Rumor: Cyberpunk 2077 to Gain NVIDIA Neural Radiance Caching Support for Faster Path Tracing

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CD PROJEKT RED is planning to boost the performance of Cyberpunk 2077's Ray Tracing: Overdrive Mode with a new algorithm from NVIDIA dubbed Neural Radiance Caching, according to the latest rumors shared by the CapFrameX account. The technology appears to work by leveraging the Tensor Cores in GeForce RTX GPUs to predict radiance in scenes, and while a 37-page PDF that NVIDIA researchers released during GTC ("Advancing Real-Time Path Tracing with Neural Radiance Cache") doesn't deliver much in terms of comparative benchmarks, it does tease a least one other benefit in the form of reduced noise. Path tracing, otherwise known as full ray tracing, is now available to test as part of Cyberpunk 2077's Ray Tracing: Overdrive Mode, although a GeForce RTX 4090 comes highly recommended for those who desire playable frame rates.

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From the images it looks like performance may not necessarily increase but quality sure as hell does.