With at the moment’s announcement from Microsoft of DirectX 12 Ultimate, each NVIDIA and AMD are additionally chiming in to reiterate their assist for the brand new function set, and to notice their involvement within the course of. For AMD, DirectX 12 Ultimate goes hand-in-hand with their forthcoming RDNA2 structure, which can be on the coronary heart of the Xbox Series X console, and can be AMD’s first structure to assist DirectX 12 Ultimate’s new options, corresponding to ray tracing and variable fee shading.
To that finish, as a part of Microsoft’s general DirectX Developer Day presentation, AMD is displaying off raytracing operating on an RDNA2 for the primary time in public. Running an AMD-built demo they name “Futuristic City”, the demo incorporates DXR 1.zero and 1.1 options, to provide what can solely be described as a really shiny demo.
It must be famous that this demo was a recording – as the entire Microsoft dev day shows have been – although there’s little cause to doubt its authenticity. AMD additionally confirmed off an RT recording a few weeks again for Financial Analyst day, and presumably this is similar trailer.
