Nvidia partners with CDPR for raytracing in Cyberpunk 2077

[HEXUS]

Real-time raytracing will add "depth and verticality to the already impressive megacity".

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[aidanjt]

Considering nVidia is the only raytracing-specific hardware acceleration game in town, it's not all that surprising that CDPR is partnering up with them to implement it.

[Tabbykatze]

As long as it isn't a gimmick like pretty much every other implementation.

And as long as it is DXR and not Gameworks crap then fine. But if it is Nvidia specific i will just be so dissapointed.

[Usernamist]

As long as it isn't a gimmick like pretty much every other implementation.

Graphics are as much a gimmick as controllers are. It's a video game.

[azrael-]

With nVidia as "technology partner" you can be almost certain it'll run like a dog on anything else ...perhaps even their own lower-tier graphics cards.

[Bagpuss]

Yeah...not really a game I'd want to play at 1080p just to hit 60fps on my 4K monitor & RTX 2080.

[philehidiot]

With nVidia as "technology partner" you can be almost certain it'll run like a dog on anything else ...perhaps even their own lower-tier graphics cards.

I remember a driver bug allowed me to activate some Nvidia specific dog fur thing on COD Ghosts using my AMD card. Whenever the dog was on screen the frame rate became unplayable. Turned it off and had a really good look at the dog. No difference to my eyes between a Nvidia card with this enabled and an AMD card with it disabled. The only difference was attempting to use the feature on an AMD card destroyed the frame rate.

[kalniel]

Doesn't look like a great implementation at the moment - those poster boards look like just solid colour reflections, while ray tracing should allow a much better reflection.

[Tabbykatze]

I remember a driver bug allowed me to activate some Nvidia specific dog fur thing on COD Ghosts using my AMD card. Whenever the dog was on screen the frame rate became unplayable. Turned it off and had a really good look at the dog. No difference to my eyes between a Nvidia card with this enabled and an AMD card with it disabled. The only difference was attempting to use the feature on an AMD card destroyed the frame rate.

I was reading an excellent article which i'm struggling to find that Nvidia is happy to have similar/inferior APIs to the open source/AMD-esques ones and take a substantial hit in performance if it destroys their competition by its implementation. I think it was regarding hairworks versus the AMD equivalent which generally has no discernible quality difference (maybe minor in Hairworks in certain situations) but the performance impact was by an far an order of magnitude less on the open source/AMD-esque APIs, even on Nvidia own hardware.

That just sounds like Nvidia in a nutshell.

[Nifl]

Oh god please no. RIP until people figure out how Nvidia gimped the performance for anything except the top of their line GPUs so it can be fixed. I still remember the crap they pulled with Witcher 3.

[Shane74]

If I can't hit my comfort zone of 70-90 fps at 1440P on my 2080ti, Then ray tracing will be turned off!
Hurry up and release a proper card Nvidia. Ray tracing should have been on 7nm cards and not rushed out like this generation.
Could have doubled the RT/Tensor cores to give people on 1440p and 4k decent frame rates over 60.

[azrael-]

If I can't hit my comfort zone of 70-90 fps at 1440P on my 2080ti, Then ray tracing will be turned off!
Hurry up and release a proper card Nvidia. Ray tracing should have been on 7nm cards and not rushed out like this generation.
Could have doubled the RT/Tensor cores to give people on 1440p and 4k decent frame rates over 60.

Why should they? When they can sell you both this year's models and next year's...

[kristapsl]

Can not wait for this one