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State of linux AMD raytracing (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have bought a radeon RX 6800 recently to avoid dealing with NVIDIA headaches (especially since i daily drive hyprland) and so far it has been going pretty good. But i heard that raytracing still performs way lower then on windows which would be very bothering since i really like raytracing in games. Can anyone enlighten me if this fact is still true or is the performance difference became negligable

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I managed to get Quake II RTX to run at a barely playable framerate on my RX 6700 XT. I never bothered with anything else since it performed so poorly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Quake II RTX is fully raytraced though. I'm not sure how well performance measurements done with it apply to other games that do a mix of raytracing and rasterizing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Have you tried it with Mesa 24.1? Apparently some decent improvements were made earlier this month. Also, these ray-tracing benchmarks on Mesa 24.0 posted last month also seems pretty promising.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Time to try me some Quake sir.