UFO:Alien Invasion
Offtopic => Offtopic => Topic started by: ballsystemlord on February 18, 2019, 05:51:27 pm
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Hey, I heard from 1 of the people that do HW reviews that AMD was considering implementing their very own Ray Tracing eXtensions and looking at what people think of RTX.
I got 5 votes in 23 hours at LQ :( so I'm trying to reach a larger audience by posting here. Please vote only on 1 site.
If the RTX GPU has Linux support and some games to play would you purchase a GPU with RTX or RTX like HW?
Bear in mind that AFAIK current Nvidia GPU's do RTX by partially ray tracing the scene (shadows only), at a low resolution. Then use an AI to fill in the missing shadow pixels and finally use the AI (through DLSS), to blow the image way up to 1080p at an astounding ~30fps (in Shadow if the Tomb Raider) :-[!!! Other (FLOSS) implementations appear to have better performance! http://brechpunkt.de/q2vkpt/
My intention is to give AMD some idea of what you guys think.
Some people who have replied thus far think RTX is marketing jargon and/or that this poll is intended to force a technology upon companies.
RTX is not jargon, it is a large portion of current Nvidia GPU's die space. You pay for it.
As for forcing, that was *never* my intention. With AMD about ~1 month ago getting freesync support merged into their driver (leaving the only major thing left being Radeon Chill AFAIK), now is a time when we are considered relevant, at least by one company and have the chance to be included in the conversation!
I'm assuming that if you don't know what RTX is that you want to do your own independent research, but for the lazy here are 2 excellent talks on the matter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrF4k6wJ-do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT2o_FpNM4g
Feel free to comment also!
Note to voters: Most of the answers that are "no..." become "yes..." if/when Nvidia and AMD do fix the stated problem. And I have listed the common ones.
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So far no body has voted. :(
There's still time if you want to since the poll should close tonight in about 6 and 1/2 hours.
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So far no body has voted. :(
There's still time if you want to since the poll should close tonight in about 6 and 1/2 hours.
Didn't notice this thread until today. ;-)
RTX is an Nvidia thing.
Personally I would never use Nvidia cards. I will go out of my way to stay away from Nvidia cards only because Nvidia doesn't have Free Software drivers, often called «Open Source».
I know there are some cards that work with Nouveau drivers, I still prefer AMD or Intel over Nvidia
I don't trust proprietary software, and I especially don't trust proprietary drivers. So I use Intel or AMD GPU's.
I am a Free Software advocate, and have used GNU/Linux as my operating systems since 2001.