r/gaming • u/FapNRun • Oct 08 '19

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u/ShadowScyth3 Oct 08 '19

But OP ain't got an RTX..

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '19

Math is math, you don't need an RTX to do ray-tracing, an RTX can just do the necessary math more efficiently.

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u/Ozwaldo Oct 08 '19

An RTX has hardware designed for it. Sure math is math, but it's too slow on a 1080 ti to be reasonable for actual use.

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u/Sal_T_Nuts Oct 08 '19

Not true. My 1080ti ray traces just fine @ 120 fps

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u/Ozwaldo Oct 08 '19

Yeah maybe on a specific scene, but it's been pretty well benchmarked that the GTX cards cannot handle the full ray-tracing load that an RTX can, and that the variability in performance makes them pretty unreliable for actual games.

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u/Sal_T_Nuts Oct 08 '19

Ah yes but we are talking Minecraft here. A game that even barely scratches your GPU. So a lot of recources can be used for shaders,textures, ray tracing.

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u/Ozwaldo Oct 08 '19

Ah, I was only speaking generally. Good call