Asidcast says "For those of you that might not know or have not bothered, now might be a pretty good time to get acquainted with Nvidia Gameworks. Initally launched in 2014, Gameworks is a collection of propriety technologies and APIs that Nvidia offers to developers."
NVIDIA’s RTX 50 “Blackwell” architecture has been a bit of a bore for us gamers. Apart from Multi Frame Generation, which has limited use-case scenarios, there isn’t much to be excited about. It is achieved using GPU-side Flip Metering. The optical field data is generated using AI models in the Tensor cores.
Between the price, performance and power draw, with the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti, NVIDIA nailed the mainstream formula.
Nvidia writes:
The Nintendo Switch 2 takes performance to the next level, powered by a custom NVIDIA processor featuring an NVIDIA GPU with dedicated RT Cores and Tensor Cores for stunning visuals and AI-driven enhancements.
The raytracing probably doesn't even equal a low end PC GPU, even if it did it would probably be mostly useless. They'll probably force it in some game now that will run like shit maybe 30fps at best, just because "it can do it"
A lot of gamers don’t realize that ray tracing isn’t really about making games look better. It’s mainly there to make development easier and cheaper, since it lets devs skip a bunch of old-school tricks to fake reflections and lighting. The visual upgrade is just a nice bonus, but that’s not the main reason the tech exists.
So you can be 100% sure that developers will try to implement it every chance they get.
Agree with Vits .... but also to add, if devs and designers just implement RT to a game world then it won't always work as expected. RT is not just reflections but also lighting and illumination as well. For example, If you just create a room with minimal windows, then it will look dark af, if RTGI is enabled. Devs and designers needs to sort out the game world design accordingly as well.
DF's Metro Exodus RT upgrade is an amazing reference video to go through, if anybody's interested.
Some PS5 and SX games run at 30fps with RT...just like those systems, if you don't like it, turn it off.
I only say this to say, you make it seem like a problem exclusive to the Switch 2.
sour grapes much?
"It probably doesn't do it well because it's Nintendo and they suck". That's how your comment reads. Why don't you just wait and see before making these ridiculous statements?
Please. I'd like to play my switch games on my 4k tv without it looking all doodoo.
Nvidia could have said this months ago and cut the bullshit. Anyway the rumors were true.
TBH I don't think Nvidia would have cared if they broke the NDA. A little fine they pay, and they go back to their AI shit. They don't even care about GPU's anymore. I myself would like them to leave the PC and console market.
This story was written half a decade ago when the world knew Nvidia would provide the chip for Switch 2 and DLSS was taking off.
Yeah but similar thing happened a long time ago when 3dfx announced they were working with Sega when they took the company public Sega pulled out of the contract for the Dreamcast GPU.
In response Sega terminated the contract and went to a ultimately weaker chipset.
So there's a precedent but that Nintendo would have much Of an option its AMD, NVIDIA or Intel
I'm not expecting of anything from ray tracing but dlss will be the thing that sees the unit get some impossible ports.
Correct. All I'm seeing online is it'll never run FF7 Rebirth. If it can run cyberpunk it'll run it. The DLSS will help. Obviously only 30 fps but a lot don't care
Exactly right when I buy a game on switch I know what I'm getting into I'm buying a game for its portability and I'm willing to sacrifice fidelity and performance to play on a train or comfortably from a hotel room when I travel for work.
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I don't put it behind nVidia doing fishy things with their products.
I bought two 970s in the hopes that it would perform well, but with the huge crap that it implemented with false advertisement, lying, and doing some skeptical jumping around trying to explain what they did with the VRAM, its really hard to believe or trust nVidia anymore.
I go with their products simply because games do run better on them, even though with performance on paper AMD beats them.
I do firmly believe nVidia could do a lot more allowing AMD to have better performance and better transparency with their "gameworks" suite.
Why do all new nvidia cards have such a low bitrate? Amd have larger ones now its like they swapped.
Its Nice to see Nvidia gamers see this same way mature PC Gamers do despite my Logo I used to be big fan of Nvidia and since amd got there act together and have stable drivers video cards that debunks alot these myths which are no more. I have had more than 6 AMD cards in my time but more Nvidia.
The reason i chose get the R9 290x after owning a 7970 was thinking going back to Nvidia was because the way nvidia have changed not for the greater good.
Its sad cos Nvidia always had the Market for sometime now without these tactics.
not a big fan they're completely gimpung Keplar which for me is the GTX 780ti that I own in most new games. After the big fiasco that was GTX 970 I hope to go with AMD next time I buy a card
"As to the surprise of many Reddit users, even the last gen flagships such as the 780Ti were struggling to keep up with the current gen 960 even though having far more power as compared to the card. "
So Nvidia is gimping old gen graphic cards, even though they were more powerful, to make people buy newer ones? Great buisiness model.