray tracing code has already been spotted in the company's graphics drivers for Microsoft's recently released Gears 5 .

The State of Ray Tracing, A Must-Have or a Gimmick?

even though some graphics cards such as the GeForce RTX 2060 do in fact have hardware acceleration for ray tracing, it is debatable whether the card is actually powerful enough to run the feature at enjoyable framerates and graphics settings. After all, who would want to turn down settings and play at a lower resolution and lower framerates than what they're used to just to turn on one graphics feature.


I notice in the attached AMD graphic, they are aimed at cloud based FULL ray tracing "someday". That makes some sense because we're years (or maybe never) from a GPU being powerful enough for full ray tracing -- at an affordable price.

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