#WORLD OF WARCRAFT ULTRA GRAPHICS PATCH#

Since the latest WoW version 9.0.2 patch enables VRS we thought this was a great opportunity to see how it runs on the latest integrated graphics from Intel and AMD. Here's a scenario where variable rate shading could really pay off in a game that still has millions of active accounts. So does the Gen 11 GPU tech found in the Ice Lake 10th-generation Core processors, for that matter. Its Iris Xe graphics processor is an integral engine on board most of the Tiger Lake family of CPUs, and supports VRS as well. Rendered On Iris Xe Graphics Powered By Intel Tiger LakeДЄnd then Intel entered the fray. We should point out, however, that the integrated Vega GPU in the current genВ Ryzen 4000 CPU we tested does not. Each pixel region of a scene can now have different level of shader detail and a different shading rate as a result, thus allowing for a possible increase in shader rates in certain areas, while conserving shader processing resources in others.В This feature made its way into DirectX 12, and now GPUs from all three major graphics vendors - AMD, NVIDIA, and Intel, for those playing along at home - all have GPUs with VRS support in their respective line-up. Variable Rate Shading affords developers much finer-grained control of shading rates in any given scene.

Indeed, there was performance to be had without making the resulting scene look like crayon scribbles. When applied skillfully and artfully in different areas of a scene that are less prominent in the gamer's field of view, the resulting rendered image quality wouldn't look all that different than if the whole scene had been fully shaded, though the graphics workload savings would improve performance significantly.ДЇast forward a year or so, and benchmarks became available for measuring the performance differencesВ with and without VRS enabled. That method was called Variable Rate Shading, or VRS.

About two years ago, NVIDIA started talking about a shader rendering method that applied varying levels of quality to different objects in the game world.

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