Nvidia GTC 2020: Nvidia RTX/AI Graphics Tech Demo - A Glimpse at the Future?

pswii60 · May 14, 2020

Thought this playable tech demo was incredible (timestamped - begins at 9m47s):

Obviously the focus on this demo is lighting and the use of AI. And (thanks to ray-tracing) it is truly phenomenal, everything looks so realistic.

Worth pointing out however that this is being played real-time on a Nvidia Quadro RTX 8000 GPU. You can buy one but they're £6k! But GPUs offering this level of performance won't be that expensive forever.

Certainly gives us a glimpse at the future in terms of how ray-tracing can affect lighting.

airbagged_ · May 14, 2020

MARBLE MADNESS REMAKE

ILikeFeet · May 14, 2020

looks great, wonder if they'll make it available

Dreams-Visions · May 14, 2020

Yea looks nuts.

airbagged_ said:
MARBLE MADNESS

AegonSnake · May 14, 2020

meh. UE5 demo was much better. i think im done with these fancy tech demos. show me what real games might look like with ray tracing.

Rhaknar · May 14, 2020

fuck me that looks absolutely ridiculous O_o

DeSolos · May 14, 2020

Ray tracing is definitely the future. But I wonder how much of it is near future vs future future. I'm so glad GI is finally getting it's time to shine(pun intended).

Early this gen, voxel cone tracing showed so much promise, but ultimately proved to not be feasible for most games on console.

(this is an old PC demo which you can even download and try yourself, supports 2 bounces, and real glossy reflections based on the voxels)

SleepSmasher · May 14, 2020

Is it just me or was the actual gameplay footage way less impressive than the cinematic camera shots? Almost seemed like some effects or even RT were missing.

CosmicGP · May 14, 2020

All I could think of watching that: what an expensive-looking kitchen.

My cooker hood is encased in a freaking marble sculpture, you plebians.

Deleted member 20297 · May 14, 2020

airbagged_ said:
MARBLE MADNESS REMAKE

Mark Cerny should have showed that ;)

pswii60 · May 14, 2020

SleepSmasher said:
Is it just me or was the actual gameplay footage way less impressive than the cinematic camera shots? Almost seemed like some effects or even RT were missing.

I think that's just the YouTube compression, the image quality takes a massive hit with compression artefacts as soon as there's motion, compared to the stills at the beginning. Look at 11m20s, probably the most impressive part in motion with those silver balls etc.

No_Style · May 14, 2020

I never heard Jensen Huang talk before. Has he always talked like this? Not throwing shade or anything but the way he speaks has Apple presentation style vibes.

Shoichi · May 14, 2020

That looks super realistic wow

-Tetsuo- · May 14, 2020

That is insane

AegonSnake said:
meh. UE5 demo was much better. i think im done with these fancy tech demos. show me what real games might look like with ray tracing.

I mean the UE5 thing was a fancy tech demo

wwm0nkey · May 14, 2020

AegonSnake said:
meh. UE5 demo was much better. i think im done with these fancy tech demos. show me what real games might look like with ray tracing.

I mean, this was gameplay.... Sorry you don't like marble games, but this was a fantastic way to show off RTX features

WellbornWarrior · May 14, 2020

I'm more interested on how this stuff will run on the lower end RTX cards like the 2070 I have since I'm really not in the mood to upgrade my card again in the next 1-2 years.

Deleted member 13560 · May 14, 2020

No_Style said:
I never heard Jensen Huang talk before. Has he always talked like this? Not throwing shade or anything but the way he speaks has Apple presentation style vibes.

Jensen is actually pretty genuine about his company's strives in the industry and really appreciates his team. The dude is really excited about his company. His employees really love the company and him as a CEO. When he actually does live presentations, it's kind of funny seeing him wanting to chime in constantly when other presenters are on stage. At first it was cringe. But after watching more keynotes, you just see that the man is just passionate.

It's part of the reason the dude is still the head of his company after almost 30 years.

Samaritan · May 14, 2020

No_Style said:
I never heard Jensen Huang talk before. Has he always talked like this? Not throwing shade or anything but the way he speaks has Apple presentation style vibes.

I was just thinking how dude clearly went to the Steve Jobs school of presenting. I think it works though, he seems genuinely passionate about this shit.

No_Style · May 14, 2020

Rayge said:
Jensen is actually pretty genuine about his company's strives in the industry and really appreciates his team. The dude is really excited about his company. His employees really love the company and him as a CEO. When he actually does live presentations, it's kind of funny seeing him wanting to chime in constantly when other presenters are on stage. At first it was cringe. But after watching more keynotes, you just see that the man is just passionate.

It's part of the reason the dude is still the head of his company after almost 30 years.

Yeah. His excitement is palpable which reminded me of Apple's presentations. I'm also impressed with how they managed to summarize so much into digestible chunks. I'm currently watching the HPC and Data Analytics video and they're doing a good job of telling me why their stuff matters.

gcwy · May 14, 2020

AegonSnake said:
meh. UE5 demo was much better. i think im done with these fancy tech demos. show me what real games might look like with ray tracing.

What was better about the UE5 demo? This is infinitely more impressive.

AegonSnake · May 14, 2020

gcwy said:
What was better about the UE5 demo? This is infinitely more impressive.

the flying section. this is just another photorealistic demo we have seen from modders over the last few years. just type in UE4 photorealism in youtube and you will get dozens of videos of photorealistic indoor environments like this.

JahIthBer · May 14, 2020

No_Style said:
Yeah. His excitement is palpable which reminded me of Apple's presentations. I'm also impressed with how they managed to summarize so much into digestible chunks. I'm currently watching the HPC and Data Analytics video and they're doing a good job of telling me why their stuff matters.

He didn't cut anyone's pay either during this crisis, in fact a lot of people got raises.

Samaritan · May 14, 2020

That marble demo was genuinely really impressive, but I'm left wondering what Jensen needs so many spatulas for:

Xando · May 14, 2020

AegonSnake said:
the flying section. this is just another photorealistic demo we have seen from modders over the last few years. just type in UE4 photorealism in youtube and you will get dozens of videos of photorealistic indoor environments like this.

This demo is to show off ray tracing. The way the light interacts with objects (especially the marble) is insanely impressive.

thirtypercent · May 14, 2020

gcwy said:
What was better about the UE5 demo? This is infinitely more impressive.

The level of impressiveness scales 1:1 with the amount of PS5 logos shown. So here we're at a 0.

AegonSnake said:
the flying section. this is just another photorealistic demo we have seen from modders over the last few years. just type in UE4 photorealism in youtube and you will get dozens of videos of photorealistic indoor environments like this.

No you won't. You're even more transparent than the marble.

Dreams-Visions · May 14, 2020

Samaritan said:
That marble demo was genuinely really impressive, but I'm left wondering what Jensen needs so many spatulas for:

I actually assumed they were decoration. A flower bouquet...but of spatulas!

Feels like something he'd do.

-Tetsuo- · May 14, 2020

AegonSnake said:
the flying section. this is just another photorealistic demo we have seen from modders over the last few years. just type in UE4 photorealism in youtube and you will get dozens of videos of photorealistic indoor environments like this.

Wat

AegonSnake · May 14, 2020

Samaritan said:
That marble demo was genuinely really impressive, but I'm left wondering what Jensen needs so many spatulas for:

my wife has an army of spatulas. im not allowed to use any of them either. this is nothing.

Dictator · May 14, 2020

AegonSnake said:
meh. UE5 demo was much better. i think im done with these fancy tech demos. show me what real games might look like with ray tracing.

lol
This demo was made more or less during the quarantine period by a handful of people. It is a showcase for a collaborate working environment in the cloud utilising Ray tracing, about efficiency of distrubuted working.

I believe it took many many many more people (i read thousands?) and 3 years of rendering research to make the UE5 demo.

luoapp · May 14, 2020

Samaritan said:
That marble demo was genuinely really impressive, but I'm left wondering what Jensen needs so many spatulas for:

Yeah, also the marble shrine above his stove. If I try hard enough, I might think it's all green-screen magic, and everything is real time ray-tracing on a single RTX 3080.

Muppet of a Man · May 14, 2020

Raytracing is obviously amazing for achieving photorealism. The reason I think people are so much more wowed by the UE5 demo is due to the level of geometry, physics, animation, and general level of interactivity relayed by what they are doing there. Those are things that I think are actually more important to video games in particular than hyper realistic lighting. Add the level of raytracing seen in this marble rtx video on top though, then we'll basically be playing pixar movies for video games.

AegonSnake · May 14, 2020

Dictator said:
lol
This demo was made more or less during the quarantine period by a handful of people. It is a showcase for a collaborate working environment in the cloud utilising Ray tracing, about efficiency of distrubuted working.

It took thousands of people and 3 years of rendering research to make the UE5 demo.

not sure why that matters really. RDR2 was made by 3000 people. am i not allowed to say i liked it more than No man's sky which was made by 20 people working on procedurally created planets?

they should've just taken the UE5 demo, and render it using ray tracing. give us a direct comparison. i dont see this demo being indicative of next gen at all. its just a fancy tech demo.

Deleted member 13560 · May 14, 2020

AegonSnake said:
the flying section. this is just another photorealistic demo we have seen from modders over the last few years. just type in UE4 photorealism in youtube and you will get dozens of videos of photorealistic indoor environments like this.

Hmm... you do realize what was shown was beyond just it being a photo realistic environment? You must have watched the video on mute.

-Tetsuo- · May 14, 2020

I mean one was an over the shoulder demo with a big set piece at the end so wtf is a marble gonna do amirite

luoapp · May 14, 2020

Dictator said:
I believe it took many many many more people (i read thousands?) and 3 years of rendering research to make the UE5 demo.

I read somewhere people think it's" two dozen" not "two thousand", which I think is more believable.

Nekyrrev · May 14, 2020

Why do people always need to compare everything, jesus.

This is mighty impressive, the UE5 demo was mighty impressive, let's all just enjoy this new era of real-time rendering that is coming to bless us all.

Deleted member 13560 · May 14, 2020

Can't wait to see this tech coupled with UE5.

The various materials in this little game demo looked fantastic.

nelsonroyale · May 14, 2020

Very charming demo and the lighting behaviour is very natural.

gcwy said:
What was better about the UE5 demo? This is infinitely more impressive.

That's also a silly opinion. For me personally, the nanite tech they demonstrated is easily as impressive as ray tracing.Geometry is still a big limiter this gen, and this type of tech is huge step up.

tATu · May 14, 2020

The low resolution is because it's supposed to be a demo of a game running live in a dev environment, right?

Jedi2016 · May 14, 2020

airbagged_ said:
MARBLE MADNESS REMAKE

That was the first thing I thought of myself. "Hm, I could definitely play a new Marble Madness that looked like this..."

Vulcano's Assistant · May 14, 2020

AegonSnake said:
not sure why that matters really. RDR2 was made by 3000 people. am i not allowed to say i liked it more than No man's sky which was made by 20 people working on procedurally created planets?

they should've just taken the UE5 demo, and render it using ray tracing. give us a direct comparison. i dont see this demo being indicative of next gen at all. its just a fancy tech demo.

You can be sure they will have demos designed to impress gamers on their keynotes directed at gamers. Otherwise they weren't even strictly demoing RTX on this one.

Dictator · May 14, 2020

luoapp said:
I read somewhere people think it's" two dozen" not "two thousand", which I think is more believable.

Now I wonder where my eyes thought I read thousand. Perhaps I need a visit to the optomotrist

Deleted member 11276 · May 14, 2020

Very impressive, really looks photo-realistic.

Why are people comparing this to the UE5 demo though...two completely different demos running on different devices for a very different purpose.

Kibbles · May 14, 2020

That ball is incredibly low-res, really blurry

Deleted member 10612 · May 14, 2020

Very nice, them having to show it off on a small scale marble game speaks volumes about how long it'll take for this to find its way to AAA open world games...

robo_e · May 14, 2020

Marble Blast Ultra with Ray Tracing, Im in.

Jtrizzy · May 14, 2020

Dictator said:
Now I wonder where my eyes thought I read thousand. Perhaps I need a visit to the optomotrist

It was posted as 2000 in one of the threads here yesterday, then corrected. You are not going insane lol.

Ananasas · May 14, 2020

I wonder how much single GPU like that cost for companies, you can't even compare it to unreal engine demo

SunBroDave · May 14, 2020

The raytracing in Super Monkey Ball 3 is gonna be wild

test_account · May 14, 2020

Dictator said:
Now I wonder where my eyes thought I read thousand. Perhaps I need a visit to the optomotrist

It was first reported that it was 2000 people, but it was later corrected to being two dozen.

EDIT: Already mentioned above =)

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