Question Ray tracing on any gpu

[nubuntu20.04]

Good time of day everyone I have insane question is it possible to do ray tracing without huge loss of perfomance(less than 50%) on rx 580 8gb my os is windows 11 is there any apps for it I saw only one reshade but its not free and it subscription payment method don't loks like a wise investment to me thanks for your attention whoever you are)

 

[Nighthawk117]

Good time of day everyone I have insane question is it possible to do ray tracing without huge loss of perfomance(less than 50%) on rx 580 8gb my os is windows 11 is there any apps for it I saw only one reshade but its not free and it subscription payment method don't loks like a wise investment to me thanks for your attention whoever you are)

No, if you want ray tracing then the simplest and best method is to get an Nvidia RTX GPU.

 

[nubuntu20.04]

Ok

No, if you want ray tracing then the simplest and best method is to get an Nvidia RTX GPU.

Ok thanks

 

[TechyInAZ]

Yeah there's no shortcuts to doing RT with older hardware that doesn't support hardware accelerated RT.

Best option is to buy an RTX GPU as previously said, or a mid-range RX 6000 series GPU at a minimum.

 

[nubuntu20.04]

Yeah there's no shortcuts to doing RT with older hardware that doesn't support hardware accelerated RT.

Best option is to buy an RTX GPU as previously said, or a mid-range RX 6000 series GPU at a minimum.

Ok so amd radeon support rt?

 

[TechyInAZ]

For hardware accelerated RT, only RX 6000 series and RX 7000 series GPUs do.

 

[nubuntu20.04]

For hardware accelerated RT, only RX 6000 series and RX 7000 series GPUs do.

Ok thanks for info did not knew it

 

[Nighthawk117]

Ok so amd radeon support rt?

Yes they do, but they don't have dedicated hardware for it like Nvidia, so you can certainly experience RT on modern AMD GPU's but ray tracing is faster on Nvidia.

 

[hotaru.hino]

Good time of day everyone I have insane question is it possible to do ray tracing without huge loss of perfomance(less than 50%) on rx 580 8gb my os is windows 11 is there any apps for it I saw only one reshade but its not free and it subscription payment method don't loks like a wise investment to me thanks for your attention whoever you are)

The ray tracing that ReShade performs isn't the same kind of ray tracing that's in games that use DXR or VKRT. It uses what was already rendered to enhance the quality of the image in some way, but it can't do things like mirror-like reflections unless the object in question is visible on screen.

A lot of AAA titles that include all the graphical bells and whistles use the same thing ReShade does if it's not using the RT render path.

 

[Viking2121]

Yeah some games you can do software ray tracing, it works, I've done it on a 5700xt and a Vega 64 playing around with Minecraft RT and Battfield V, some games that is not even an option, and for good reason, games that do not support hardware accelerated RT, you take a massive performance hit, its not worth it, my 5700xt was getting fps in teens and single digits at 720p, I just wanted to see what it looked like.

The only way to get somewhat decent RT performance is to get a newer card, RTX, and AMD's latest cards do ok with it, RT performance on the 7900xtx is around a RTX 2000 series of cards if not a little better in some titles, no where near the RTX 4000 cards yet.