GodisanAtheist
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RTX is a proprietary RayTracing Technology by NVIDIA, there is also the DXR RayTracing Technology from Microsoft in DX-12 that all cards can run.
Since AMDs VEGA architecture is compute oriented, it is highly reasonable to expect that next AMD cards will continue to be heavily Compute oriented and perform good in DXR.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/directx/2018/03/19/announcing-microsoft-directx-raytracing/
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12547/expanding-directx-12-microsoft-announces-directx-raytracing
Also check Futuremark DXR demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81E9yVU-KB8&feature=youtu.be
- I know, but thank you for the write-up nevertheless.(Edit: rereading this it sounds sarcastic, that isn't my intent).
"Missing the RTX train" was intended to convey that AMD likely will show up with the same general purpose compute units rather than any sort of specialized ray tracing hardware which is going to be less performant than specialized ray tracing hardware NV included in Turing.
As such, that isn't the hill AMD should die on and should instead focus on the traditional HEDT 4k120hz market.
Recall AMD getting slaughtered during the early tessellation craze because NV over engineered their tessellation hardware then hammered AMD on that front.
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