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 gives us an indication of raw ray-tracing performance. Here, the RTX 3060 massively outperforms the RTX 2060, in the region of 50%. It's also about 10% ahead of the RTX 2070 Super.