The Science & Importance of Ray Tracing in Games

After all the big RTX announcements, Julian got to sit down with the one and only Tom "Tap" Peterson to discuss NVIDIA's history with Ray Tracing technology and its importance in games moving forward.

[jasonrogers]

Ray tracing is super important because Ray is terrible at drawing freehand.

[HarryUK]

The science and importance of giving away free RTX cards is also super interesting.

[itsthatYEStoogoodguy]

Replace every "game/gamer" word he said with Miners/mining....

[lasergangers]

Lol my pc can't run battlefield 1 in low

[seebeez]

And a reasonable cost will make it unbeatable .

[Austinatan]

Even if you don't understand anything about ray-tracing, you gotta admit; these games sure looks hella dope with them.

[xanton]

Decades ago was realtime raytracing an unimaginable dream, until now the dream has come true. Now we have so many more possibilities to do with this new technology.

[shem]

Yoooo just imagine being able to play in 4k smoothly cause I forsurely can’t rn 😭😭😭

[ggchbgigghb]

Nvidia is deleting comments that point out the ridiculous Prices. We don't want $1200 GPU.

[hatozail_legacy]

Looks cool, Sounds cool...but price is not cool...

[DanielRodriguez-budu]

This is just amazing they are recreating the natural behavior of how light, and it actually makes you question our own reality.

[nickasher]

I do think that ray tracing is super dope. the amount of photorealism that we get is insane. Nice work by the engineers

[sadcat]

Good luck for everybody who wants win a RTX 2080Ti

[zab_]

If these Turing cards have a decent enough performance improvement over pascal in older games, that's enough for me.
Being able to potentially make use of these tensor cores for machine learning and deep learning in a consumer card is pretty neat!

[fufu]

I love how the guy is really into what hes doing and his work in general

[JaysonMcLeod]

I like how we have finally reached the point where we have all these veterans of the tech industry.

[ataksnajpera]

Prepare yourself for 720p30fps again with ray-tracing enabled on RTX2070.

[Quasardian]

So when are we gonna see some FPS comparison numbers?

[DonaldWatkins]

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti will create an enormous multiplayer gaming advantage. The astute gamer will notice that they will very often be able to "see around" corners and even know what is going on behind them. The amount of detail given in the reflections from glass, metallic surfaces, and even puddles will provide not only a level of immersion never seen before, but will grant the most strategic players an ability to maintain "situational awareness" to a degree previously unobtainable. My hat is off to NVIDIA and to their new Real-Time Ray Tracing technology. I really hope that I get the chance to use this new graphics card in the near future.

[Artzmaster]

So insane how far they've come in 10 years