Ray Tracing On vs Off in 15 Games in Late 2024 - How Good is Ray Tracing After 6 Years? | RTX 4080

[@MxBenchmarkPC]

Please give this video a thumbs up if you liked it and feel free to comment below or ask me anything. It will help me to get recognized by youtube's algorithm. Thanks! :) Timecodes: ○ 0:00 - Cyberpunk 2077 (RTGI, Shadows, Reflections, RTAO, Path Tracing) ○ 3:26 - Alan Wake 2 (RTGI, Shadows, Reflections, RTAO, Path Tracing) ○ 6:26 - SILENT HILL 2 Remake (Software Lumen, Hardware Lumen) ○ 9:04 - Black Myth Wukong (Software Lumen, Path Tracing) ○ 11:03 - The Witcher 3 Next Gen (RTGI, Shadows, Reflections, RTAO) ○ 13:04 - Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (RTGI, Path Tracing) ○ 15:47 - Metro Exodus & Enhanced Edition (RTGI, Reflections, RTAO) ○ 17:57 - Dying Light 2 Reloaded Edition (RTGI, Shadows, Reflections, RTAO) ○ 19:49 - Dragon's Dogma 2 (RTGI, RTAO) ○ 21:49 - Star Wars Outlaws (RTGI, Shadows, Reflections, RTAO, RTXDI, ReSTIR GI) ○ 24:55 - Atomic Heart (Reflections, RTAO) ○ 26:55 - Hogwarts Legacy (Shadows, Reflections, RTAO) ○ 28:49 - ELDEN RING Shadow of the Erdtree (Shadows, RTAO) ○ 30:46 - Diablo 4 (Shadows, Reflections) ○ 32:46 - The First Descendant (Software Lumen, Shadows, Reflections, RTAO)

[@bmqww223]

excellent video , well done ....

[@MxBenchmarkPC]

@bmqww223 thanks!

[@manin0994]

I think it's worth making a video of the ray tracing mods for The Witcher 3, the reflection mod in particular greatly improves the game's standard RT.

[@MxBenchmarkPC]

Noted.

[@IezekiLLL]

So, in 6 years of RTRT technology existing the only game, that is really worth that FPS drop, is still Cyberpunk 2077? Yeah, i know, RTRT is more about saving dev time and energy, but... you still need a 1000+ USD GPU to have really smooth expirience

[@scythelord]

Path tracing generally removes the fudged lighting from the game entirely. Real light emitters really affect the scene. The cyberpunk scene at 1:39 really demonstrates it. Ray Tracing allowed for nice reflections and shadows, but path tracing showed that many neon lights putting out that much light would light the scene up more than the fudged lighting of traditional rendering.

[@lawnmanGman]

it still temporally denoises samples, how do you think it runs real time, it can look like a smudge fest at times

[@chacharealsmooth941]

The smudge is there. Based on that, I wonder what was the intention behind the word generally there.

[@mikailcf]

Curious how Elden Ring's RT offers little visual enhancement, drops FPS by ~40% and power usage by ~10%. Something doesn't seem right with that implementation.

[@XutrynX7]

Congrats. I am also researching Ray Tracing with DLSS and without. This technology really simulates real light. It is expensive but the accuracy is stunning. Many see it as a reason to buy more costly GPUs. For me, it is art and progress toward understanding the world we live in and expressing it through our hobbies.

[@oligerolsen2533]

Good outlook. All we get is kids yapping how bad it is for whatever they have eaten up and don't have money

[@NBWDOUGHBOY]

I think Watch Dogs Legion has some of the best Ray Tracing Implementation ive ever seen but Nobody test it anymore. When I upgrade thats definitely one game im gonna play with RT on for sure.

[@giorgosmetalheart1767]

Finally someone that also shows the fps impact of each setting.

[@dennythescar80s8]

So far not even RTX 4090 can't handle RT on at native res 4K. I use RTX 4080 Super 1440p and i can say i can play all games fine with RT on + DLSS Quality + FG on. This is the sweet spot to play all RT games with no problem. At 4K no way.

[@Matwee-xd4rb]

I'm tempted to do this rather than play in 4k

[@Matwee-xd4rb]

I'm just afraid there's a big difference between 1440p and 4k.

[@mrshinobigaming8447]

Metro exodus and dying light 2 has the most impactful rt other games are minor improvements

[@davidborovsky2877]

Lmao retard...Cyberpunk, Alan Wake are minor improvements to you?

[@sergiomarin7632]

are you using mods with the cyberpunk section?

[@MxBenchmarkPC]

Nope.

[@sergiomarin7632]

@@MxBenchmarkPC for a moment i thought you were using ultra plus mod

[@ume-f5j]

@@sergiomarin7632 that's a good idea to use when using RT and especially PT

[@sergiomarin7632]

@@ume-f5j I suppose but then again I think the game has reached a point in which mods doesn't seem to be needed anymore, unless you wanna do something in particular otherwise it looks good in vanilla

[@ume-f5j]

@ i agree, however the mod is more for raytraced tweaks and PT performance gain

[@NBWDOUGHBOY]

Im cool with the Ray Tracing personally. Path tracing looks amazing but holy shlt its taxing.

[@FATBOY_.]

My 5800x is kinda getting wrecked in Indian Jones with path tracing. Huge CPU bottleneck with my 4070 ti super. You must have seen major improvements when you upgraded to the 14700f in that game.

[@PeterPauls]

In the other hand the my 5800X3D with my RTX 4080 works totally well. That 3D-V cache is amazing even on an old(er) CPU.

[@kuro_shinigami7526]

my ryzen 5 3600 and RTX 4060 TI (16gigs model) 1080p maxed out setting with max path tracing dlss quality and FG 80 to 100fps

[@FATBOY_.]

@@kuro_shinigami7526 Frame gen is saving your 3600 in this game , it's very CPU intensive . I use to have a similar pc to yours back in 2020-2021 . ( 3600 and rtx 3070)

[@FATBOY_.]

@@PeterPauls I need to enable frame gen.

[@kuro_shinigami7526]

@@FATBOY_. Idk the cpu didn't pass the 60% mark while the gpu always at minimum at 96% yeah there's a slight bottleneck but not that drastic even with fg off stalker 2 on the other hand it look like they designed it to run on the cpu not gpu

[@DeadPixel1105]

From my personal experience, ray tracing definitely enhances the visuals. But it's still a massively overrated technology. The differences between ray tracing ON vs ray tracing OFF is usually very subtle and not easily noticed. You often need photos or videos comparing screenshots of ray tracing on versus ray tracing off. And in some games, in which the ray tracing is implemented badly or the denoiser is subpar, the visuals look WORSE. The reflections and shadows can actually look worse. And all of this in exchange for what? A MASSIVE performance hit. In my opinion, ray tracing is a cool little bonus. But it's really not that big of a deal and it's NOT worth the performance hit.

[@scythelord]

It's not really for us. it's for development. Devs want the future where all gaming hardware will be raytracing compatible so they don't have to do anything beyond setting what things emit light and how much they emit as well as each material's reflectivity properties. Having to light a scene takes more time and effort the traditional way. If you can just have presets for each type of light emitter, it's way simpler making a scene look right rather than having to go through all the effort of implementing multiple different effects to fudge the lighting behavior.

[@Ci_Gangster]

You are right. But as for me it's depands on the game if we says about cyberpunk i'd prefer rtx put enabled

[@oligerolsen2533]

You are most likely talking about UE5 games. It depends on games and devs. Cyberpunk does not have such problems as seen in the UE5 game.

[@pattap9033]

Yes its mostly beautiful if not astonishing. But what i see here also is an alarming amount of lazy programming (non RT Shadows!!!) and horriffic DLSS Ghosting, especially in Silent Hill. I think all the new games in UE5 will bring a tough time for gamers, because they hide their lazyness or their need to reduce costs behind RT, so we will need more and more expensive Hardware.

[@lukasjozef1774]

Thats cpu is holding back the 4080

[@maddycivas8628]

why are shadows so bad nowdays on RT off, developers are so damn lazy wtf old games have better shadows than games with RT off nowdays

[@lawnmanGman]

depends what games you are paying, last games i played were ragnorok and spiderman 2 and the shadows were great lol

[@-Rizecek-]

I prefer 120FPS High settings than ultra RT 60-80...

[@kucingganteng3148]

path tracing is serious ray tracing

[@oligerolsen2533]

Full RT

[@PitBull33331]

van i play rhis game in Path Tracing, min. 60FPS with the 5090?

[@modrribaz1691]

I would personally pick up path-traced slideshow over 120fps that is not.

[@KuraiBeat]

at 00:26 RT looks only fail! at all others most new games are at this point you dont need RT anymore :D at 02:58 where is the difrent? at witcher it looks good but now a funfaq: no rt vs rt vs linux reshade shaders: winner is reshadesahders at linux! it has same fps as normal but looks better then rt on :D

[@oligerolsen2533]

But RTX is a useless feature !

[@Creatorops]

Almost every game on this list is at a graphical level between 2014-2020 and even with raytraced they don't look any better than they did almost 10 years ago. The only thing that makes sense is cyberpunk, but even then it's just path tracing.

[@oligerolsen2533]

Those who don't seek will never see it. They will be fine at 20 years ago