What started off as a tech demo from Crytek is now a benchmark to examine how correctly (or not so correctly) your PC handles ray-traced content material materials. It is named Neon Noir, and it is obtainable to acquire for free of charge from the CryEngine Marketplace .
It’s possible you’ll wish to leap by way of some hoops to get it. Significantly, you must register an account, activate your account (by the use of an emailed hyperlink), acquire and arrange the launcher, add the game to your cart on the web, and finally acquire the 4.4GB arrange bundle (by way of the launcher).
The minimal specs won’t be great demanding for a ray-traced workload, though you’ll have a fairly extremely efficient PC. Here’s what Crytek recommends: AMD Ryzen 5 2500X or Intel Core i7-8700 AMD Vega 56 (8GB) or Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 (8GB) 16GB RAM Dwelling home windows 10 64-bit DirectX 11 You could have the selection of setting the extent of ray tracing to Very Extreme or Extraordinarily. The latter is further demanding, with ray traced reflections rendered on the an identical choice as a result of the scene. If dropping all the way in which right down to Very Extreme, the benchmark will “regulate a value generally known as LowSpecMode to cut back the choice of those reflections for rigs with lower effectivity, saving rendering costs, whereas nonetheless delivering a stunning scene.”
There could also be moreover the selection of fixing the show choice. To current an occasion of the Very Extreme setting, at 1920×1080, ray-traced reflections get rendered at “roughly” 1357×763.
What’s neat about this benchmark is it actually works with every AMD and Nvidia GPUs.
“CryEngine’s ray tracing know-how is every {{hardware}} and API agnostic and may run on most mainstream updated AMD and Nvidia GPUs, whereas completely different ray tracing methods are generally sure to GPU choices with devoted RT cores. The operate will ship in CryEngine in 2020, optimized to reap the advantages of effectivity enhancements delivered by the newest expertise of graphics enjoying playing cards from all producers and supported APIs like Vulkan and DX12,” Crytek says.
As Black Friday offers roll into view, you is probably tempted to decide on up a GeForce RTX card with devoted RT cores, and we’ll truly be searching for good bargains. Nonetheless, Crytek suggests devoted ray tracing {{hardware}} will not basically be required, if builders benefit from CryEngine’s ray tracing know-how subsequent yr. We’ll should attend and see.
I have never obtained loads context for evaluating benchmark scores, nevertheless I did run this on my every day workhorse with a Core i7-4790Okay CPU, 32GB of RAM, 1TB (2x512GB) SSD in RAID 0, and a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GPU. I caught to the default settings (1600×900 windowed at Extraordinarily) and scored 10,659. That’s with a bunch of functions opened throughout the background, too.
It’s a promising benchmark. All through my run, I stayed above 100 fps nearly the entire time (usually it climbed to spherical 140 fps), save for a brief dip to 97 fps. I was not anticipating that. Technically, Nvidia’s latest drivers enable real-time ray tracing help on Turing and Pascal expertise GeForce GTX enjoying playing cards, nevertheless in our experience, an RTX card is admittedly needed for video video games that help ray tracing. Not lower than for now, anyway.
