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Smoke, mirrors, DLSS on Arm—is that even possible?

Few people love ray racing more than me. And now Nvidia has made it possible to see ray tracing in a fast action FPS on a low-power notebook, proving it isn’t the CPU that makes it work. At GDC, Nvidia showed Wolfenstein: Youngblood running with ray-traced reflections enabled and DLSS in operation on an eight-core MediaTek CPU and an Nvidia ...

Jon Peddie

Few people love ray racing more than me. And now Nvidia has made it possible to see ray tracing in a fast action FPS on a low-power notebook, proving it isn’t the CPU that makes it work. At GDC, Nvidia showed Wolfenstein: Youngblood running with ray-traced reflections enabled and DLSS in operation on an eight-core MediaTek CPU and an Nvidia RTX 3060 GPU. “MediaTek and Nvidia are laying the foundation for a new category of Arm-based high-performance PCs,” says PC Tseng, GM of MediaTek. You may recall, Qualcomm and Microsoft got Windows 10 running on an Arm-based processor in 2018,
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