Soon after the premiere of NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics cards 2000, a dedicated 3DMark test appeared Port Royale from UL Benchmark, where Turing systems could be tested with ray tracing enabled. Soon after, Port Royale was expanded with an additional test comparing the performance between TAA smoothing and the DLSS image reconstruction technique. Today, UL Benchmark announced the preparation of a new test as part of the entire Port Royale package. Another test to check the performance of cards with Ray Tracing enabled is called 3DMark DirectX Ray Tracing and will be available for both NVIDIA and AMD cards. To get a new test, you must of course purchase the 3DMark package with a Port Royale part.

UL Benchmark has announced the preparation of a new 3DMark DirectX Ray Tracing test, which will be available as part of the update Port Royale package. This time the test is fully compliant with Microsoft’s API and will support both NVIDIA and AMD cards.

The test of 3DMark DirectX Ray Tracing is to make the ray tracing technique a limiting factor. Instead of relying on traditional rendering, the entire scene is ray-traced and drawn in a single pass. In the DXR test, camera rays are tracked across the entire field of view with small random shifts to simulate a depth of field effect. The frame rate is determined by the time it takes to track and shade a specific number of samples for each pixel, combine the results with previous samples, and present the results on the screen. Before starting the measurement, you can change the number of samples to see how this change affects performance and visuals.

3DMark DirectX Ray Tracing is fully compatible with Microsoft libraries, which means that not only NVIDIA cards will be supported, but also AMD cards, or more precisely, the upcoming Radeon RX chips 6000, having dedicated Ray Accelerators units. For the correct operation of the benchmark it is required to have Windows 10 version 2004 and a graphics card with drivers supporting DirectX Ray Tracing Tier 1.1 libraries. WhyCry from VideoCardz has already run the test on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics card 3080 with the Intel Core i7 processor – 8700 K. The averaged frame rate was 47, 75 FPS, which shows how demanding this test will be for current and future graphics cards. The appropriate version of the 3DMark program included in the price 107, 99 PLN can be purchased e.g. on the Steam platform.

Source: UL Benchmark, VideoCardz