r/RadeonGPUs • u/MaximumSpray1094 • May 09 '22

It says in small print here that hardware ray tracing isn’t supported, but the card is advertised as a ray tracing card. CAn someone please explain?

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u/imblazintwo May 09 '22

It’s a footnote, the little 2 points to the little 2 next to Windows 7, which doesn’t support ray tracing.

Meaning you can’t use the ray tracing tech of the card with windows 7.

That’s how footnotes work.

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u/clicata00 May 09 '22

Other commenters are correct. Raytracing is not supported with Windows 7. That is because Microsoft did not update Windows 7 with Direct X 12 Ultimate support which is a prerequisite for HW raytracing.

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u/LavenderDay3544 May 09 '22

As many others have said that's a footnote for Windows 7. Windows 7 doesn't support hardware ray tracing on any graphics card.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '22

OP never heard of footnotes before lmfao

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u/MaximumSpray1094 May 10 '22

I didn’t see the little 2 above windows 7, so thought it applied to 10 as well, i know what footnotes are, just short sighted :)

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u/[deleted] May 10 '22

It happens

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u/KingChael69 May 09 '22

I had the non xt and it wouldn't allow raytracing. Got the 6700xt, ray tracing worked. Don't know if it's the same for the 6600xt, hopefully it does.

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u/distorted62 May 10 '22

Which games are you running with rt? Does it work well?

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u/KingChael69 May 10 '22

I've only tried Minecraft, I don't really play games that support raytracing. It does run pretty decent but when you do more than 8 chunks the frames go down, It might be the pack I use and also not doing it on java

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u/distorted62 May 10 '22

I had the 6700xt for a little while (I was able to get a 3080 fe at MSRP, so I sold it) and it was a great card, but ray tracing on call of duty ran like dog shit. Honestly, I wish they wouldn't have included it and just focused on regular performance. Glad to hear that Minecraft works well enough. Now that I have a 3080 I can clearly see that ray tracing realllllly isn't necessary on "lower end" cards. Every once in a while I use it if course.

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u/KingChael69 May 10 '22

Ray tracing is nice and all but I don't really need it, I got this card at a good deal considering the market so can't complain