Impressive, really impressive


     

I hope this lives up to the claim...maybe the RTX paradigm is developing too slow :hehe:

Yes, very very nice.

An iClone RTX plugin for Iray would be nice.
I would buy a new card then, even i just acquired a 1080ti.
Or in the meantime, an Iray cloud render service.

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Looks good, but the question is how practical it will be. Seems to be some time in the future before it will be available. 

It is nice that it will work for both AMD and Nvidia GPUs. It's funny, though, how the comments brought out Nvidia and RTX haters...:unsure: 

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There's also this news:

https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/18/nvidia-ray-tracing-tech-coming-to-gtx-cards/?fbclid=IwAR3Q20XpwlDU1PO8NFT02xNW2GLPjQM5UNMo_JVOhTm_1dk4rQPh77HT7ZI

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My system: i7 3770 Gtx1060 6GB

Freaking awesome...

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Referencing EterenityBlue's provided link, that is really interesting to see that the 'tech' is being driven by game sales. 
If RTX really took off like lightning, and games with raytracing sold like crazy, I don't believe we would see them going back to see about getting the feature set on older cards.   
I imagine the 'tech' likely always existed, but they wanted to be able to 'sell it'.
Because, this 'non-RTX' move only serves to benefit the game makers, right, who would benefit from people sitting on sidelines with older GPUs now being interested to purchase their game if they too can have raytracing.

Wow...You know what probably was a big cause of this all now?  Low sales on Battlefield 5!!!..

And so, maybe this is tied into CryEngine now discovering that they can market this too as part of their paradigm of raytracing smaller pieces of a scene, not the entire scene.  

I do believe the RTX GPUs will likely ironically also benefit from this too, because they are so fast they will out-perform even better with a tech that doesn't need as much speed. 
So, in a way, you further boost RTX's power by reducing the tech requirement.

And with us, in order for iClone to benefit from all of this, we would need to see a CryEngine like implementation in iClone's own realtime renderer, but otherwise, it would be really interesting and awesome to be able to export out to CE and just take advantage of it there...

CryEngine are being bank rolled by Amazon - their free game engine, Lumberyard, is built on CryEngine's platform.  Amazon is a diverse company, with a bottomless pot of money, and since they probably host most of the online games already - and render farms etc. they can quietly influence the entire game industry - and all related technologies.

A little bit OT, but maybe also interesting for someone (like me), who don't want to endlessly invest in own hardware.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-ec2-instances-g4-with-nvidia-t4-gpus/

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