Ray tracing isn’t new. Indeed, we’ve focused on ray tracing in no less than three previous videos, but it’s worth revisiting again as the fruits of ray tracing’s promise continue to bloom as developers better get to grips with the tech.
It’s moved beyond an industry buzzword now; games harnessing the benefits of real-time lighting, shadows, reflections, and all that sparkly good stuff ray tracing affords all look superb.
The only caveats – and these are things that have existed for as long as the tech has been around – are the drops in frame rate performance. Ray tracing capable GPUs continue to come at huge expense too, although the ever-present perception that all ray tracing does is make things shiny is dying down now. When analysing their graphics only, the games in this video look fantastic thanks to ray tracing.
Links to previous parts:
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNSpiret-9g
FIRST
Make a time stamp in big 2024 for god sake
This is a pointless video. Graphics do not matter in video games. It is all about the gameplay. Somewhere down the line, gamers today have forgotten that. Such a shame.
I haven't seen a game with a better looking world than Avatar so far on PC.
Just too bad these games are mostly unplayable with it on, unless you have a $4k PC. I've yet to play a game that can even manage 30fps with raytracing on PS5. Even Witcher 3, which is an old game at this point with only mildly improved graphics on PS5 otherwise.
Black Myth Wukong shouldn't be included since it hasn't released yet. It's only promises. Nvidia also promised Raytracing in Atomic Heart and it launched without it.
Played both Plague Tales…stunning.
What game is this? At 0:40 – 0:47?
Love the videos! Keep up the great work.
where's cyberpunk ?
Raytracing is completely overrated
What gpu??
Eidos Montreals Guardians of the Galaxy game is awesome
Settings? Change what?!? Just set to ultra with path tracing on and hope it plays well ha
Useless technology in my opinion. Personally I turn on ray tracing just to see how the game looks then turn it off and forget about it. I don't know why nowadays the developers are focusing on very demanding realistic looking graphics instead of fun, engaging gameplay.