POLL Do you want RTX?
 

I'm not really fussed. I tend to play older or indie games, not the visually showoff stuff. I've still got a 750 Ti and it's doing just fine.

i bought nvidia rtx 2060, i didnt read any reviews of that card, just bought it. and now i realized what RTX means when i were reading this thread. :redface:

i guess that i am not that interested about HW, like i am about software.

(Aside: I modified your post in this quote due to major grammatical errors. I hope you can learn from my corrections. :study: )
My post's RTX performance data was based solely on Nvidia's presentation. They used a 2080 or 2080ti if memory serves. The 2060 will have *much* lower performance :(.
Don't feel too bad though, you will be able to try RTX out and see what you think of it without having to rely on reviews. The Ray Tracing eXensions (RTX) do make the games look better. And the 2060 is probably an upgrade for you.

I don't play games (Not Lying), but I don't object to RTX being there. Increasingly, we don't have to buy new PCs to upgrade - cpus & gpus appear to be plateauing, which is only natural as we are close to the physical limits of possible miniaturization. Intel is at 7nm now, ~5nm is as far as they're ever likely to get. Samsung (used by AMD) isn't far behind (11nm IIRC).

So it's only logical to buy whatever features are out there, in case some future software wants them.

Backwards. Intel is at 10nm & 14nm, AMD is at 7nm, 12nm and 14nm.

I was brought to my attention that some people think that this poll is about pressuring companies to make certain products. This was *never* my intent.
AMD has never implemented physX, or hairworks. Nvidia has both of these and now has RTX too. My pool is for determining interest in a particular feature.
Obviously, these extensions with cost the end user money on top of the rasterization HW already present.

It is believed by some that RTX is jargon, that is not true. Ray Tracing eXtensions are a significant portion of Nvidia's GPU's die space.

You are correct about Intel/AMD, thank you. It sparks an interesting topic but I won't hijack this thread.

No. Real-time ray tracing is years away from being mainstream and I am intentionally pulling away from "AAA" games that would be the first to use such technology, both due to their evil business practices and to reduce my dependency on Windows. Furthermore, RTX is currently only an nVidia thing, and [removed] nVidia and their proprietary drivers with a splintery broom handle. I bought nVidia GPUs exclusively for 13 years, but my next video card will be AMD or even Intel if they can deliver a good enough product.

At one point in time rasterised games were "years away from being mainstream". AMD would not be considering RTX if they did not think it would be a thing that they would want to make a product for.
As for "AAA" games I've never owned one AFAIK. I never said that you were voting for or against "AAA" games, just RTX. Opensource games are currently working towards vulken instead of opengl as their GFX API backend. It's not unreasonable to say that in 7 or so years we'd see our first FLOSS RTX game, assuming that we get opensource drivers.
As for buying from Nvidia vs. AMD, I am of the opinion that we aught to purchase from the more FLOSS friendly company, which is currently AMD.

I'd never heard of RTX untill this thread, and I'm still vague about what it does. I shall shortly be building a new desktop, probably with an AMD Kaveri A6: R5 graphics, so no RTX for me. My existing desktop has Northbridge graphics: good enough for Pysol!

7 years away? From the perspective of whether to buy a new video card right now, "7 years from now" might as well be in 2048!

(as for open source drivers, they'd be nice but not necessary; my Windows box gets first dibs on new video cards)

WOW! That is much better performance than Shadow of the Tomb Raider that was demonstrated by Nvidia.