Overclocked Ray Tracing and DLSS
On this page, we are now going to compare Ray Tracing and Ray Tracing with DLSS performance on the OVERCLOCKED EVGA GeForce RTX 3060 XC BLACK GAMING video card. We will enable Ray Tracing and DLSS at 1080p to see what’s playable and how it compares to the GeForce RTX 2060 FE and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti.
Cyberpunk 2077
For Cyberpunk 2077 we are using patched version 1.12 for testing. We use the in-game graphics presets for testing at “Ultra” settings and enabling Ray Tracing. We test without DLSS first, and then enable DLSS with Ray Tracing. We do a manual run-through in the game for the benchmark data.
In this graph we have Ray Tracing turned on with DLSS OFF. We are at 1080p and “Ultra” settings. Overclocking the EVGA RTX 3060 XC BLACK GAMING video card improves Ray Tracing performance by 9%. This is not fast enough though to be playable, for that we have to enable DLSS below.
Now we have DLSS turned on to Quality mode. Performance from overclocking improves 8%. This makes the game actually playable now with Ray Tracing.
Watch Dogs Legion
In Watch Dogs Legion we use the graphics preset to select “Ultra” quality. We manually enable “Ultra” Ray Tracing when testing that, plus “Quality” DLSS when testing DLSS with Ray Tracing. We use the built-in benchmark for testing.
In Watch Dogs Legion overclocking the video card improves Ray Tracing performance by 8%, but the game is still not playable.
Turning on DLSS though is the magic sauce that makes the game now playable. Overclocking the RTX 3060 improves performance by 8%.
Wolfenstein Youngblood
In Wolfenstein Youngblood we just decided to turn on Ray Tracing, performance is so high we don’t even need DLSS to make it playable.
Overclocking has improved performance in Ray Tracing by 14%. This game is playable without DLSS at 1080p, just turn on Ray Tracing and enjoy it.