You might point out that the RTX 4060 costs only around $300, but I'll argue that to truly experience ray tracing at 1440p or 4K resolutions, you need at least an RTX 4070 Super, which costs $600 ...

However, despite substantial advancements in ray tracing over the years, I still almost never enable it in supported games. Most modern AAA titles run at around 60–100 FPS on my RTX 4090 without ...

Turns out, I needn't have worried. Real time ray tracing has been slow to arrive, at least in the way that seemed promised back in 2018. For many moons, it's been, at best, an optional extra.

That's because the ray tracing performance of today's graphics cards is well known by PC Gamers—Nvidia's graphics chips are the most capable in this respect, followed by AMD and then Intel.

In this ray tracing performance review, we'll go through 36 games, comparing performance with ray tracing enabled and disabled, using the same configurations seen in the visual analysis. We ...

Its "Full-Time Ray Tracing" mode is split into Medium, High, and Ultra Path Tracing modes, but players can still see and adjust individual RT settings like sun shadows and reflections.

The 5070 Ti still performs better than the 9070 XT by about 15 to 20 percent in most ray tracing tests… but since it’s also $150 more expensive, that seems like a pretty good match.

TL;DR: NVIDIA will release the Path Tracing Patch for DOOM: The Dark Ages on June 18, enhancing in-game lighting with advanced ray-traced effects. This upgrade offers more vibrant visuals and ...

It will look incredible running on a GeForce RTX 5090 or RTX 5070, but id Software also uses ray-tracing to improve DOOM's gameplay. During NVIDIA's Editor's Day at CES 2025, we were treated to a ...