Nvidia Brings Ray Tracking and DLSS Support to ARM-Based Computers

Jul. 19, 2021

Yeah, you read that right. For the first time ever, Nvidia has demoed RTX support on an ARM-based platform. To achieve this feat, Nvidia paired an ARM-based MediaTek Kompanio 1200 CPU (used in Chromebooks) with theGeForce RTX 3060 GPU. The demo showed off real-time ray-tracing and DLSS in Wolfstein: Youngblood and The Bistro on an ARM platform.

Now, for those wondering, how ray tracing and DLSS support was made possible on an ARM processor for Chromebooks? Well, in anofficial blog post, Nvidia says that it has ported several of its RTX SDKs over to the ARM platform. While three of them, i.e RTXDI, NRD, and RTXMU, are ready for use, support for two more SDKs (RTXGI and DLSS) will arrive soon. You can all about these SDKs and what they do right here:

Nvidia is expanding RTX support, i.e advanced graphics and ray-tracing, to ARM CPUs to give gamers even more choices. ARM devices with Nvidia RTX graphics cards could offer a casual gamer the best of both worlds – a more power-efficient laptop with high-fidelity graphics support.