Well it depends on the implementation. If you have a game that says it has “RT” but has only implemented RT shadows the visual difference is going to be minimal.

The more apparent impimentations are RTGI and RT Reflections, but a combination of RTAO, RTGI, Reflections like in Cyberpunk for example make a vast difference overall. Metro Exodus enhanced edition is another game with a great implementation.

There is no “strength” control as such for games with RT, but there are quality sliders in some that may have that effect though.

Looks like a bomb went off in the second picture. That looks good to you?

So much fake light and bloom that you can’t even see trees outside anymore looks good to you? It looks disgusting.

I think it was trying to do some sort of light adaption on eyes in that scene, which does not always look correct. Is it perfect? no, does it look miles better than RT off yes, end of. Anything else is copium imo.

Way to prove his point. That is not worth the 50-70% decrease in framerate.

I like RT Off about half of the examples Ive seen over the years. I guess it depends on the artwork it’s applied to. In your example it seems it’s a little too heavy or overdone? I dont know anything about it (RTX 3080 and 3060Ti here and newest stuff I play is Doom Eternal and the Wolfenstein games) Is there a way to control how strong the RT effects come across in games that use it?

So RT off looks better than RT on to you? Lmao.

If I use say Total War to test my CPU or Gears 5 (or Gears tactics) to test my GPU they produce real world results. Stuff I can actually get to replicate in my games.

I get the want for a benchmark but I guess the market is extremely niche and doesn’t provide any real world results. Every UE 5 game could still run like crap for example.