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Contested deletion

This page is not unambiguously promotional, because... it's completely devoid of marketing or promotional language. I am striving to just describe the technology, plain and simple, and to create useful cross references.

I am still fleshing this out and was hopeful that the Wikipedia community would jump in and help out. Perhaps that's naive of me, being this is my first page I've created.

I am meeting with a few folks that are experts on this technology and will flesh it out more tomorrow.

Apologies that I apparently pushed this out prematurely. Once I had done this I received an on-screen notification that there were over 900 articles ahead of me and that it might take 2 months to get approved. That we're here discussing this 3 hours later is, well, eye-brow raising.

Again, I will complete this tomorrow (if not this evening!)

-- Popoki 🐱🐱 chat 00:51, 22 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment

It appears that you submitted a stub draft to AFC for review before it was ready for review. Once a draft is submitted for review, it may be considered in no particular order, but should be ready for review. The time to ask for help from the community is either before the draft is submitted for review or after the article is in a state that can stand on its own. However, based on your statement, I am removing the deletion tag, but am leaving the tag in place that it is not suitable for Wikipedia. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:13, 22 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict with Nvidia RTX and page name

This draft has some Wikipedia issues I will work on. It needs to be made to link to and fit in with other articles. As far as the page name this may be better. Let's give it a bit of touching up then we can look at moving it to article space. —DIYeditor (talk) 15:43, 21 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

There is a problem with some promotional-sounding language. I will try to incorporate more neutral phrasing. —DIYeditor (talk) 15:49, 21 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have moved the text to RTX (ray tracing platform) and continued work there. Let's edit at that location. —DIYeditor (talk) 16:01, 21 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

In future you should move the draft into mainspace rather than starting a new page. I had the two drafts history merged to this article. — Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 09:45, 22 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- ? I requested the merge[1]. I had started a page (Nvidia RTX) before I realized the draft existed. I wasn't planning on keeping much of the text from this draft when I found out about it because it sounded promotional and had pretty clearly been prepared by someone associated with Nvidia. I did prefer the page name (at the time, not sure why) to the one I had created so I moved that to the better page name. Afterward I decided his draft's text was salvageable but it was too late to move it in its entirety. Originally I was just going to take a few pieces of it. —DIYeditor (talk) 10:44, 22 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  - Makes sense. Everything is merged back together now, so it's all good. — Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 10:49, 22 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 22 August 2018

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: moved as requested per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 20:49, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

RTX (ray tracing platform) → Nvidia RTX – Consistency with the other Nvidia technology articles such as Nvidia GameWorks and Nvidia PhysX - all others are in that format. —DIYeditor (talk) 06:42, 22 August 2018 (UTC) --Relisting. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 ^{talk to me | my contributions} 20:22, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Makes sense for sake of consistency, but it is more specifically a "platform" than an "interface". Would like to keep that in the greater description for sake of accuracy. Popoki 🐱🐱 chat 19:45, 23 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- By greater description I assume you mean WP:LEAD? Sounds fine to me. —DIYeditor (talk) 03:49, 24 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support for consistency and natural disambiguation. — Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 20:25, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Copyright problem removed

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Vulkan support information outdated

This article says that Vulkan support is under development, with a link to the by now old article "Walton, Jarred. "Nvidia talks ray tracing and Volta hardware". PC Gamer. Retrieved March 19, 2018." As of now, Turing Vulkan and OpenGL extensions for ray tracing do exist as explained here: https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-turing.

May I edit the article and correct this?

--Jadnohra (talk) 20:30, 8 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah be WP:BOLD. —DIYeditor (talk) 08:20, 9 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Acronym

RTX is obviously an acronym. However, no description of the acronym is provided. What does RTX stand for?

Should the article mention the GeForce RTX 20 series and GeForce RTX 30 series?

It seems that the GeForce RTX 20 and 30 series are mentioned as a disambiguation at the top of the article. Why is this and why are they not related to this article? Should the article mention the GeForce RTX 20 series and GeForce RTX 30 series? Alexysun (talk) 19:40, 27 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Not seeing any reliable sources coming up for purported acronym

I just reverted an edit by User:ElimiNate117 which added a citation to what appears to be a personal blog for the notion that RTX is an acronym for Ray Tracing Texel eXtreme. If you search on Google for that, all that comes up are blogs and forums. There is nothing from Nvidia or the computer industry trade press (PC Magazine, PCWorld, PC Gamer, Maximum PC, CNET, etc.) which claims that RTX stands for that acronym. So this appears to be a backronym situation in which someone made it up. I also just searched ProQuest (which is very good at capturing all kinds of indiscriminate press releases and corporate puffery) and there are no results on there for that phrase. In contrast, Google and ProQuest reveal that a real acronym like CUDA has lots of reliable sources showing that Nvidia originally intended CUDA to be an acronym for "Compute Unified Device Architecture." Coolcaesar (talk) 16:49, 12 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Just traced it. The purported acronym for RTX was added in this edit by User:Xenroxiver on 29 November 2021 with no sources. That editor has a tendency to make unsourced edits of questionable quality, many of which have already been reverted. It looks like the editor may have injected something they made up into Wikipedia as a prank and then the made-up acronym was picked up by various forums and blogs. --Coolcaesar (talk) 16:52, 12 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]