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Half-Life 2 RTX and all of its foggy, ray-traced lighting is getting a demo next week
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Probably not, no
Edit: Actually maybe. Read my comment below
So I've been reading up on it a little bit and it seems like raytracing is part of Vulkan and DirectX 12, so the APIs shouldn't be proprietary the way CUDA and PhysX are...right?
In theory, yea it should. But this is developed by Nvidia with their own graphics cards in mind. If this is similar to Portal RTX, then RDNA3 cards will be able to run it, just with severly crippled performance.
Yea but isn't AMDs ray tracing performance severely crippled in general? I thought if you want to use ray tracing your far better of buying from team green.
I was under the impression that RDNA3 was still pretty bad at raytracing in general. What I'm really wondering though, having just bought a 9070 XT, is what about RDNA4?
Out of curiosity, what are you upgrading from? I've a 3070 and I'm wondering if now's the time to jump back to team red.
A Vega 56. If you think your 3070 might be obsolete we have vastly different perspectives, LOL!
I don't think it's obsolete by any means - it is driving an ultrawide monitor and the RAM upgrade might be nice longer term, this gen is slightly more reasonably priced for AMD, Nvidia driver upgrades are painful on linux, so I wanted to know if there's a significant uplift/how well does it handle RT in comparison to justify a switch for me.
Well, all I know is that it's a significant uplift over a Vega. I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be faster than a 3070, but I'm not sure if it's enough faster to be worth it. I guess if it's on the bubble, AMD playing nicer with Linux might push it over the edge. You should read/watch reviews or something; you'll be able to get much better advice from e.g. Gamer's Nexus than from me.
One thing I will say is that, in my experience, standing in line at Microcenter on launch day is the only way to have a decent chance at getting a video card at MSRP these days. Since you missed that for the 9070 XT, maybe wait until whatever AMD makes next (9070 XTX? 9060? 9080??) comes out and try to get one of those on launch day.
You should definitely not be desperate enough to pay higher-than-MSRP prices just to get more RAM and easier to deal with drivers.