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Doom: The Dark Ages' path tracing upgrade tested - maximum fidelity, reasonable performance
Doom: The Dark Ages is now receiving its path tracing upgrade on PC, so Alex and John tested it versus the standard RT graphics - and found some surprises.
Given that the game already featured ray-traced global illumination (RTGI), that means these controlled scenes tend to look fairly similar between a PC running with standard RT and path tracing. We saw around a 39 percent drop in frame-rate with path tracing engaged versus standard RT in our test scene, using a high-end PC with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card and AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D using 4K DLSS Performance and ultra nightmare settings. This new path tracing mode is the logical conclusion, bringing unparalled realism to the game's fantastical environments for those on higher-end PCs - and earning major plaudits for id's top-tier developers.
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