Nvidia’s launch event introduced new powerful graphics cards to the market with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090, RTX 3080, and RTX 3070. Nvidia also announced their partnership with Epic Games to bring its technology toFortnite.
Fortniteis one of the most popular games out, boasting more than 350 million players worldwide and haspartnered with top companies, including Marvel, Disney, and the NFL. Nvidia’s partnership with Epic games will have unique benefits for the game. Nvidia will introduce new features toFortnite, enabling features like ray-tracing, AI-accelerated frame rates, and low-latency esports technology.
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Ray tracing is a rendering technique that greatly improves shadows and lighting, and is being utilized for the future of video games.Fortnitewill add four different ray-tracing features that will drastically improve different aspects ofFortnitegraphics. Much likehowCyberpunk 2077will use ray-tracing,Fortnitewill have ray-traced reflections, shadows, global illumination, and ambient occlusion. The ray tracing features will add a new level of realism toFortnite’s current look.
TheFortniteRTX reveal trailer shows off a noticeable difference to the game’s reflections, shadows, and image quality. The trailer highlights incredible reflections on an astronaut helmet, the extremely detailed reflections in water, and even more colorful character skins. Players will experience a whole newFortniteexperience when they can run it with the GeForce RTX graphics card.
Along with the ray-tracing features,Fortnitewill also launch a creative map called RTX Treasure Run that will highlight the features. This is not the first time thatFortnitehas worked with a tech company to produce a creative map.Fortnitepartnered with Nvidia competitor, AMD to release a creative map calledAMD Battle Arenawhere players competed to win a gaming PC.
Fortnitewill also take advantage of Nvidia’s new DLSS 2.0, which greatly improves AI-based real-time rendering. The Deep Learning Super Sampling technology is powered by AI processors on theGeForce RTX GPUsand has customizable options for video game image quality. With the technology coming toFortnite, the game should run with greatly improved frame rates.
Nvidia will also introduce the new Nvidia Reflex suite toFortnite, which dynamically reduces latency based on the GPU and game optimizations. Reflex has been successfully used to lower latency in games likeApex Legends,Destiny 2, andValorant. The Nvidia Reflex technology will most likely be used inFortnitecompetitions and can also be used by any gamer with the new Nvidia GPUs. Combining all these features supplied by top Nvidia technology will makeFortniterun and look extremely smooth.
Fortniteis available now on Android, iOS, PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One, with PS5 and Xbox Series X versions in development.
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