NVIDIA Also Releases Tech Demos for RTX: Star Wars, Atomic

We’ve seen NVIDIA’s transfer to supply RTX results on older, non-RT succesful {hardware} at present being met with what the corporate was actually anticipating: a cry of dismay from customers that now get to see precisely what their non-Turing NVIDIA {hardware} is able to. The transfer from NVIDIA may very well be framed as a technique to democratize entry to RTX results through Windows DXR, enabling customers of its GTX 1600 and 1000 collection of GPUs to check out the advantages of raytracing; but additionally as an improve incentive for people who now see how their efficiency is missing with out the brand new specialised Turing cores to deal with the added burden.

Whatever your aspect of the fence on that problem, nonetheless, NVIDIA has offered customers with another raytraced pleasure at present. Three of them, actually, within the type of three previously-shown tech demos. The Star Wars tech demo is probably the most well-known, actually, with its research on reflections on Captain Phasma’s breastplate. Atomic Heart is one other one which makes use of RTX for reflections and shadows, whereas Justice provides caustics to that equation. If you’ve a Turing graphics card, you’ll be able to take a look at these demos of their full glory, with added DLSS for improved efficiency. If you are on Pascal, you will not have that performance-enhancing mode out there, and should slog it by way of software program computations. Follow the embedded hyperlinks for our downloads of those tech demos.