RX 7900XT Raytracing performance (spoiler alert: its ******* incredible)
Like many people here I was wondering what to choose for my new PC build (after 10 years from last upgrade). Nvidia didn't gain my interest in their new GPU approach (more AI, less pure computing power). I started looking at Radeon solutions which were quite new to me since I was using Nvidia GPUs most of the time. I read a ton of negative feedback on RT performance in Radeon cards, but I wanted to have as much VRAM as I can get for my budget so I thought I will just turn this feature off and deal with it. Despite being undecided whether to wait for new cards or buy something from the current generation, I finally bought the 7900XT with nice discount. At first I tried Witcher 3 with all fancy settings and RT, it was hitting constant 120 fps, 100 in Skellige. Then I moved to Cyberpunk trying insane visuals (1440p, RT but no pathtracing, FSR3 quality) and I gained nice 100-120 fps... Soo now I'm confused, why people say Radeon is not for Raytracing? Is 120 fps in ultra/insane visuals in game like Cyberpunk not enough? Does Nvidia hit some 400 fps with 4070S card or what? I even analyzed how frames look and I didn't see any artefacts, or blurred image or whatever. So if you are worried that by buying RX GPU you will miss out RT features, just don't worry :P
TL:DR: In my setup Radeon 7900XT is great in raytracing at 1440p. "Radeon can't do raytracing" is nonsense.
