Gameplay Performance-Ray Tracing
In this section, we enable Ray Tracing in the games that support it. The remainder of the settings in-game are unchanged from the previous section
Alan Wake 2
At 1440p, there is not a card that can handle the game without upscaling. The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 5070 OC Edition does have the edge here, but barely. 4% and less over the XFX Swift Radeon RX 9070 OC White Gaming Edition. The older cards are way behind when ray tracing is enabled. Even with upscaling, only the overclocked ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 5070 OC Edition musters playable FPS, and just barely. Fortunately, this is a slow-paced game.
Black Myth: Wukong
The resolution has to be reduced in this game, it’s simply too demanding. You can’t even bear to watch the older two cards. Our ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 5070 OC Edition is playable if upscaled. It is double the frames the XFX Swift Radeon RX 9070 OC White Gaming Edition can generate. We see a 6% increase with upscaling, which is helpful in this game.
Cyberpunk 2077
This game can be played with ray tracing at 1440p. The results tighten up a bit. Still, there is no joy without upscaling, but the FPS are pretty remarkable in that case. The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 5070 OC Edition holds a 7% margin and then drops by 2% with upscaling. Overclocked it takes the top prize with and without, again a 6% gain. The two older cards aren’t up to the task. The PowerColor Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 GRE does just squeak into playable territory upscaled.
Star Wars Outlaws
Here again, the ray tracing is too tough to handle at 1440p, so we turned the resolution to 1080p. None of the cards have the stuff without upscaling. Here, the XFX Swift Radeon RX 9070 OC White Gaming Edition has its first and only top spot with ray tracing enabled by about 10%. When we overclock the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 5070 OC Edition, the tide is turned, with a draw and pulling ahead with upscaling. Our last-generation cards once again shouldn’t be used in the same sentence with ray tracing.