anexanhume
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Yes, sorry if that wasn’t clear.That was in reference to consoles: PS5 and Scarlet. Per AMD's own words, hardware RT is only present in RDNA 2. The question is, does PS5 and Scarlet have RDNA 2 or RDNA 1 with custom RT blocks?
And what does "select lightning effects" in that slide mean?
Even RTX HW does limited RT. You can do it for only select things like shadows. I believe Metro does RT for shadows (amongst other things, but that was a focus of one of their demos).
As Ryan said, it’s probably Navi (as both MS and Sony mentioned explicitly) with some RDNA 2 features brought forward. Perhaps they are slightly different, as Sony seems to want to do kd trees and photon mapping rather than BVH.