News RTX can run without a GPU, if you like slideshows — Quake II RTX demoed at 1 FPS with CPU-based ray-tracing

[Admin]

A Mesa 3D Graphics Library developer has implemented support for CPU-based ray-tracing in Vulkan. In early testing of the driver in Quake II RTX only 1FPS performance was achieved, but it's a start.

RTX can run without a GPU, if you like slideshows — Quake II RTX demoed at 1 FPS with CPU-based ray-tracing : Read more

 

[emike09]

It'd be nice to know what CPU was used here.

 

[Metal Messiah.]

Kindly correct the article's title/heading, as it can be misleading.

The game was NOT running at 1 FPS as shown in the screen. 1 frame is actually been rendered every 15 minutes here. The overlay was displaying the wrong info. I have confirmed this from the developer/tester.

It'd be nice to know what CPU was used here.

AMD 5600X CPU.

 

[umeng2002_2]

With enough memory and time, any computer can compute anything (probably).

 

[emike09]

AMD 5600X CPU.

Thanks! Not a beast of a CPU by any means. I've got a server at work with dual Xeon Platinum 8470 CPUs. 104 cores, 208 threads. The DB guys would never let me test with it, but I'd be super curious to see how it'd run!

 

[jonathan1683]

I remember getting like 200 fps with my voodoo 3

 

[Geef]

The DB guys would never let me test with it, but I'd be super curious to see how it'd run!

You might even be able to break the 1 FramePerSecond barrier set by Tomshardware!

 

[Udyr]

With enough memory and time, any computer can compute anything (probably).

Not really. Some systems would simply crash/freeze due to lack of resources and compute power.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Reminds me of PhysX on CPUs because of its x87 code.

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-physx-hack-amd-radeon,2764-4.html

 

[PiersPlowman]

Pah. Years ago I played with Persistence of Vision Raytracer on an Atari ST. One scene, an image of a toy car in a fully texture-mapped scene took 36 HOURS to render at 320x200 resolution. That was with AA enabled though.

A friend's DX50 did the same scene in about the same time as the 5600x to render a frame from Quake II. Oh, for want of an FPU...

 

[tamalero]

Thanks! Not a beast of a CPU by any means. I've got a server at work with dual Xeon Platinum 8470 CPUs. 104 cores, 208 threads. The DB guys would never let me test with it, but I'd be super curious to see how it'd run!

Do it.. for science!

 

[The Historical Fidelity]

Kindly correct the article's title/heading, as it can be misleading.

The game was NOT running at 1 FPS as shown in the screen. 1 frame is actually been rendered every 15 minutes here. The overlay was displaying the wrong info. I have confirmed this from the developer/tester.



AMD 5600X CPU.

That’s perfect! I always wanted to spend hundreds of dollars on a ray traced slideshow machine!!!

 

[evdjj3j]

This might make a good CPU benchmark.

 

[TechyIT223]

RTX slideshow wallpaper more like 😄

 

[umeng2002_2]

Not really. Some systems would simply crash/freeze due to lack of resources and compute power.

You need to study more computer science, son.