If this is in compute, you can use atomicMax to reduce a whole wavefront at once, assuming each value comes from a different lane.

I have seen engines that only use reverse-Z for 32F RTs. And I have yet to work in an engine that default to infinite far.
Godot switched to RevZ in 2024. That's 10 years after the Nvidia article. Old habits die hard I guess

Especially since 500€ put them in steamdeck territory.
Doubly so: outside of the few exclusives, most of the games they showed will (some already do) run on steamdeck.