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After testing Forza Horizon 6 with the Extreme and Extreme+RT presets, and coming away somewhat disappointed by the impact of ray tracing in the game, I went back and used the built-in benchmark to do a direct visual comparison between the two modes. In the above video, taken using the RTX 5090 setup, every graphics setting is maxed out on both sides, but ray tracing is disabled on the left. Reflections are clearly more accurate when using RT, but while the global illumination is technically more correct, I actually prefer the non-RT look and feel. In fact, if you delve a little closer into ho
Forza Horizon 6 runs well on lots of different PCs but the ray tracing is pretty disappointing… This video compares Forza Horizon 6 with maximum graphics settings but no ray tracing left against the same configuration but with ray tracing right That's not a trivial hit, but it's not a massive one either, and easily recoupable with a touch more upscaling, and it disappears altogether with fram… …
… The game immediately threw out a caution about VRAM usage, so I switched to High with ray tracing to stay within the 8 GB budget. Forza Horizon 6 ray tracing is entirely optional, and it's used to replace screen space reflections and global illumination. …
Back in February some amazing footage emerged of path tracing implementation in Dark Souls 2. …
… It's just a shame that upgrading to a Nintendo Switch 2 wouldn't get you shinier 3D printed models—Gotta use that ray tracing-capable chip for something. …
… Enable ray tracing or path tracing and it falls a fair bit behind the RTX 5060 Ti. …
… The RX 9070 XT is very roughly about 10–20% faster than the RTX 5070 on average, and performs about as well as an RTX 5070 Ti, excluding ray tracing performance and Multi Frame Gen MFG . …
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… But you certainly don't need everyone trying to fit path tracing and DLSS 8 billion into their visual novel about a cool horse or something . …
… This 65-inch LG C3 is under $1600 October 26 Looking to play Alan Wake 2 with ray tracing? …
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