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The accuracy for lightning and shadow Path Tracing gets is crazy dude

I’m playing on a 4090 and I am just blown away by the difference. It gives everything a depth that just wasn’t there before. It helps take a way a big chunk of that uncanny feeling that even the Psycho RT couldn’t do.

I cannot wait for this to become the new standard

Path tracing is fucking incredible man. I only ever cared for RT reflections, in most games I could barely notice a difference with RT lighting, this comparison confirms that fact even more. In some games/scenes RT lighting even looks unrealistic. Path tracing is the real difference maker tho, it just adds a level of depth you didnt even think was possible. Coming from a 6800xt, I'm just waiting for the day where this is the norm in studios and even the lowest GPUs manage to get 60+ fps in low/med settings. It will likely take a while to get there but with the way things have been accelerating, you never know. Exciting times (even tho the current situation is ass)

I recently upgraded to a 4090 and a 5800x3D and play on WQHD and DLSS quality mode. I have around 140 FPS constant with Pathed Raytracing (around 200 with normal Raytracing). It looks great, but there is a lot of flickering in the world in random spots, so I hope they will fix this soon.

Thanks for this video! And glad to see you reach 3.6k subs!

Good God I cannot imagine what graphics technology will look like in 10 years...unbelievable.

Unlike others, I like what I see with path tracing, even though it's just in videos as I have a GTX 1660 Super. The differences from RT off to RT to PT are perhaps not day and night, but they are there and they do make the world feel more realistic. That's the best thing about it. This in turn will push graphics (textures and not just) become more realistic too. It's a great move by whoever did this and yes I do wish I could have a PC to run this game like this. It won't happen for...ever perhaps. Anyway, my point is even though I can't afford this and it is not perfect yet (at the very least performance wise), I think it's super cool and I hope they keep improving the technology. But we are going to need AMD to do their magic too, leaving this more or less on Nvidia alone is not good for quick advancement.

Looks amazing, can't wait to get 24 FPS on my RTX 3050 with DLSS Performance 😂

From what I have seen so far from youtube videos (I will confirm as soon as I get my new gaming rig) is that ray tracing really makes a huge difference in scenes where there's water surfaces, lots of reflections and refractions, on those scenes with a side by side comparison, in some games the water surface would look unnatural without ray tracing and it would look stunning with ray tracing enabled. Path tracing gives an even better visual result and it seems that path tracing results in lighter scenes overall, like pushing the "gamma correction" slider up, making stuff less dark, removing strong contrasts between light and dark. But overall, when I look at common scenes where there's no water or other such materials that really "shine" with ray tracing, in those cases the visual differences are still noticeable, but it becomes a mere matter of taste... the scenes without ray tracing look different, but just as good... As a developper I would keep that in mind. If heavily depending on ray tracing, then at least adapt your model's poly count to improve overall performance. Nice graphics do not alway have to be super hires or fotorealistic... thnx for this video, mate! Especially because my GPU will be a cheaper one (4060Ti 8Gb), it's nice to know that the stuff I will be missing out on, I won't be missing it that much in the 1st place, and even then only partially, that is to say only in those scenes with a lot of glassy or watery surfaces 😋. I went for the 8Gb version because the 16Gb only makes a performance difference above 1080p and I prefer to go for maxed out effects at lower resolutions anyway, and it's at lower resolutions that antialiasing really improves the overall visual quality, especially at 640×480 and 800x600, anything higher than the native resolution of your monitor is overkill.

I ended up getting 63ish fps (rtx4080) with dlss3 quality /ultra/ high mix settings. I'm at 5120x1440 tho so not the full 4k... Graphics are insane... I get reflections of reflections while looking into water.

The performance loss is definitely not worth it for path tracing in my opinion. Maybe after a couple more generations of graphics cards. Nice comparison.

Path tracing is what raytracing was back in the 20 series. Beautiful but the cards can't run it. Now in the 40 series even 60 class cards with 3rd gen rt cores can play games with rt easy I am guessing will be another 2 generations at least till 60 or even 70 class cards can actually use path tracing in proper gameplay

Imagine in a few years when we can do path tracing without dlss at 144+hz at 4k!

11-13GB of VRAM used with both RT and PT... tells a lot about how useful the 4070/4070Ti will be in 1-2 years... Nvidia is peak Planned obsolescence...

In game the difference between Ray Tracing and Path Tracing isn't night and day, but it is a nice improvement on image quality. Especially in city environments. Sort of "warmer and more accurate". Of course getting 90+FPS with Ray Tracing vs 30+ with Path Tracing on my old OC RTX3070, makes the decision easy.

The cyberpunk genre (of which this game obviously represents, hence its name) has always had lighting as one of the key elements in its visual style. Cyberpunk 2077 is a game that clearly benefits heavily from better lighting. It's often said that graphics are less important than gameplay, which is a blanket statement with elements of truth in it. But it's very clear that the experience this game offers is greatly enhanced through better lighting which ray tracing and path tracing provide. From the neon, bustling streets to stylish, melancholy interiors the lighting sets the tone of everything in cyberpunk.

Path tracing was always the correct direction for gaming. We must remember that out GPUs are still not able to "Fully" path trace a game, you would kill the GPU. It looks gorgeous though!

Only way to run Path Tracing on a 4090 at 4K is to have Frame Generation ON, but then v-sync is disabled, therefore screen tearing 😞 Hopefully DLSS3 is compatible with v-sync soon!

As is often the case with these things, you don't REALLY notice the difference until after you get used to it, then downgrade. Been playing Cyberpunk 2.0 on my RTX 3090 with path tracing, but there were some moments that just bottlenecked things so I downgraded to RTX Psycho settings for a while to get my 55 FPS back. Many hours later, during some select cut scenes without too much activity, I turned PTX back on and it really popped out how much more realistic the lighting and skin textures are for everything (as if this game didn't look realistic enough already!) with PTX. Not as revolutionary as the leap from RTX off to RTX on but it's DEFINITELY there and has me sold to buy a 5090 when it comes out. It's been trickery though. There's been a tradeoff between this enhanced lighting and FPS. I'm looking forward to the future of games this decade with the 5090 whenever Nvidia releases it. The future is bright (and well shaded)!

This gen is like the Turing of Path Tracing. It runs reasonably well but nothing special. Nowadays Turing gpus cant handle more than 720-960p internal resolution when running high RT workloads, it's required to tune the load down, for what the architecture can do. Ada already needs sub 1080p resolutions and frame gen and bla bla bla to get decent framerates. And there're people telling me that this isnt meant for future hardware lmao.

With DLSS Balanced or Performance + Frame Generation, you should have decent fps on 4080 with Path Tracing.

Imagine doing this but with sound in video games

Ray tracing is very beautiful but I wouldn't sacrifice my fps for a "realistic reflection", but now path tracing really makes the difference

Maybe it's just me, but I don't see anything groundbreaking. Besides a few spots where reflections come into play, there are no significant differences between presented options.

I feel like you can get the same effect with almost none of the cost by simply tweaking settings in something like reshade.

My 4070 Ti gets wrecked in 3440x1440. Getting around 60-70~ fps WITH Frame Generation enabled. Not playable due the low baseline fps and high inputlag.

RT off: green RT on: green but better PT on: actual lighting

The picture reminds me of 2008's Fallout 3. Looks quite the same

Great comparison!

I feel like my eyes must be broken, because I feel like the only situation where I'd be able to tell the difference (without seeing them side by side) is when looking at reflections.

Awsome video, thanks !

Impressing! Thank you!

Nice one 🙂 Good job. You got a new sub 😁

Without the comparison, I don't think human eyes can differentiate between RT and PT

Path Tracing looks like a CGI 3D render

4090 on an OLED HDR 1000 nits Gsync Monitor. WQHD, Pathtraing on. Looks amazing

In many cases, it seems Ray Tracing is like an ENB or Reshade. Path tracing, on the other hand, is the real deal.

Awesome video, thanks! Can you please tell me the name of the track? It's so beautiful.

1:48 Reflection map? Never heard of that thing. We just turned on RT :O

i think the problem in path tracing is it makes some of the places way too bright.

0:30 Bro what hte hell? This sign in the middle. They could've just take a picture of baked lighting and put it behind the sign so it would've looked better. But they didn't. RT my ass.

Do I need to have the rest of the rt settings on for overdrive to take full effect? Or is it enough to turn it alone? Does it provide the reflections shadows etc?

Is any of you actually looking at how much of a performance drop there is in comparison to the increase in visuals. Everything looks a little better yes, but no where near worth the performance drop. We're basically talking about 1080p with RT or PT on vs 2160p without, they'll cost the same GPU Load.

It looks better without ray tracing. Ray tracing makes games less realistic and more plastic.

I think ray tracing off is nicer, I don't need any reflections, I never pay attention to them anyway and I don't like the brightly lit signs either, which ray tracing also has I don't like functions like the bloom effect at all

ngl if you don't have a paused side by side comparison and you just play you won't tell the difference...beside the huge drop in fps that is :p when you got them side by side paused you can tell a noticeable difference on very specific stuff, like the reflection on glass. i noticed though that on certain stuff like the ads signs you would miss what they read because the light made the letters disappear with rt and pt on, i guess because the game is made with raster as a priority. keep in mind that cp is a game that's supposedly made for rt, normally the difference would be even smaller. i personally didn't have a clear winner even in cp, because sometimes the rt looked better, sometimes the path tracing did and some other times i preferred off. in general i feel this technology ain't there yet and it's not worth the extra money for a high end card and performance drop in fps, although it appears that's not a popular opinion :D

Sometime RT looks better, sometimes Path looks better, sometimes RT off is better...you spend more time toggling which to use than actually playing the game 😂

Just bought the game recently, and I was disappointed by the disservice the reviews did for the game. The lore, personality, and immersion are next level. I'm want to just enjoy the game for what it is on affordable hardware now, but I am very much so looking forward to seeing how graphics tech adjusts in the next couple of years. Hopefully we can see path tracing in full, high resolution, with stable frame rates.

Path tracing to those cards below a 4090: im coming for your fps BOYZ!

I'm on my 1st pt on a 14700K + 4090. I've done quite a few tests and I'm still torn between RT vs PT. Some areas of the game look better w/ RT while others look better w/ PT. It's nice that we can toggle between them w/o having to restart the game. It almost seems that PT favors night scenes while RT favors day scenes but that could just be my personal pref.

Just looks blown out to me...

👍for your time and work.

Chiplet gpu design is the only way we will be able to get massive jump in pathtrasing preformice were you can make a massive rt compute die to handle path tracing

I plan to play overdrive mode on a 4080, capped at 60fps 4K. Can anyone tell me what settings would be best as far as DLSS, frame generation and all those options? Thanks.

My 3060 couldn't even handle Path Tracing it's been giving me 30FPS at max with DLSS2 on Balanced

I've realized a few issues with path tracing that are not in ray tracing.

Personally i much prefer playing at 120-170fps so stick to raster with ray traced shadows only. The gameplay is slick then. Even 60fps feels really slow these days.

And this was the tutorial about how turn a super smooth 100 + fps gameplay in a book of photoes

damn path tracing literally so real like right now

Anyone who says there is a massive difference between ray and path are smoking something.

When I enable Path Tracing all the other ray tracing options disappear, while yours still stay as a option, strange.

Even with 4090, under 90fps at 4k with all high setting. The era of RT is not yet come. Maybe 5090?

I play this maxed out with PT on my 3080ti. Dlss quality at 1440p and the fps is playable.

Still prefer my fps

Is it weird that I prefer Ray Tracing to Path Tracing? At least, for this specific game. The lighting might not be as realistic, but it feels "more Cyberpunk."

a 4090 and a 10700 blows my mind

I hope 5090 will be able to do 4k ultra graphics rt psycho at 60+ fps in any area

yo what song is in the background? I can't find it, i know it's not the official ost

In that shot at 0:46 it's like a 'spot the difference' between ray tracing off and ray tracing yet nearly 70fps difference. So not worth it.

In short what we thought games would look like with ray tracing turned on did, path tracing actually does that

nice comparison, clearly shows that improvement in just lighting and shadows eats riduculous amount of fps, not worth it imho.

I don't want to live without path tracing!

Whew... 4k is sitll spicy, I am on 2k thankfully will be getting over 60fps haha. But yeah 4k is still no joke.

Am I the only person who think RT off looks best? I've put almost 1000 hours into CyberPunk on an RTX 3090, and I purposefully leave ray tracing off.

Короче, пацаны, не стоят эти лучи урезания производительности больше, чем в два раза! Долбался, долбался с графоном на RTX 3070, чтоб и лучи были, и фреймрейт хороший, искал компромиссы в настройках. В итоге плюнул, выключил RT и поставил все на ультра. Полет отличный

Path tracing is way better than normal RT, normal RT feels very insufficient. In normal RT it feels nice to have accurate shadows and lighting but I feel like the colors look wrong and it gives this uncanny feeling. In RT OFF at least they tried to mimic Path tracing, there are no accurate shadows and reflactions yes but it feels more ¨natural colored¨.

Ну хз, если учесть сколько жрут эти фишки фпс и какая разница в принципе не большая в визуале, напомню если брать в расчет утрату фпс, то я лучше буду играть без лучей, но с плавностью. Слишком они требовательны короче

Hey, minimum psu req is 750w for 4080. Did you have any problems with your 700w psu?

LOL BOTH OF THEM ARE A MEME FOR THE PERFORMANCE LOSS YOU HAVE TO UNDERTAKE. HALF & HALF. IF YOU CARE THAT MUCH ABOUT LIGHTING GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY. WE'RE ATLEAST 2-3 GENERATIONS AWAY EVEN AFTER THE 5090 BEFORE WE CAN GET PATH TRACING GAMES RUNNING 4K AT 60FPS MINIMUM ON ULTRA SETTINGS.

Pathtracing is so demanding but I would rather play 30 fps path tracing than 60 fps ray tracing

PhatTracing is ubersaturatión of the lights. Can't read some illuminated signs

If you stand still its looks nice, but dont move.... It will pop in and load lights just in Front oft you. Dont Unserstand the hype

I've a 3080Ti, with the frame reconstruction mod I can pull this game in 2 ways : 2560*1080 Rt phyco, dlaa 97fps 2560*1080 path tracing + frame reconstruction, dlss quality 70fps Which one would you pick?

Path tracinf is the most noticeable, but RTX on and off look, similar i guess? RTX on looks like 15% better

Do you use hdr or not? I don't have an oled monitor and I'm not sure it's worth it. It looks good, but waaaay to dark, and I'm not techy enough to know how to calibrate it correctly. I'm also only running at 1440p.

I really tried to play this games without rtx on my 6700 but dang... It's didn't looks good,fps great,settings on high-Ultra but without pathtracing the graphics of this games is not comfortable in the eyes so i stopped playing maybe i will continue after i upgraded my graphics card

Probably not even real path tracing it’s probably just full blown ray tracing finally and they didn’t want the lie to affect 30-40 series sales is CLEARLY what this is.

How can the second most powerful card on the market barely handle RT

Path tracing is used to be Brigade 3, now bought long ago by OTOY the makers of Octane Render, a Path Tracing Engine…. GO STUDY UP KIDS!

Make video also with 3060 at 1080p with dlss quality

Damn it looks amazing

i mean... i would choose RT off anytime. the change is almost nothing? and 70-80% less fps? never

to add shine and change brightness with palette shades - no rays are needed. This is manipulation and deception from Huang

What this shows is even the 4080 can't handle RT or PT worth a shit.

Path tracing almost looks like ray tracing, but with a hint of HERE'S MORE BLINDING LIGHTS!! kinda look.

Bro can you make with rtx 3060 pls? thanks for all videos.

Where is this spot on the map @1:00?

So doo you need a 4000 series card to run path tracing here? I have a 10gb 3080 and play at 1440p and haven't returned to CP2077 in probably a year. I've been waiting for both the game to improve and to decide whether my hardware is good enough to run it with the settings it deserves