NVIDIA and Epic Games today announced that Fortnite — the epitome
of battle royale gaming and a cultural phenomenon with more than
350 million players worldwide — is adding real-time ray tracing,
AI-powered NVIDIA DLSS and other groundbreaking technologies,
making the game more beautiful and even more responsive.
The game was featured today as part of a GeForce® special event
where NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the new GeForce
RTX™ 30 Series GPUs.
“Epic Games is turning Fortnite, which is already a pop culture
sensation, into a showcase for how competitive gaming will improve
with technology,” said Matt Wuebbling, vice president of Global
GeForce Marketing at NVIDIA. “Fortnite players are about to
experience the stunning visuals of next-level ray tracing,
AI-accelerated frame rates powered by NVIDIA DLSS, and our new
low-latency esports technology suite, NVIDIA Reflex.”
NVIDIA RTX™ GPUs are the only ones on the market with hardware
support for ray tracing and AI. Gamers will experience these
features in all Fortnite modes, as well as in a special new
Creative mode map, called RTX Treasure Run, which has been
specifically designed to highlight ray tracing.
“The GeForce RTX 30 Series is a testament to NVIDIA’s dedication
to ray tracing and artificial intelligence,” said Marcus Wassmer,
engineering director of Graphics at Epic Games. “Second-generation
ray tracing, innovative use of AI with DLSS, and a large raw
performance boost make the GeForce RTX 30 Series a truly impressive
powerhouse for graphics technology in gaming.”
Ray Tracing Comes to FortniteFortnite will add
four ray-traced features, for a more immersive gaming experience.
These include:
- Ray-traced reflections – Recreates the way light reflects on
glossy and metal surfaces, including smooth natural mirrors like
window glass and rougher surfaces like brushed metal.
- Ray-traced shadows – Accurately models shadowing on many
surfaces while enhancing surface and contact detail, and fixes
problems associated with traditional shadow techniques.
- Ray-traced global illumination – Calculates world lighting with
massively increased precision, illuminating Fortnite’s
environments, players and characters with unprecedented detail,
fidelity and clarity.
- Ray-traced ambient occlusion – Where objects or surfaces meet,
light is occluded, creating subtle shadows that can highlight the
slightest of surface details.
All told, ray tracing will bring a new level of detail and
realism to Fortnite’s Battle Royale, Creative and Save the World
modes.
Using AI to Boost Performance and Image Quality in
FortniteNVIDIA DLSS, which uses AI and is powered by RTX
Tensor Cores, is a deep learning neural network that boosts frame
rates and generates beautiful, sharp images for games. It provides
gamers the performance headroom to maximize quality settings and
increase output resolution.
NVIDIA Reflex Comes to Fortnite Fortnite is one
of the first games to support NVIDIA Reflex, which measures and
reduces system latency. Reflex allows gamers to improve
responsiveness, increase aiming precision and tune their system for
battle.
“NVIDIA Reflex technology arms developers with new features to
minimize latency in their games. We’re seeing excellent
responsiveness and player control with Fortnite running on the
GeForce RTX 30 Series,” said Nick Penwarden, vice president of
Engineering at Epic Games.
System latency is the time it takes for a player’s actions to
appear as pixels on the monitor and quantifies how the game feels.
In games like Fortnite, NVIDIA Reflex low-latency mode dynamically
reduces system latency by up to 42 percent in GPU-bound
scenarios.
New Fortnite RTX Treasure Run Map Spotlights Ray
TracingNVIDIA and Epic collaborated with top Fortnite
creators on the new RTX Treasure Run map, which highlights the new
technologies Fortnite is adding. The map drops players at the
entrance to a museum where they are challenged to a scavenger hunt
that highlights different ray-traced effects.
Along the way, players can explore a hall of mirrors, medieval
castle and jungle, climb a giant statue and explore a shrunken
science lab to uncover the most treasures in the least amount of
time. RTX Treasure Run is coming soon.
The new features are coming soon to Fortnite Chapter 2 - Season
4 for PC players and make Fortnite a flagship title for
next-generation gaming technologies.
Screenshots, game trailers and in-game footage are available on
NVIDIA’s press site at www.nvidia-press.com.
About FortniteFortnite is the completely free
online game where you and your friends fight to be the last one
standing in Battle Royale, join forces to make your own Creative
games, or catch a live show at Party Royale. Download now and jump
into the action on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, Android, PC and
Mac. Learn more at www.fortnite.com.
About Epic GamesFounded in 1991, Epic Games is
an American company founded by CEO Tim Sweeney. The company is
headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, and has more than 40 offices
worldwide. Today Epic is a leading interactive entertainment
company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates
Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million
accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops
Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is also
adopted across industries such as film and television,
architecture, automotive, manufacturing and simulation. Through
Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store and Epic Online Services, Epic
provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and
creators to build, distribute and operate games and other
content.
About NVIDIA NVIDIA’s (NASDAQ: NVDA) invention
of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market,
redefined modern computer graphics and revolutionized parallel
computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the
next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of
computers, robots and self-driving cars that can perceive and
understand the world. More information at
http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/.
For further information, contact:Brian
BurkeGlobal PR Principal, Gaming TechnologiesNVIDIA
Corporation+1-512-694-6106bburke@nvidia.com
Certain statements in this press release including, but not
limited to, statements as to: NVIDIA and Epic Games bringing
amazing visuals, NVIDIA DLSS and NVIDIA Reflex technology to
millions of Fortniters; the benefits and performance of Fortnite
adding NVIDIA technologies, including real-time ray tracing and
NVIDIA DLSS; Epic Games showing how competitive gaming will improve
with technology; what Fortnite players will experience with
NVIDIA’s technologies; NVIDIA RTX GPUs being the only ones with
hardware support for ray tracing and AI; the modes of Fortnite that
will highlight NVIDIA features; the benefits, performance and
impact of the GeForce RTX 30 Series, ray tracing, NVIDIA DLSS,
NVIDIA Reflex and NVIDIA and Epic Games working together; Fortnite
adding four ray-traced features and their benefits and performance;
NVIDIA Reflex arming developers with features to minimize latency;
RTX Treasure Run map highlighting the new technologies Fortnite is
adding and what gamers will experience; RTX Treasure Run coming
soon; and when the new features of Fortnite will be made available
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