GPU Ray Tracing Performance Comparisons [2021] *spawn*

No, it doesn't. It has the same relative position with or without raytracing. Anyway, FPS stability is worse for Ampere (in both situations).

 

That video completely missunderstood what was happening. The lader was not disapearing because it was offscreen. Its because it was a dark scene lit only by the flashlight, and when the camera was pointed down so was the flashlight, thus the ladder was near black and the ground was very bright, overpowering any reflection left.

Total facepalm.

 

Yeah sure. Of course. If its an AMD sponsored litle, than its bad implementation, if its a nvidia title (like most other games with raytracing) its AMDs fault.

Sorry, but I'd rather own a GPU with 16GB that can handle high quality textures, than something with limited memory that struggles to run futures games at max quality.

 

The Quality of the RT reflections or shadows (especially) is really low in Far Cry 6 - they should just offer options instead of hobbling the visual experience.

 

Well, considering that GeForce 1080 Ti with 11GB memory, is more than 4 years old, and we still don't have many games pushing close to that, I'm not holding my breath for many games with meaningful high resolution textures pushing at 16GB.

 

Makes you wonder why they included RT at all. It’s not like they’re marketing that particular feature.

 

Marketing. An AAA-game without Raytracing doesnt feel right. There are free to play UE4 indie games which have raytracing so there is some pressure for publisher to not fall behind.

 

DF analysis coming soon?

I don’t think there’s any pressure at all on big publishers to adopt RT. The small indie developers are adopting RT because it helps them stand out from the pack and get noticed.

The main driver of RT adoption seems to be developers who want to be at the forefront of graphics tech (4A, CDPR, Remedy, Insomniac). The second driver seems to be Nvidia marketing / sponsorship.

 

But nVidia doesnt need to pay anyone. Raytracing is the logical next step for developers. The difference is that people expect "next gen" graphics from AAA-games and this will be only possible with raytracing.

 

Why does Watch Dogs Legion in 2020 have a robust and scalable implementation of RT reflections while Far Cry 6 in 2021 doesn't? Both are AAA Ubisoft games.

 

Yes it does. The benchmarks are right there.
FPS stability is worse because the game does some really weird stuff with VRAM allocation, and this can't be fixed from the driver due to it being DX12.

 

Maybe nVidia doesnt care. BF5 has four different settings and even "low" is visual above everything AMD sponsored games have offered.

 

Just putting the finishing touches on it today!

 

So you do agree that Nvidia's involvement is a factor.

Nice! Looking forward.

 

Three years ago, sure. Right now it doesnt matter. There are indie games using Raytracing without any involvement from nVidia. And for other developers and publishers it is free marketing. nVidia doesnt pay them to include raytracing.

 

If it doesn't matter any more and everyone wants free marketing then why is the FC6 implementation so poor?

 

AMD is paying for the sponsoring. They want a return of investment. So the implementation is poor because its the only implementation not tanking the performance of RDNA2.

Here is an example from the indie game "Pumpin Jack":

Spoiler

A one man indie game can deliver what Ubisoft couldnt. There are no exuses why AAA-games cant be on the same level.

 

I would imagine using NVIDIA specific tools, while probably easy to use, won't produce the most vendor neutral implementations no matter the effect.

 

Cynical but probably true. That reminds me I need to redeem the copy of FC6 that came with my 5950.

There's no such thing as vendor neutral though. All code will prefer one architecture over another.