Wonder how PS5 will live up to the new RTX 2080Ti gpu from nvidia.
What I'm thinking now is that Microsoft might be planning to have nVIDIA back in the next XboX for Ray Tracing and that is why we have only heard about Navi in PS5 and not Xbox... If its true, Sony could be in trouble... Using "dead end" technology, unless AMD surprises us with Ray Tracing that is.
I would think that since MS is involved with their raytracing DirectX, AMD is well aware of what PC's will be capable in the near term. I'm sure MS is not working with Nvidia on this exclusively.
Having said that, if for some reason the next gen consoles do not have this technology, it will be an incredible miss, and the gulf between console and PC will be even bigger.
The way rumors get around in the industry, I'm sure AMD has been working on some kind of RT answer. Very likely no where near as well thought out as Nvidia's scheme, but something rudimentary or bolted on like PowerVRs mobile SoC Ray Tracing module.
Radeon™ Rays (formerly AMD FireRays) is a high efficiency, high performance GPU accelerated ray tracing software. By tracing the paths of light rays moving through a movie or game scene, Radeon Rays simulates the effects of light rays reflecting and refracting through an environment and interacting with virtual objects – for stunningly photorealistic 3D images.
Radeon Rays is targeted at content developers seeking to harness the high-performance ray-tracing capabilities of AMD GPUs, CPUs, and APUs. Asynchronous compute engines within AMD’s GCN-enabled graphics processors allow Radeon Rays to output the data for display into the ray-tracing viewport while the application is simultaneously driving the graphics engine.
I suspect Microsofts DirectX ray tracing stuff is also being developed with their next gen console in mind. Whether that comes from Nvidia or not.
.........seems more like something I'd just fake in a cut scene as otherwise why the hell would I be noticing eyeball reflections in the normal course of play?
DXR is out today. The games are coming today. DX12 maturity and DXR will be substantially better in 2020. Developers will be ready to support