During the Nvidia RTX 30 series announcement in September 2020, Nvidia showcased the ray-tracing capabilities of its newly announced graphics cards using the Marbles at Night demo. Now, the demanding demo is freely available for all to test out first hand. 

Marbles at Night is a physics-based, playable demo that uses the RTX 30 series’ ray-tracing capabilities to render a photo-realistic scene. The demo also uses DLSS to optimise performance and visual sharpness.

When Nvidia showed the Marbles at Night demo running for the first time, the system was equipped with an RTX 3090. To give you an idea of how demanding this demo is, this GPU is capable of running it at 1440p and 30 frames per second.

The minimum system requirements are as follows:

• OS: Windows 10 64-bit.
• CPU: 4-core Intel Core or 4-core AMD Ryzen
• GPU: Any RTX GPU with 6GB of VRAM
• RAM: 16GB
• Video driver: 456.71 (Windows) or 455.28 (Linux)

As for the recommended system requirements, they are:

• OS: Windows 10 64-bit.
• CPU: 8-core Intel Core or 8-core AMD Ryzen
• GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 or Quadro RTX 5000
• RAM: 32GB
• Video driver: 456.71 (Windows) or 455.28 (Linux)

For those interested in testing the demo, you can download the demo through Nvidia’s Omniverse Launcher, which is currently in open beta. Once you download and install the app, you can download the demo and try it out.

KitGuru says: Are any of you going to test out Nvidia’s Marbles at Night demo? If you do, let us know how it runs on your system. 

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