Ray Tracing Performance Deep Dive: AMD Radeon RX 6800XT vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080

Digital Foundry writes, “Many thanks to XFX for the RX 6800 XT Speedster Merc 319 Black sample. Yes, we’ve seen the benchmarks – and it’s undeniable that Nvidia’s second generation ray tracing technology is faster than AMD’s debut offering in the BIG NAVI line-up of RDNA 2 graphics cards. But we wanted to know more – what are the strengths and weaknesses of the respective architectures? Is Nvidia really a full generation ahead of AMD performance or is the answer a little more complex? And how does this all break down when considering different forms of ray tracing? Alex Battaglia loves ray tracing, loves telling you about it – and he has everything you need to know.”

source: gamezpot.com