News Cyberpunk 2077 May Add a New Nvidia Denoiser to Improve Image Quality

[Admin]

Cyberpunk 2077 is rumored to be adding support for Nvidia NRC in the future, which will reduce artifacts and improve image quality surrounding the game's path-tracing effects.

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[PlaneInTheSky]

It's not just noise, there's a whole laundry list of issues with raytracing.

You can't have degenerate triangles in any mesh because raytracing can't handle those.

You have to find a solution to the "fireflies" artefacts in a scene. This is not the same as noise, they're little specks of bounced light from ray that found a lightsource when they shouldn't have, so they become little white spots in the scene.

Caustics is also a major problem for raytracing. For anything related with water, Disney uses photon mapping instead.

Cyberpunk gets lots of money and help from Nvidia to find solutions to these raytracing problems. But I can tell you with confidence that the average game developer has no time, money, or desire to do all of this.

I loved when Nvidia introduced raytracing and sites like PCGamer and DigitalFoundry said it was easy to implement because "that"s how light works"...not sure what they were smoking when they wrote that, but they have clearly never implemented a raytracing algorithm.

 

[hotaru251]

I mean....why waste resources on the RTX mode that is nearly unplayable by anyone w/o a xx90 series gpu?

thats the stuff that should be focused on later down line when the userbase generally can run it not when only a minority can.

 

[zx128k]

RIP AMD RX 6000 performance numbers. The RX 6000 series fine wine aging. Fits on-chip memory. Cache on AMD cards are useless.

 

[edzieba]

Sadly, the addition of NRC ensures a performance cost of approximately 2.6ms at 1080p, according to Nvidia. Hence, it is not a free quality upgrade compared to pure path tracing with no denoiser. [...] We don't know how NRC will operate in Cyberpunk 2077, but we can safely gauge that it will noticeably improve the game's overall image quality in RT Overdrive mode, and make certain lighting effects clearer with fewer artifacts.

By increasing denoiser quality, the same output image quality can be achieved with a lower sampling density. As sampling density is the major performance driver (the fewer rays you need, the more frames you can complete with a given ray budget) improving denoiser quality has a direct performance impact.

 

[evdjj3j]

I mean....why waste resources on the RTX mode that is nearly unplayable by anyone w/o a xx90 series gpu?

thats the stuff that should be focused on later down line when the userbase generally can run it not when only a minority can.

I play in RTX on my 2070 no problems.

 

[hotaru251]

I play in RTX on my 2070 no problems.

specifically in the ray tracing overdrive (which this article is about).

w/o enabling dlss which makes it look worse its not ideal and hitting 30-40 fps with drops in 20's isn't enjoyable for many ppl.

and thats 1080p.