Stefan Mileschin

Just in case you need your rays traced

The GPU maker named after a Roman vengeance demon, Nvidia, is to provide its latest ray-tracing tech to older GeForce GTX 10-series cards.

At the moment you can only see ray tracing on RTX cards and the change means that ray tracing will work on GPUs from the 1060.

There are some limits. Some games like Battlefield V will run just fine and deliver better visuals, but other games, like the freshly released Metro Exodus, will run at just 18 fps at 1440p which is unplayable.

In Battlefield V, for instance, ray tracing is only used for things like reflections and you can dial down the strength of the effect so that it consumes less computing power.

Metro Exodus, on the other hand, uses ray tracing to create highly realistic "global illumination" effects, simulating lighting from the real world. It's the first game that really showed the potential of RTX cards and generated some excitement about the tech. However, because it's so computationally intensive, GTX cards - which don't have the RTX tensor cores - will be effectively be too slow to run it.

https://fudzilla.com/news/48345-nvid...to-older-cards