Ray Tracing Performance
Now we are going to test Ray Tracing performance between the video cards. The goal is simple, at 1440p we will enable the highest level of Ray Tracing and see how the cards perform.
There were a couple of games we could not include here, unfortunately. Cyberpunk 2077 still does not support Ray Tracing on the AMD Radeon RX 6000 series. The other game we can’t compare is Wolfenstein Youngblood. No Ray Tracing support on AMD Radeon RX 6000 series there either.
Therefore, we decided to add two more games we did not use, to the mix. We went ahead and added Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Metro Exodus on this page just so we’d have some more titles to compare Ray Tracing performance with.
“SAM ON” means Smart Access Memory is enabled. The OVERCLOCKED AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT card is running at an “Up To” GPU frequency of 2800MHz and a memory frequency of 17.2GHz.
Watch Dogs Legion
For Watch Dogs Legion we are running at 1440p and “Ultra” quality and we have enabled “Ultra” Ray Tracing.
Overclocking the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT in Watch Dogs Legion with Ray Tracing improved performance by 8%. This sounds like a lot, but in reality, we are talking 2FPS on average, and at 26FPS the game is nowhere near playable. Both GeForce RTX video cards are beating it by a lot, the RTX 3070 is 58% faster.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
In Shadow of the Tomb Raider we are running at 1440p with SMAA 2TX enabled and the highest in-game settings. We have enabled “Ultra” Shadow Ray Tracing.
Overclocking the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT in Shadow of the Tomb Raider with Ray Tracing improved performance by 6%. With the card overclocked the game is much more playable with Ray Tracing enabled at 1440p, it’s smooth and enjoyable. The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is still faster though, and the GeForce RTX 3070 is 25% faster.
Metro Exodus
In Metro Exodus we are running at 1440p but instead of using the “Extreme” quality setting, we have set it down one level to the “Ultra” quality level. The reason being, we tried “Extreme” and with Ray Tracing enabled all the video cards were just way too slow, and very unplayable. Therefore by lowering the quality to “Ultra” quality level we can at least get a good feel for how the cards compare with Ray Tracing. The Ray Tracing quality itself is on the “Ultra” setting.
Overclocking the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT in Metro Exodus with Ray Tracing improved performance by 6%. Unfortunately this still did not make the game playable at 1440p. The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is still faster, and the GeForce RTX 3070 is 39% faster.