AMD at CES 2020 not only introduced new , 64-core consumer CPU , and dynamic CPU and GPU frequency management technology . The company also revealed some of its plans in a series of responses to the media. For example, Lisa Su preparation of the βbig Naviβ, which should be no worse than the older video cards of the NVIDIA Turing family.
We have known for a long time that AMD plans to introduce hardware-accelerated ray tracing as a core feature of its next-generation RDNA 2-based GPUs. AMD has stated that it is currently investing heavily in ray tracing technology and its ecosystem. Ms. Su basically confirmed that we'll see hardware ray tracing in AMD graphics cards this year.
Recall that hardware acceleration of ray tracing tasks promises to be one of the key features of the next generation of consoles from Sony and Microsoft, which will also be based on graphic units based on RDNA 2.
Dean Takahashi of VentureBeat asked Lisa Su, "Will real-time ray tracing be as big a change in graphics as NVIDIA claims?" The head of AMD answered this question: βI have said in the past that real-time ray tracing is important, and I still believe in it, but if you look at where the technology is now, it becomes clear that it is still very early stage of its development. We're investing heavily in ray tracing, and we're investing equally heavily in building the ecosystem around it - both of our partners in the console market have also said they'll use hardware accelerated ray tracing. You can expect our discrete graphics to offer ray tracing throughout 2020 as well. I am sure that while we are at an early stage, the ecosystem still has a long way to go. We need more games, more software, and more apps to take advantage of the technology. At AMD, we feel very confident about our approach to ray tracing technologies.β
Perhaps this year we will actually get a powerful Radeon graphics card that can challenge the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti not only in terms of performance, but also in terms of hardware accelerated ray tracing?
Source: 3dnews.ru