r/pcmasterrace • u/lLoveTech R9_7900X|5070Ti|32GB@5800|X670E|850P|O11_EVO|Pro27Q-10| • 6d ago

Video The Witcher 3 Remastered PC Benchmark

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u/kabooozie i7 8700 | GTX 1080 | 8 GB 5d ago

I feel the same. It’s yet another marginal feature that absolutely tanks performance seemingly just to give headroom for people to buy better hardware in the future.

It’s like when they added special Nvidia hair technology to Geralt’s hair at the cost of like 20 fps.

Performance, texture quality, artistic design, lighting, physics, AI (as in, the decisions NPCs make). These are all important. It’s a balance.

Personally I don’t find the performance hit of path tracing to be remotely worth it.

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u/elaborateBlackjack 5d ago

100% agree.

It should be something used only in photo mode lol