I am honestly surprised they don't ship a standalone PCIe Ray tracing compute unit, purely consisting of RT cores for professionals (ala physx cards) as they stand to gain the most with quick building of lightmaps and scenes. The rest of us stand to gain very little because like you said, we have gotten very good at faking realistic lighting scenarios with high efficiency and brute forcing it sucks ass.
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I am honestly surprised they don't ship a standalone PCIe Ray tracing compute unit, purely consisting of RT cores for professionals (ala physx cards) as they stand to gain the most with quick building of lightmaps and scenes. The rest of us stand to gain very little because like you said, we have gotten very good at faking realistic lighting scenarios with high efficiency and brute forcing it sucks ass.