Nvidia promised ray tracing would change gaming forever, but upscaling became the real revolution
Nvidia's introduction of ray tracing in gaming was initially hailed as a revolutionary advancement. However, the performance trade-offs associated with ray tracing led to the rise of DLSS as a more practical solution for gamers. Today, DLSS is considered more crucial than ray tracing for maintaining high frame rates in modern gaming.
- ▪Nvidia's ray tracing technology was launched with the RTX 20-series GPUs in 2018.
- ▪Gamers often had to sacrifice resolution and frame rates to enable ray tracing features.
- ▪DLSS has become essential for enjoying ray tracing without significant performance loss.
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