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).
As a test of pure ray tracing performance, the 3DMark DXR feature test is always an interesting benchmark. The RTX 4070 Ti outpaces the RTX 3090 Ti handily here, with a 9% performance boost, though it trails the RTX 4080 significantly, coming in 21% slower.