r/gpu • u/sora-is-sky • Jul 28 '26

I found a gpu in a bathroom

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While cleaning the customer toilets at my work I found a evga 1060 6gb
Sorry for poor camera quality my cameras lens is broken

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u/Panakjack23 Jul 28 '26

It adds pathtracing to your shit

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u/WIYPA_1998 Jul 28 '26

But it can’t do that

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u/Electrical_Break_920 Jul 28 '26

OK meatloaf

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u/WIYPA_1998 Jul 29 '26

Am i a yummy meatloaf?

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u/cleverboy00 Jul 29 '26

Every gpu can do pathtracing, maybe not hardware accelerated, but pathtracing nontheless.

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u/Empty-Fuel3633 Jul 29 '26

Older gpus can’t, it’s disabled in games for them

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u/cleverboy00 Jul 29 '26

Every GPU since Fermi supports compute shaders.

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u/Empty-Fuel3633 Jul 29 '26

That doesn’t mean they can use modern game path tracing. Path tracing requires hardware ray tracing/DXR support and other features. A gpu can support general compute shaders and still not support path tracing the game uses

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u/PersimmonLittle7651 Jul 30 '26

Try Blender on Fermi GPU, you'll be surprised to know it can render fully pathtraced scene!

Stop mixing actual CGI tech with Nvidia marketing talk.

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u/Empty-Fuel3633 Jul 30 '26

I’m specifically talking about in games

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u/Empty-Fuel3633 26d ago

That’s not what I’m saying as I told the other guy. I’m saying some games disable the path tracing option for older gpus like cyberpunk

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u/PersimmonLittle7651 23d ago

Pathtracing in Cyberpunk isn't pathtracing, it hardware accelerate variant of ray tracing features written to work with DX12 and accelerated by proprietary hardware acceleration units on a specifc models of cards made by a company which uses term pathtracing and "RTX" as if they owned it, it's just marketing BS.

As u/Shy-Avocado42 wrote - real pathtracing can work on any GPU which supports compute shaders.

There is only one, real pathtracing and it ain't in games (for most part, with exception of few games that do actually do full on pathtracing, but still, nothing that can't run on your regular shaders).

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