by Timmaigh! » Wed Aug 22, 2018 3:33 pm
Timmaigh!
Wed Aug 22, 2018 3:33 pm
rohandalvi wrote:I don’t think any of the 5-8x speed improvements are going to happen for at least another 8 months. Or Until otoy has a stable version of octane 2019 which uses their new RNDR SDK.
That video is a promo video by NVIDIA. Everything Jules Urbach says in that is true but it doesn’t give the full picture. Watch the other video to get the full picture.
He says clearly that they need to work on it and it will take time . Also there are issues that NVIDIA needs to solve at their end.
Of course, NVIDIA can’t make a promo video saying ,
“Introducing Brand new RTX technology. Get 5-8x speed up in render times. Just wait till your software developers implement this. Oh, it might take 6-8 months to do that. Maybe more. But then it will be awesome. We think, maybe. Pre-orders open now”
If i understood that correctly with my limited english knowledge, he said RTX is implemented via Optix. Vulkan or DirectX....they have Octane built around Optix already (?), but somehow that stuff is not finished on Nvidia side - as you say. Vulkan version on other hand, they are working on it now, but sadly he did not give any timeline, when we can expect it to be released.
If it ends up 6-8 months, as you suggest, thats quite sad - but what can we do. Obviously Nvidia is not going to say the software for their cards they want to preorder now, is going to come out next year - that is why we are discussing this on OTOY forums, rather than Nvidia´s
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