Game ready 425.31 controllers adds ray tracing to the gtx series
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The latest Game Ready 425.31 drivers mark a milestone, adding Ray Tracing graphics support to GTX 'Pascal' graphics cards, as well as the Turing-based GTX 1660 and GTX 1660 Ti.
GeForce Game Ready 425.31 Drivers Now Available
Jumping from version 419.67, NVIDIA today released the GeForce Game Ready 425.31 WHQL drivers, introducing support for Ray Tracing (DXR) for certain GTX cards, along with optimizations for the Anno 1800 game, which will be released on PC next week..
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Although not all, Volta, Turing and Pascal based graphics cards get Ray Tracing support with this driver. Here is a list of all of them:
- GTX 1060 6GBGTX 1070GTX 1070 TiGTX 1080GTX 1080 TiGTX 1660GTX 1660 TiTitan XTitan XPTitan V
Hopefully there will be some performance impact on those non-RTX graphics cards, it is said to take two to three times longer to render a frame compared to Turing cards that support RTX.
On the other hand, and also very important, is that the RTX effects only work in Windows 10 version 1809 and with DirectX 12 enabled. DLSS technology can improve performance with Ray Tracing, but this feature is only available on RTX graphics cards, which could be crucial for performance.
You can download the Game Ready 425.31 drivers from this link.
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