No fewer than 83% of GeForce RTX 40 GPU house owners allow ray tracing and 79% of them crank up DLSS. So says Nvidia itself courtesy of knowledge collected by means of GeForce Expertise.
When you’re questioning how that compares with older RTX 30 and 20-series playing cards, effectively, Nvidia has numbers for these (opens in new tab), too.
“79% of 40-series avid gamers, 71% of 30-series avid gamers and 68% of 20-series avid gamers flip DLSS on. 83% of 40 Collection avid gamers, 56% of 30-series avid gamers and 43% of 20-series avid gamers flip ray tracing on,” says Nvidia.
Nvidia’s conclusion from all this? “That’s why it’s important to think about each ray tracing and DLSS when evaluating an RTX 40 Collection improve — which is how right this moment’s avid gamers obtain the perfect graphics and efficiency.”
Amongst different fascinating knowledge factors are some display tech insights. 62% of RTX 40 house owners have a 144Hz-plus succesful monitor, whereas simply 28% sport at 4K.
In fact, some usually cynical wags on Reddit have commented (opens in new tab) that these figures might not be fairly what they appear. The gist goes one thing like this. Consumer turned on ray tracing. Consumer turned off ray tracing. Growth! Chalk one up for the ray-tracing column, as a result of look, they turned it on!
Nvidia would not present any particulars as to what it takes to qualify as an RTX gamer who permits both DLSS or ray tracing. Might a quick experimentation as implied above qualify? We merely have no idea.
It is actually truthful to say that with out disclosing what video games these numbers apply to and the way lengthy avid gamers used RT settings and so whether or not they caught with ray tracing for the lengthy haul, the straightforward incontrovertible fact that 83% of avid gamers with RTX 40 GPUs turned ray tracing on in some unspecified time in the future, which is all we all know for positive from the information, doesn’t suggest a complete lot.
The comparative numbers with earlier generations and the uptick in utilization is fascinating, however once more would not essentially suggest something easy. Again in 2018 Nvidia states that 37% of RTX 20-series avid gamers enabled ray tracing (within the 4 video games that used it again then) and simply 26% enabled DLSS.
You possibly can argue that the elevated RT utilization on RTX 40 playing cards is smart provided that these GPUs provide higher ray-tracing efficiency than earlier generations. But when that’s what’s driving greater RT utilization on RTX 40 GPUs, why is DLSS utilization decrease progressively on older generations? Admittedly, it wasn’t nearly as good again then as it’s right this moment.
You may count on upscaling utilization to be extra prevalent on older GPUs that want extra assist attaining first rate body charges. However nope. RTX 30-series GPU house owners nonetheless use DLSS lower than RTX 40 house owners, and RTX 20 house owners use it much less nonetheless.
We may speculate that current RTX 40 playing cards out within the wild (the information pertains to February this 12 months) are high-end fashions extra prone to be owned by switched on fanatics conscious of those options, whereas older GPUs are maybe extra mainstream and extra seemingly for use by avid gamers who merely run at no matter settings the sport throws up by default and do not dig too deeply into the graphical choices.
That is, certainly, Nvidia’s take once we spoke to the corporate in regards to the numbers forward of the RTX 4070 (opens in new tab) launch. That might simply be why, some RTX 20 house owners are overlooking the advantages of DLSS. However until Nvidia is ready to present a extra detailed breakdown of the figures, we merely will not know the specifics.
Both approach, there is definitely little doubt that each upscaling and ray tracing have gotten more and more crucial options for contemporary graphics playing cards, nevertheless you need to interpret this knowledge.
