Ray Tracing and DLSS Performance
Next up, we’ll look at the impact of Ray Tracing and DLSS in a few different ways to see if the EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti XC3 ULTRA GAMING can pull off a decent Ray Tracing experience at 1440p. We tried 4k out and even with DLSS enabled, we noped on back to 1440p rather promptly. For each game, we are using the game benchmark included with the game and reporting the average frames per second.
Far Cry 6
In Far Cry 6, the EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti XC3 ULTRA GAMING chalked up 77 FPS, which was 6 FPS behind the AMD Radeon RX 6800’s effort at 83 FPS. Overclocking the EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti XC3 ULTRA GAMING gained an additional 1 FPS.
As Far Cry 6 supports FSR and not DLSS, we turned on FSR to find it provided an extra 2-3 FPS across the board.
Cyberpunk 2077
In Cyberpunk 2077, the EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti XC3 ULTRA GAMING achieved 30.4 FPS in our manual run through which was ahead of the Radeon RX 6800’s unmentionable 19.9 FPS. Overclocking the EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti XC3 ULTRA GAMING rounded up to 32.3 FPS which did not make a material difference in the slide show we experienced. If you intended on playing Cyberpunk 2077 with Ray Tracing on, the 3070 Ti class card is not what you’d want.
Next, we enabled DLSS in “Quality” mode which pulled out a near doubling of performance across the board. Specifically, the EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti XC3 ULTRA GAMING boosted up to 56.2 FPS and punched the overclocked value up to 51.4 FPS. At this point, if you find the extra eye candy brought by Ray Tracing to be good then this is a good combination. Overall for Cyberpunk 2077 at 1440p, we’d leave Ray Tracing and DLSS off with this card.
Metro Exodus
In Metro Exodus, the EVGA GEFORCE RTX 3070 TI XC3 ULTRA GAMING cranked out 48.8 frames per second, which is 18.7 frames per second faster than the AMD Radeon RX 6800. Overclocking the EVGA GEFORCE RTX 3070 TI XC3 ULTRA GAMING notched an additional 3.1 frames per second to the tally. Whether Metro Exodus is playable on these cards is really the dealer’s choice as there will be some areas that have less than ideal performance but most of the game should be just fine.
Next we tried out DLSS turned on and as you can see in the chart, it boosted the overall performance of the NVIDIA cards by nearly 10 frames per second, to the extent that it makes for a great gaming experience to have both Ray Tracing and DLSS: Quality enabled.
Dirt 5
In Dirt 5, the EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti XC3 ULTRA GAMING pumped out 89.3 FPS which was 9.9 FPS below the Radeon RX 6800’s effort. Overclocking the EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti XC3 ULTRA GAMING boosted it to 95.5 FPS but did not bring it to the top of the leaderboard.
Either way, Dirt 5 is just fine to play with Ray Tracing on with either card.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
We decided to do Shadow of the Tomb Raider at 4K with Ray Traced Shadows because it seemed like a good idea at the time. The EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti XC3 ULTRA GAMING turned in a 39 FPS effort, besting the Radeon RX 6800’s 37 FPS effort by 2 FPS. Overclocking the EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti XC3 ULTRA GAMING found an additional 3 FPS, bringing its total up to 42 FPS.