The Developer made the worst screen space Reflection to see a huge improvement with ray tracing, so they made it to make people buy an RTX or AMD Ray tracing GPU, that there idea, i have seen some games have really good screen space Reflection when you don't use Ray Tracing.
@@FantasyNero my point exactly. Look at HITMAN 3 SSR, those are just soo accurate and beautiful. Not to mention that you can even see reflections of Agent 47 on reflective surfaces and mirrors even without any form of RT. To me, Cyberpunk 2077 is nothing but a glorified RTX tech demo. CDPR could have done better with raster techniques but instead they took the shortcut with RT. Even as a game, CP2077 is mediocre at best, till now.
@@Rainy984 New Games always has Low-Quality SSR, but if you see Blade of Time and Serious Sam HD TFE it has amazing quality SSR on the Water. no Ray Tracing.
@@mikeliberty9408 with like 30% less FPS. I would prefer whole RTGI, Reflections, shadows, ambient occlusion package even with big fps drop, because it is simply more complete and great if you have the gpu for it (i had 3090)
Hou should see how Dying Light 2 looks in full raytracing. It's more outstanding especially since it's a new game with ray-tracing built in mind due to the Nvidia and the new RTX 30 series really pushing ray-tracing.
And this is one of the best examples as to why ATi are dumbf*cks and have been for such a long time. ATi keeps neglecting these HUGE software advantages that nVidia brings and now people call RayTracing, RTX, lol. It's like when people say "hand me over a kleenex" when it's actually a tissue but the brand is so powerful people would rather call it that. This isn't a shot at anyone, just ATi. I guess they're AMD now, really.
Imo the impact of raytracing is understood best when set against the best rasterization can do, often however the rasterized version falls short and hence the visual gap is wider than it would have to be. Part of the reason is certainly that you cannot polish every single corner of an open world with manually designed effects. 0:04 for instance lacks SSR effects, baked lighting would have improved the scene further, however that may not be possible with this dynamic daytime system. You can see in scenes that likely did get a lot of attention from the designers such as the grand panorama at 3:28 that raytracing's impact is considerably lower. In the end raytracing will outrun rasterization as manually designing an acceptable quality will get more and more time-consuming for the designers, while raytracing is becoming more and more affordable in terms of GPU power, and with us now being at the beginning of a transitioning phase with more things gradually getting handed over to raytracing.
The first timestamp you are correct but that requires the lighting artist to do every potential scene like that. Thats nigh impossible unless you have hundreds to people working on it
Great Opinion here, Ray tracing is for sure the futur of gaming but not of all games. Linear game such as TLOU 2 don't need this kind of tech for now since the lighting job can be doing manually and better as well. Raytracing is great for replacing the good ol' daytime system usually used in open worlds game for his time saving aspect. Basically the idea of Raytracing is not only result based since a manual job can still do better, it's actually an interesting ratio between time/effort of development and result.
@@melchiordelaunay2539 yeah, even if with a game like LoU2, they can cut off hours per day in the lighting artists days with RT. If we look at what the Metro Exodus team showing the difference lighting up a room, its add a light source and done vs add a light here, then a light dimmer light further away in every direction to make the effect that its further away from the light source and repeat for every light
@@melchiordelaunay2539 TLOU2 literally has pre-baked ray tracing you tool and no you cannot outdo ray tracing manually since ray tracing is the highest precision of light behaviour we can simulate on computers (after path tracing).
I felt as a canvas the off mode had better matt textures whilst on was too glossy and perhaps better after it rained in game? Real life would be more of a mix between matt and gloss surfaces rather the one or the other as it is in the hardware.
@@tommyrotton9468 I just got this game finally since I have a card that can finally run it (other card was 8 yrs old) Intel Arc a770 & I noticed this as soon as I switched it on.
Revisited this game as I am redoing old comparisons where I mainly used screenshots. Note this is on PC pre-update. 1.5 added RT shadows for local light sources, like artificial lamps, vehicle headlights etc. Though the differences should be minor, as I mostly used outdoor scenes here and ray-traced shadows already applied to direct lighting from the sun, next to all the other RT effects previously on PC. Control is going to get a new video too. Also going to do Ratchet and Clank, aswell as Spiderman: Miles Morales. Enjoy!
@@goddess_hylia_cyberpunk does by a massive margin, it blows away rachet and clanks raytraceing, the raytraceing on cyberpunk is only shadows on ps5 it has non of the reflections or lighting.
A great testament to the studios ability to create a convincing rasterized lighting solution. The differences are clear but for a dynamic day/night cycle they really nailed the look. Great video as always. Something I notice too is the raytracing effects expand much further out than Dying Light 2. Thanks for these amazing comparisons, I LOVE raytracing!
Their BVH pipeline is insanely drawn out. It kinda needs to be tbh simply because the nature of the world design means long views are common and expected but its still impressive seeing just how many rays they shoot out and at which distances. Its one of the reasons i dont expect console RT implementations to even remotely hold up. Even ignoring that the only effect likely to make it is AO or emissive lighting the range at which said effect displays will be hobbled. Not hating on the consoles but their RT capabilities are very weak and while some devs have found creative ways around it cyberpunks brutally uncompromising approach to RT isnt likely to scale as easily
It can’t be too different from the original lighting. If you want something real just play metro enhanced edition, or you’ll be limited by the game’s original lighting design.
@@melcorchancla9431 Metro is literally like completely different game with Ray tracing on. It's definitely one of the best shooter experiences I've ever had m. Right up there with my first time though Bioshock
Straight up. I feel like Nvidia casted a marketing brainwash upon these dumbasses. Innovation stagnated and they created this trash where you sacrifice 50% of your FPS so you can see yourself in a glass panel. Like, wow... Nvidia really knows the caliber of who their market is.
@v o r didn't necessarily mean you as I don't really know you but there's enough dummies keeping this trash afloat. It's not tech that is necessary right now and no one should be talking about it. The downfalls easily outweigh the advantages. Unless someone is already getting 300FPS on their 1080p panel, then I'd argue that they should be putting that money into getting a 1440p or above monitor rather than sending their dollars to die to Nvidia on tech that is not worth it at all.
@v o r it does nothing 99% of the time. Most of the games where RT is implemented have awful SSLR quality, or one that is intentionally gutted to make RT look more appealing. RT can be an improvement in some scenarios, but it's a very minor improvement as a whole, and at this point in time nothing more than a very expensive gimmick. And I'd rather play in 144 FPS than 60 just in order to make window reflections look slightly sharper.
First of all, great video and editing, that had to be a lot of work! The game is beautiful with RTX on and as GPUs become more affordable and available, the game is going to “age” well. More and more people are going to enjoy it at its full potential visually
@@zoinksscoob6523 feels like patch 1.5 was a great step in that direction. Transmog is on the way (modders found the foundation for it in code), NG+ after that and we’ve got ourselves ready for the expansion :)
@@grandrtiv26 Yeah, Nvidia is getting greedy, while mining activity is going now with Ethereum switching to proof of stake, AI is booming so GPUs are in greater demand than ever, and they are trying to milk consumers (what was that 12GB 4080 about??? ). Still, the game keeps looking better and better, the path tracing looks spectacular
Raytracing is definitely the future for gaming. It truly makes everything look so much more real. Hopefully the new 40xx series gpu's can use run raytracing more efficiently because as of rn, ray tracing sucks so much performance out of your graphics card.
That’s true, though I will say on my 3080ti with DLSS i can run this game at 4k (obviously not native but very comparable) with psycho ray tracing and every other setting maxed out at an average of 45fps which is completely acceptable on my gsync display. If I make some minor tweaks I can easily get 60fps which then cannot be complained about at all given the huge boost in graphical features.
I would say that Ray Tracing effectiveness depends heavily on implementations. On some games it makes a huge difference (such as CP2077), and on others the difference is not worth the performance penalty (SOTTR or Battlefield V). Let's hope that future generations of graphics cards, albeit from AMD and Nvidia, will reduce it somehow.
In its current form, Nvidia RTX is only a tech demo, the biggest problem with it is the fact it needs certain hardware to work because its so intensive. I feel that UE5's global illumination is a much larger step forward than RTX purely because its all in-engine and is significantly less intense.
@@spidr1513 ue5 matrix awaken also used ray tracing in addition to GI. AMD cards are not as good at raytracing (hopefully that gets fixed next generation). intel iis also putting a heavy focus on ray tracing. graphics acards where always build to specialie while the cpu was meant for more generalied task. so adding more raytracing cores to a already specialized card makes sense
Dont be mistaken, not a single youtube vid will actualy show you how good RTX in real time feels. Its the last tiny thing that separates good graphics from photorealism. Like, when I saw it with my own eyes in Cyberpunk on good PC I was in awe. Absolutely does not cost the price it requires, tho.
@@thegodhoward8037 It doesn't have it. The game looks that good because the lighting is static, which allows developers to do better graphics at certain scenes. Ray tracing is more a feature for open world games because it is hard to do a realistic image when lighting changes dynamically
you're amazing btw, you're super technical in your comparisons and you pay attention to what people are looking for in these specific comparisons, i'd like to stick around
Phenomenally done video! I had no clue what ray tracing was until I watched this and now I understand why it's such a big deal. It's extraordinary how much it elevates graphics! I'm definitely going to replay Cyberpunk when I get my PS5.
Admittedly bad timing for this video as RT shadows were just added for all local light sources 2 days after this video got published, lol. Also, testing on my end, I SWEAR they updated RT emissive lighting just a tad - sometimes I notice sharper, more detailed ambient shadows around some objects compared to previous patches.
I uploaded this literally a day before cdpr announced the upcoming 1.5 release, perfect bad timing. Though most scenes are outdoors and there are few detail shots of local shadows, thus imo it still is largely representative of the games RT features
Changes in the latest update: 1- Added RT shadow for local lights 2- Added RT reflection for carpaint coatings 3- Changed denoiser from "ReBlur" to "ReLAX" and "SIGMA" for sharper and faster responding lights/shadows/reflections And these all made the game the greatest graphical hit again 😍
Gotta check if any of my comparison shots are good at showcasing local light RT shadows and whether the denoiser makes a noticeable difference, can't revert to pre-1.5 on Steam I think. Will have to see if the video would be interesting enough with the footage I still have.
Well, as of the 1.5 update my performance has tanked. With my RTX 3070ti, i used to enjoy 4K in high/ultra settings with raytracing on, DLSS balanced. Now, those same settings barely get over 25fps and stutter constantly.
Could be your CPU in some areas. I have an R53600 / EVGA 3070 and most of the time it's my CPU being maxed out in this game I think due to crowd AI. I play 1440p medium, RT med, DLSS performance, high crowd density and get >60 fps except in really crowded areas like right outside H10
This game is made based on rasterization and many of the light source tricks they use actually interfere with ray tracing. When they start developing more games, like metro, around RT the differences will be even more drastic. Plus artists won't have to work so hard to achieve them.
For those who don’t know? The reason there aren’t any character reflections? Well, they have to do some weird things to make the first person camera stuff look normal. Your characters arms when using weapons actually kind of look more like twisted demons limbs IMO :-P
I don't think it's to do with first person so much but more to do with performance. I do a bit of work in 3d modelling and UE and know how reflections tend to be generated - and it's usually using reflection probes, which sort of create the illusion of a reflection onto a 2d surface - similar to how buildings look like they have 3d interiors but it's actually just a dynamic texture which changes according to where the camera is. The trouble is, reflection probes are not great at picking up animated objects without reducing the quality of the image From my experience anyway.
@@craigstephens93 here we are talking about raytraced reflections Not reflection probe They both are different and I don't think you know what you are talking about
Man, ray tracing with ultra is such a beautiful experience on this game. It’s crazy. I always thought it was a gimmick until I got a hold of 3090 ti. Man I love this
RT Reflections look cool but honestly if you're forced to choose due to performance, RT Shadows is the way to go. It really gives you the proper lighting and makes all objects look like they're part of the world and realistically shade dark areas.
I love how you can see the effects of all the various lights around the area, my new 3070 should be here in a few days and I'm looking forward to seeing it for myself
I’ve kept Ray Tracing Psycho on since 2020 release with excellent performance on RTX 3080, however since 1.5, performance takes a dive about 30 minutes in.
The fact that Cyberpunk has such intricate details in the enviroment and a lot of futuristic-like lighting makes RT do a lot of difference to the immersion. This game is such a piece of art despite all of the bugs, never been so immersed in a game before playing cyberpunk
I dont think I've ever really appreaciated the Ray Traced Illumination until now. I thought Ray Tracing was about Mirrors and Reflections but, Even just looking at the way the LED lights Fall off Naturally onto other surfaces, Its like WOW! Its doing alot more than you think it would be.
@N7Andy same but i think this depend on certain games too. Most games only takes advantage of the reflective surfaces for raytracing or doesn’t show the other aspect of it as well as compared to games like cyberpunk where neon lights are illuminating everything.
In my opinion, where ray tracing is most beneficial in it's effort to immerse is not in the reflections, but in the occlusions and contact shadows. I think I am fine with what games have been doing in terms of mirror reflections where it's just a vague silhouette of the characters and I catch myself focusing more shadows with in shadows and the dimming of light where light would be less effective and scattering of colors. I'm not sure if it's possible but it would probably be less expensive to leave out the reflections and focus on the ray traced shadows.
Normally I watch these type of videos at 2x speed because they are generally very slow paced and the comparison parts are ambigious. Your video has a perfect tempo and the differences are nice and clear. Good job! (I still think lazy developers exxaggerate ray tracing effects and intentionally lower the quality of non-ray-tracing hardware effects, though)
I appreciate the compliment :) Sure, with enough time, money and skill artists can create incredible looking games, just look at Horizon Forbidden West. But also consider how common crunch is in the gaming industry, its very likely not laziness.
@@K0xm4N Agreed. I have a 2070 super, and RTX off gives me 90+ fps on average with everything on ultra. RTX ON and it can sometimes drop below 30 fps :( Not worth it, but it does looks so good...
I absolutely love this game. Cannot wait to get back home from deployment so I can add it to my kill counts. Ray tracing is just so beautiful and I can only imagine (and hope) it looks this good in the Witcher 3 when they enhance it for us. 👍👌 great vid as always!
With the exception of some cherry picked examples, you wouldn't notice a difference when playing it. Also it seems that because the game was conceived with ray tracing in mind, they just avoid using some basic shadows and occlusions, like 0:28, games from 2 decades ago were putting at least some shadows underneath the objects, but in this game, it was totally avoided.
RT is obviously superior to older lighting methods, but the price for it is just unreasonably high. It will be another 10 years before it become a standart.
Yeah. Rt doesn't just "look good" but let's do the GPU lots of the simulation without any trick. Just look at the color of the car that goes on the wall... That's not something you usually do with old techniques. The issue is that it weights a lot, so that means for devs that they have to develop the game on the RT side and "normal" side because today's GPU especially medium and low GPUs haven't the horsepower to keep 60 fps stable in RT
RT cards start at a mere $150 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) you'll only do shadows like the XBox players, but it is still RT. My card cost a whopping $350 and I can do Ultra RT with reflections at 30fps (Intel Arc a770). You don't need a thousand dollar Nvidia card, they just want you to think you do.
Something is off about the comparison at 4:24. While the transition line is moving, the left side textures on the bridge change before the line crosses...
1:26 - someone "technical" please explain this to me. Half Life 2 - more than 15 years ago had reflections that didn't have SSRS issues (and Ray tracing being the most accurate but taxing option). What kind of reflection tech did Steam use ages ago for Half life 2, and why don't we just use that? For 15 years ago - those reflections still hold up.
Half Life 2 used Planar Reflections instead of SSR, which most simply put renders the scene twice. Definitely doable when you have more enclosed level design and gives great results. But the more complex the scene, the more taxing it gets on performance, and its mostly used on a single flat surface, like water. As far as I know, with complex geometry and terrain in open world games its difficult to realize today, which is why basically everything large scale uses SSR + cubemaps
I´d still argue that, for the performance hit you take, it adds very little graphic fidelity to the overall experience. I mean like the water reflections looks amazing but the game itself doesn´t evolve around that and other areas have a far lesser difference while still tanking fps. There is potential but it´s still not there yet. It is sort of like the first anti aliasing, that no card back then could use without tanking massive in fps while the benefit wasn´t noticeable in fast paced games anyways.
So i finally found ray tracing settings that work that dont brick my framerate. FSR, 60 fps adaptive resolution, RT low, everything else on ultra. runs really good and it is by far the best looking game i've ever played. i am totally a ray tracing believer now. it's photorealistic. the dialogue scenes are just too perfect. i cant believe it.
Played Cyberpunk 2077 on my old One X and my new Series X. Toggled Ray Tracing on for the latter and barely noticed the difference because Cyberpunk is just that gorgeous visually. I am perpetually enchanted by this beautiful game
If you are having extreme performance hits with raytracing on make sure to check in the 3d settings in the Nvidia Control Panel and make sure DSR isn't turned on. This setting has always been a problem for me and resets to 2x when i update drivers. I thought my 3080 couldn't handle ray tracing because of this. I turned off DSR so i was rendering at the regular resolution again and my performance was playable again at max settings.
Hey there. I can't seem to find SSR on Nvidia Control Panel for some reason. The only thing with 2x there is a setting called as DSR. Is it the same thing?
@@barrett5500 Man, I can't thank you enough. Thank you very much for this. Tried it out and it really works, I managed to get stable 60 FPS in populated places with Ultra Settings / Ray Tracing Medium. After a few hours of playing, i got the infamous memory leak in Megatower Apartment but even then my FPS didn't drop below 50. Did you experience any memory leaks after hours of playing too or FPS dropped below 60 anywhere?
I love RT. RT on the 4070 ti is oh so good. No point in turning RT off anymore. What I find interesting is You really do notice it when it is turned off, maybe because it is the natural way to render stuff? It seems to add an additional dimension.
You should put the Dexter DeShawn scene in the car. RT On and Off there is simply night and day difference. RT Off it looks flat and graphics looked last gen, with RT On it looked amazing, his leather jacket looked so real.
very good video, they changed a lot of ray tracing since the game released they also changed it again in 1.5 adding glowing textures like tatoo, you should make another video
I will check if any of my comparison shots are good to showcase the additions done with 1.5. I didn't really focus on local shadows either, missed opportunity.
I look forward to playing this on my 4x series GPU one day when V2 patch is out and GPU's are available for sensible prices again. Until then i'll quietly enjoy this at 2k on my 1080TI with no raytracing.
Cyberpunk 2077 isn't a game, it is a experience, it is an fantasy where we all want to live. I played it first 8 hours and experienced the first appereance of Johnny, and i don't know do I want to live in this reality anymore. I want into the NightCity! Edit. And this thing comes into my head, i am jealous for videogame characters, like in GTA V michael, and cyberpunks characters. I have thought so long that why in videogames and tv series all characters are so confident and they fucking do things, sametime when in real life people are more an inside type, we cant talk to people like in games or tv series, it don't work like that, and I haven't find a clue why it not work like that.. I think personally i just want a fucking life. Its not life to sit in home and play cyberpunk 2077 and sametime being jealous for what they all characters in this game are experiencing. In the end I could use a one good quote of my old friend, My kid? Hes just smoking a pot and jerk off while playing a fucking videogames, when I was in a same age, i robbed a bank, get cars and get bitch€s. And that was better? At least I fucking did something! ~Michael
haha......you don't have to rob a bank, get cars and get bitches to have a great life....Ok, different strokes for different folks and that Michael is the type of folk that should be in jail, lol
Interesting. I like it, however, I do feel that in some cases, RT sacrifices how many polygons are rendered for the much higher amount of rays being drawn. That seems to cause certain objects, such as tiles, to become much more reflective towards the viewing angle than it should, while rasterization clearly shows that tile is very rough. Of course, this will improve with time, but I can't wait to see what improvements will be made. 🙂
It's still so superficial. Take @00:55 for example: you can clearly see the low poly model on the storm drains and concrete overhang on the right. No amount of ray tracing can fix that. I'd prefer to see games with higher poly count models before RT tbh.
Great display of how RT actually is very noticable. A few months ago LTT did a video about how noticable RT is and fed RT enbaled games to people in a blind test and told them to tell the RT on scene apart from teh RT off scene. Their test was biased though because they only chose games that do RT shadows and RT ambient lights like Shadow of the Tomb Raider or Metro. They included neither Control nor Cyberpunk in the test. Two games that display greatly that there is a noticable quality differenece between RT on and RT off. As far as RT and it's usage goes imho Cyberpunk so far is the benchmark especeially when it comes to mixing RT reflections, shadows and lighting, which very few games have done so far.
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this is one of the best comparisons ive seen of cyberpunks ray tracing. nice job 👍
Same. Seems like everyone else is making it seem like there's no difference on purpose.
The Developer made the worst screen space Reflection to see a huge improvement with ray tracing, so they made it to make people buy an RTX or AMD Ray tracing GPU, that there idea, i have seen some games have really good screen space Reflection when you don't use Ray Tracing.
@@FantasyNero the best SSR is worse than RT
@@FantasyNero my point exactly. Look at HITMAN 3 SSR, those are just soo accurate and beautiful. Not to mention that you can even see reflections of Agent 47 on reflective surfaces and mirrors even without any form of RT. To me, Cyberpunk 2077 is nothing but a glorified RTX tech demo. CDPR could have done better with raster techniques but instead they took the shortcut with RT. Even as a game, CP2077 is mediocre at best, till now.
@@Rainy984 New Games always has Low-Quality SSR, but if you see Blade of Time and Serious Sam HD TFE it has amazing quality SSR on the Water. no Ray Tracing.
the shadows getting softer as the object is further away is such a small but important detail, amazing work
AC:Unity did that too without any ray tracing (with Nvidia Soft Shadows)...
@@mikeliberty9408 just fading out the shadow is hardly the same but better than nothing I guess
@@mikeliberty9408 with like 30% less FPS. I would prefer whole RTGI, Reflections, shadows, ambient occlusion package even with big fps drop, because it is simply more complete and great if you have the gpu for it (i had 3090)
@@mikeliberty9408 so?
GTA V had it too! But indeed it's a great feature, wonder why we don't see it more often.
I often find myself just roaming around looking at all the RT effects, the new global ray traced shadows in v1.5 was a nice addition as well.
RTX is so well done in Cyberpunk, one of the best examples why its awesome
right, this game was made with the lighting as one if its key elements! Can't think of a more fun game to have ray tracing on
Hou should see how Dying Light 2 looks in full raytracing. It's more outstanding especially since it's a new game with ray-tracing built in mind due to the Nvidia and the new RTX 30 series really pushing ray-tracing.
don't know about 1.5 version yet, but i wasn't impressed with RTX in cyberpunk
And this is one of the best examples as to why ATi are dumbf*cks and have been for such a long time. ATi keeps neglecting these HUGE software advantages that nVidia brings and now people call RayTracing, RTX, lol. It's like when people say "hand me over a kleenex" when it's actually a tissue but the brand is so powerful people would rather call it that. This isn't a shot at anyone, just ATi. I guess they're AMD now, really.
@@alexcross8914 yeah and 50-60 fps down by rt ;d
It's like 2 different games from a generation apart ... Metal surfaces, reflections and lights are incredible different
Before it was realistic, but now...
@@Katejsej but now its even more realistic
Well compared to the 60fps performance mode it’s not really different but different a huge upgrade to old gen
@@Retriever- only someone who uses AMD card for a feature that is mostly optimized for high end nvidia cards would say this….
@@Retriever- and a better video because it supports your setup and opinion? Nice
Beautiful. I'd try RT on my laptop but I quite like the way the air smells now.
Imo the impact of raytracing is understood best when set against the best rasterization can do, often however the rasterized version falls short and hence the visual gap is wider than it would have to be. Part of the reason is certainly that you cannot polish every single corner of an open world with manually designed effects. 0:04 for instance lacks SSR effects, baked lighting would have improved the scene further, however that may not be possible with this dynamic daytime system. You can see in scenes that likely did get a lot of attention from the designers such as the grand panorama at 3:28 that raytracing's impact is considerably lower. In the end raytracing will outrun rasterization as manually designing an acceptable quality will get more and more time-consuming for the designers, while raytracing is becoming more and more affordable in terms of GPU power, and with us now being at the beginning of a transitioning phase with more things gradually getting handed over to raytracing.
The first timestamp you are correct but that requires the lighting artist to do every potential scene like that. Thats nigh impossible unless you have hundreds to people working on it
ray tracing is more accurate regardless.
Great Opinion here, Ray tracing is for sure the futur of gaming but not of all games. Linear game such as TLOU 2 don't need this kind of tech for now since the lighting job can be doing manually and better as well. Raytracing is great for replacing the good ol' daytime system usually used in open worlds game for his time saving aspect.
Basically the idea of Raytracing is not only result based since a manual job can still do better, it's actually an interesting ratio between time/effort of development and result.
@@melchiordelaunay2539 yeah, even if with a game like LoU2, they can cut off hours per day in the lighting artists days with RT.
If we look at what the Metro Exodus team showing the difference lighting up a room, its add a light source and done vs add a light here, then a light dimmer light further away in every direction to make the effect that its further away from the light source and repeat for every light
@@melchiordelaunay2539 TLOU2 literally has pre-baked ray tracing you tool and no you cannot outdo ray tracing manually since ray tracing is the highest precision of light behaviour we can simulate on computers (after path tracing).
I feel like the without ray tracing has its own artistic look to it which I also like
I felt as a canvas the off mode had better matt textures whilst on was too glossy and perhaps better after it rained in game? Real life would be more of a mix between matt and gloss surfaces rather the one or the other as it is in the hardware.
copium
The only cope here is people trying to justify their insane GPU rtx costs while others have bought a faster 6700xt for only $330.
@@tommyrotton9468 I just got this game finally since I have a card that can finally run it (other card was 8 yrs old) Intel Arc a770 & I noticed this as soon as I switched it on.
@@sdudigumi Sick burn
Revisited this game as I am redoing old comparisons where I mainly used screenshots. Note this is on PC pre-update. 1.5 added RT shadows for local light sources, like artificial lamps, vehicle headlights etc. Though the differences should be minor, as I mostly used outdoor scenes here and ray-traced shadows already applied to direct lighting from the sun, next to all the other RT effects previously on PC.
Control is going to get a new video too. Also going to do Ratchet and Clank, aswell as Spiderman: Miles Morales.
Enjoy!
Hope to see Spiderman comparisons soon!
Ratchet has the best Ray Tracing
Ratchet only has reflections -_-
@@goddess_hylia_cyberpunk does by a massive margin, it blows away rachet and clanks raytraceing, the raytraceing on cyberpunk is only shadows on ps5 it has non of the reflections or lighting.
A great testament to the studios ability to create a convincing rasterized lighting solution. The differences are clear but for a dynamic day/night cycle they really nailed the look. Great video as always. Something I notice too is the raytracing effects expand much further out than Dying Light 2. Thanks for these amazing comparisons, I LOVE raytracing!
Their BVH pipeline is insanely drawn out. It kinda needs to be tbh simply because the nature of the world design means long views are common and expected but its still impressive seeing just how many rays they shoot out and at which distances. Its one of the reasons i dont expect console RT implementations to even remotely hold up. Even ignoring that the only effect likely to make it is AO or emissive lighting the range at which said effect displays will be hobbled. Not hating on the consoles but their RT capabilities are very weak and while some devs have found creative ways around it cyberpunks brutally uncompromising approach to RT isnt likely to scale as easily
It can’t be too different from the original lighting. If you want something real just play metro enhanced edition, or you’ll be limited by the game’s original lighting design.
You kinding? Dying light 2 does a superior job ray tracing.
@@samza9622 no it doesn't
@@melcorchancla9431 Metro is literally like completely different game with Ray tracing on.
It's definitely one of the best shooter experiences I've ever had m. Right up there with my first time though Bioshock
Tbh, it's more of a testament to how realistic the state of rasterization lighting has become, as the difference is hardly noticeable.
+Derrick Reed
No
hardly noticeable?
when u play it by urself u can easily point it out
Straight up. I feel like Nvidia casted a marketing brainwash upon these dumbasses. Innovation stagnated and they created this trash where you sacrifice 50% of your FPS so you can see yourself in a glass panel. Like, wow... Nvidia really knows the caliber of who their market is.
@v o r didn't necessarily mean you as I don't really know you but there's enough dummies keeping this trash afloat. It's not tech that is necessary right now and no one should be talking about it. The downfalls easily outweigh the advantages. Unless someone is already getting 300FPS on their 1080p panel, then I'd argue that they should be putting that money into getting a 1440p or above monitor rather than sending their dollars to die to Nvidia on tech that is not worth it at all.
@v o r it does nothing 99% of the time. Most of the games where RT is implemented have awful SSLR quality, or one that is intentionally gutted to make RT look more appealing.
RT can be an improvement in some scenarios, but it's a very minor improvement as a whole, and at this point in time nothing more than a very expensive gimmick. And I'd rather play in 144 FPS than 60 just in order to make window reflections look slightly sharper.
First of all, great video and editing, that had to be a lot of work! The game is beautiful with RTX on and as GPUs become more affordable and available, the game is going to “age” well. More and more people are going to enjoy it at its full potential visually
all they need to do now is to make the game less buggy and more fun
@@zoinksscoob6523 feels like patch 1.5 was a great step in that direction. Transmog is on the way (modders found the foundation for it in code), NG+ after that and we’ve got ourselves ready for the expansion :)
The affordable part didn’t age well
@@grandrtiv26 Yeah, Nvidia is getting greedy, while mining activity is going now with Ethereum switching to proof of stake, AI is booming so GPUs are in greater demand than ever, and they are trying to milk consumers (what was that 12GB 4080 about??? ). Still, the game keeps looking better and better, the path tracing looks spectacular
Raytracing is definitely the future for gaming. It truly makes everything look so much more real. Hopefully the new 40xx series gpu's can use run raytracing more efficiently because as of rn, ray tracing sucks so much performance out of your graphics card.
That’s true, though I will say on my 3080ti with DLSS i can run this game at 4k (obviously not native but very comparable) with psycho ray tracing and every other setting maxed out at an average of 45fps which is completely acceptable on my gsync display. If I make some minor tweaks I can easily get 60fps which then cannot be complained about at all given the huge boost in graphical features.
I would say that Ray Tracing effectiveness depends heavily on implementations. On some games it makes a huge difference (such as CP2077), and on others the difference is not worth the performance penalty (SOTTR or Battlefield V).
Let's hope that future generations of graphics cards, albeit from AMD and Nvidia, will reduce it somehow.
i can use ray tracing at ultra levels with 60fps........but im also only paying at 1080p on a 2080ti (and using dlss quality mode)
In its current form, Nvidia RTX is only a tech demo, the biggest problem with it is the fact it needs certain hardware to work because its so intensive. I feel that UE5's global illumination is a much larger step forward than RTX purely because its all in-engine and is significantly less intense.
@@spidr1513 ue5 matrix awaken also used ray tracing in addition to GI. AMD cards are not as good at raytracing (hopefully that gets fixed next generation). intel iis also putting a heavy focus on ray tracing. graphics acards where always build to specialie while the cpu was meant for more generalied task. so adding more raytracing cores to a already specialized card makes sense
Dont be mistaken, not a single youtube vid will actualy show you how good RTX in real time feels. Its the last tiny thing that separates good graphics from photorealism. Like, when I saw it with my own eyes in Cyberpunk on good PC I was in awe. Absolutely does not cost the price it requires, tho.
Best game with ray tracing is Detroit become human
@@thegodhoward8037 It doesn't have it. The game looks that good because the lighting is static, which allows developers to do better graphics at certain scenes. Ray tracing is more a feature for open world games because it is hard to do a realistic image when lighting changes dynamically
@@tarantinul12 I'm talking about modded 😂🤣
In Cyberpunk you are always a Vampire, because no selfreflection ^^
you made a point !
you're amazing btw, you're super technical in your comparisons and you pay attention to what people are looking for in these specific comparisons, i'd like to stick around
Thank you, appreciated :)
That's how a video showing graphic comparaison should be done
Great job 👍👍👍
RTX ON is a complete different feeling if you play the game by yourself. So amazing.
actually no xd it's barely visible during gameplay
@@abitw210 it is
Phenomenally done video! I had no clue what ray tracing was until I watched this and now I understand why it's such a big deal. It's extraordinary how much it elevates graphics! I'm definitely going to replay Cyberpunk when I get my PS5.
yeah, i just noticed that dx11 real lighting is actually pretty bad, peoples been gaming on that for like 15 yrs
Admittedly bad timing for this video as RT shadows were just added for all local light sources 2 days after this video got published, lol. Also, testing on my end, I SWEAR they updated RT emissive lighting just a tad - sometimes I notice sharper, more detailed ambient shadows around some objects compared to previous patches.
I uploaded this literally a day before cdpr announced the upcoming 1.5 release, perfect bad timing.
Though most scenes are outdoors and there are few detail shots of local shadows, thus imo it still is largely representative of the games RT features
Changes in the latest update:
1- Added RT shadow for local lights
2- Added RT reflection for carpaint coatings
3- Changed denoiser from "ReBlur" to "ReLAX" and "SIGMA" for sharper and faster responding lights/shadows/reflections
And these all made the game the greatest graphical hit again 😍
Gotta check if any of my comparison shots are good at showcasing local light RT shadows and whether the denoiser makes a noticeable difference, can't revert to pre-1.5 on Steam I think. Will have to see if the video would be interesting enough with the footage I still have.
I think cyberpunk has the most impressive implementation of ray tracing at the moment.
yeah
I raise you metro exodus enhanced edition. equally impressive if not more so
Well, as of the 1.5 update my performance has tanked. With my RTX 3070ti, i used to enjoy 4K in high/ultra settings with raytracing on, DLSS balanced. Now, those same settings barely get over 25fps and stutter constantly.
The most recent patch should've fixed it.
Could be your CPU in some areas. I have an R53600 / EVGA 3070 and most of the time it's my CPU being maxed out in this game I think due to crowd AI. I play 1440p medium, RT med, DLSS performance, high crowd density and get >60 fps except in really crowded areas like right outside H10
This game is made based on rasterization and many of the light source tricks they use actually interfere with ray tracing.
When they start developing more games, like metro, around RT the differences will be even more drastic. Plus artists won't have to work so hard to achieve them.
For those who don’t know? The reason there aren’t any character reflections? Well, they have to do some weird things to make the first person camera stuff look normal. Your characters arms when using weapons actually kind of look more like twisted demons limbs IMO :-P
But the version in the bvh layer doesn't have to mirror what you see. They could have implemented it easy enough.
I don't think it's to do with first person so much but more to do with performance. I do a bit of work in 3d modelling and UE and know how reflections tend to be generated - and it's usually using reflection probes, which sort of create the illusion of a reflection onto a 2d surface - similar to how buildings look like they have 3d interiors but it's actually just a dynamic texture which changes according to where the camera is. The trouble is, reflection probes are not great at picking up animated objects without reducing the quality of the image From my experience anyway.
@@craigstephens93 here we are talking about raytraced reflections
Not reflection probe
They both are different and I don't think you know what you are talking about
The best implementation of RT I've seen yet. Great job on the video!
Man, ray tracing with ultra is such a beautiful experience on this game. It’s crazy. I always thought it was a gimmick until I got a hold of 3090 ti. Man I love this
*3:55** - LOL*
*Reflection of the car wheel - is turned off when turn ON Raytracing*
WTF
RT Reflections look cool but honestly if you're forced to choose due to performance, RT Shadows is the way to go. It really gives you the proper lighting and makes all objects look like they're part of the world and realistically shade dark areas.
100% disagree. The reflections are far more common and noticeable.
@@Ryan-vc9if uhh common? RT Lighting literally fixes every scene in the game, not just ones with glass or puddles. But you do you
@@pogtuber5146 not noticeable at all
I love how you can see the effects of all the various lights around the area, my new 3070 should be here in a few days and I'm looking forward to seeing it for myself
It showed that Ray Tracing has better shadow than SSAO or HFTS (In Watch Dogs 2) and better ambient light which increase the atmosphere.
5:15 This is the best representation of RT Ive ever seen.
I’ve kept Ray Tracing Psycho on since 2020 release with excellent performance on RTX 3080, however since 1.5, performance takes a dive about 30 minutes in.
Why does this look nothing like this on Fidelity mode on the PS5?
Wonderful production as always 🤩
I wish to see how RTX & Reshade SSGI stack up vs/with eachother 💥
Reshade "rtx" is a failure.
Reshade SSGI isn't real raytracing, so this is far superior.
The fact that Cyberpunk has such intricate details in the enviroment and a lot of futuristic-like lighting makes RT do a lot of difference to the immersion. This game is such a piece of art despite all of the bugs, never been so immersed in a game before playing cyberpunk
I dont think I've ever really appreaciated the Ray Traced Illumination until now. I thought Ray Tracing was about Mirrors and Reflections but, Even just looking at the way the LED lights Fall off Naturally onto other surfaces, Its like WOW! Its doing alot more than you think it would be.
@N7Andy same but i think this depend on certain games too. Most games only takes advantage of the reflective surfaces for raytracing or doesn’t show the other aspect of it as well as compared to games like cyberpunk where neon lights are illuminating everything.
Makes me realise how much i hate screen space reflections when they disappear when you move the camera up and down. Such an emersion breaker.
In my opinion, where ray tracing is most beneficial in it's effort to immerse is not in the reflections, but in the occlusions and contact shadows. I think I am fine with what games have been doing in terms of mirror reflections where it's just a vague silhouette of the characters and I catch myself focusing more shadows with in shadows and the dimming of light where light would be less effective and scattering of colors. I'm not sure if it's possible but it would probably be less expensive to leave out the reflections and focus on the ray traced shadows.
You can disable RT reflections only on the graphics menu
Studios mastered the fake-baked in reflections for decades, its more realistic in that aspect compared RT which makes everywhere mirror-like.
Finally a good Ray Tracing video for CP77. Everyone else video is in the rain. Sub
This is one pretty game, dammit. I still find RTGI to be the most impactful of the effects, particularly in various indirectly sun lit places.
Because it is the most impactful
Normally I watch these type of videos at 2x speed because they are generally very slow paced and the comparison parts are ambigious. Your video has a perfect tempo and the differences are nice and clear. Good job! (I still think lazy developers exxaggerate ray tracing effects and intentionally lower the quality of non-ray-tracing hardware effects, though)
I appreciate the compliment :)
Sure, with enough time, money and skill artists can create incredible looking games, just look at Horizon Forbidden West. But also consider how common crunch is in the gaming industry, its very likely not laziness.
Ray tracing On: 35 FPS
Ray tracing Off: 80 FPS
1:49 absolutely stunning.
I think ray tracing reflections make the biggest difference in the game. Sadly RT today is still to heavy for the majority of GPUs
yeah, I'll pass this technology for now. I'll wait 6 years more to get a decent hardware that it will run ray tracing without any problems.
@@K0xm4N Agreed. I have a 2070 super, and RTX off gives me 90+ fps on average with everything on ultra. RTX ON and it can sometimes drop below 30 fps :( Not worth it, but it does looks so good...
It's not RT reflection that makes huge difference
It's actually RTGI
Really great content on your channel!
I think the most noticeable raytracing feature is raytraced reflection, everything else is much less noticeable when you're playing.
have u noticed that 1.5 patch has decreased the rt reflection quality ? especially reflections on water has decreased in quality and clarity as well
you should do this game again since they put out a hotfix that adds Raytraced local light shadows along side the Raytraced Sun shadows
I absolutely love this game. Cannot wait to get back home from deployment so I can add it to my kill counts. Ray tracing is just so beautiful and I can only imagine (and hope) it looks this good in the Witcher 3 when they enhance it for us. 👍👌 great vid as always!
Got my eyes on Witcher 3, Hitman 3 and GTA 5 when they eventually get their announced RT updates. DL2 really grew the channel recently.
@@RayTracingRevolution Is GTA V getting a PC version of that update too? I didn't see that mentioned.
@@xybnedasdd2930 I don't actually know,, can't find a quote on the PC version. If not I'll do the comparison on PS5
1:31 I think they are using combination of RT and planar reflection
There are points where areas in this game look photoreal, it’s actually insane
some of the characters are too good. the skye girl blew me away.
good job, rly best comparison
Ray Tracing: ON
FPS: OFF
Dlss 3: 😎
With the exception of some cherry picked examples, you wouldn't notice a difference when playing it.
Also it seems that because the game was conceived with ray tracing in mind, they just avoid using some basic shadows and occlusions, like 0:28, games from 2 decades ago were putting at least some shadows underneath the objects, but in this game, it was totally avoided.
RT is obviously superior to older lighting methods, but the price for it is just unreasonably high. It will be another 10 years before it become a standart.
Yeah. Rt doesn't just "look good" but let's do the GPU lots of the simulation without any trick. Just look at the color of the car that goes on the wall... That's not something you usually do with old techniques. The issue is that it weights a lot, so that means for devs that they have to develop the game on the RT side and "normal" side because today's GPU especially medium and low GPUs haven't the horsepower to keep 60 fps stable in RT
RT cards start at a mere $150 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) you'll only do shadows like the XBox players, but it is still RT. My card cost a whopping $350 and I can do Ultra RT with reflections at 30fps (Intel Arc a770). You don't need a thousand dollar Nvidia card, they just want you to think you do.
I'm excited to see how well my build will be able to handle this again after all the patches.
This game is a graphical masterpiece! Legendary:)
Something is off about the comparison at 4:24. While the transition line is moving, the left side textures on the bridge change before the line crosses...
This is THAT video to show to "that guy" who says they see no difference with ray tracing.
I'd love to build a new PC and play through this game again. This game looks stunning I don't know how they did it.
RT on is so fake, far from realistic. RT off looks better and comfortable.
1:26 - someone "technical" please explain this to me. Half Life 2 - more than 15 years ago had reflections that didn't have SSRS issues (and Ray tracing being the most accurate but taxing option). What kind of reflection tech did Steam use ages ago for Half life 2, and why don't we just use that? For 15 years ago - those reflections still hold up.
Half Life 2 used Planar Reflections instead of SSR, which most simply put renders the scene twice. Definitely doable when you have more enclosed level design and gives great results. But the more complex the scene, the more taxing it gets on performance, and its mostly used on a single flat surface, like water. As far as I know, with complex geometry and terrain in open world games its difficult to realize today, which is why basically everything large scale uses SSR + cubemaps
@@RayTracingRevolution Thank you! I've always wondered.
this song is perfect! nicely picked dude
well put together, good job
I´d still argue that, for the performance hit you take, it adds very little graphic fidelity to the overall experience. I mean like the water reflections looks amazing but the game itself doesn´t evolve around that and other areas have a far lesser difference while still tanking fps.
There is potential but it´s still not there yet. It is sort of like the first anti aliasing, that no card back then could use without tanking massive in fps while the benefit wasn´t noticeable in fast paced games anyways.
So i finally found ray tracing settings that work that dont brick my framerate. FSR, 60 fps adaptive resolution, RT low, everything else on ultra. runs really good and it is by far the best looking game i've ever played. i am totally a ray tracing believer now. it's photorealistic. the dialogue scenes are just too perfect. i cant believe it.
Played Cyberpunk 2077 on my old One X and my new Series X. Toggled Ray Tracing on for the latter and barely noticed the difference because Cyberpunk is just that gorgeous visually. I am perpetually enchanted by this beautiful game
More because the raytracing isn't available on next gen fully it's only the shadows which make barely any difference as you sed
@@vWhiz Ah I see, that explains a lot. Still, even with minimal upgrades, Cyberpunk is gorgeous.
@@francisferdzz yup
Amazing music choice, love it
i dnot get why sometimes RT extremely blurry compared to SSR? like 6:36
If you are having extreme performance hits with raytracing on make sure to check in the 3d settings in the Nvidia Control Panel and make sure DSR isn't turned on. This setting has always been a problem for me and resets to 2x when i update drivers. I thought my 3080 couldn't handle ray tracing because of this. I turned off DSR so i was rendering at the regular resolution again and my performance was playable again at max settings.
Hey there. I can't seem to find SSR on Nvidia Control Panel for some reason. The only thing with 2x there is a setting called as DSR. Is it the same thing?
@@johnkaczynski1905 yes, that's it. I'm not sure if I had a typo or if they changed the name at some point.
@@barrett5500 Man, I can't thank you enough. Thank you very much for this. Tried it out and it really works, I managed to get stable 60 FPS in populated places with Ultra Settings / Ray Tracing Medium. After a few hours of playing, i got the infamous memory leak in Megatower Apartment but even then my FPS didn't drop below 50. Did you experience any memory leaks after hours of playing too or FPS dropped below 60 anywhere?
- Видишь рейтрейсинг? - Нет. - И я не вижу, а он есть.
Honestly the best comparison I have seen.
playlist? epic sound tracks you put on. the playlist you got linked just takes me to a minecraft video.
I love RT. RT on the 4070 ti is oh so good. No point in turning RT off anymore. What I find interesting is You really do notice it when it is turned off, maybe because it is the natural way to render stuff? It seems to add an additional dimension.
You should put the Dexter DeShawn scene in the car. RT On and Off there is simply night and day difference. RT Off it looks flat and graphics looked last gen, with RT On it looked amazing, his leather jacket looked so real.
Best RT comparison, thx
I think most devs intentionally make rtx off bad to make rtx on look good. And a lot of times they do a lot of unnecessary rt reflections.
So glad I grabbed myself an RTX card and got to experience this game in all it's beautiful glory
How much did you spend for your RTX card? jUST CURIOUS
Looks like reality! I can't wait to see how great the sequel on UE5 will look like.
The landscape, the cars, the buildings do look insanely good. But the characters are like last gen models in a current gen game :P
very good video, they changed a lot of ray tracing since the game released
they also changed it again in 1.5 adding glowing textures like tatoo, you should make another video
I will check if any of my comparison shots are good to showcase the additions done with 1.5. I didn't really focus on local shadows either, missed opportunity.
You like to give your comparisons a more fine-tuned, edited style right? The music fits the content here - perfectly ^-^ Gr8 job choom
Patch 1.5 added transparent RT reflections. Maybe you should cover those, too. It got released 2 days ago.
Transparent reflections were already supported from 1.03 . The addition in 1.5 is the reflections on carpaint coatings.
I look forward to playing this on my 4x series GPU one day when V2 patch is out and GPU's are available for sensible prices again. Until then i'll quietly enjoy this at 2k on my 1080TI with no raytracing.
This is the best implementation of RT in a game.
When i have ray tracing on it makes the rain on the ground blurry, when off its fine. Any idea why?
the game just looks blurry 24/7, i have found 0 fixes to that
Is SSR turned on?
Interessting, the most Scenes with Ray Tracing looks cheaper like without!
Cyberpunk 2077 isn't a game, it is a experience, it is an fantasy where we all want to live. I played it first 8 hours and experienced the first appereance of Johnny, and i don't know do I want to live in this reality anymore. I want into the NightCity!
Edit. And this thing comes into my head, i am jealous for videogame characters, like in GTA V michael, and cyberpunks characters. I have thought so long that why in videogames and tv series all characters are so confident and they fucking do things, sametime when in real life people are more an inside type, we cant talk to people like in games or tv series, it don't work like that, and I haven't find a clue why it not work like that..
I think personally i just want a fucking life. Its not life to sit in home and play cyberpunk 2077 and sametime being jealous for what they all characters in this game are experiencing.
In the end I could use a one good quote of my old friend,
My kid? Hes just smoking a pot and jerk off while playing a fucking videogames, when I was in a same age, i robbed a bank, get cars and get bitch€s.
And that was better?
At least I fucking did something!
~Michael
haha......you don't have to rob a bank, get cars and get bitches to have a great life....Ok, different strokes for different folks and that Michael is the type of folk that should be in jail, lol
The most beautiful thing of having a 40-series is DLSS3 and being able to play this with everything maxed and still get 140fps
Interesting. I like it, however, I do feel that in some cases, RT sacrifices how many polygons are rendered for the much higher amount of rays being drawn. That seems to cause certain objects, such as tiles, to become much more reflective towards the viewing angle than it should, while rasterization clearly shows that tile is very rough. Of course, this will improve with time, but I can't wait to see what improvements will be made. 🙂
It's still so superficial. Take @00:55 for example: you can clearly see the low poly model on the storm drains and concrete overhang on the right. No amount of ray tracing can fix that. I'd prefer to see games with higher poly count models before RT tbh.
I’ve never noticed smth like that in a game in my life and now I will never unsee it thank you for this
In some sites look more good in of mode.have more definitions and are more solid the object
Damn this sound track it's like I'm jump from spaceship too earth
Good Video, thank you!
Almost 7 years without an upgrade. Literally building a whole new PC to run CP with ray tracing (at respectable frames)
Just a few more generations… this is what games will look like. Can’t wait.
I have a 3080 but I'm waiting to play this game until the 40 series to play so I can experience it in 4k glory with ray tracing
Cyberpunk is release a couple years ahead of its time. Can't wait to play when game is all patched up and graphic card shortage is over.
Is the RT lighting set to Ultra or Psycho? It seems way more than just a single bounce of light
Great display of how RT actually is very noticable. A few months ago LTT did a video about how noticable RT is and fed RT enbaled games to people in a blind test and told them to tell the RT on scene apart from teh RT off scene. Their test was biased though because they only chose games that do RT shadows and RT ambient lights like Shadow of the Tomb Raider or Metro. They included neither Control nor Cyberpunk in the test. Two games that display greatly that there is a noticable quality differenece between RT on and RT off. As far as RT and it's usage goes imho Cyberpunk so far is the benchmark especeially when it comes to mixing RT reflections, shadows and lighting, which very few games have done so far.