Nvidia is celebrating a significant milestone with its RTX know-how, saying that 500 video games and apps now incorporate RTX assist in a single kind or one other.

These are video games and purposes working ray tracing or DLSS (or each), making use of the devoted cores on RTX graphics playing cards.

As Nvidia reminds us, the primary RTX GPU was the RTX 2080 which was launched over 5 years in the past now (how time flies if you’re having enjoyable gaming).

Solely a handful of items of software program and video games got here with preliminary assist, however now there are 500, with RTX video games being performed for 87 million hours per week, Nvidia tells us.

Naturally, Nvidia has a bunch of different stats to share, and that features the pretty unsurprising revelation that almost all PC players with an RTX graphics card use ray tracing and/or DLSS in big-name titles that assist it.

For instance, 97% of these enjoying Cyberpunk 2077 go ‘RTX On’ as Nvidia places it, and 99% of Alan Wake 2 gamers (and 99% of these participating in Minecraft, too).

It wouldn’t be a celebration with no giveaway, in fact, and Nvidia has 20 Inexperienced Man Gaming reward playing cards up for grabs, in addition to some ‘RTX On’ keycaps. To face an opportunity of getting some goodies, you’ll must comply with one among Nvidia’s foremost social channels (X, Fb, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube) for directions on tips on how to take part.

Evaluation: DLSS FTW

Nvidia doesn’t break down the relative percentages of these utilizing ray tracing or DLSS (or each), however we reckon it’s a secure guess that the most-used RTX know-how is DLSS. With DLSS 3, the body era tech took a leap ahead – leaving AMD’s rival FSR manner behind, frankly – and Nvidia is continually enhancing and innovating with DLSS (with v3.5 of late).

Sure, ray tracing is probably rising in reputation too, partly as a result of DLSS could make body charges extra palatable for the calls for of turning on these GPU-taxing rays. However what players really need is the power to play one of the best PC video games easily – maybe at 60 frames per second, or 120 extra ambitiously – after they in any other case would fall properly in need of that type of degree.

DLSS is undoubtedly an enormous promoting level for Nvidia’s GeForce graphics playing cards, particularly as assist expands additional. It’s usually talked about as a professional in discussions of the assorted respective deserves of Group Inexperienced’s merchandise when pitted towards AMD’s choices (or certainly Intel’s Arc GPUs, which have carved a small area of interest within the desktop world – and Group Blue additionally gives XeSS, a strong sufficient rival to DLSS).

Through Wccftech

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