GPU Ray Tracing Performance Comparisons [2021] *spawn*

Why are NVidia's 1% lows in Ultra with ray tracing so bad?

Battlefield 2042 Benchmarked | TechSpot

It's as if the speed-advantage in ray tracing just disappears.

 

Is DICE just doing some magic here, or how come even with RT 6900XT is right there between 3080 Ti and 3090 minimum FPS wise and 6800 XT is above 3080 with RT enabled

 

hard to say, although I would venture that benchmarking a multiplayer shooter is a hard strain on reliability/similarity between runs.

 

It's consistent across the board, top to bottom, ray tracing, ultra or medium settings. NVidia 1% lows get worse with resolution and worse with down-market cards.

The article explains its methodology, so you're just casting shade at a competitor it seems.

 

Shade? Uh... I am just saying it is hard to reliably bench multiplayer games and I do not put as much stock into them as benches of non-multiplayer ones.

 

I looked but do not see any mention which drivers are used for both AMD and Nvidia? I know Nvidia released their optimized drivers today for BF2042.

 

Something in the renderer is screwed on Nv GPUs most likely (it happens on a 3090 so it's not a VRAM issue which is the usual suspect in such cases).
FB3's D3D12 renderer has a long history of being, eh, suboptimal?

 

The benchmarks do not use the drivers released today of course. They use the previously available set. Testing is done on an empty server so while interesting to compare GPU throughput, not representative of what you will actually experience.

 

8GB cards struggles at 4K, currently they're fine at 1440p Ultra RT

 

BF2042 isnt really that heavy on ray tracing effects either.

 

Not really, it's minimum FPS is under 5% better.

 

Bf2042 is such a mess, I would wait a few patchs too "trust" any bench for now. If they can salvage this...

 

I might give this game a second go now that it support RT. Stunning visuals but with very linear progression through the world.

 

Game's DX12 renderer is still suboptimal. I wonder if they will ever fix that.

 

CPU performance. Not too hot. There is not much performance scaling. Looks like a Dice fumble unfortunately. He didn't test with an AMD GPU so it’s possible Nvidia’s higher overhead is a factor.

 

They are not bad in comparison with AMD.
99% percentile low frame times is a bucket of frames that is often affected by either shader compilation or resources management. Looking at how gracefully these frame times decline with the amount of video memory, these are likely a resource allocation, data movement limited frames.