Giant Insect

The poll should end tonight (in about 6 and 1/2 hours). If you did not vote yet you still have a chance.

Here's an Nvidia slide. Notice that the RT HW is separate from the AI tensor cores and the Cuda (Normal GPU type) cores (They're the INT32 and FP32 HW pictured). Access to a "GPU" and a "GPU's RT cores" are different things.

KVELLER & ketmar, thanks for your vote!

Concerning your setup, I'm quite certain that you're totally correct. You'd just bottle neck in the CPU or RAM. Just to clarify, the idea was that the companies are deciding to do this now. So you need to think a few years into the future and have the conversation with the companies now.

But the question is specifically about the RTX HW inside the cards. Can the chess engines use that? Maybe, if you say that every chess piece is a ray and every square on the board is an object you could, theoretically, "ray trace" your chess pieces. But I don't know for certain so I must stick with gaming and rendering.

RTRTXC (Real Time Ray Tracing eXtensions for Chess), I had no idea it was a "thing". ;) More seriously, how could I make a question about ray tracing into a question for chess analysis? I really don't see how they are compatible.

Oops. Sorry, I should have thought of that. But gaming laptops do have the beefy GPUs inside.

Just select "No, the cost would have to be 5x less." and once the cost is 5x less then it will be "Yes, now that the cost has come down by 5x".

I get that reply so often. Let me quote myself: "If the RTX GPU has Linux support and some games to play would you purchase a GPU with RTX or RTX like HW?" I wrote my post that way because if we are to enter the conversation then we have to do so while the HW design is being considered, not when a decision has already been reached. I also said above that we just got freesync support for AMD GPUs. They are obviously working on drivers for us. Your post is like saying, "I'm not going to vote in the (US) elections because the presidential candidates are not going to help the average citizen any time soon." They can't help the average citizen until they are elected.

Hey, I heard from 1 of the people that do HW reviews that AMD was considering implementing their very own Ray Tracing eXtensions and looking at what people think of RTX. I got 5 votes in 23 hours at LQ :( so I'm trying to reach a larger audience by posting here. Please vote only on 1 site. If the RTX GPU has Linux support and some games to play would you purchase a GPU with RTX or RTX like HW? Bear in mind that AFAIK current Nvidia GPU's do RTX by partially ray tracing the scene (shadows only), at a low resolution. Then use an AI to fill in the missing shadow pixels and finally use the AI (through DLSS), to blow the image way up to 1080p at an astounding ~30fps (in Shadow if the Tomb Raider) :-[!!! Other (FLOSS) implementations appear to have better performance! http://brechpunkt.de/q2vkpt/ My intention is to give AMD some idea of what you guys think. Some people who have replied thus far think RTX is marketing jargon and/or that this poll is intended to force a technology upon companies. RTX is not jargon, it is a large portion of current Nvidia GPU's die space. You pay for it. As for forcing, that was *never* my intention. With AMD about ~1 month ago getting freesync support merged into their driver (leaving the only major thing left being Radeon Chill AFAIK), now is a time when we are considered relevant, at least by one company and have the chance to be included in the conversation! I'm assuming that if you don't know what RTX is that you want to do your own independent research, but for the lazy here are 2 excellent talks on the matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrF4k6wJ-do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT2o_FpNM4g Feel free to comment also! Note to voters: Most of the answers that are "no..." become "yes..." if/when Nvidia and AMD do fix the stated problem. And I have listed the common ones.