Metro Exodus RTX on/off comparisons

The sheer ignorance about Ray Tracing in this thread is angering.

Ray tracing is merely a technique, and does not apply to 1 specific application.

Doing it in REAL TIME is a generational leap over traditional rasterization.

It doesnt "only darken" a scene and it isnt a performance hog overall, it depends on HOW it is implemented.

Ray traced reflections will always be harder on the system and FPS because it uses a lot more rays to reflect the scene, often multiple times.

When used like in metro for global illumination, the performance hit is MUCH less.

Ray Tracing is a gamer changer for lighting and shadows, AI, sound and more.

I adjusted the FOV, but I was told that disabling TAA breaks the game and I did not mess with it.

Sometimes it looks brighter. Sometimes it looks darker. Sometimes colors change. Don't see it.

The new Digital Foundry video makes an excellent case for metro's implementation of ray tracing, and the better part is that performance cost is quantifiable, having ray tracing with a bit lower settings looks better than without. What I noticed though, is that while ray-tracing is well implemented here, traditional rendering was lacking. And this is compared to even previous Metros, but curiously only in specific areas.

Anyways, BF5 slightly impress me, but Metro Exodus makes a much better use of current ray-tracing capability, in my opinion. ("Can it run Metro Exodus" could be the new meme so bye bye Crysis) Ray-tracing is used in Hollywood in every big movie and this will become the new standard for PC gaming. I don't expect next-gen PS5 and Xbox Scarlet to use RT due to the tech isn't advanced enough for consoles yet, but I can suspect RT will be implanted for PS6/Xbox 5.

I will be moving to RTX 2080Ti at the end of the year and will buy Metro Exodus when it comes to Steam in Feb. 2020.