Neon Noir is the benchmark for Ray Tracing developed by CryTek based on its CryEngine graphics engine
Published the Neon Noir benchmark developed by CryTek based on Ray Tracing and that does not require dedicated hardware to run it.
A few months ago a preview of a demo with Ray Tracing quite interesting developed by CryTek was shown. Neon Noir is the demo that was shown a few months ago and that was executed under a RX Vega 56. The company has now released a free benchmark with Ray Tracing and the CryEngine graphics engine.
CryTek, for those who do not know, is the developer of Crysis, FarCry, Warface, Hunt: Showdown or Ryze: Son of Rome, among others. Its graphics engine, the CryEngine, is highly valued in the industry for its high technical quality. This is reflected very well in the first installment of Crysis, which has little or nothing to graphically envy modern games.
Neon Noir, CryTek's benchmark for Ray Tracing is now available
The most interesting thing about this demo is that CryTek has taken a very different approach to it. Running games with ray tracing requires dedicated hardware and a specified API. In this case, they have integrated it into their graphics engine under SVOGI technology, a hardware agnostic solution. An easy-to-perform solution, which is impressive.
This Neon Noir Benchmark has a weight of 4.35GB and can run on Ultra or Very High graphics. Lets you adjust the graphic quality a bit to see if there is a lot of difference in performance. In addition CryTek indicates that it can run with RX Vega 56 or GTX 1070 graphics, at a minimum.
CryEngine will be updated in early 2020 and will be optimized for DirectX 12 and Vulkan graphics APIs. This first Ray Tracing implementation covers reflections, but works on implementing ambient occlusion and global illumination.
It is certainly very interesting to see that there are Ray Tracing options without the need for dedicated hardware. AMD in December will implement it in its next drivers in December (according to rumors) and through dedicated hardware for next year.
