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Ray tracing: which games have it, which cards can take it

Of the 36 games whose features we have confirmed, 9 use ray tracing — but a traced shadow and fully traced lighting are very different loads. Games are grouped by how heavy their version is, and cards by how far up that scale they reach.

Games, heaviest implementation first

Path traced 3

All lighting is traced. The heaviest setting in PC gaming.

Heavy 2

Several traced effects at once — typically reflections, shadows and global illumination.

  • Fortnite Recommended: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 or AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
  • Hogwarts Legacy Recommended: NVIDIA GeForce 1080 Ti or AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT or INTEL Arc A770

Medium 2

One or two traced effects on top of traditional lighting.

  • Monster Hunter Wilds Recommended: NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 2060 Super(VRAM 8GB) or AMD Radeon™ RX 6600(VRAM 8GB)
  • Resident Evil 4 Recommended: AMD Radeon RX 5700 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

Light 2

A single effect, often shadows or ambient occlusion.

Cards, by how much ray tracing they can take

Our own banding, set at the RTX 4080, RTX 4070 and RTX 4060 on the performance index. 99 of the 179 cards we track have no ray-tracing hardware and are left out.

Path tracing, with upscaling 6

Heavy ray tracing, with upscaling 23

Light to medium ray tracing 30

Light effects at lower resolutions 21

Ray tracing questions

Which graphics cards can do ray tracing at all?

NVIDIA from the RTX 20 series onward, AMD from the Radeon RX 6000 series onward, and every Intel Arc card. Older cards such as the GTX range lack the dedicated hardware.

Why does the same card handle one ray-traced game and struggle in another?

Because "ray tracing" covers anything from one traced shadow pass to fully traced lighting. That is why the games here are grouped by how heavy their implementation is rather than listed together.

What should I lower first if ray tracing is too slow?

Turn on upscaling (DLSS, FSR or XeSS) before anything else, then step the ray-tracing preset down. Switching it off entirely is the last resort in games designed around it.

Is a game missing from this page unsupported?

Not necessarily. We have confirmed features for 36 games so far; a game outside that set may well have ray tracing.