Quoting: rustynail

Quoting: JarmerNice! Gotta love these huge improvements for same hardware.

Although: that said, I'm not sure I notice/care that much about raytracing just in general. It makes things look SLIGHTLY just a tiny bit better at a huge frame cost? But maybe with this the frame cost will be minimal so that slightly better look will be okay?

Apparently some developers are mostly using ray tracing not to improve the visuals but as a crutch that allows them to not bother implementing lighting at all as they normally should, like iirc the latest Doom game doesn't work without ray tracing at all, although when you set it to low the performance is not as horrible as you may expect from ray tracing (but still pretty horrible)

Ray Tracing is quick to implement for devs compared to manually lighting the whole world, and it has the added benefit of not requiring many gigabytes (sometimes hundreds) that normal lighting techniques need. Considering how AAA games development costs are ballooning, and studios being closed because they don't make enough sales to recoup those costs, ray tracing might be the technology that saves many of them.