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Chazore said:

I've got so many questions going on in my head about the pairing of their CPU+GPU. It's small gains for now, but what's going to happen when they have to pull off RT?.

Are AMD just going to forgo RT?, because so far we saw one reflections demo from them, and two games with seriously lacklustre RT shadows, and nothing more to those two games. It feels like they're just gonna let Nvidia show off their sparkle sparkle and then come out later on with RT, while they just gain from the market that wants raster perf.

Don't get me wrong, the non RT gains from them so far are great against the 3080/3090, but we're supposed to be doing RT for real now. Next gen is definitely wanting to dip their toes into RT, Nvidia's doing it as well, yet AMD is being stupidly secretive/hesitant to show us what they plan to do, outside of poorly implemented shadow RT (which isn't what the main focus is with RT so far (mostly on reflections, light sources, colours, than shadows).

I really want them to proper compete in that area. I don't want a "good gains for non RT" yet crap gains for actual RT, because that means the card is basically like a souped up 1080ti.

Not sure why you worry at all. It's not like it's too hard to make your cards RT capable. Just slap on a few dedicated cores and you're done. There is zero chance that AMD won't go down the same path because RT is the future and is here to stay. In 10 years we will have to explain to young gamers how there ever were cards without hardware RT acceleration. Nvidia was extremely early with their implementation and some might argue this new generation is still too early, considering the massive performance hits. So AMD just focused on rasterizing, which is still way more important, especially when you have to catch up.

There is no chance that their next generation will not have acceptable RT performance.