Ray tracing on BF 5 cuts performance

techpower is in the process of testing, these are the initial results. anyone with an RTX playing this game how does the game look with it enabled

Yeah, this was expected. I knew the RT cores were shit and would be a bottleneck. Anybody who bought an RTX card expecting to have good ray tracing performance is going to be disappointed.

I have not enabled DXR yet. I will try it when I get home later tonight.

Don't you need the botched windows update (october update I think) to enable ray-tracing?

@horgen: Yeah, they re-released it yesterday.

credit where credit is due you did point out in previous post that they wouldn't be able to get to 60fps at 4K at launch, right now its roughly 30fps at 4K hopefully improvements will be made, so that RT ultra setting will at least run at 4K 60fps.

i thought they would have found way at launch given the delay to get at least 4K 60fps but i was wrong.

Ah. Still haven't received it. Oh well, doesn't matter for me. Not planning on getting BFV

@horgen:

That transgression will not be tolerated soldier! hehe ;)

Anyway, you can download the update manually here...

https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows10

There is something wrong with the performance of this and the Hardware Unboxed sites are getting. I have a 2080 and have played the game at 1440p Ultra and High settings through the range of DXR settings. At Ultra, I'm seeing 40-50 FPS. That's like 20FPS higher than what they're reporting. Multiplayer is much higher than the campaign as well. Something is off here...

@goldenelementxl: Ray Tracing perhaps`?

@horgen: Lol.

I am talking about DXR being on though.

I find the performance varies a lot based on the scene. I was getting over 70fps at 3440x1440 DXR Ultra in some areas and then 32fps in the courtyard near the E flag on Rotterdam. This was on an empty server too. It looks great, but the shit performance does not make it a viable way to play the game. So, it is basically a write off.

@BassMan: But come on... We both know Rotterdam is the exception, not the rule. Performance on that map is far worse than the others. Like up to 40fps vs the other last like you’ve stated. On the other maps, it’s not uncommon to see 60fps.

I didn't try the other maps, just Rotterdam and a little bit of War Stories. I usually get 120fps (capped) and some dips down to 100fps at 3440x1440 ultra in pretty much all the maps in MP. So, the game runs really well without ray tracing. I am not going to take a massive performance hit to have better looking reflections. It is just silly.