What's the AMD equivalent of nvidias ray tracing or do they both support it and nvidia is just trying to sound special with their RTX labelling?
AMD is working on a more general version of ray tracing branded DXR, which essentially should work on all direct x titles, making it far more widely applicable than nvidia's game specific implementations.
That said the performance isn't there yet, it's more or less on par with 1st gen RTX.
Honestly I don't think the performance hit is worth it for ray tracing at present, there's honestly not that much difference for what is a substantial fps hit. No idea where you're getting the 5-10% numbers from John Price:
https://www.techspot.com/article/2109-nvidia-rtx-3080-ray-tracing-dlss/DLSS on its own is almost enough to make getting an NVIDIA card worth it (although personally I need a better monitor first). I'll be interested to see AMDs version of it, although similar to ray tracing they've got a lot of catching up to do.
I think the next gen of cards will make ray tracing a no brainer on both AMD and NVIDIA, but it's certainly something I'm happy to do without for the foreseeable future.
