Presumably, DirectX R is a reference to DXR, which is the official name for DirectX ray tracing. RTX is Nvidia's brand-name for its implementation of the Microsoft DXR standard. We imagine AMD ...

For playing games the old-fashioned way, where you're not using ray tracing, AMD cards like the Radeon RX 6800 XT often run neck-and-neck with or even slightly better than Nvidia cards like the ...

AMD's RDNA 2 and RDNA 3 GPUs, even the ones as small as the integrated GPU on the Steam Deck, fully support DirectX Ray-Tracing, or DXR. Despite that, their relatively poor performance in ray ...

The Windows version of Minecraft did get ray tracing support on NVIDIA GPUs, but it has yet to come to Xbox. That's still not happening, at least right now, but Mojang Studios is testing new ...

The Radeon RX 7900 XTX, the peak of RDNA 3 GPU architecture, struggles compared to the older RTX 3090 Ti in ray tracing workloads despite exceeding the rasterised performance of Nvidia's RTX 4080.

For some AMD users, this won’t matter at all, as some of its older GPUs really can’t handle ray tracing all that well, to begin with. Moreover, this will likely be resolved down the line.

AMD is on record that it isn't going after the very top tier of graphics card with RDNA 4. But these rumours claim that it will nevertheless offer far more ray-tracing grunt than its current top ...