Real-time ray tracing is incredibly demanding. The latest graphics cards have dedicated hardware that’s optimized for ray-tracing. The 3DMark DirectX Raytracing feature test measures the performance of this dedicated hardware. Instead of using traditional rendering techniques, the whole scene is ray-traced and drawn in one pass. The result of the test depends entirely on ray-tracing performance. (UL).
3DMark's DXR feature test paints a difficult picture for the RX 6700 XT, with the Gaming OC barely outperforming Nvidia's RTX 2060. It's 1% faster than the reference 6700 XT, while there's just 0.02FPS separating the Gaming OC and the Nitro+.