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[thelastword]

Neon Noir, the CRYENGINE based hardware and API agnostic ray tracing demo first showcased by Crytek at this year's Game Developers Conference (GDC), is being released publically for download later today on the Marketplace.


Thanks to Crytek, we were able to access it in advance for testing. In the video below you can watch Keith's recording of the benchmark run on a system featuring AMD's RX 5700XT.

Interestingly, this is the second hardware-agnostic ray tracing demo released in the last few weeks, after Wargaming published the enCore RT demo (made in partnership with Intel). Clearly there's an interest to make ray tracing available to a wider public, despite NVIDIA having hardware support on the RTX cards and AMD reportedly also being on the verge of releasing Navi GPUs featuring hardware support of ray tracing.


CRYENGINE developers are getting the ray tracing feature at some point next year, presumably with the 5.7 engine update that is also due to add DirectX 12 and Vulkan support. The folks at Crytek also shared a new 'Making Of' developer diary, detailing how this raytracing demo came to be - check it out below.





Benches from all the Super Cards including AMD is at the link below

https://wccftech.com/neon-noir-crye...ic-ray-tracing-demo-tested-and-available-now/

 

[mckmas8808]

How is this possible? That GPU doesn't even have Raytracing hardware within it.

 

[s34ab]

We used the tool that we were given to benchmark the game engine performance across a variety of graphics cards from the Radeon RX Vega 56 to the GeForce RTX 2080Ti to see how it all performed in an engine that is supporting Real-Time Ray Tracing features but not using specific hardware acceleration.

Does that mean the RT cores are being ignored on the nvidia cards?

 

[Von Hugh]

How is this possible? That GPU doesn't even have Raytracing hardware within it.

RTX is just a marketing ploy by Nvidia.

/s

 

[pawel86ck]

Interesting, I was expecting something like 30fps at 1080p, yet RX 5700 run it with around 90fps. So RT can run without HW RT after all, however HW RT would probably offer similar results at much higher resolutions.

 

[mckmas8808]

Does that mean the RT cores are being ignored on the nvidia cards?

Great question.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Does that mean that hardware acc rt can support higher res ray traces or that it simply takes no hit on performance?

 

[DonF]

How is this possible? That GPU doesn't even have Raytracing hardware within it.

Dedicated hardware makes the process faster or more efficient, but its not dependent of it.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

Today Crytek released a benchmark dedicated to Ray Tracing. It's called Neon Noir Ray Tracing Benchmark and you need to open a Crytek account to download it with their own launcher. It's a very short benchmark (1min30) but it's still gorgeous as you'

Today Crytek released a benchmark dedicated to Ray Tracing. It's called Neon Noir Ray Tracing Benchmark and you need to open a Crytek account to download it with their own launcher. It's a very short benchmark (1min30) but it's still gorgeous as you're about to find out. With our configuration...

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[IbizaPocholo]

 

[mckmas8808]

This looks amazing! DF somehow put out the best version of the demo.

 

[hunthunt]

They lost a good chance there by not calling it "CryNge"

 

[magnumpy]

haha very good, ray tracing for all! xD

 

[thelastword]

Neon Noir Benchmarked - Testing Methodology

We used the tool that we were given to benchmark the game engine performance across a variety of graphics cards from the Radeon RX Vega 56 to the GeForce RTX 2080Ti to see how it all performed in an engine that is supporting Real-Time Ray Tracing features but not using specific hardware acceleration. I do want to note that this is a very exciting implementation that during my (-Keith) testing I noticed that the reflections had their own motion blur and often were slightly lagging behind the scene, this could just be from an early build and may get better in the future it's bit distracting in the demo and maybe more in an actual game. Either way, I welcome the advancements that Crytek has made here. Now on to the results.


Once we had the results from 3 runs, after discarding an initial burner run for loading purposes, we took the average of average frame rates as well as the 99th percentile results from the run. We report our performance metrics as average frames per second and have moved away from the 1% and .1% reporting and are now using the 99th percentile. For those uncertain of what the 99th percentile is, representing is easily explained as showing only 1 frame out of 100 is slower than this frame rate. Put another way, 99% of the frames will achieve at least this frame rate.


Test System

Components	Z370
CPU	Intel Core i9-9900k @ 5GHz
Memory	16GB G.Skill Trident Z DDR4 3200
Motherboard	EVGA Z370 Classified K
Storage	Kingston KC2000 1TB NVMe SSD
PSU	Cooler Master V1200 Platinum
Windows Version	1903 with latest security patches

Graphics Cards Tested

GPU	Architecture	Core Count	Clock Speed	Memory Capacity	Memory Speed
NVIDIA RTX 2080ti FE	Turing	4352	1350/1635	11GB GDDR6	14Gbps
NVIDIA RTX 2080 SUPER FE	Turing	3072	1650/1815	8GB GDDR6	15.5Gbps
NVIDIA RTX 2070 SUPER FE	Turing	2560	1605/1770	8GB GDDR6	14Gbps
NVIDIA RTX 2060 SUPER	Turing	2176	1470/1650	8GB GDDR6	14Gbps
NVIDIA RTX 2060 FE	Turing	1904	1365/168	6GB GDDR6	14Gbps
NVIDIA GTX 1080 FE	Pascal	2560	1607/1733	8GB GDDR5X	10Gbps
NVIDIA GTX 1070 FE	Pascal	1920	1506/1683	8GB GDDR5	8Gbps
AMD Radeon RX 5700XT	Navi	2560	1605/1755/1905	8GB GDDR6	14Gbps
AMD Radeon RX 5700	Navi	2304	1465/1625/1725	8GB GDDR6	14Gbps
AMD RX Vega 64	Vega 10	4096	1247/1546	8GB HBM2	945Mbps
AMD RX Vega 56	Vega 10	3584	1156/1471	8GB HBM2	800Mbs

Drivers Used

Drivers
Radeon Settings	19.11.1
GeForce	441.12

Benches

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Interesting results, bare in mind that this is using the DX11 API, very curious as to what results we will see with DX12 and Vulkan.....

 

[metareferential]

Interesting, I was expecting something like 30fps at 1080p, yet RX 5700 run it with around 90fps. So RT can run without HW RT after all, however HW RT would probably offer similar results at much higher resolutions.

It's less accurate than actual raytracing on nvidia's card or vulkan raytracing, but it's an elegant solution.

It would be nice to test the demo with the RT cores enabled, to see how much more performance (or quality) we could squeeze out of it.

DF's video is really good (as usual) in explaining how Crytek did it.