DXR ray tracing comes to Nvidia's GTX graphics cards in latest Game Ready driver

Today’s the day that Microsoft’s DirectX ray tracing tech (or DXR for short) arrives on Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 10-series and 16-series graphics cards. First announced three weeks ago, Nvidia’s latest Game Ready driver, out today, will allow everyone with a 6GB GTX 1060 upwards to take advantage of all the shiny shadow and reflection enhancements in games such as Metro Exodus, Battlefield V and Shadow of the Tomb Raider currently only enjoyed by their Nvidia RTX cousins.

The big question, though, is whether DXR will end up nuking these cards’ performance without the aid of proper RT (or ray tracing) Cores found on Nvidia’s RTX GPUs. I’ll be testing this out myself very shortly, but to help give you an early idea of what to expect, Nvidia have released some handy performance graphs. Let’s take a look.

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