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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
It shall never be played. Honestly, I'm not entirely convinced that it isn't just a huge joke by nVidia.
gpt
Its not, its path tracing so way more demanding than ray tracing, its essentially ray tracing with a helluluva more rays and a hellualua more ray bounces. Thats why its such a performance hog.

NVidia wants to push this tech and make path tracing the new thing (which it will be) because that'll allow them to have a sizable performance increase compared to AMD. If you noticed the RX7900XTX doesn't lag too much behind compared to the RTX4080 in ray tracing but still leaves more to be desired.