NVIDIA is showcasing three RTX tech demos, giving gamers a taste of the immersive ray-traced visuals and enhanced performance developers were able to bring into games. Surprise, they also work on the previous GTX range.
The three demos, available for free to all equipped players, include:
Atomic Heart RTX - The Atomic Heart demo offered by Mundfish incorporates ray-traced highlights and shadows, as well as NVIDIA DLSS technology.
Justice - Justice is a demo that comes from China and incorporates ray-traced highlights, shadows, and NVIDIA DLSS technology. This is the first time that ray-tracing has been used to restore corrosion.
Reflections - The Reflections demo was created by Epic Games in collaboration with ILMxLAB and NVIDIA. Reflections offers a glimpse into the future of cinematic gaming with a spectacular demo, showing ray-traced effects, light and shadow, ambient occlusion and NVIDIA DLSS technology.
All demos can be downloaded here.
Don't have an RTX, just a GTX?
NVIDIA also announces the release a new Game Ready pilot which will allow millions of gamers with a GTX graphics card to use ray tracing for the first time. Thanks to dedicated RT cores, RTX graphics cards perform better in ray-traced games, with more effects, more rays ... With this new driver, 1060 6GB graphics cards and those with more power can perform ray-traced instructions on traditional shader cores, giving players a taste, even at lower settings and resolutions, of how ray tracing actually goes “Change video games. "
The following graphics cards can now be compatible:
- GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
- GeForce GTX 1660
- NVIDIA TITAN Xp (2017)
- NVIDIA TITAN X (2016)
- GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
- GeForce GTX 1080
- GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
- GeForce GTX 1070
- GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
- Computers integrating equivalents of Pascal and Turing architecture graphics cards.
The new ray-tracing explained
NVIDIA has also released a new video detailing how ray-tracing works and how it's built into games.