Halo Infinite is getting ray tracing due to a Microsoft and AMD partnership

Microsoft has chosen AMD as its unique PC companion for Halo Infinite. While this implies loads of advertising alternatives, it’s additionally fostered a better engineering partnership with AMD that Microsoft says will enhance body charges within the marketing campaign mode and ultimately convey ray tracing to the sport.

“We’re looking forward to working closely with AMD to bring raytracing to Halo Infinite,” says Noah Benesch, a product advertising supervisor at Xbox. “Raytracing is one our top development priorities post-launch and look forward to sharing more soon.”

It’s not clear if this guidelines out Microsoft utilizing Nvidia’s DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) know-how, however Microsoft does notice that AMD is “exceptionally open to us bringing new rendering features across all hardware as well as performance improvements for all our players.”

Beyond ray tracing, which can presumably be out there throughout each Xbox Series X / S and PC, Microsoft says the AMD partnership has resulted in driver updates that “deliver massive improvements in frame time performance throughout areas of the game’s campaign mode.”

The engineering work has additionally improved Halo Infinite on processors with excessive core and thread counts, which is an space the place AMD has excelled with its newest Ryzen processors. Microsoft and AMD have additionally created a Halo-themed Radeon RX 6900 XT. It’s a limited-edition card that received’t be offered, however Microsoft and AMD shall be maintain giveaways for the playing cards.

Outside of the AMD and Microsoft partnership, the Halo Infinite staff has additionally been working with Discord and Razer Chroma RGB to make sure the sport integrates nicely. Halo Infinite will help in-game Discord server invitations and even Razer Chroma RGB help with distinctive lighting results.