I think a lot is being made of this headline, honestly. Indiana Jones did the same thing using the same engine… and runs well on a broad variety of hardware, including AMD cards with no dedicated RT accelerators. And that’s not an experience designed with high framerate competitive action in mind.
I also literally booted Doom Eternal for the first time in a while today, enabled raytracing, and played at 120FPS with 4K native on a 7900XTX, all settings on High. Id knows how to frigging optimize a title, and you can bet their raytracing implementation will be substantially better optimized than the RT we’re used to seeing. So long as you don’t run it with Path Tracing (a future forward feature, like Crysis back in the day), I fully expect you’ll still be able to get high framerates and incredible visuals.
Wait for the Digital Foundry tests before buying if you’re uncertain, absolutely, but I really don’t see any reason to be concerned with the way idTech 8 has been shaping up.
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I think a lot is being made of this headline, honestly. Indiana Jones did the same thing using the same engine… and runs well on a broad variety of hardware, including AMD cards with no dedicated RT accelerators. And that’s not an experience designed with high framerate competitive action in mind.
I also literally booted Doom Eternal for the first time in a while today, enabled raytracing, and played at 120FPS with 4K native on a 7900XTX, all settings on High. Id knows how to frigging optimize a title, and you can bet their raytracing implementation will be substantially better optimized than the RT we’re used to seeing. So long as you don’t run it with Path Tracing (a future forward feature, like Crysis back in the day), I fully expect you’ll still be able to get high framerates and incredible visuals.
Wait for the Digital Foundry tests before buying if you’re uncertain, absolutely, but I really don’t see any reason to be concerned with the way idTech 8 has been shaping up.