Although AMD didn't promise any gains specific to ray tracing with its recent RX 6000-series driver, rumors suggested there were big gains to be had. We tested to see if there was any truth to these.
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Intel has shared ray tracing performance figures for its Arc Alchemist GPUs for the first time. The company however has inadvertently admitted that it isn't as good as mighty Nvidia, just yet.
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AMD's upcoming RX 6950 XT, the flagship RDNA 2 refresh graphics card is able to match the RTX 3090 according to purported official benchmarks. Numbers for the RX 6650 XT and 6750 XT have also leaked.
An all-new benchmark for graphics cards called 3DMark Speed Way is here. The test measures DirectX 12 Ultimate features like raytracing (DXR), variable rate shading, and mesh shaders performance.
Nvidia today released its Game Ready 425.31 WHQL drivers bringing support for ray tracing to several of its GTX cards. There are also optimizations for Anno 1800, releasing next week.
