NVIDIA Brings the Benefits of DirectStorage 1.1 to Vulkan Under its RTX-IO Brand

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Jul 27, 2023

londiste said:
"Have the necessary hardware" might not be sufficient. As an example GTX cards got DXR support (and older Radeons never did despite initial indications they would).

That's because they don't have the necessary hardware. They use software emulation to do RT through normal shader cores.