AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Struggles with Cyberpunk 2077’s Ray Tracing

[Tsing]

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AMD’s flagship RDNA 2 graphics card, the Radeon RX 6900 XT, isn’t powerful enough to provide anything close to a 60 FPS experience in Cyberpunk 2077 when its new Radeon ray tracing modes are enabled at higher resolutions. This is according to new benchmarks shared by PC Gamer, which show the $999 GPU only averaging 17 and 11 FPS in 4K RT (Medium) and 4K RT (Ultra), respectively. Likewise, the Radeon RX 6900 XT only manages 34 and 23 FPS in 1440p RT (Medium) and 1440p RT (Ultra), respectively.

As you can see in the table above, you’re looking at a pretty significant drop in performance from the Ultra preset to the Ray Tracing Medium preset in-game. There are no ray-traced reflections at this grade...

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[AntiQuark]

No surprise, RT on AMD cards was known from the start to be 1/2 the performance of NVidia cards.
And then NVidia cards have DLSS 2.0, AMD has nothing to match the huge disparity in framerate + quality.
Which makes RT not a lot of use.

 

[Stoly]

I wonder why it took so long for the RT patch, might as well waited for Super Resolution support.