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AMD RDNA 2 Based on 7nm+ Architecture Coming December?

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Right now, NVIDIA”s RTX series GPUs are the only graphics cards in the market that feature ray tracing right now. A lot of RTX users love Ray Tracing as it can make games look really good in certain cases but, the biggest issue is the fact that if you want to run the latest games with ray tracing enabled, you will need one of the high-end RTX GPUs in order to get 60 FPS on the latest games. According to the latest leaks, the Next-Gen AMD Navi GPUs may get Ray Tracing support and this may cause Ray Tracing to go from a gimmick to a useful feature that everyone can use. 

AMD RDNA 2 to Feature Ray Tracing

Although the current AMD Navi GPUs don’t have the hardware to run Ray Tracing, it’s rumored that AMD’s December driver update is going to introduce Ray-Tracing support for its Radeon RX 5000 series graphics cards. This rumor is further backed up by the fact that Ray Tracing support has been discovered in AMD’s graphics card drivers released for Gears of War 5.

This means that those who have the AMD RX 5000 series GPUs may be able to use Ray Tracing very soon. Although the 5000 series doesn’t feature hardware for Ray Tracing, gamers will still be able to play games with Ray Tracing enabled but, they would get very low performance. Just like when you enable Ray Tracing on the GTX 1000 series GPUs, it will work but the game will barely run. 

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Next-Gen AMD Navi GPUs to Get Ray Tracing

It had been speculated many times that the next-gen AMD GPUs are going to get Ray Tracing support but we didn’t have any evidence to back up the speculations. Well, now we do. It is speculated that AMD is waiting for Ray Tracing to catch on and then they will release the RDNA 2 GPU with Ray Tracing hardware so that they can compete with NVIDIA RTX. Right now, only a few games support Ray Tracing but if it catches on then AMD will be forced to feature Ray Tracing support if they want to actually compete with next-gen NVIDIA Ampere.

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