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simple@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Cyberpunk is a good example of gorgeous raytracing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pkuU0cGQu8

The problem is that proper raytracing is way too heavy for most machines, so game devs don’t bother. The Cyberpunk example on max graphics would need an RTX 4090 just to run it over 60fps. No point in pushing tech that nobody can run yet.

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Screen_Shatter@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Control also did a fantastic job. At some point the reflections on the glass are almost too good. There is a puzzle where you need to look through some windows to solve it and I couldn’t see what the hell was going on because of it and had to turn RTX off. It was otherwise great and I think the difference is dramatic.

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moody@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’ve been playing Cyberpunk on an RX 7900XT at basically maxed out graphics, with only some of the raytracing reduced to get it to a consistent 60 fps. The game looks stupid good. But the raytracing is only for shadows and reflections and it has such a massive impact on performance, though I know my GPU is not as effective at raytracing as Nvidia would be.

Like the other reply mentions, Control also looks great with raytracing on, but the scale is not the same as Cyberpunk, so the framerates don’t suffer as much.

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