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 is all bout pure ray tracing performance, and here the RTX 4060 isn't far off matching the RTX 3060 Ti, while it's 35% faster than the RX 7600 and RX 6700 XT.