AMDs Hybrid solution:
Could AMD’s Hybrid approach patent be making it’s way to their next generation GPUs or is AMD waiting too long and Nvidia’s RTX will gain ground?
AMD is trying to look decent while Nvidia is changing games as we know.
I don’t think AMD is waiting too long regarding raytracing. Raytracing has been around for a long time, and Nvidia’s RTX tech did not really deliver realtime raytracing in games anyway. There is still plenty of room for AMD to try to come out with a realtime raytracing solution for games.
The real question is whether or not either company could convince most gamers to want raytracing. Very few games currently support hybrid raytracing, and most gamers are disabling that feature for performance reasons at this time.
What most gamers want is a low priced video card that performs as well as a GTX 1080 card in existing games without any new visual features. And more than that, the mainstream market would like to get low cost APUs with GTX 1080 level performance.
Not about game development.