I was driving around in the rain last night and there were reflections everywhere. This is real life. Not a video game. The traffic lights, street lights, car headlights. None of it looked 1:1. They were blurry, kind of vaseline covered looking instead of simple mirror like reflections.
Yes, that is a big problem. Comparing screenshots is always something where you will see this, but while in action you won't notice.
Far Cry 6 Proves Consoles Aren't Powerful Enough for Ray Tracing
Ubisoft is right to save the effects for PCs only.www.tomshardware.com
Knew it.
Fucking troll. Reported
Lol all this celebration for the pc brute force in raytracing just for reflections hybrid with SSR in Far Cry 6. Nothing to say about the pc to be more capable of the console hardware but use Ubisoft as gauge of raytraycing capability it's laughable. It's also a double edged sword argument, so it means pc is not capable to offer more raytracing in a game like FaR Cry 6 than what Ubi will offer? It's not exactly exalting.
Are they using the RT hardware on the consoles for that or is it software-based RT?
Must be hardware because they are using it for both lighting (GI) and shadows. If it was regular Global Illumination, they wouldnt call their lighting system based on ray tracing.
Is that real? The CE.All this "Ray tracing in Far Cry 6 is for PC only" is in other words: "We don't have time to implement it right now due to crunch/covid and then working on optimization before the game's release in a couple weeks."
I suspect once sales start "falling off" after the honeymoon session with the game is over, we'll see the game patched with RT... let's say it being included around the first DLC they have for example.
Oh and I'm not much for "super collector's editions" as I simply have no room for them but the Far Cry 6 one is
Far Cry 6: Fangs for Hire Collector's Edition
The thing is, software-based RT would also massively benefit from the improved console hardware as well with async compute. You can still have a software-based solution and call it ray-tracing like Epic does with UE5's Lumen system, it's tracing rays, but it's not as accurate as triangle-based RT and it's using boxy representations of the scene's geometry (voxels).Must be hardware because they are using it for both lighting (GI) and shadows. If it was regular Global Illumination, they wouldnt call their lighting system based on ray tracing.
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The console GPUs don't have dedicated Tensor cores for AI resolution upsampling like the NVIDIA cards do, the consoles have techniques like checkerboarding & TAA upsampling, as long as we get good IQ with these techniques this gen, I'm okay with it.
Microsoft claimed they have ML acceleration onboard for things like Resolution Scaling awhile back. Link
Yes, those instructions have to run on the CUs since they don’t have dedicated upscaling hardware on both consoles. But the CUs support rapid-packed math for FP16, INT8 & INT4 instructions for lower-precision calculations (ML) which run on the CUs themselves.
Right, so not dedicated, but if MSFT provides a DLSS equivalent in their API, maybe even one that takes advantage of quantization as you suggest, a development studio can opt-in. When doing so they will be giving up some small bit of their overall graphics compute budget, but they will most certainly gain that back because the render target is lower. Right?
Yes but the image quality has to be clean after the upsampling.
You are right. Horizon 4 is a beaut! 5 looks out of this world without RT. (during gameplay) But over time, a technology progresses. Becomes more mainstream. And teams start to innovate and raise the bar. And before you know it, something that didn't feel like a big deal...is. It will take quite awhile before in-game ray-tracing hits it stride. But when it does, you have hit the graphics holy grail. Just my opinion of course
Some RDNA 2 SKU's Machine Learning (dot math) instructions have FP16, INT8 & INT4 inputs with 32-bit output results. The baseline RPM feature is different from the optional dot math features.
If intel release the api for consoles, this doesn't sound no where as open source as people are making out. "Internal engines that plugin under the api" is very much how dlss works. He doesn't answer source code questions for obvious reason (because it was no)
AMD raytracing it's just at the beginning and the developers have just scratched the surface. It's not me but Metro developers who claimed that. No one will touch your precious Nvidia supremacy but say AMD raytracing will never improve is blatantly ignorant.
Oh I absolutely agree ray tracing will no doubt be standard some day. But it won't be this gen if even a 3090 struggles to keep at 30fps.You are right. Horizon 4 is a beaut! 5 looks out of this world without RT. (during gameplay) But over time, a technology progresses. Becomes more mainstream. And teams start to innovate and raise the bar. And before you know it, something that didn't feel like a big deal...is. It will take quite awhile before in-game ray-tracing hits it stride. But when it does, you have hit the graphics holy grail. Just my opinion of course
No but the way intel has described it in that interview they are going to have to release the sdk and dlls for whatever platforms they want to support and I don't think intel are going to release for platforms containing no hardware of their own or in the ps5's case not even an api they will use anywhere else. Even on pc it's going to be a case of amd and nvidia not being able to modify XeSS to use their hardware in the best possible way. Hope i'm wrong but it stinks of typical intel promises.
Yup makes about as much sense as using Valhalla as a bench for Nvidia GPUs
