PC World - USA (2020-06)

JUNE 2020 PCWorld 71

RTX ON VERSUS RTX OFF

COMPARISONS

Here’s a scene from the Aquatic Adventure

map, positioned close to the surface of the

water you’re immersed in. With ray tracing off,

the scene looks flat and opaque; with ray

tracing on, you can see through the water to

the outside world, and sunlight cascading in,

and ripples distorting the

scenery around you. It’s

gorgeous in this picture, but

even more stunning in

motion.

The path tracing and

new materials make lava

much more ominous than

before, as the scene from Of

Temples & Totems shows.

With ray tracing off, the

orange lava looks lifeless

against the flat, gray stone.

With ray tracing on,

everything takes on an angry

glow emanating from the

much more fierce-looking

lava flow.

Look at the openings in

the temple background,

RTX on. RTX off.

RTX on.

RTX off.