RTX owners will be able to further test their GPU’s ray tracing capabilities next month with the release of a new benchmark, Port Royal, which utilizes “DirectX Raytracing to enhance reflections, shadows, and other effects that are difficult to achieve with traditional rendering techniques.” These will run in real-time at “reasonable frame rates” at 2560 x 1440 resolution.



3DMark Port Royal was developed with input from AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, and other leading technology companies. We worked especially closely with Microsoft to create a first-class implementation of the DirectX Raytracing API. Port Royal will run on any graphics card with drivers that support DirectX Raytracing. As with any new technology, there are limited options for early adopters, but more cards are expected to get DirectX Raytracing support in 2019.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – New Ray Tracing Benchmark Coming to 3DMark in January 2019